12-15-2005, 12:08 PM
Cleopatra smoking an opium pipe???!!!!!!!
What's more, one that looked like a 19th Century Chinese pipe!!!
Well I can overlook most kit complaints in the cause of good drama and witty script, but this is totally daft and very annoying!
If she'd heated some hemp seeds up on some sort of burner and had leaned over under a cloak to get a fix then that'd be more credible (considering Herodotus' Scythians account).
'The Scythians then take the seed of this hemp and creep under the felt coverings, and then they throw the seed upon the stones which have been heated red-hot: and it burns like incense and produces a vapour so think that no vapour-bath in Hellas would surpass it: and the Scythians being delighted with the vapour-bath howl like wolves'.
Herodotus Book 4: 75.
Ok they wanted to give her character an edge, make her a bit flawed and intense... but an opium pipe???? I think the art dept/props advisor were obviously all on holiday when that episode was filmed.
What do you lot think?
What's more, one that looked like a 19th Century Chinese pipe!!!
Well I can overlook most kit complaints in the cause of good drama and witty script, but this is totally daft and very annoying!
If she'd heated some hemp seeds up on some sort of burner and had leaned over under a cloak to get a fix then that'd be more credible (considering Herodotus' Scythians account).
'The Scythians then take the seed of this hemp and creep under the felt coverings, and then they throw the seed upon the stones which have been heated red-hot: and it burns like incense and produces a vapour so think that no vapour-bath in Hellas would surpass it: and the Scythians being delighted with the vapour-bath howl like wolves'.
Herodotus Book 4: 75.
Ok they wanted to give her character an edge, make her a bit flawed and intense... but an opium pipe???? I think the art dept/props advisor were obviously all on holiday when that episode was filmed.
What do you lot think?