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Those About to Die Recap: Fight Night
My heart jumped watching Tenax, Domitian, and Titus working together.
The eruption of Vesuvius that destroys Pompeii, coupled with Antonia’s stealthy extinguishing of the eternal vestal flame, is the kind of sign from above that the superstitious and religious look for when matters of succession are at stake, and Blue faction leader Consul Marsus aims to make his move for the Emperor’s curule chair. Tenax’s tears over that child’s death are so quick to flow, and so obviously heartfelt; it’s not a side of actor Iwan Rheon we’ve seen either here or with his most famous role, as GoT psycho Ramsay Bolton, and it makes an impression. So does the eruption of Vesuvius, a nightmarishly huge cloud of ash that descends the mountainside like an avalanche before coating Rome in a snowlike patina of gray flakes — two very different but equally striking visual depictions of a natural catastrophe.
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