I think one of the things I best enjoyed about this episode was the development of the relationship between Vorenus and Pullo - they could NOT be more different, but there's a certain poignance in watching them, in spite of everything, helping each other out. I liked the highly embarrassed conversation between them, when Vorenus - who has returned to his wife after an 8-year absence with the army, just to find a new baby in her arms (his GRANDDAUGHTER, yes, right) - asks Pullo what one DOES with a woman, besides the obvious.

And I agree with the writer who said that they're playing us like fish. As of end of III, Pullo has stolen the Roman treasury, or a good chunk thereof, and Vorenus has quit his beloved army - well, I suspect that Vorenus will change his mind (how else could he be THERE for what's to come) but how he's going to get Pullo out of his fix, who can say? I gnashed teeth when they left us hanging on this one.

I agree, I think our Octavian character has a lot of development left in him - and I suspect in IV we will see more of Caesar and Pompey than we did in the third episode, although what they were doing informed everything in it.

Another thing I love is that the superb sets and costumes and "effects" of ancient Rome have now settled into seeming perfectly normal, so that, blinking, I look at my house and say "why on earth don't I have Pompeian art on my walls"?