Open Hatch

Last night we (my wife and I) watched Season 4 Episode 9, entitled THE HUB, on DVD. This episode in particular was tremendous – but the whole series is.

There has not been one single episode in four seasons that has disappointed me.

My wife came “on board” late – she was updated of goings-on by watching the (funny) “What the frak is going on?” trailer – which you can watch at that link.* She thought the whole show would be trite, based on this trailer – no, the trailer is designed to be funny, but the show has real moral complexity and depth. If you lack time, I’d just watch that trailer and jump in to season 4 – but the show is very much worth watching from season 1.

My only criticism is minor – which is that they overuse the show-invented curse “frak” (hey, guess what that means??!)- where, agreements that loosely comparable military culture may be rich with curses aside -I think invented curses and lingo rarely (if ever) work well in fiction.

Hmm.. two technical complaints. Many of the actors are with The Mumbles – you need closed captions to understand them sometimes. And a dying Cylon prayed, and cried out “Heavenly Father..” (!!) and the closed captions did not transcribe it!

*I regret to advise FireFox users that I have never gotten the video player at that link to work in FireFox – only in Internet Explorer.