When a witch or wizard transforms into an animal, we know they can still think and listen, like Pettigrew did when living as a pet. But we also know it can alter their emotional state. Could the simplicity of an animal's emotions be a benefit to someone trying to defend against Legilimecy? In P...

There was a scene where a random woman was knocked onto a window, and as she slid down, she wrote Japanese symbols with her blood. There were also scenes where a guy said phrases that allowed him to channel something out of his palms. And as odd as it sounds, there was a scene where this woman me...

In Aladdin (2019), Genie says to Aladdin: Genie: Don't ever interrupt me, no matter what. Now, I usually don't have to go through all of this... because by the time the guy gets to me, he pretty much knows what he wants...and it generally has to do with tons of money and power! Do me a...

In the late 1960's or early 1970's there was a book series about a boy whose parents were research scientists on on an island. There was an explosion and he was blown into the water and somehow developed gills. I don't remember the author or the name of the series. Can anyone identify this?

I know that there is a trope in fiction called Blue and Orange Morality: a form of “bizarre morality” that is different from traditional morality, either by using some value other than traditional good and evil to judge morality (i.e. how in Brave New World, the society of the novel rejects “righ...

After Lyanna was kidnapped ( or eloped) with Rheager, Lyanna's brother Brandon went to King's Landing to clear the matters where he, along with his father is killed by Aerys. But why didn’t Robert accompany them? He was betrothed to Lyanna and if he really loved Lyanna, then why didn't he go to k...

In S2:E09 of Dirk Gently’s Holistic Detective Agency, we find out that in the ‘throne room’ (or whatever exactly it is) in Wendimoor, there are mural drawings of Earth, similar to the ones of Wendimoor in The Boy’s bedroom on Earth. As far as I’ve been able to follow the story, the ones on Earth...

Why did Picard not identify Dahj as Lal iin Picard S01E01 Remembrance? Data painted Lal, his "daughter". Obviously, as Lal and Dahj have a different actor, they had to trick with the painting. But taking this aside, Maddox used the face of Lal/ a duplicate of the painting. In this case, Picard ...

There’s a book I read about a boy that has superpowers he didn’t know but then he went somewhere (I can’t remember I think it was like some camp with his school). He then goes to a forest from hearing a cry then sees a man helping a deer. He then goes to the man’s house on the mountain and then f...

I have just finished watching the 12 Monkeys TV series. It seems pretty well put together with, from what I can tell, most of the timeline story arcs pulled together. Have the writers ever talked about the creation of the show, was this a Babylon 5 story arc, long term threads planned out in ad...

The scene is: Wizards have gathered for a once a year forging of a ring of power. The ring is struck only once each year. There are required to be mythical beasts (don't remember which one) in the room when the forging takes place. The wizards have to feed these beasts all year long for this on...

I’m looking for the name of a YA short story that I read in middle school back in the late 70’s. I believe it was part of a Science Fiction short story collection. My recollection is that it had “Key” in the title, but it wasn’t Asimov’s short story. As I recall, a boy meets members of a family w...

Looking for a short story I read maybe 10 years ago, about a boy who finds out that he’s the only real human on Earth, and all the other people he sees are not human but something else. It takes place during Halloween. Also, I remember that the Earth is not real either, and they have to construct...

In Joss Whedon's Firefly universe, is there any evidence of artificial intelligence, regardless of how advanced? In particular, I'm wondering if creating a basic autopilot AI for an asset in the Firefly RPG would be consistent with the established universe.

I’m looking for the name of a YA Science Fiction short story that I read in middle school in the 70’s. As I remember it, the story was told from the perspective of a farmer who was tending his fields one day when he sees an alien space craft land in his field. The aliens that emerge are horrendou...

I read this short story at least thirty years ago, an anthology in the UK but the story was set in the US. A grandmother is struggling to raise her grandson, I think the parents are dead. There is an ongoing war with (I think) Russia. Nothing atomic is mentioned IIRC, instead some futuristic wea...