He survives there.

Until he winds up in the freaking Pits!!!

Then who knows what horrors he experiences.

The audience sees him torn away from his homeland. As a kid.

And everything that happens to him happens, only not in the sidelines, but front and center.

Onomaeus, instead of Spartacus.

IMAGINE, FOR A SECOND, THAT DOCTORE, AKA ONOMAEUS, IS THE LEAD CHARACTER OF A TV SERIES.

Let's see.

The most tragic, downright depressing storyline of the entire series, is perhaps Onomaeus story.

I realized something watching these episodes.

And we haven't even talked about Onomaeus yet!

Raw and all.

I reckon Game of Thrones elicits more emotion.

Season 3 had some poignant, touching moments. But overall, it feels like it inhabits a plane other than our own, and it's hard to truly engage, emotionally, in a weep like a child kind of way, with it.

The Walking Dead?

what else?

Breaking Bad is sad, but Spartacus is down right tragic.

I dare you to tell me.

Really, I want to know.

HAS THERE BEEN A SADDER SERIES THAN THIS ONE??