As I mentioned at Punaji, the scene that seemed out of place was the one you just mentioned. The plot, although simplistic, was doing fairly well, and then-boom, sex scene. Very random...I still liked it though. I still think it's 50x better than the other crap-ass, historic knock offs, like "Troy" and "Alexander"...Not the best historic battle movie, but better than the aforementioned, in my humble opinion, of course...