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Third Season of Rome?

RchanenRchanen Registered User regular
edited July 2008 in Debate and/or Discourse
Okay, you remember Rome.

It was badass, it was cool, and it had Titus fucking Pulo.

I was scanning netflix, when low and behold,

Third Fucking Season of Rome on the DVD waitlist.

http://www.netflix.com/Search?ff2_submit.x=0&ff2_submit.y=0&v1=ROME


I ask you my friends, since Wiki bears no news of this golden child, this long lost redemption of my faith in HBO and human kind,

hast though heard of a THIRD SEASON of ROME?

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  • ZsetrekZsetrek Registered User regular
    edited July 2008
    Not a chance. HBO haemorrhaged money on Rome, and the only reason it got a second season was because of contractual obligations. HBO is also in a really odd place at the moment - all of its prestige shows have finished, and it's wasted money and energy on poorly received niche shows. Bringing back a ridiculously expensive show that was never really that popular in the first place is something I can't imagine them doing.

    Hell, even the Deadwood movies are officially dead in the water now.

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  • MendrianMendrian Registered User regular
    edited July 2008
    Without giving squat for spoilers, that intro sounds more like Season 2.

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  • monikermoniker Registered User regular
    edited July 2008
    Mendrian wrote: »
    Without giving squat for spoilers, that intro sounds more like Season 2.

    Either that or they have to put this in between the seasons somehow.

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  • MendrianMendrian Registered User regular
    edited July 2008
    moniker wrote: »
    Mendrian wrote: »
    Without giving squat for spoilers, that intro sounds more like Season 2.

    Either that or they have to put this in between the seasons somehow.

    I guess that's possible.

    There isn't a lot of dead time in the series, though. Season 2 picks up literally at the end of Season 1. Like, it doesn't skip a beat.

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  • CherrnCherrn Registered User regular
    edited July 2008
    I bought the entire Deadwood collection because someone on these forums told me that it tied up most storylines and didn't end on a cliffhanger.

    Fuck that guy. Deadwood just ends in the middle of a huge buildup, without resolving anything. It's one of the best series I've ever seen, but God, I hate the way it ends. It's such a shame to see a great show waste away like that.

    Rome at least got a decent ending.

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  • MahnmutMahnmut Registered User regular
    edited July 2008
    Rome did have a pretty solid ending. I would be overjoyed to see a third season, but it isn't exactly called for.
    moniker wrote: »
    Mendrian wrote: »
    Without giving squat for spoilers, that intro sounds more like Season 2.

    Either that or they have to put this in between the seasons somehow.

    Although (to be fair) Netflix blurbs frequently get major things wrong (for example), I'm still not holding my breath. Maybe the BBC is picking up the tab? That'd be +1 for socialism. ;)

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  • monikermoniker Registered User regular
    edited July 2008
    Well, it'd be likely that any fabled season following it would pick up in a different time with wholly different characters. Probably base it around Nero or Caligula or one of them as opposed to Octavian and involving the Praetorian Guard.

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  • nexuscrawlernexuscrawler Registered User regular
    edited July 2008
    The 2nd season itself was cut a few eps short

    Thats why the ending was so rushed feeling

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