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Was Atia the best character on the show?

posted 8 years ago by ANightToRemember
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Simply a matter of taste here, but I for one cast my vote for Atia. I can't recall a single television character who remains so vividly in my memory. Everything about her is impeccable. Perfect. Hilarious and disturbing all at once. Watching her transition from a power hungry woman to a woman who realizes what her quest for power has created in her son is one of the most beautiful parts of television.

God, I wish this show would return somehow even after all these years.

[–] mrbob20 8 years ago

I have to agree with you. Polly Walker was fantastic in this.
Her last scene at the end of S2 episode 10 was a perfect show of emotion.

[–] digenis80 8 years ago

She surely was the hottest female of the cast.

[–] Nomad310 8 years ago

She was the most interesting character, male or female.

[–] dreez-vector 8 years ago

I despided every scene with her, constantly lying through her teeth
while smiling. Having her daughters lover killed then swearing on all
that is holy she had nothing to do with it.

I was hoping she'd get punished by Ceasar and tossed to the sodomites,
she makes you realize just how good liars women are, and just as evil.

[–] Nomad310 8 years ago

I was hoping she'd get punished by Ceasar and tossed to the sodomites,
she makes you realize just how good liars women are, and just as evil.

And all the men in Rome make us realize what fine rapists and murderers men are, and just as evil.

[–] R_Kane (15828) 6 years ago

Hey dreez, so women excel at lying above men? Where place you Josef Goebbels in the Pantheon of Liars, then? You know, the pioneering Nazi propagandist who said that “The world will believe the big lie over the little truth”? That guy?

How about Lucifer, always portrayed as male, known as The Father of Lies?

Here’s an idea: How about we keep lying gender-neutral, because everyone does it, most of all to ourselves. How’s that?

Nah, I don’t really mean it as a question.

[–] Cookie.L.A. (2117) 7 years ago

Yes, Atia was fascinating, a Polly Walker is a delicious actress.

It was interesting that she was at once worldly, yet emotionally ignorant.
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[–] overseas7 (4272) 6 years ago

One of the best, is just that other characters as Lucius M. Titus P., Ceasar and, of course, Marco A. were also very good.

[–] TexasJack (12516) 6 years ago

Lucius was my favorite, but you're right -- they were all very good. I have to rewatch this series again soon.

[–] pazuzu9 (384) 6 years ago

Nice to see someone else likes Vorenus. He's a great character, but a lot of people seem to not like him because of his bad temper and what happens to his family. Have to take it in context. Vorenus was a stoic and it was ancient Rome. A pretty brutal era.

I think Kevin McKidd nailed it.

[–] R_Kane (15828) 6 years ago

From the script

PULLO That’s Veronus: STEEL! . . .

Few folks find STEEL likable, or even really understandable. I am one.

And, even more than for his honor, Veronus lived for his family.