With pretty much every bad guy we ever knew getting killed at the end of last season, Spartacus: War of the Damned clearly
has a lot of ground to cover with regards to setting up an antagonist.
It's with great interest, then, that we observe the careful and
deliberate building of Crassus. Last season, Glaber took weeks to become
interesting. Here, Crassus goes from faceless to formidable in the
space of one episode.
Spartacus: War Of The Damned S03E09 “Victory”
“Victory” is all about the final battle between Spartacus and Crassus, the epic and decisive end to the rebellion. I don’t want to go into too much detail, because it was so incredibly done and intense that I don’t want to take that away from anyone. But I’ll at least briefly summarize.
After the highly emotional tribute to Crixus at the end of the last episode, Spartacus asks the still-injured Agron to lead those who cannot fight north while he and the others engage Crassus to distraction. Agron protests, and is eventually allowed to join the battle after Nasir fashions him some custom armor. With Gannicus leading one group of rebels and Spartacus the other, they engage the Romans in battle. Gannicus, Naevia and Saxa all fall, but Spartacus is determined to take Crassus down. He pursues the Roman leader, but is finally brought to his knees. Before Crassus can claim his life, though, Agron and Nasir intervene. By the time the Romans regroup, Spartacus is gone. Agron and Nasir remove him from the heat of the battle, and he dies among his few surviving friends, happy to be joining his beloved wife in the afterlife.
I won’t lie, you will need a lot of Kleenex to get through this episode. It’s very difficult to watch at times – the sequence leading up to Gannicus’s capture and subsequent death is absolutely brutal. Even though he goes down fighting, the anticipation and inevitability of it had me on the edge of my seat. Interestingly, of all the deaths, I found his the most difficult to stomach. Not the fact that he had to die, but the way it happened – I just would’ve wanted more for him. It’s my only real complaint about the way things turned out.
While I was sad that Spartacus died, I was glad that he was able to pass among friends. The fact that it was Agron by his side made it all the more meaningful – he was the last of the gladiators from the ludus, and he was there when this whole journey started. His goodbye was very touching, and I am thankful to Steven DeKnight for having both Agron and Nasir survive. It was a nice balm at the end of an emotionally exhausting episode. And just when you think it’s over, the closing credits pay a wonderful tribute to all the characters we’ve loved and hated over the years. Really amazing stuff.
What an amazing, emotional journey this whole series has been! I am so sad to see it end, but I feel like they delivered everything they promised, and I loved every minute of it.
After the highly emotional tribute to Crixus at the end of the last episode, Spartacus asks the still-injured Agron to lead those who cannot fight north while he and the others engage Crassus to distraction. Agron protests, and is eventually allowed to join the battle after Nasir fashions him some custom armor. With Gannicus leading one group of rebels and Spartacus the other, they engage the Romans in battle. Gannicus, Naevia and Saxa all fall, but Spartacus is determined to take Crassus down. He pursues the Roman leader, but is finally brought to his knees. Before Crassus can claim his life, though, Agron and Nasir intervene. By the time the Romans regroup, Spartacus is gone. Agron and Nasir remove him from the heat of the battle, and he dies among his few surviving friends, happy to be joining his beloved wife in the afterlife.
I won’t lie, you will need a lot of Kleenex to get through this episode. It’s very difficult to watch at times – the sequence leading up to Gannicus’s capture and subsequent death is absolutely brutal. Even though he goes down fighting, the anticipation and inevitability of it had me on the edge of my seat. Interestingly, of all the deaths, I found his the most difficult to stomach. Not the fact that he had to die, but the way it happened – I just would’ve wanted more for him. It’s my only real complaint about the way things turned out.While I was sad that Spartacus died, I was glad that he was able to pass among friends. The fact that it was Agron by his side made it all the more meaningful – he was the last of the gladiators from the ludus, and he was there when this whole journey started. His goodbye was very touching, and I am thankful to Steven DeKnight for having both Agron and Nasir survive. It was a nice balm at the end of an emotionally exhausting episode. And just when you think it’s over, the closing credits pay a wonderful tribute to all the characters we’ve loved and hated over the years. Really amazing stuff.
What an amazing, emotional journey this whole series has been! I am so sad to see it end, but I feel like they delivered everything they promised, and I loved every minute of it.
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Spartacus: War Of The Damned S03E09 "The Dead and the Dying"
A rider approaches Spartacus’s camp. It’s Naevia, who has been forced to carry Crixus’s severed head. “I am but pale shade,” she says. She tells the tale of his last stand, and how Tiberius stabbed him from behind as he was fighting with Caesar. She was left alive by Crassus to strike fear into Spartacus and his men with the tale of Crixus’s death.
But Spartacus is looking ahead. He wants to figure out a way to avoid being caught between two armies–one led by Pompey and the other by Crassus.
Tiberius reveals to Caesar that he’s killed off a woman who might have betrayed his rape of Kore. Meanwhile, a representative who says he’s with Pompey’s army arrives and asks Crassus to come to neutral ground for a meeting. Caesar slyly suggests sending Tiberius to meet Pompey. Tiberius, eager to act as his father’s representative, agrees to go. “Caesar at last breaks words that I am moved to embrace,” Tiberius says. But we know that Caesar is up to something. “I wish for him all that he deserves,” Caesar tells Crassus.
