Hey, folks. Another Fireside this week! I had hoped to have the science fiction body armor post ready to go this week, but in addition to the continue

Fireside Friday, November 22, 2024 (Roman Naming Conventions)

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2024-11-22 17:30:03

Hey, folks. Another Fireside this week! I had hoped to have the science fiction body armor post ready to go this week, but in addition to the continued work on the book project, I was asked to write a review of the now-out-in-the-USA Gladiator II and that consumed a fair bit of my time, pushing the science fiction body armor post into next week. Now the review itself will be coming out at some point in Foreign Policy. We are absolutely going to cover significant parts of this movie here as well because its history is bonkers but I’m going to leave most of that until later (probably waiting for the movie to hit streaming, so I can go through the battle scenes in detail) if for no other reason than that the nice people at Foreign Policy are paying me write this review for them and it would hardly be sporting to then post all my thoughts for free online before it even comes out.

That said, I did quip online that, “It has been 24 years since the first Gladiator film and in all that time, I see that Ridley Scott has still not learned how Roman names work.” Which is not something I had the words to get into in the FP review, so I suppose we can discuss that here!