I want to know the answer to the below question, based on your understanding from the TV show. If Bran is the 3-eyed-raven/old man on the tree that was inside the cave in season 4 and 5. 1) How did the old man get there, was that old man like an illusion, i don't think it's an illusion because...

In season 8 episode 1, Arya asks Gendry to forge her a dragon glass weapon (which we can see written). What is the purpose of this weapon?

In the April 14 episode of Last Week Tonight, John Oliver says this (emphasis mine): For legal reasons I have to tell you that the Sacklers and Purdue insist the family didn't cause the opioid crisis and vigorously deny the claims in the lawsuits we've mentioned... Timestamp What does he...

Game of Thrones season 8 started and it comes with a new intro, where we see the wall, Winterfell, and kings landing only. And they made some difference in the sigil. It looks like a lion is eating a fish, next a wolf is hanging dead, and then a man is holding the head of a lion(I am not sure)...

Seibei hires Sanjuro (the protagonist) to be his bodyguard and to lead the fight against the other group. Seibei agreed to pay Sanjuro 50 ryo (25 up front); the master Homma complains that he was paid only 2 ryo. Why did Homma run away? Was it the pay or something else?

WARNING: Spoilers ahead. In Altered Carbon, Bancroft killed himself by shooting himself in the neck, blowing out his own Stack. I assumed that if someone's stack remained intact, then they could be "spun back up" should they "temporarily die", but when Bancroft blew out his own stack it should ...

In Altered Carbon they keep referring to really rich and powerful people as Meths, what exactly does this mean?

After both his father and brother (who was the heir) executed in Season 7, how come that Samwell Tarly didn't become the new head of the House, i.e. Lord of Horn Hill? I would expect the remaining house leaders to have sent Sam a message letting him know of what happened and asking him to come b...

Robert Baratheon rebelled against the Mad King and took the Throne of the Seven Kingdoms. Doesn't this legally set the heir to the throne to the Baratheon family by right of conquest? Both Stannis and Renly claimed to be the legal heirs to the trone. Since Gendry is the only son of Robert alive...

For example, if Arya were to wear the face of someone considerably larger than her, would she look convincing or ridiculously ill-proportioned?

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In Ned's Declassified School Survival Guide, Seth Powers is always (or almost always, not sure) seen with a basketball spinning on his fingers. Did the actor actually do this, or was it done by some trick?

I'm trying to track down a sci-fi movie that I saw as a kid but I only remember a few bits and pieces (no title, no actors). I wanted to post this as a question to the main Movies & TV QA but I noticed that the "identify-this-movie" tag is no longer allowed. Would my question be on-topic for thi...

In Mr. Robot, season 1, episode 1, Elliott stopped a DDoS attack, but how exactly did he do it? If i understand well, he notices​ that everything was being infected, all the servers, so he goes​ to some "main" server, I guess? And then cuts the connection between this main server and all the res...

In the 1991 Jackie Chan movie "Armour of God 2: Operation Condor”, our heroes are crossing the desert, and take a small break to pee. The following image appears on the screen: Given the tone of the movie, this is probably a joke. For those of us who don’t speak Mandarin(?), what does this say?