You know, we can’t keep making excuses for the writers and producers of this show, however much we might love them for bringing us this gritty world of bot-humans, quaintly pointless octagonals and a design sensibility that I like to call ‘metal-bleak’. I have loved this show, especially when it started out… but I can no longer forgive the sheer number of questions that remain un-answered.
I wouldn’t mind so much except, dear writers-of-the-show, WHY EVEN RAISE THESE QUESTIONS AT ALL? Why d’you even bother setting out along these ill-fated, meaningless trajectories? Continue reading
So apparently, the word ‘Frak’ is fast becoming everyone’s favourite swearword. The ingenuity of the word Frak lies in its phonetic similarity to its grosser cousin. It wouldn’t work half as well as the other word if it didn’t sound so completely like it. And yet it isn’t that other word… a fact that has allowed it to slip deftly through the usual censorship nets. 
[updated 2009-07-12]