Battlestar Galactica + Frak.

Obfleur · Post by **Obfleur** » Sun Feb 14, 2010 2:45 am

I just watched the first episode of Battlestar Galactica, and I'm wondering if the word "frak" will be used throughout the whole series?
I enjoyed the episode, but "frak" is stupid as ****.

IronHide · Post by **IronHide** » Sun Feb 14, 2010 3:58 am

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r7KcpgQKo2I

Thats just season 1.

saysadie · Post by **saysadie** » Sun Feb 14, 2010 11:24 am

I like it.

And I say it a lot.

Ob would hate me.

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Obfleur · Post by **Obfleur** » Sun Feb 14, 2010 11:57 am

IronHide wrote:http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r7KcpgQKo2I

Thats just season 1.

Haha! Oh my god. I guess I'd better get used to it.

And sadie: I'll only hate you if Canada wins the gold medal in hockey

saysadie · Post by **saysadie** » Sun Feb 14, 2010 12:18 pm

Yeah, well... I hate you because Semla is so damn good.

Guest · Post by **Guest** » Sun Feb 14, 2010 12:52 pm

Obfleur wrote:I just watched the first episode of Battlestar Galactica, and I'm wondering if the word "frak" will be used throughout the whole series?
I enjoyed the episode, but "frak" is stupid as ****.

It's just another way of 'getting around the censors'.

Like the use of 'shock' in Marvel's 2099 titles, or 'drokk' in 2000AD, or even 'slag' in the Beast Wars/Machines series.

saysadie · Post by **saysadie** » Sun Feb 14, 2010 1:07 pm

I initially started using it because my mother liked to give us dirty looks whenever we say cuss words around her and I use [composite word including 'f*ck'] a lot when I'm talking to my brothers, because I'm short and they are all over 6 feet tall. I talk a tough game as I like to pretend that I can break them in two, even though the odds of this are stacked verily much against me.

They buy it however, so I keep selling it.

It was kind of a game for awhile, because she'd give me dirty looks anyway.

After awhile, it just sort of came about as the natural replacement for the "f-word"... Especially when my nieces were around.

I do the "sliding f" thing a lot around children/parents. "What the fffffffffu-rak..."

Obfleur · Post by **Obfleur** » Sun Feb 14, 2010 1:33 pm

saysadie wrote:Yeah, well... I hate you because Semla is so damn good.

Hahaha

Rebis: Yeah, I get that

I just think it sounds better to say "Are you still sleeping with him?" than "Are you still fraking him?"

Anyways, I'm about to watch the second episode!

Brendocon · Post by **Brendocon** » Sun Feb 14, 2010 2:30 pm

Frak you, it's a great word. It's no dumber than Elliot going frick frick frickety frick in Scrubs. Nobody's bothered about that.

Second episode? Did you watch the mini series first? Or is that what you meeeans?

I have literally just half an hour ago finished the finale as part of my big "I have it all on Blu Ray so I'm going to rewatch the whole thing and kill anybody who tries interrupting me" rewatch.

Obfleur · Post by **Obfleur** » Sun Feb 14, 2010 2:50 pm

Scrubs is supposed to be silly

(and from what I understand, Galactica is not).

I did not know about the mini series! But I'm on it

Thanks!

Brendocon · Post by **Brendocon** » Sun Feb 14, 2010 5:09 pm

Nay worries. I know some people who've gone "er, why does episode 1 start with a Previously recap?" so I like to be thorough with newbies.

Impactor returns 2.0 · Post by **Impactor returns 2.0** » Sun Feb 14, 2010 6:30 pm

I don't understand the problem, frack, fuc* it's all the same.

Obfleur · Post by **Obfleur** » Sun Feb 14, 2010 11:15 pm

Mini series: done!

Now it's time for episode three.

Ozz · Post by **Ozz** » Mon Feb 15, 2010 8:26 am

Obfleur wrote:Scrubs is supposed to be silly

It's supposed to be funny. There's a difference. Clearly seen when comparing first three seasons to later ones.

My favourite method of using swear words in TV and keeping the censors happy at the same time is the one implemented in Firefly.

Obfleur · Post by **Obfleur** » Mon Feb 15, 2010 12:20 pm

Ozz wrote:
Obfleur wrote:Scrubs is supposed to be silly
It's supposed to be funny. There's a difference. Clearly seen when comparing first three seasons to later ones.

Silly: absurd; ridiculous.
I.E: Using the word "frick" is ******* ridiculous (and I'm sure there's other parts of the first three seasons that are silly, like the janitor installing a toilet on the roof).

But you're right. I'll change it: Scrubs is supposed to be silly, funny, dramatic... what other words can we use to describe it? Tragic/tragicomedy?

bumblemusprime · Post by **bumblemusprime** » Mon Feb 15, 2010 2:02 pm

Ozz wrote:
Obfleur wrote:Scrubs is supposed to be silly
It's supposed to be funny. There's a difference. Clearly seen when comparing first three seasons to later ones.

My favourite method of using swear words in TV and keeping the censors happy at the same time is the one implemented in Firefly.

That one had good philological sense: "rutting" "humped" and of course, saying things like you "dirty inside of a dog's vagina" in Chinese.

Obfleur · Post by **Obfleur** » Mon Feb 15, 2010 5:14 pm

Starbuck needs to die.

IronHide · Post by **IronHide** » Tue Feb 16, 2010 2:59 am

Ha! I thought you were about to go off on a tangent about how you dont like coffee!

.....well then.

frak me.

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