Spartacus: Blood and Sand does have its good points. Their strategy may have worked though since the show has already been renewed for a second season. Show producers are trying to garner the mass audience that flocked to see 300 in theater, which from a PR perspective is a good thing. They even have Peter Mensah from 300 on the show as gladiator Doctore. They would have been better off copying Lew Wallace’s Ben-Hur: A Tale of Christ (great book), its Charlton Heston film incarnation or used Howard Fast’s Spartacus (a good book by the way) as their baseline. What they should have remembered about 300 is that apart from that films’ fight scenes, 300 is pretty vapid. Seventy-five percent of the battles are like cartoons, with added blood wallpapers springing up, covering the screen. There is too much video game blood splatter. The producers of Spartacus: Blood and Sand are trying to make the show too much like 300, right down to the costumes, (why are they half naked in the freezing cold while it is snowing?) the scene where the Thracians leave to fight the Get-ti and the fight scenes slow motion dismemberment.
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