Paul "John Doe" Bunyan

I only get them when odd pals (EG: either Thai, or one of the folks who run a 'Rock & Art Shop') of mine hit Boston and bring them back up to Maine.

Thus my often asking folks, "Say.. while you're there, want to pick me up a fruit you'll be warned off against?" on Twitter.

I might be responsible for that.

I'd heard it had to do with chemicals from the ink slowly working their way through the plastic.

So, something with full decoration would only last a certain number of decades, while something mostly blank (or with all the printed stuff in the center) would last longer.

If one heard the same little tune over and over again, I see no reason why not?

I've heard tell of folks using lyrebirds imitating saws and construction equipment to work out where other folks are doing illegal tree-cutting.

First season or two, I was fine, but this season they've just been doing some really odd things.

Odder than "they're aliens, so they use a different sort of strategy" can hand-wave away.

The yellow dye-job with the battery makes me think it's a bit of Pokémon recreation taxidermy, but apparently it's back from the 1980s.

I was a bit confused/surprised by the importance of the Volm taking out the bridge, since, well... it's not like the Espheni are low on tech. I'm pretty sure they can just hover the dropship on this side of the river instead of that side, and not worry about bridges.

Worse comes to worse, Skitters can climb up onto…

Agreed.

I'd really go with the idea that he's a colony of different types of plant-types working together, instead of just one plant.

That's the version I saw in the US theaters, where it ended with Sam humming to himself, catatonic and broken.

I saw one on TV with different edits here and there, where there's the normal ending... and then he wakes up from the bad-dream ending, happy in a trailer home with Jill.

Dreadful.

There's a great early entry where she's playing with extending/retracting her fangs, just like you'd expect her to do when alone and with a mirror.

Thank you!

I've been scrolling through the comments to make sure someone hadn't already cited The Man Who Folded Himself or that episode of SG-1

I really like the shows that do a nod to the language thing by having subtitles when it's a mixed language scene, but switch to "dubbed" when folks are speaking the same language.

Were I a higher-up in this show and a writer pitched this idea, I would've said, "Yes, it's cool, but eh... I'd say give the idea to…

Gran's pie has a posse?

The Cosmodemonic Skype session near the end just struck me as bizarre.

Sure, some things are a little odd, but I was pretty much fine with the episode up until the writers decided, "Ok, the Espheni are, like.. magical or something. I don't know. If anyone complaints, quote that tech/magic line of Clarke's at them"

I like it quite a bit!

Basically, the zombie apocalypse happens, minus the 'apocalypse' part; they round up the zombies pretty quickly and figure out a sort of synthetic brain compound that makes them revert into normal-acting folks.

First season is a young man with Partially Deceased Syndrome returning home to his…

I'm thinking like a cross between Buffy and In The Flesh (that UK zombie series)

Caliban & Frankenstein's parts were great, as was the Welsh priest at the end.

The tale of the gunslinger's parts of this episode were pretty good.

The conclusion of "Finding Mina" was quite a bit of a let-down, for me.

When Fiona & Cake were clearly now a thing that'd be showing up every so often, I agreed with the joyful posts on Tumblr about how it's a show that has in-show gender-swap fan-fic (you don't see that very often; closest I can think of is the in-show fan-fic of Inspector Spacetime and maybe Moonlighting's "Taming of…

And there's so many cute bits that come from him smoking.

Off the top of my head, I'm remembering one time when he was timing something by how many cigarettes he chain-smoked while waiting, and another time when Swamp Thing manifested in a hotel room through a carton of cigarettes John had just bought. That started…