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PHOTOS: Scariest TV and movie serial killers Another distinction I noticed is that Spartacus' side had far more ingenuity and tricks going on in their warfare, whereas the Romans were far more straightforward. But with the testudo, we wanted to put in as many things as we could that gave it that real authentic flavor. This is something that we did back last season where Glaber ( Craig Parker) shows up with a catapult, although historically it came a bit later. They had ballistae, but they didn't have catapults, but visually we needed some catapults. For instance, they didn't have catapults back then.

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We wanted to use as much as possible, and of course there is always large dramatic license taken. How much Ancient Roman warfare was used or limited by time, budget or logistics? During the battle, we saw the Romans use the testudo formation. The moment you see Crassus training, he's training in the style that Spartacus became famous for, specifically to fight Spartacus, to prepare himself if that ever happened.

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Yes, I love things that come full circle and reference back to something else. Was it deliberate that you made them both dimachaeri - fighters who hold two blades/swords? That also set up their head-to-head battle later. I think it would have been disappointing to not see these two have words. There was something about Crassus wanting to talk to the man that he had chased for so long and that had caused him a grievous wound in his mind. It really felt to me that you couldn't do an entire season of these two armies without the two generals meeting. Spartacus says, 'No.' That was the original intent of the scene. Originally this scene was really centered on Crassus having gained such a great respect for Spartacus, he gives Spartacus the option of slipping away with 30 of his men, but everyone else will die. We all liked the scene so much that we said, 'Well, we've got to put that scene in the finale.' But by the time we had gotten to the finale, a lot of the details had changed.

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Steven DeKnight: This meeting with Crassus is actually the first scene I ever wrote for the series as an audition piece for Spartacus. What did you intend for that fictional meeting between Crassus ( Simon Merrells) and Spartacus before the battle happened? TV Scorecard: What's canceled?Check out what else DeKnight had to say about the epic and heartbreaking finale. And there were moments in the finale that I felt like it was so much on that same Andy Whitfield level of performance that I thought it was a great tribute.'

I think his work in the finale is the best work he's done. We wish it all could have gone differently, but Liam did a fantastic job probably under the most extreme circumstances that an actor can ever be in. You've got to bring your own thing to it.' Obviously nobody wanted to see that role recast. 'From the start, I told Liam, 'Look, I'm not writing the character any differently. I'm so happy that he was given the chance to show the world what he could do.'And then Liam had the thankless job of stepping into some very big sandals,' DeKnight continues. He's amazing.' It was a tragedy that really just shades everything we've done since when he got sick and unfortunately passed away. I remember the first day of shooting when he showed up with his wig and his armor and we started shooting, it was like, 'We definitely made the right choice. Nobody was a 100 percent sure about Andy and the role. Whitfield died in 2011.'Andy Whitfield was just a revelation that came out of nowhere,' DeKnight recalls.

And although he made an uncredited voice appearance during the six-part prequel series Gods of the Arena, newcomer Liam McIntyre stepped in to portray the Thracian gladiator-turned-freedom fighter for the final two seasons. Original star Andy Whitfield bowed out after the first season to treat his non-Hodgkin lymphoma. That experience involved two actors playing the titular hero.

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