We know that Harry's introductory letter from Hogwarts arrived some time before his birthday, but after he had already been accepted at the school Vernon and Petunia had picked out. It's possible that first years get their letters sooner than other years, to accommodate first time attendees. In...

I have an idea of what he meant. I know this is vaguely referring to the fact that Palpatine has been acting behind the scenes to somehow manipulate Kylo Ren and the First Order to accomplish his agenda, but I'm not sure exactly what specically he is refering to (I'm assuming most of it is not sh...

I just read "=I Have No Mouth, and I Must Scream by Harlan Ellison in a collection of short stories called "The Mirror of Infinity". The story is about a group of people who are tortured by a computer named AM. Occasionally the text is interrupted by a long rectangle with assorted dots. Willis E...

At the end of the Rise of Skywalker Rey goes to Tattooine and takes up residense in the seemingly abandoned Lars moisture farm- isn't it kind of unrealistic, or at least unlikely that in all the years between ANH and tRoS the homestead would have remained unclaimed by someone else?

Seriously, I have the answer to someone's question. But if this takes too long, they won't get it. I don't time to to receive internet blessings.

I think I read this in the early 1990s. Possibly in Asimov's or Analog, but more likely in an anthology. The viewpoint character is a man who has been increasingly insomniac. Restless, he has taken to walking through city streets late at night. He sees a woman get out of a cab, walk to a club...

Seriously, I have the answer to someone's question. But if this takes too long, they won't get it. I don't time to to receive internet blessings.

I was wondering if anybody keeps track of all the stuff Isaac has spoken about in his videos. I’m trying to just do a review. Stuff like his Supernova drive and people remotely controlling customers to perform jobs. It should be up to date as of January 2020. You can send it their. It’s fine if i...

"We're going in, we're going in full throttle, that ought to keep those fighters off our back!" —Luke Skywalker Star Wars Episode IV: A New Hope During Luke's attack run on the Death Star during the Battle of Yavin in A New Hope, we see his target computer counting down numbers, presu...

We've seen that Robot can understand what appear to be reasonably complex sentences in English, such as He certainly is also capable of producing audible human speech, such as "danger, Will Robinson," but also other words, like Finally, he seems to be very intelligent, given the complexit...

My children are very curious as to how did Santa Claus appear. Surely, he could not be born as an ordinary man. I tried to find some story, but most information on the internet is concerned with 'historical account', how Santa became part of the Christmas tradition -- now what I really need. So,...

I apologize for the vagueness of this. I would like to find a novel whose review I read 20 or 30 years ago and would have liked to read at the time. A man has a pre-school aged daughter who begins to draw fantastic landscapes which she describes a pictures of where she was before she came the...

I have just seen Netflix's show The Witcher. In the first episodes, I got the feeling that Geralt doesn't kill live being if they are intelligent unless it is in defense. He says to the Sylvan in the second episode: You are intelligent, I'll give you that. So I won't kill you, but you can't...

I am not a The Witcher expert, but as I understood there are some differences between the books and the show, also there is a very well-known game, another TV show and so on. Some of the questions could/should be about only one of them. I know we have only one tag even for bigger universes, lik...

I am looking for the demonym which applies to the citizens of Gallifrey. References are welcomed.

According to List of highest grossing films Star Wars: Episode I – The Phantom Menace gross was $1027 millions. But according to Star Wars: Episode I - The Phantom Menace Star Wars: Episode I – The Phantom Menace gross was $924,305,084. Which was The Phantom Menace movie gross, $1027+ mi...

I only know a specific scene from the anime. A girl wakes up on a roof bleeding and sees a boy badly hurt across from her. Extensions from her body attempt to heal the boy, but then some planes fly overhead and shoot at her, breaking her bond with the boy. She attempts to crawl to the boy and le...

The reference work Star Trek Concordance gave every original and animated episode a unique code. For instance: The Doomsday Machine → DMa The Trouble With Tribbles → TT The Ambergris Element → Am/a (notice the /a for animated) Larry Nemecek later continued this tradition in his Star Trek: Th...

I've heard many times that George Lucas got some of his ideas for his 1977 movie "Star Wars" from Akira Kurosawa's movie "The Hidden Fortress". I can see how Tahei and Matashichi could have (in some ways) served as an inspiration for C3-P0 and R2-D2. Also, I noticed that the editing in "Star Wars...

I'm currently watching the mandalorian tv show. It is known that the mandalorians have a code of honor. However, watching the show, I'm having an argument with some of my online mates regarding how credible a mandalorian warrior would go back to help, one of his previous target. My opinion is t...

I believe I read it in a Neil Clarke 2016 “best of” collection It was about a man living in a world where every surface could display pictures. One day he is targeted by a cyber-terrorism attack that displayed gore, violence, and similar on every surface in his vicinity 24/7. Throughout the att...

I'm looking for a sword and sorcery short story I read a long time ago: it's from the pulp era, possibly the 30s. I used to think it had been written by Clark Ashton Smith as both the style and the atmosphere fit his works but after reading all of his stories I had to give up: now I'm clueless. I...

I know that somewhere in the extended or legends canon there is a crime lord who owned a replica of the jedi temple and a large number of jedi/sith artifacts. What I have forgotten is a name, location, or in what source this occurred.

Isn't Luke able to defeat the rancor using the Force (by means of choking, knocking, or whatever), or it does not work on these monsters?