In Dr Who: Extremis, why do the portals seem to open for no apparent reason.
When Billy and Nardole went and checked on the gun shot and then turned around the portal opened for no reason.
Then when the Doctor was chased and losing his sight a portal opened for no reason as well.
My question i...
In the movie, after the ring got tossed into the volcano, Sauron began to ignite, and the tower then fell down. Then he shrinked into a tiny eye, and exploded. What actually happened there?
Season 5, Episode 1:
When Cersei was a teenager she went to visit the witch in the woods to know her future.
Who was her friend who accompanied her to the woods? Why happened to her as she is never mentioned in the show again?
A common claim online is that J.K Rowling said (at some point or another) that a Muggle with a gun would beat a wizard with a wand. For example, on TV Tropes:
J.K mentioned that in a battle between a wand and a shotgun the gun
wins.
Or here:
JK Rowling is on record as saying that a w...
As I have mentioned before, I am only reading the LotR books for the first time right now, and I am only halfway through the second book at the moment, so my knowledge of the third book is based primarily on what I saw in the movies.
Until recently, when I watched the "Crack of Doom" scene (wh...
Let me start of this question by clarifying some things about the population of wizarding Britain. According to the answers to this question, nobody asserts that the population of wizarding britain exceeds more than a few thousand. Yet there seem to be thousands of people who work in the Ministry...
In the episode Extremis, the Pope shows up and is speaking his native language (naturally). However, his words are not being translated by the Tardis. Why is this?
For example, I have Nor Crystal Tears by Alan Dean Foster, Mother of Demons by Eric Flint, the Chanur series by C.J. Cherryh, and Demon of Undoing by Andrea Alton. I am specifically looking for human/alien interaction.
The Watch Below by James White would be iffy, because there's not much human...
I'm trying to work out the name of a Science Fiction movie from the 80's where the female alien ( in human form ) drinks coffee by mistake and gets very drunk. It's all I remember from the film but I seem to remember it was really enjoyable! Any ideas?
Let me start of this question by clarifying some things about the population of wizarding Britain. According to the answers to this question, nobody asserts that the population of wizarding britain exceeds more than a few thousand. Yet there seem to be thousands of people who work in the Ministry...
The aliens are more or less cat-like and there are two types. One is the type to essentially give up and sleep, possibly to death, when faced with impossible to survive situations. A minority doesn't, they keep fighting to the bitter end. There's an explanation as to why they are the minority.
T...
In Hero of Ages, TenSoon states that Sazed is the
At the end of the book, however, it is revealed that
Technically
Considering that both parts of the prophecy are quite distinct and apparently important, how could these two facts resolve this? Was it simply an author oversight?
Say that Aunt Petunia and Dudley were to live in separate houses (or alternatively, Petunia had an unfortunate motor accident, so Uncle Vernon and Dudley are his only living relatives).
Because Dudley is the blood nephew of Lily Potter, would the place where Dudley lives also count as "where hi...
This was a story I read sometime in the 1970s, pretty sure it was a novel but not 100% positive.
The protagonist is trying to interest the government or a large corporation into funding research into a radical new type of spacecraft propulsion.
The spacecraft, once in space, would unfurl long ...
In Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows, Griphook the Goblin tells Ron that wizards have (selfishly) kept other magical beings from learning wandlore:
Wizards refuse to share the secrets of wandlore with other magical
beings, they deny us the possibility of extending our powers!
It seems ...
What I remember is that in the same movie every time the villains were defeated they came back in a new machine, I think they were all animal based but robots. They always had the same symbol somewhere on the robot.
The good guys had robots too.
I'm sure it was anime but it was in English.
Any ...
The Doors of Durin, Lord of Moria. Speak friend and enter.
Those words were written in elvish.When the Fellowship was in the Walls of Moria,Gandalf translates the password. However,Gandalf could not find out the password to open the door. Frodo tells Gandalf that it's a riddle and ask what's the...
The Death Star is a huge space station, literally the size of a moon. Now I know you can park TIE fighters and shuttles and even craft as big as the Millennium Falcon inside of the station. But when you see this photo:
Where exactly do you park a Star Destroyer at the Death Star? In the first...
I saw this show in the 90's of aliens crashing near the woods. The family is recording them with a camera. They eventually make it into the house. I believe it was on KCOP-TV. It was most likely a TV movie. Any help would be great! Thanks
Basically the plot goes like this (As far as I can remember). The Earth is discovered by a group of Galactic civilizations, and is encouraged to join. We begin to download massive amounts of information from the different civilizations, and as the story goes on, the main character (whom I belie...
I am trying to identify the title and author of a fantasy-ish satire book. It was a YA book, I think published in the last 10 years.
Plot: It is the main character's senior year of high school, and then some sort of supernatural thing begins, and deer begin freaking out and wreck the main chara...
