It's a Shaolin kung-fu move, like the previous 3 episode titles. I don't think there are literally supposed to be 5 poisons in the episode story.

Hmmm. Interesting fight. Shaolin shadowboxing, and the Wu-Tang sword style.

Yeah, you can see his other movie ratings on Rottentomatoes. He's not someone to trust for good reviews.

Don't worry, I saw it the other week (advance screening), and I can promise you that the reviewer is smoking crack with his B- rating. It was INCREDIBLE. Basically 2.5 hours of the audience going "hooooly SHIT!" The double-claw hammer (the claws are important, trust) scene alone makes "Oldboy" look like a pussy. A- …

Not a chance in hell. HBO is INCREDIBLY tight-fisted when it comes to cast salaries. Especially on a show like this where the ever-increasing production value costs swallow the budget like the Sarlacc. Even big-name actors (see: Hoffman, Dustin) have to take a major cut when signing on to HBO. He may get a little $…

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Laws, yes.

Sorry, I forgot burning. They did a lot of burning too.

With a show built around Viking protagonists, I don't understand how they're going to handle the issue of rape, because, well, raping and looting is pretty much all they did (with a little enslaving too). Are they just going to ignore that part, or have "willing" women, or what?

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I knew I wasn't going to understand this movie when the first scene had half the cops going after gun-armed criminals with baseball bats. WTF???

Yup. And the guy who shot up the police station, and the one that Lydia and her female partner got in the fight with, and a few more I think.

The mass-shooter scenes were well done, but I feel like this show keeps going back to that stuff a little too often. How many "guy randomly starts firing at people for no reason" bits can they do? I know that the show has had a problem with steadily declining ratings and I'm worried that there's a TNT exec somewhere,…

"Shields are down to 65%, Captain!"

"Shields are down to 65%, Captain!"

The most pressing, unanswered question is: will we see the Aedile's wife's rack? This being Spartacus, my instincts say "yes." But it better be soon. It's very out of character for the show to make us wait this long.

Not that this is necessarily a story-killer, but are they supposed to be stealing the plans for STAR WARS?

Don't get me wrong, I find the show entertaining. But if I were the State Bar ethics committee I'd have burned that firm to the ground by now.

He forgot the #1 Redshirt rule: NEVER JOIN AN AWAY TEAM WHERE THE MEMBERS ARE KIRK, MCCOY, SPOCK… AND YOU.

He forgot the #1 Redshirt rule: NEVER JOIN AN AWAY TEAM WHERE THE MEMBERS ARE KIRK, MCCOY, SPOCK… AND YOU.