Everyone keeps talking about Denzel on Gladiator but can we discuss Caracalla and Geta?

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This was Caracalla (bust and reconstruction)

https://i.rdrama.net/images/17206248465220697.webp

And this was Geta (bust and reconstruction)

https://i.rdrama.net/images/17206248467090561.webp

The Severans were from Carthage and likely had a North African look not different from modern day Tunisians, on the reconstruction Geta is too dark skinned but Caracalla is about right. Caracalla did wear a blonde wig while on his campaigns on Germania but it probably looked very uncanny on him.

Meanwhile on Ridley Scott slop

https://i.rdrama.net/images/17206248471065786.webp https://i.rdrama.net/images/17206248474048038.webp

The trailer is hilarious! Rap music, Kang merchant Denzel working to destroy the Roman Empire, two ginger gay twinks as villains. I was half-expecting the Rock showing up with Vin Diesel !nooticers

@Aevann can this get a pin please :capyexcited: Hollywood seems keen on erasing North Africans and replace them with either pasty Bongs or Kangz.

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I'd much rather hang out with these two again

https://i.rdrama.net/images/17206549212734768.webp

G2 is just gonna be G1, but with a rhino.

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!historychads best Roman era show ever made. I can't believe it got cancelled :#marseyrain:

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If season 2 hadn't been rushed and split into more episodes it would be remembered up there with Deadwood and The Wire.

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They should have just stuck with the actual history. Instead, the show runners thought it needed to be peppered with ridiculous side quests and modern'ish melodrama.

Otherwise, I loved it. The acting was great all around--and especially so where Ray Stevenson was concerned. He crushed it. RIP, Pullo.

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