{"id":10068,"date":"2010-02-16T18:11:38","date_gmt":"2010-02-17T00:11:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.groonk.net\/blog\/?p=10068"},"modified":"2010-02-16T18:11:38","modified_gmt":"2010-02-17T00:11:38","slug":"tuesday-tease-centurion-live-united-or-die-divided","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.groonk.net\/blog\/2010\/02\/tuesday-tease-centurion-live-united-or-die-divided\/","title":{"rendered":"Tuesday Tease: CENTURION &#8220;Live united or die divided&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<div align=\"center\"> <object width=\"480\" height=\"295\"><param name=\"movie\" value=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/k6eJf4tukWw&#038;hl=en_US&#038;fs=1&#038;color1=0xe1600f&#038;color2=0xfebd01\"><\/param><param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\"><\/param><param name=\"allowscriptaccess\" value=\"always\"><\/param><embed src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/k6eJf4tukWw&#038;hl=en_US&#038;fs=1&#038;color1=0xe1600f&#038;color2=0xfebd01\" type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" allowscriptaccess=\"always\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" width=\"480\" height=\"295\"><\/embed><\/object><\/div>\n<p><strong>What It Is<\/strong><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>In AD 117,<a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Centurion_%28film%29\" class=\"external external_icon\"> the legendary Roman Ninth Legion is led by General Virilus to wipe out the Picts and to kill their leader Gorlacon<\/a>. The legion is joined by Quintus Dias, a survivor from a Roman frontier fort that the Picts raided.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><strong>What We Learned<\/strong><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Centurion_%28film%29\" class=\"external external_icon\">CENTURION <\/a>is based on the disappearance of the <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Ninth_Legion\" class=\"external external_icon\">Ninth Legion<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><strong>What We Saw<\/strong><br \/>\nPure old school ass-whupping awesome.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Why We&#8217;re Gonna Watch<\/strong><br \/>\nWe&#8217;ve been jonesin&#8217; for the historical drama that HBO&#8217;s &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Rome_%28TV_series%29\" class=\"external external_icon\">Rome<\/a>&#8221; provided and didn&#8217;t know it.  There&#8217;s been an empty space in our heart since <a href=\"http:\/\/www.groonk.net\/bits\/?p=1050\">&#8220;Rome&#8221; left our TV<\/a>. This hole can only be filled with blood and battles on the silver screen.  Another important reason CENTURION has our interest is <a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/noelclarke\" class=\"external external_icon\">Noel Clarke<\/a> aka <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Mickey_Smith\" class=\"external external_icon\">Mickey Smith<\/a> from &#8220;Doctor Who&#8221; plays a part in this historic battle against the Picts.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<div align=\"center\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.groonk.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/02\/65232516-a03ed65fb62c7719dff5b74fc25e1e61.4b794705-scaled.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"Centurion - Fight or Die\" width=\"505\" height=\"378\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-10079\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.groonk.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/02\/65232516-a03ed65fb62c7719dff5b74fc25e1e61.4b794705-scaled.jpg 505w, https:\/\/www.groonk.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/02\/65232516-a03ed65fb62c7719dff5b74fc25e1e61.4b794705-scaled-300x224.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 505px) 100vw, 505px\" \/> <\/div>\n<p>(via <a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/sizemore\/status\/9033384237\" class=\"external external_icon\">@sizemore<\/a>)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>What It Is In AD 117, the legendary Roman Ninth Legion is led by General Virilus to wipe out the Picts and to kill their leader Gorlacon. The legion is joined by Quintus Dias, a survivor from a Roman frontier fort that the Picts raided. What We Learned CENTURION is based on the disappearance of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[56,66,57],"tags":[1453,109,1983,1984,1985,1982,989],"class_list":["post-10068","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-movies","category-one-sheets","category-trailers","tag-based-on-truth","tag-better-not-suck","tag-centurion","tag-historical-thriller","tag-ninth-legion","tag-noel-clarke","tag-tuesday-tease"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.groonk.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10068","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.groonk.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.groonk.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.groonk.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.groonk.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10068"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.groonk.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10068\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10080,"href":"https:\/\/www.groonk.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10068\/revisions\/10080"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.groonk.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10068"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.groonk.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10068"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.groonk.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10068"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}