The Family That Plays Together

[scarfman]

I sat down to watch the second episode of I, Claudius, which opens with the scene when Claudius is still a boy and is playing with his siblings and cousins while their mothers look on till the soothsayer comes by - and I couldn't do it. Years and years ago when we first saw I, Claudius on tv (the second time it aired, I think), and I liked it so much I read the novels several times in the space of a couple of years, I worked up a graphic file with a geneology for all the related characters (which is all of them), on which everyone appeared but no one more'n once. That was long before the innovation of flash drives allowed me to carry a backup of all my files in my pocket, and when I went looking for it earlier this week it developed that the thing must have been a system crash or two ago, which ties in naturally with the chronology noted above. So, instead of spending the next hour watching I, Claudius, I spent the next hour and more recreating that geneology, with the help of Wikipedia and expanded to cover branches relevant to the Colleen McCullough I've been reading. Just because, like the first time, without it I can't keep track of who all these people are. It's a 1100x600 PNG file. It might be easiest to view to load the image directly into a browser tab and let your browser resize it.

I've also done the same thing for the characters in the Matter of Britain - because I wanted to show that every one of them is related by blood or marriage - and properly backed up and everything. This one's wide too.

Comments

[dave-iii.livejournal.com]

So, rather than watch the show itself, you did fanart/fanwork of the show.

You win. You have reached a level of fan-geekery I can only hope to aspire to.

[scarfman]

Well, - I suppose I didn't make this clear - only because the reason I made the chart in the first place is I can't keep track of who all these people are.

[scarfman]

Entry edited for clarity.

[dave-iii.livejournal.com]

Fair enough... I know a few shows that require a score card just to keep track of.

[acmespaceship.livejournal.com]

Can't tell yer players without a program. Now you need to devise a scorecard and a method of scoring for I, Claudius. Surviving an episode would be the equivalent of an RBI. Or something. I will ask E_M_B, the Shadow Commissioner, for guidance. It will give us something to work on during the drive to and from DeKalb this week.

[sidhekin.livejournal.com]

How did the Romans even know which Julia was which?

Then again, they'd never commit the faux-pas of forgetting Antonia's sister's name. Silver lining, that.