Described like that, it sounds (and looks a little) like a kind of strange mashup between "The Company of Wolves" (snowbound medieval village in the woods, innocent in red with a mysterious bond to a werewolf), "The Brotherhood of the Wolf" (exotic ninjas), and probably "The Season of the Witch", "The Name of the…

Maybe "We're here for your water" is just one of those things that aliens like to say when they invade. It's a big in-joke in the whole planetary invasion crowd.

You write: "Only one human-like intelligence has ever evolved - although our hominid relatives like the Neanderthals certainly got close".

I bet all those shows died happy. I know I would.

What does that remind me of? Ah yes ... [www.google.com]

What? No giant, corkscrew-shaped, high-speed duck penises with handy rival-sperm-scrubbing brush technology (and correspondingly labyrinthine reinforced duck vaginas)?

A quick Google on the Interwebs reveals that the Emma Maersk (which is a little smaller than the ship described here) gets through about 1700 gallons of fuel per hour. If the new ship is going to "float its residents across the ice-free Arctic Sea", it's probably not going to do so under power for very long, unless…

I was already depressed by the thought of growing old, but the knowledge that I may have to spend my twilight years nurturing a peevish plush automaton makes me want to reach for the sleeping pills right now.

But whatever the dangers that a hybrid swine/bird flu poses to humanity, another hybrid is more dangerous still. Coming soon to SyFy - "PigChicken" - half-pig, half-chicken, all deadly.

SF/fantasy (and other forms, including thrillers) are often variants of the Hero's Journey: the action is the precursor to the final victory of the hero.

Badass dude busts out of Hell on a personal mission ... sinister demonic accountants ... why does it sound like someone's been reading Richard Kadrey?

This cannot end well.

Couldn't he just rob a train or something to raise the money?

I believe that there's prior art related to this discovery. [www.google.com]

"Personne n'échappe les hommes taupes!" (lit. "No one escapes the mole men"; I realize there may be mole women as well, who are probably equally unescapable, but there's something un-French-sounding to my ear about "les gens taupes")

If gay marriage leads to robot marriage, can gay robot marriage be far behind? (see [www.out.com] )

The battle sequence that follows that clip looks a lot more like what I'd imagine medieval sword fights were actually like than the fights you typically see on film. It's a brutal knock-down and drag-out brawl with edged weapons. It also conveys the idea that Boromir's - I'm sorry, Ulric's - soldiers are also…

"It's an SF series written for the Tea Party"

I used to want a bachelor pad, but now I think I want an alien breeding shack of doom.

I'm guessing it's really bad for the ecosystem of the Tarapaca region, anyway.