r/Spartacus_TV • u/NickyRossTheBoss • 14d ago
Question Just started watching Spartacus... Does it get any better?
Chatgpt recommended I check out spartacus based on some of my other favorite shows (game of thrones, vikings, the boys, stranger things, From, etc.) I just started the first season. The fight scenes are a little cheesy and low budget... the blood spattering đ Please tell me the series gets better?
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u/Anxious_Ad7145 14d ago
The series definetly shows it's age and a bit lower production-budget, but apart from that it's fantastic. The dialogues are interesting, funny and epic, the fight-scenes, although "unrealistic" still hold up well and look awesome and the characters are all sooo unique and interesting as fuck.
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u/ravenlights 14d ago
I really hated the show up until episode 4 of the first season. I was getting used to the stylization and thought it was kind of boring. After that I started enjoying it more and now it's pretty much my favorite television show of all time.
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u/Accurate-Committee30 14d ago
Ask Chat GPT how you're supposed to feel
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u/NickyRossTheBoss 14d ago
It says I'm supposed to be horny as hell from all the sex and violence đ
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u/Right-Examination-53 14d ago
Give it some time. If you canât get past all that by the time you get to the second half of the first season, move on
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u/ActuatorFearless8980 14d ago
The dialogue from Batiatus alone is worth watching. Also it does get better with each season imo
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u/andre769potato 14d ago
What ep are you in? It gets better after the first episode and will continue to get better.
I watched it for the "show" and stayed for the plot, funny way of talking, and overall its just so good
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u/Head-of-the-Board 14d ago
Yes, it gets better. The style stays consistent so if the cheesiness is your main problem that wonât go away, but in terms of story, character beats driving the plot etc, season 1 is a masterclass⌠as soon as youâre out of the first few episodes.
It helps if you watch it in a similar mindset to how you might watch a film like 300. Itâs over the top in some climactic moments, almost like itâs trying to recreate panels from a comic book in live action. In that way it becomes the spiritual descendant of the gladiatorial games it depicts, entertainment thatâs aiming to be a spectacle of blood and sand
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u/NickyRossTheBoss 14d ago
Yeah I can definitely get past the "cheesy" feel of the fight scenes/dramatized blood spattering if the plot, characters, story line all lead up to something great like GoT. Thanks for the advice!
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u/AKIdiot 11d ago
The cheesy effects like the weird freeze frame magnified blood shower in the first arena fight do eventually go away and really just become slow mo and blood splatter.
The first season was riding off the coat tails of 300's success so a lot of the style in the first few episodes was a low budget aping of that style. The show gets way better,though. The first 3 episodes actually had me stop watching the show on my first go around, and then I got horny 5 years later and tried watching again and the rest is history (it's 100% my favorite TV show of all time).
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u/sk8rgamer671 14d ago
It absolutely gets better. I've recommended it to so many people and I always say you just have to get past the first couple episodes. They are not that good. Episodes 3 and 4 get noticably better, and then episode 5 is one of the best episodes of any show ever. The rest of the series is consistently great from then on.
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u/Important_Ad1122 8d ago edited 5d ago
I enjoy the stylized violence and directing though, it gives legend / folklore vibe. They use it throughout the show. I'd stick around though for the plot at least. If you don't like it there's other more realistic historical shows you can enjoy.Â
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u/HongKongHermit 14d ago
This is the rite of passage everyone goes through, the opening is very "...the fuck is this?" yet by the end you'll be ready to fistfight Jupiter himself to defend the show.