For years, I have been trying to track down information about a program I saw around Halloween time. This was probably a two-hour special, featuring four separate stories about 20 minutes in length, and held together by a host who wandered around a party in a posh hotel. The first three stories w...

When I was really little I had a DVD with Hans Christian Andersen's The Little Mermaid (1975) version on it. There were also two other movies. One of them was about why some birds are grey and some are very colorful. In the movie, the birds live under a rainbow which is attacked by bugs. The ones...

Likely written in the last 5-10 years, this is a YA fiction/low fantasy series mainly set in a high school and then college-like environment. There were some kind of arena fights at the school and the competition might have included students at other schools. At some point, the protagonist gains ...

I may be mistaken, but allegedly, Tolkien really took great offense to the first (and only, during his entire lifetime and decades beyond) Swedish translation of The Lord of the Rings. He called the person responsible for it "conceited" and basically seemed to strongly dislike, if not hate, him. ...

In one of the John Carter Barsoom books (I'm going by memory here, I still own five and I've unsuccessfully skimmed through them looking for this statement) there is mention made of the exceedingly long rifles used by one of the Green martian clans. They are capable of hitting a target from 200 m...

Given that Altered Carbon happens several centuries in the future, why do so many people wear clothes that look very close to, or identical to, late 20th century/early 21st century styles? Out-of-universe, it's part of the cyberpunk aesthetic, but is there an in-universe reason?

We have studied that mass can neither be created nor be destroyed so how ant-man mass reduces when he shrink and also he sits on ant although ant should die after that so more points are below- How Hank Pym carries whole building? How he carries his all cars and tanks in one suitcase? Why ant don...

In the main Marvel comics continuity (Universe 616), Blade's background is that he was born and raised in Soho London, yet in all the other media (movies, live action TV show, cartoons) I have seen him in, he is never portrayed with an English accent. Admittedly his back story has been tweaked f...

According to this StarTrek.com article: The Enterprise-J deserves a lot of credit. It is one of the ships that helped destroy the galactic threat of the Sphere-Builders in the Battle of Procyon V. The only problem is this timeline may have never come to pass since Captain Jonathan Archer denied ...

in the Star Wars: Episode II - Attack of the Clones movie we can See that Count Dooku took over with ordering the clone army, did he ask for the clone Army to have the biochip that would turn against the Jedi's. So my Question is Why didnt Kaminoians inform Obi-Wan of this?

There's a story about a scientist forced to conduct research into creating genetically modified food grains that will kill off the people of poor nations who import these food grains. The scientist tailors the sandwiches they have for lunch to his own DNA, so he will die first, but so will many o...

I read a book maybe 20 years ago about a colony ship that arrived at a new planet and quickly went down to live on the surface. Some kind of acid rain came, killing several colonists. There were some creatures, maybe small Chinese dragon like things, that could neutralize the rain and protect the...

At the time of the famed tourney of Harrenhall, Lady Lyanna Stark was betrothed to Eddard Stark's best friend, Lord Robert Baratheon, while Prince Rhaegar Targaryen was married to Princess Elia Martell of Dorne. Rhaegar eventually won the tourney and the right to name the tourney's queen of love ...

If Korra started a new cycle does that mean we can never see Aang's spirit again even if any new story comes up except in flashbacks? Or any of the other avatars of old cycle. I know the connection between Korra and other avatars was cut but is it just that since the visual in the show of them ge...

I read a book a couple years ago with a bright yellow cover that I’ve been dying to remember the name of. The main thing I remember was that this was a world where women were witches with different types of powers. Some witches could teleport across large distances but performing that teleportati...

Recently, I needed a washer mechanic to come to my home to clean out the lines. He told us that we need to do an... auto-wash ...from time-to-time to avoid problems, and that made me wonder about a famous LeeLoo scene in which Korben Dallas tries to hide her in the shower. LeeLoo auto-wash scene ...