Naevia asks Kore why she didn’t kill Crassus when she had her chance before her escape. If she had acted then, Crixus would still be alive now. Naevia says she’s always looking to “balance scale against those who have most deeply wounded heart.”
Tiberius arrives for his meeting with Pompey. But it’s a trick–Spartacus is there waiting. It’s a neat variation on the trick Crassus played on Spartacus in an earlier episode. Spartacus was hoping to snare Crassus, but instead he takes his son prisoner. He seizes Tiberius’s blade, asking if it was the weapon that stole Crixus’s life. He tells Gannicus that he’s not planning on sparing the Roman prisoners’ lives. “I would see them give honor to the dead, in advance of joining their ranks,” Spartacus declares.
Caesar enjoys a trademark Starz sex scene as he revels in his successful maneuvering of Tiberius to his doom. He knew all along that the representatives weren’t from Pompey.
Spartacus gives Tiberius’s blade to Naevia. He plans to stage a gladiatorial contest between his warriors and the prisoners to pay tribute to “The Undefeated Gaul, who shall forever stand so in my eyes.”
Back in the Roman camp, Agron is being held prisoner. Crassus and Caesar mock him, and then have him crucified, with Caesar himself driving in the nails. Caesar promises him he will “never again grasp sword.”
Pompey’s real representatives come to see Crassus. Now he knows the previous messengers were part of a ruse. He’s furious at Caesar and orders him to go to Spartacus’s camp to offer a trade of prisoners for Tiberius. Caesar is being asked to risk his life; his little trick has turned against him.
Tiberius knows that Caesar has fooled him. He orders his men not to fight and give the spectators entertainment. Kore comes to visit him. Tiberius tells her that his father is still in love with her, and she’s says she’s grateful for the news, which she hadn’t dared hope for. But she doesn’t plan to free him. Kore tells him she’ll return at nightfall “when it is your time to die–a thing I long to lay eyes upon.”
The games begin. It’s a reversal from the contests we saw at the beginning of the series. Now the gladiators are in control and the Romans are the human sacrifices–and the entertainment. “This time we shall return favor,” Spartacus declares to the crowd. He wants to honor the dead with Roman blood.
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But Spartacus is looking ahead. He wants to figure out a way to avoid being caught between two armies–one led by Pompey and the other by Crassus.
Tiberius reveals to Caesar that he’s killed off a woman who might have betrayed his rape of Kore. Meanwhile, a representative who says he’s with Pompey’s army arrives and asks Crassus to come to neutral ground for a meeting. Caesar slyly suggests sending Tiberius to meet Pompey. Tiberius, eager to act as his father’s representative, agrees to go. “Caesar at last breaks words that I am moved to embrace,” Tiberius says. But we know that Caesar is up to something. “I wish for him all that he deserves,” Caesar tells Crassus.
Naevia asks Kore why she didn’t kill Crassus when she had her chance before her escape. If she had acted then, Crixus would still be alive now. Naevia says she’s always looking to “balance scale against those who have most deeply wounded heart.”
Tiberius arrives for his meeting with Pompey. But it’s a trick–Spartacus is there waiting. It’s a neat variation on the trick Crassus played on Spartacus in an earlier episode. Spartacus was hoping to snare Crassus, but instead he takes his son prisoner. He seizes Tiberius’s blade, asking if it was the weapon that stole Crixus’s life. He tells Gannicus that he’s not planning on sparing the Roman prisoners’ lives. “I would see them give honor to the dead, in advance of joining their ranks,” Spartacus declares.
Caesar enjoys a trademark Starz sex scene as he revels in his successful maneuvering of Tiberius to his doom. He knew all along that the representatives weren’t from Pompey.
Spartacus gives Tiberius’s blade to Naevia. He plans to stage a gladiatorial contest between his warriors and the prisoners to pay tribute to “The Undefeated Gaul, who shall forever stand so in my eyes.”
Back in the Roman camp, Agron is being held prisoner. Crassus and Caesar mock him, and then have him crucified, with Caesar himself driving in the nails. Caesar promises him he will “never again grasp sword.”
Pompey’s real representatives come to see Crassus. Now he knows the previous messengers were part of a ruse. He’s furious at Caesar and orders him to go to Spartacus’s camp to offer a trade of prisoners for Tiberius. Caesar is being asked to risk his life; his little trick has turned against him.
Tiberius knows that Caesar has fooled him. He orders his men not to fight and give the spectators entertainment. Kore comes to visit him. Tiberius tells her that his father is still in love with her, and she’s says she’s grateful for the news, which she hadn’t dared hope for. But she doesn’t plan to free him. Kore tells him she’ll return at nightfall “when it is your time to die–a thing I long to lay eyes upon.”
The games begin. It’s a reversal from the contests we saw at the beginning of the series. Now the gladiators are in control and the Romans are the human sacrifices–and the entertainment. “This time we shall return favor,” Spartacus declares to the crowd. He wants to honor the dead with Roman blood.
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