And then, when they do, it’s a gloriously earned-not just because earlier in the episode they agreed they could’ve been friends under different circumstances and that, whoever lived would try to achieve the fallen’s goals, but also because they call back to the Theokoles fight where Crixus and Spartacus first learned to work together. Because Crixus is central to Spartacus’ revenge plot, and because we’ve already seen that this is not a fair fight, as Lucretia has used it to kill Crixus in revenge for loving Naevia. In a show that’s hung its hat on gladiator fights, what you’re truly rooting for is for these two men not to fight, but to get along. The show even gestures at that-the two men acknowledge that one of them has to die.īut the show robs the viewer of the satisfaction of settling scores. We’ve waited a long time for this, and even the characters feel the same.īut what I truly love about this episode is that, in the immortal worlds of Lucille Bluth, it gets off on withholding-the Crixus/Spartacus rivalry is one of the hallmarks of the show, and it could have easily let Spartacus simply cut his way through Crixus to get his revenge (albeit messing with the historical Crixus’ narrative), delivering both the climactic fight and the culmination of Spartacus’ plotting. Regular readers will note that I’ve been skeptical of the pacing of Crixus and Spartacus bouts-the first half of the season threw them together all the time-but the intervening time between Crixus’ injury from Theokoles and the development that’s happened since then serves to heighten the dramatic stakes of the conflict. Spartacus begs Crixus to reconsider, but Crixus is resolved to fight. We’ve seen in media res episodes of Spartacus before (the very first episode, for instance), but the finale creates an interweaving mosaic, starting us with Batiatus’ triumphal party for all the bigwigs in Capua to announce Glaber’s patronage and support for his run for Aedile (one of the historical stepping stone offices for patricians seeking high office) and then to the announcement of Crixus and Spartacus’ big fight in the courtyard below. The episode’s structure mirrors this complexity.
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It even may justify those early slogs of episodes, in that understanding Spartacus as a free Thracian first allows the viewer to understand him not as merely a cog in the Roman machine, like Doctore, or Crixus, or even Varro, but as an outsider forced to conform through circumstance. No amount of ideals about liberty can compare to just how complete his victory over the Romans is in this episode. Spartacus ends the episode with a rousing speech about ending slavery and making Rome fearful, but that’s just highfalutin rhetoric, as far as I’m concerned. A number of lines have been echoed by different characters, throughout the season, but it’s Spartacus taunting Batiatus, surrounded by his former gladiators, the fountains of his villa red with the blood of his guests, and then Lucretia, stabbed in the womb by Crixus, stumbles out and collapses, that really underscores how often the characters in this show live on hypocrisy, how their plots are powered by it, and how complete revenge is when it’s had. There’s a thrilling poetry in this final episode. Here are all the "events" that I can remember.“What would you do-to hold your wife again? To feel the warmth of her skin, the taste of her lips? How many men would you kill? A hundred? A thousand? There stands but one between you and her. I'm sure I'm missing something here though. I'm confused as to how Eren got his Titan powers. So, if someone could help me out with the above, preferably without any manga spoilers that would be really appreciated :) * Eren is eaten by a random titan, at which point his powers are awakened, rather than the power being passed to that Titan <- Am I remembering that correctly? * We see in a flashback that Grisha came into contact with the Royal family, and pleaded for them to repel the invaders <- Was that Grisha? This must have been before giving Eren the injection, but after the titan's attacked? * At some point Grisha gives Eren the Titan injection, at which point Eren kills him, inheriting the Attack Titan <- This bit I'm confused about * Grisha eventually arrives at the walls, settles down, has a family * Grisha Jager is taken to Paradise, turned into a titan and inherits the Attack Titan from its current occupant Do I have some of these in the wrong order? Here are all the "events" that I can remember.
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