{"id":2133,"date":"2013-04-01T10:00:51","date_gmt":"2013-04-01T17:00:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/markwatches.net\/reviews\/?p=2133"},"modified":"2013-04-01T05:30:47","modified_gmt":"2013-04-01T12:30:47","slug":"mark-watches-i-claudius-episode-3-waiting-in-the-wings","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/markwatches.net\/reviews\/2013\/04\/mark-watches-i-claudius-episode-3-waiting-in-the-wings\/","title":{"rendered":"Mark Watches &#8216;I, Claudius&#8217;: Episode 3 &#8211; Waiting in the Wings"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Yeah, I can&#8217;t find any real similarities between the two, but you better believe I got excited when I remembered that this shares a name with a GREAT\u00c2\u00a0<em>Angel<\/em> episode. Anyway, let&#8217;s get to it!<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dropbox.com\/s\/v33dycnhmac2kpp\/claudius3.mov\" target=\"_blank\"><!--more-->The video file for &#8220;Waiting in the Wings&#8221; is available for download here<\/a>, and all Mark Watches videos are now indexed in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dropbox.com\/sh\/xx9l6nxutvo9mo3\/1IyIM77u_L\" target=\"_blank\">my Dropbox\u00c2\u00a0folder<\/a>.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"line-height: 16px;\">OH MY GOD THIS EPISODE WAS SO RIDICULOUS IN THE BEST WAY POSSIBLE. Like, this was\u00c2\u00a0<em>easily<\/em> the most fast-paced episode of the show so far, and LORD.\u00c2\u00a0<em>LORD<\/em>.\u00c2\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<li>The show is aging these characters surprisingly well, but now I&#8217;m just worried there will come a day when Livia is not around and\u00c2\u00a0<em>I DON&#8217;T WANT TO REACH THAT DAY<\/em>.<\/li>\n<li>That being said, we&#8217;ve gotten to a point where Claudius himself is part of the story. We get to see how\u00c2\u00a0<em>horribly<\/em> his whole family treated him. Even when Augustus is\u00c2\u00a0<em>trying<\/em> to be nice to him, it&#8217;s still condescending and dismissive. But then we witness how his brothers and sisters, his own mother, and Livia all act towards him: disgusted. They don&#8217;t trust him, they are repulsed by his disabilities, and it&#8217;s just acceptable to insult him to his face. So when the wolf cub is dropped into his arms, it&#8217;s a bizarre and striking omen. How can\u00c2\u00a0<em>he<\/em> be vital to the future of Rome? Livia refuses to accept it!<\/li>\n<li>But for all that Livia tries to manipulate and control the world around her, this is the first episode where it appears she&#8217;s actually gotten what she wants. Amidst the prediction of Claudius&#8217;s future, we watch in horror as she schemes to get HER OWN DAUGHTER OUT OF THE WAY. Like, what the\u00c2\u00a0<em>HELL<\/em>? It was certainly disturbing to watch. But we got a brown character with lines!!!!! THIS WAS EXCITING!<\/li>\n<li>This does make me wonder if Augustus will ever get to a point where\u00c2\u00a0<em>he<\/em> suspects that Livia has been behind all the drama during his rule. Postumous\u00c2\u00a0<em>clearly<\/em> figured out absolutely everything, and Julia had brought it up multiple times over the years, so it&#8217;s not like Livia is trying to be subtle here. Will she come to regret what she did? Nah, of course not. But I&#8217;m interested to see where this goes.<\/li>\n<li>Augustus sure does ban a lot of people from Rome. Tiberius came back in this episode, so does that mean we might see Julia again one day?<\/li>\n<li>How great (and kind of unsettling) is the sequence where Tiberius and his seer both laugh uncontrollably about Postumus&#8217;s death? (Oh god, I hope I got that name right. It&#8217;s been a few days since I saw this episode.) It&#8217;s really one of George Baker&#8217;s best moments.<\/li>\n<li>So, obviously, Claudius ends up caesar at the end of this, but I want to know\u00c2\u00a0<em>how<\/em> he does this. EXCITE!<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Make sure to check the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/calendar\/embed?src=815s3sbr8clhdi9tn8k7r3tim4@group.calendar.google.com&amp;ctz=America\/Los_Angeles\" target=\"_blank\">Master Schedule<\/a> to see ALL the upcoming commission posts I&#8217;m doing.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yeah, I can&#8217;t find any real similarities between the two, but you better believe I got excited when I remembered that this shares a name with a GREAT\u00c2\u00a0Angel episode. Anyway, let&#8217;s get to it!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[200],"tags":[433,475],"class_list":["post-2133","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-mark-does-stuff-2","tag-commissions","tag-i-claudius"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/markwatches.net\/reviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2133","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/markwatches.net\/reviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/markwatches.net\/reviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/markwatches.net\/reviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/markwatches.net\/reviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2133"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/markwatches.net\/reviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2133\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/markwatches.net\/reviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2133"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/markwatches.net\/reviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2133"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/markwatches.net\/reviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2133"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}<!-- WP Super Cache is installed but broken. The path to wp-cache-phase1.php in wp-content/advanced-cache.php must be fixed! -->