The episode’s structure mirrors this complexity.
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It even may justify those early slogs of episodes, in that understanding Spartacus as a free Thracian first allows the viewer to understand him not as merely a cog in the Roman machine, like Doctore, or Crixus, or even Varro, but as an outsider forced to conform through circumstance. No amount of ideals about liberty can compare to just how complete his victory over the Romans is in this episode. Spartacus ends the episode with a rousing speech about ending slavery and making Rome fearful, but that’s just highfalutin rhetoric, as far as I’m concerned. A number of lines have been echoed by different characters, throughout the season, but it’s Spartacus taunting Batiatus, surrounded by his former gladiators, the fountains of his villa red with the blood of his guests, and then Lucretia, stabbed in the womb by Crixus, stumbles out and collapses, that really underscores how often the characters in this show live on hypocrisy, how their plots are powered by it, and how complete revenge is when it’s had. There’s a thrilling poetry in this final episode. “What would you do-to hold your wife again? To feel the warmth of her skin, the taste of her lips? How many men would you kill? A hundred? A thousand? There stands but one between you and her.
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