Why does Aragon look like he's posing for a Kmart add in this movie scene? https://imgflip.com/i/3418f6 He doesn't actually look like he's acting that well in the scene Is there a "out of universe" reason why the actor who plays Aragon looks like this, was the sun in his eyes during the time ...

This was published in the 1960's. The protagonist has purple hair and is on a quest of some sort that takes him into increasingly technologically advanced societies. He learns to ride dragons, and encounters a particularly fearsome scourge called "Dis": a pathogen that devours flesh. At the end,...

I'm looking for the title of a book about a human who is abducted by aliens and his brain is transplanted in an alien fighting machine or tank.

Okay I can not remember this series for the life of me. The story is set in modern day. There is a magic school in the sky I think. This woman can do all of the different magics, she has a friend who is savy with technology. Has a mentor who is some sort of fire bird. Her mother ends up being evi...

In an issue of Spectacular Spider-Man in the Birth of Venom collection, A lieutenant of the Kingpin called the Rose puts a contract on Spider-Man's life. In a later issue when the Kingpin learns of this he claims to "have other plans for Spider-Man"- plans which seem to require Spider-Man alive, ...

I asked a question on the Movies & TV site that was closed because it was a "list question". I understand that interpretation, but it's technically a Yes/No question. Is Firefly the only Sci-Fi that shows the camera lens for video chat? If the answer is "no", with just a single example, it woul...

I was reading it in the late 90s as a young teen. Scifi/fantasy type. I think there were 4 teenagers from different worlds that all got lumped together somehow. They had some level of magic and they started traveling to get to the inner worlds. As they got there, their magic got more powerful. A...

I would like to identify a short story, probably written before 1975, in which an alchemist somehow captures a time-traveller and demands a quantity of gold in return for his release.

Plot Summary/Details This one is a real longshot, I fear. I can only recall specific details about the protagonists, with a few hazily remembered story elements to go with them. I am certain the tale was science fiction, however. As mentioned in the title, the protagonists are a pair of conjoi...

So at the beginning of Star Wars (1977) R2-D2 and C-3PO escape the captured Tantive IV blockade runner in a class-6 escape pod and land on Tatooine. We see them leave the escape pod to go off and do whatever they were doing on Tatooine—mostly getting captured by Jawas at the start—but is there...

A softcore movie where the girl visits the ruins, has sex on a horse with the tourist guide, also has a threesome scene.

It doesn't appear to be anything more than a spring-loaded spike whose purpose is to kill certain aliens. We see from other interactions that it doesn't have to be a spike that penetrates the neck, since we see bullets doing the job just as well. But much of this episode follows people trying to ...

Peter Allan Fields, the screenwriter responsible for some of the most poignant and powerful episodes of Star Trek TNG and Star Trek DS9, died this week. Credits included the multi-award winning TNG: The Inner Light as well as TNG: Cost of Living, TNG: Half a Life, DS9: The Dogs of War, DS9: For...

The Kurgan has an unusual segmented sword with spikes sticking out from the quillons. How did he get his sword? It was made before 1541, which is when the Kurgan killed Ramirez. Was it made by him? Stolen by him from one of his uncounted victims over the centur...

The immortals apparently have a radar sense that tells them when other immortals are nearby. That only tells them a fellow immortal is near, not which person in a crowd is immortal. It also does not explain how the Kurgan knew Connor MacLeod was immortal. The Kurgan was far away on the other sid...

Most Sci-Fi shows treat video chat entirely wrong. Characters are obviously watching the screen, but always appear as if they are staring directly into the camera. (and like this question discusses, they frequently show 3D perspective as though someone could look around the room from within the v...

So I just found out that the classic Doctor who is streaming for free on Pluto TV. I just wanted to clarify, that in general, what I heard was that the 4-part mini serials were independent of each other. Is that correct? Like, how important is watching it in order?

Darth Sidious had red-robed bodyguards on his shuttle and in his throne room. Darth Vader had red-robed bodyguards in his castle on Mustafar. Why would a Sith Lord need bodyguards? They are evil space wizards who can read minds, choke the life out of somebody just by talking to them during a v...

The story was told by a narrator and was something about an unsavory man. I don't remember how he was unsavory exactly. The only part I remember is the ending: the narrator is outside the UM's house, and is surprised to see the UM's son come outside with a pot of water -- he'd finished washing ...

There is this anime in which at the first episode at the mc's school, the students would be turned into monsters, because of a girl (using a flute I believe) which was together with a other guy. What's the name of the anime?

This question is similar to another one I asked, but is different enough and somebody said it could be asked separately. The "immortal radar" mentioned in other questions does not explain how the Kurgan knew Connor MacLeod was immortal. The Kurgan was far away on the other side of a valley befor...

I'm looking for what I think was a short story about astronauts visiting Mercury and discovering Spiderlike creatures that lived there. I think it was something I read as a young teen in the early 1990 when I would have been reading a lot of Asimov. The aliens lived in the Terminator zone, betwe...