#achillia

One of the things I'm absolutely loving about Spartacus: House of Ashur is the social commentary. If you blink, you'll miss it. Hilara is clearly our resident dim-witted pick-me. She's observant enough to psychoanalyze Achillia (Tenika Davis), but still deluded enough to think she and Ashur are truly more than master and slave.

Hilara is easily threatened by other women; even before Achillia attacks Ashur we can tell right off the bat that the Nubian goddess's mere presence rubs her the wrong way. Even before Achillia so much as speaks, Hilara's facial expression betrays the fact she's bound and determined to hate this woman.

But the disrespect in yesterday's Episode 3 is what finally made me root for this bitch to die. To left is Messia (Ivana Baquero of Pan's Labyrinth legend), a fellow enslaved woman of Ashur's. Unlike Hilara, Messia is no pick-me. She has no delusions about her status in life. She bears Achillia no ill will and is subtly rooting for her Black Queen to succeed. And she's in love with Hilara (unfortunately).

So yesterday, Messia confesses her love to Hilara, who politely turns her down and tells Messia she's her "dearest friend". I felt bad for Messia, because she was obviously heartbroken, but I was also like, "Sis... you could do better. You deserve soooooo much better." And yesterday's episode proved that when Ashur and Hilara start to get it on right in front of Messia. Annoyed and disgusted, Messia eventually joins in because, again, slave. She's done this countless times before; it's literally how we're first introduced to her character.

But this time, Hilara doesn't want her there. Like the Domina she is not and never will be, Hilara dismissively commands her "dearest friend" to "fetch wine" and then "wait until summoned".

Girl, if you don't GTFOMYFWTBS. 🤨

First things first, I never expected Messia to actually leave with Cornelia, and I fully take this to mean that they will both return for the next season. There is no way either of them could leave the show so unceremoniously, and Steven said in a Twitter post that Messia's story would expand over the seasons.

I can't wait to see the toxic romance (?) between these two, especially how Caesar's death will affect it. Also its kinda funny how Cornelia acts like she has separation anxiety lol calling for Messia the second she is not right by her

I'm sorry I can't help but the note it. There actually being a fucking strap in the finale episode. I guess I called it but I didn't actually think they were gonna. I was like

Another romance: I saw some people saying they delusionally believed/wanted Tarchon and Achillia to be a couple and I thought it was delusional as well so when I tell you my jaw fucking dropped. But like, it also feels so right??? So I'm not actually mad about it, this could be very interesting

It's amazing how much they made us hate Servius in such a short time. He is set to be the most unlikable villain of this already, fucking creep. Somebody save Cossutia and Viridia asap :(

The Viridia/Ashur kiss!!!! Well-deserved and great pay-off <3

I already like Galatea (?) so much, it seems like she will be a side character next season. Her and Satyrus was such a good duo, and their fight was super cool as well

On that note, the fact that they showed us Proculus is a highly skilled fighter....it's def gonna come down to a physical showdown between him and Ashur

The achillia vs. schytian fight.....what is there to say even. I think it's actually my favorite fight of the whole series, I could not sit still (I was acting like Hilara watching it lol). I usually don't care much for the fighting, but boy this one was insane. So well choreographed, so emotional, even the reactions from the characters and the crowd hyped me up so much. Like I imagined being a Roman peasant and actually witnessing this. I would talk about for years to come

The scene where Viridia sees the Hilara/Ashur hug and kiss and being distraught??? New storyline for season 2 incoming

I KNEWW the finale would end this way. I posted on Reddit to which almost everyone vehemently argued against but I knew man. I see things