Next season's title?

She had a scheduling conflict with another project she was working on. I miss her as well.

I'm pretty sure they fought in the arena at least once. I vaguely recall Agron saving his brother from another gladiator there.

I might agree about Liam, but I don't think the writing is doing him any favors. His character doesn't have a real story or motivation this year. The motivations he had in the first season were very powerful, not so much this season.

Someone is the Spartacus discussion thread said that Spartacus is melodrama done right, and The Walking Dead is melodrama done wrong. I think that's pretty spot on.

The problem has been the incredibly slow burn on everything. The interminable hunt for Sophia during the first half of the season, now the "what should we do with Randall" debate that shouldn't have lasted more than two episodes. Those CDC episodes weren't the best, but they resolved things then in a pretty snappy…

I don't know why people are excited about an appearance from the governor. In the comic, his character and story arc were barely on the right side of the "this is awesome"/"this is utterly ridiculous" line. There's absolutely no reason to think that the show writers will make his character work.

They're interpreting everyone from the source material poorly, with the exception of Glenn.

Has Breaking Bad finally replaced The Wire as the great show that douchebags will bring up whenever someone praises any other show, to the point where you begin to loathe yourself a little bit because you share a common fondness for that show with said douchebags?

They're not shoving McIntyre down our throats, but they're verging on going too far in the opposite direction. Spartacus himself really doesn't have much of a storyline this season. Everyone else has all these personal motivations and entanglements, but it's slim pickings for him.

Glaber is surrounded by three snakes: his wife, Lucretia, and Ashur. It's funny that Spartacus is his enemy and wants him dead, but of that group, Spartacus is the least likely to kill him.

The 'famous' Spartacus they were referring to was a Thracian king. I guess he would have been famous to the Romans at the time. But this Spartacus is the one who's 'famous' for us.