I think it was good that they kept it accurate to the chronological line and concepts. If I have seen them taking this to a solid victory of the gladiators against Rome, it would get boring for me. Sometimes winning is not only killing all the other soldiers of the enemy. Sometimes, especially in the longest term, like your fellow William Wallace, death in the road of the cause affects the consequences much more than physical destruction. But most of the time, heroes die in the way of pure honor, yet no one else holds onto them anymore. Spartacus and William Wallace were the lucky ones I guess. Heroes like that will still rise and lead people to higher values of themselves than they are imprisoned in by the social structure, and only some of them will be remembered in the history books.
