"Fools Luck" (2/6) I Claudius episode 10

Tenth episode of the series I Claudius

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• Claudius
• emperor
• rome
• cesar
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• cohord
• legions
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• luck

[andy7666]

Arrggh!!! Please sort out the sound! Thankyou for putting them up, but please if you do - make sure they are in sync!

[zeusbark]

Open the same video on 2 separate windows, and mute the sound on one, then sync them manually. I have no idea why it does this, the episodes where fine before I uploaded them, but some how when they where up they where all messed up.

[fryfry377]

"Evidently quality of wits is more important that quantity..."

I love it. XD

[echock89]

"My darling, I want to be Livia to your Augustus." That's a frightening comment.

[Abridgedfan134]

@TehranTimmy We are looking at very different TV Shows I think, aimed at different audiences, it all depends on demographic and quality of writing I suppose, but I'm just not seeing what you're seeing, especially not in concern with "I, Claudius".

[TehranTimmy]

@Abridgedfan134 TV, dude. Every fucking channel. If you want to ignore it, that is your prerogative, but don't piss in my leg and tell me its raining. I know what I see. Telling me "you don't see what you see" doesn't change what is obvious right before me. You, I think, just aren't paying attention.

[Abridgedfan134]

@TehranTimmy I'm wondering what shows you're watching, while I can agree that some shows cut their women way to much slack, same thing can be said about shows that cut their men way to much slack, it depends on what you're looking for. From what I see in TV from today is a mostly equal setting between the sexes, both genders are allowed faults, flaws and depth as characters, so I gotta disagree with what you're saying. And old 60s TV shows had predominantly male casts, so bad example.

[TehranTimmy]

@Abridgedfan134 Compare the old 60's shows to shows now, and almost universally, now men are bad or idiots, and women are never bad, never wrong, and always smart and never the comic foils. In the old shows, it was equally split among both genders. Not so any more.

[TehranTimmy]

@Abridgedfan134 to be honest, I had not watched it until I saw this clip, and then because of this clip I watched the whole thing. Good series, though I doubt the real Claudius wanted to restore the republic. True, he was better than the rest, but not as idealistic as the authors of this novel and show made him out to be. And what I said about the PC agenda in everything on TV today, that still stands.  Just watch, pay attention. Watch old 60's shows, men and women are equally bad and good.

[Abridgedfan134]

@TehranTimmy Have you *watched* "I, Claudius"? Because there's plenty of smart men in it, Claudius being one of them. Claudius, Augustus, Drusus, Sejanus, Tiberius, Agrippa, Herod and Postumus are all portrayed as intelligent and powerful and both sexes are portrayed as being powerful but flawed people. The women are just more shrew since they can't practice their power openly. and If you would have watched "I, Claudius" that the women get as much negative portrayal as the men.

[TehranTimmy]

Typical of all television from the last two decades. Women are always the smart ones, in charge, and men are always madmen, fools or idiots. Every single show now, even the commercials. I have news for the fools who write this garbage, in the real world both sexes have power, not just one or the other. The garbage you feed us on TV is slanted fantasy.

[DSDunlap72]

Remember, too, that LIVIA, unlike Messalina, did all she did in order to KEEP the Imperium running smoothly, and it was, indeed, only when she was no longer involved that the system began to break down. Claudius got handed a SERIOUS mess....

[Abridgedfan134]

@ss3cleric Its just perfectly delievered, I love this entire scene

[Abridgedfan134]

As for being *half* witted, well what can I say? Except that I have survived to middle age with half my wits while thousands of others have DIED with all of theirs intact!