{"id":8668,"date":"2010-04-13T19:33:16","date_gmt":"2010-04-13T11:33:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.chekyang.com\/musings\/2010\/04\/13\/what-the-frak\/"},"modified":"2010-04-13T21:38:08","modified_gmt":"2010-04-13T13:38:08","slug":"what-the-frak","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.chekyang.com\/musings\/2010\/04\/13\/what-the-frak\/","title":{"rendered":"&ldquo;What the Frak&hellip;?!&rdquo;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>No no \u2013 no vulgarity intended! :) \u2018Frak\u2019 is a substitute swear word that\u2019s used extensively in the now-concluded <strong><em>Battlestar Galactica<\/em><\/strong> TV series. I\u2019ve <a href=\"https:\/\/www.chekyang.com\/musings\/2008\/02\/24\/by-your-command-2\/\">blogged about the series here<\/a> before \u2013 it remains the most powerful sci-fiction drama series I\u2019ve seen and it\u2019s received <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/List_of_awards_and_nominations_received_by_Battlestar_Galactica\">a very long list of awards already<\/a> \u2013 and the final episodes on DVD rental have finally started arriving to our home.<\/p>\n<p>The story that\u2019s run for the 5 year series is <em>extremely<\/em> complicated though. It\u2019s already very tough for even regular viewers like myself to fully follow through the many plot convulsions and huge cast of characters (though it\u2019s still pretty easy compared to the even more complex <strong><em>The Sopranos<\/em><\/strong> LOL), and would be impossible for persons to jump midway into the series and follow what\u2019s going on.<\/p>\n<p>Help is available though. There\u2019s a nifty capsule summary that\u2019s available on one of the DVDs, and also on Youtube and the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=NeSxtjJZvNE&amp;feature=player_embedded\">direct link here<\/a> if the below doesn&#8217;t load.<\/p>\n<p><object classid=\"clsid:d27cdb6e-ae6d-11cf-96b8-444553540000\" width=\"480\" height=\"385\" codebase=\"http:\/\/download.macromedia.com\/pub\/shockwave\/cabs\/flash\/swflash.cab#version=6,0,40,0\"><param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\" \/><param name=\"allowscriptaccess\" value=\"always\" \/><param name=\"src\" value=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/NeSxtjJZvNE&amp;hl=en_US&amp;fs=1&amp;\" \/><param name=\"allowfullscreen\" value=\"true\" \/><\/object><\/p>\n<p>Time magazine has called it one of the best dramas on television <em>of all time<\/em>. Even Ling and my sis-in-law are fans of the series.:)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>No no \u2013 no vulgarity intended! :) \u2018Frak\u2019 is a substitute swear word that\u2019s used extensively in the now-concluded Battlestar Galactica TV series. I\u2019ve blogged about the series here before \u2013 it remains the most powerful sci-fiction drama series I\u2019ve<\/p>\n<div class=\"entry-read-more\"><a class=\"read-more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.chekyang.com\/musings\/2010\/04\/13\/what-the-frak\/\">Read More<span class=\"cleanwp-sr-only\">  &ldquo;What the Frak&hellip;?!&rdquo;<\/span><\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,10],"tags":[57],"class_list":["post-8668","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-at-home","category-entertainment","tag-battlestar-galactica","wpcat-6-id","wpcat-10-id"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chekyang.com\/musings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8668","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chekyang.com\/musings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chekyang.com\/musings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chekyang.com\/musings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chekyang.com\/musings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8668"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.chekyang.com\/musings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8668\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chekyang.com\/musings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8668"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chekyang.com\/musings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8668"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chekyang.com\/musings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8668"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}