TV Guide had the station wrong, listed it as AMC, not ABC, and didn't say the premiere of Gladiator was going to be SPLIT INTO TWO PARTS.
I own this damn DVD, and what's up with the omitted scenes? Why didn't they make the DVD?!
But here's the biggest deal. Sure, I was full of gall, thinking ol' Ridley had turned Republican with Black Hawk Down. I don't know what the fuck he was doing making that movie. I mean it was fine, but a war movie. Let's get back to themes of alienation, eh Ridley?
By the end of the first installment on ABC, I'd figured it out tho. Damnit. HEY! DID ABC GET SOFT MONEY FOR AIRING THIS?
Witness the finer tuning of campaign financing. It was lovely, beautiful, and obvious as SHIT.
The scenes now conveniently included turn out to be the finer points of what was going on in the Roman Senate while Commodus (Toiletus? A guy after Miasma's heart) was scheming to dissolve the Senate. The writing is more uneven in these omitted parts, the snake metaphor, what's all about that? Commodus will pick it up again later. Let's see. Since when do enemies talk about each other using the same metaphors?
But the REAL biggie. Why in 2 parts? Why?! The election. The US Senate held in the balance. The idiot son of the older emperor plotting nothing less than the dissolving of the US Senate (if Sen Paul Wellstone was not taken out in an outright hit, I'd be awfully surprised. But you know those snakes. They lie on the bottom of the ocean, and their enemies come up and nibble, and nibble, and they do nothing. And their enemies come up and nibble and nibble, and they do nothing...)
OK Ridley, you get to wear your small D democrat pin at least. When will the second half air? Monday night? How come you couldn't get Monday night? Wouldn't ABC give it to you? Too risky for getting pre-empted by a local political debate?
It is too pat, but I hope it works. I hope it wakes up US citizens to how important this election is. More important than a presidential coup, this election is. This is the last thing standing between the son of the Emperor and the dissolution of the Senate. We are the karma of the old Roman Empire. We are about to be alive and preside over the death of democracy.
Who do I get to be, Cicero or Quintillian? I always thought Cicero was an ass. Quintillian was a paper tiger, but he was a lot cooler dude.
I still wanna know if Ridley got soft money for this conveniently timed premiere showing of Gladiator. It is already a good joke putting Claudius in the Senate.
Who gets to be the announcer at the games, the guy with the funny voice and the bad wig? Rep Trafficant?
Miasma
11:13:35 PM 
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