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what’s especially fantastic about i claudius for me is how much they did with so little money.

they’d stand on some evident cardboard sets, give speeches to an invisible “crowd” made of sound recordings, and managed to pull off absolutely thrilling tv.

by contrast these days there’d be more emphasis on CGI filler and stunt work and fucking and gore. and sure there’s a place for that in the universe but it’s not the same quality as a good, well-acted plot.