I'm only 7 eps in but it sounds really stupid. I know they are just using it instead of the other f word but it sounds so dumb.
shareIt's a reference to the Original Series, where they used a number of alternate terms. (particularly for time units)
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shareSure, they used terms like centons and yarons for measurements of time, but "frack" also comes straight from the original series. The only difference, I think, is that it was always used an exclamation, not to refer to sex. And they didn't use those smutty-but-awkward combinations like "mother-fracker." There was also a bit more variety, since "frack" wasn't their only improvised curse word. There was also "felgercarb," which was basically a stand-in for sh... the poop word. And I think there was one more, but I can't ever remember it.
shareSounds like the dad in A Christmas Story.
This will be the high point of my day; it's all downhill from here.
No problem for me because I got used to "smeg" in Red Dwarf -- same thing, substituting a garbage word for an english curse word that we use. It's still a swear word, but nothing that offends people because they don't know what it means.
I really like it since it illustrates the fact that any curse word is just a word and really only has whatever meaning you give to it. Take away the shock value of our swear words and people stop using them...
i use the word frak daily
shareWaiiiiiiiiiiiit a second.
Something just occurred to me, you haven't watched Battlestar Galactica, have you?
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Frack is NOT the only one television and movies trying to avoid R ratings HAVE to make up their own pseudo swear words.
I have heard AIRHOLE used on television and I think we can guess what "airhole" is a stand in for....
WITCH instead of BITCH even though bitch is not technically a swear word...
People actually saying "The "n" word" instead of *beep*
its all really stupid because everyone knows what it really is supposed to mean, that we get worked up only by the word itself and not the intent behind it.
Exactly a lot of shows do it, like Frell in Farscape or Gorram and others in Firefly.
shareIt was amusing and fit in with the situation and dialogue at times, but it did get overused. The worse thing about it is this is the way the writers have come up with getting away with using hard language. The meaning and intend behind the word is still there. It's just another form of network censorship to me. Either swear or don't swear. It's like those kids or other adults that don't like to curse, but will so stupid things in its place like "I don't give a care", "Son of a biscuit"., etc.
I am on episode 9, and I really love the show. The only thing about the show that really annoys me is how many times (on each episode) they use the words that sound to me like Frek", Frak, Frecking, and Fracking. They really over use these words way too much in my opinion. There is no need for them to use the words that much. I thought it was funny at first, but it is starting to get really silly and annoying how much they are using the words.
shareIf you were going to say "darn", you might as well just say something more interesting, like "oh bother". It's not a stand in for anything, and it's a fun way to express frustration without swearing or sounding stupid. Much better than using stand-ins for swear words in common swear phrases.
Although if I'm really bothered about something, I'll just swear.
Yeah I think part of the problem with the word is that it only seemed to have one person for one line treat like a "bad" word. Everyone said it like it was the word "water". After Roslin said her one line of saying something like it was harsh language it seemed not to matter before or since. When I think about it now I can't think of any more times where saying it carried the weight "Fu--" would. When everyone's saying it multiple times it looses whatever "bad word" kind of weight it would have. It's different using a real swear like "sh--" or "fu--" because you say it in real life and it still holds whatever relevancy a real swear does. You can't even type it on IMDB without getting creative with the letters like adding diaeresis over the i or u or something. Yet I can type "frack" or "frakk" into this post no problem. In a way the word "water" held more weight than "frack" does or did. Water was pretty damn important in the BSG series.
I don't know I could be wrong it just seems that way to me right now.
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On a similar subject, does anyone who watched this series find it amusing when someone on the news talks about ' fracking '?
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Nope, I find it a great way to swear. Reminder this takes place over 150,000 years before our time, frak came before the f-word.
shareGet a mind of your own.
Censorship is the most ridiculous invention ever, made to close the minds of the narrowminded even further.
*beep*! ASS! *beep* *beep*
Hey, guess what, the world didn't blow up when I typed or posted those words.
Teach your childern something valuable, teach them discrimination, racism, religious/political extremism, ... Are bad, words are and will always be just words.
But no, saying *beep* is evil and making war to earn more money is good...
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No way were they gonna not use that word. It sounds similar to the word it replaces, which still can't be uttered on broadcast TV in the US.
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I'd've gotten away with it, too, if it weren't for you meddling kids.