Troy: Fall of a City

[Morrus]

I wasn’t sure if I was going to like this, but it’s better than I expected. The BBC budget limits show through in the big battle scenes, though, as you’d expect. It’s two episodes in now, and the Greeks have just attached Troy.

Agamemnon doesn’t feel right to me - but gruff enough - but I like the casting of Odysseus.

They’re going with magic and gods - you see the gods talking and appearing on the battlefield to give blessings.

We’ll see how it goes, but so far I’m enjoying it.

 

[delericho]

I felt the first couple of episodes were okay, but that the pace really dragged in the fourth part. We'll stick it out to the end, but perhaps due simply to inertia. (I also really hope it comes to an actual end, and doesn't turn out to be Part One of an open-ended epic. Although... The Odyssey might not suck.)

That said, I've been getting a feeling from a lot of BBC series recently that they really want to being their answer to "Game of Thrones", and then falling short on that comparison. The fundamental problem being that there just isn't anything quite like GoT out there, and even if there was the budgets wouldn't be there.

 

[Morrus]

I'm still quite liking it. It's not great (and no GoT as you say), but it's watchable.