So, I was marathoning all 9 Star Wars movies again because.... well, why wouldn't I right? And I did come across something I never tought before. The force ghosts that we see in the movies only appear to those who knew them in real life, and never appear to those who didn't. So: Obi-wan is told ...

In the teaser to this particular episode of MIB the series, K and J track an alien criminal to a crowded cinema; when J asks how they're to identify their suspect, K points out the one moviegoer rooting for the alien on the screen. As J collars their suspect, K says to the rest of the audience so...

I have read a lot of unsourced claims online claiming that, in the course of The Book of the New Sun, Severian actually encounters things that are evidence of his own existence in the past. For example, the crypt he has taken to visiting at the beginning of the story may be his own, or he may be...

I was recently surprised to find an entry on the Jason Bourne films on the Encyclopedia of Science Fiction website. These films, while exciting and extremely well made do not at first glance appear to have any identifiable science fiction aspect. They would more readily be classed as action/thril...

I just watched, for the fist time in many years, The Making of Star Wars, and I noticed something about one of the minor droids. I have always really liked the appearance of the hemispherical droid that the Jawas on Tatooine have for sale (shown on the far right below). In part, I like it just ...

I was on Quora and one person asked the question, "Why is Neville Longbottom's Patronus non-corporeal?". I didn't think much of it until I read the answer by Matthew Beasley. He answered, Because it was an incomplete version of the spell. You see this in PoA, when Harry is first learning how to ...

In Sam Raimi's Spider-Man (2002), it's revealed during the class trip scene to Oscorp Labs that the spider that bit Peter Parker is an entirely new species created by combining all the best genetic traits of lab spiders. This spider was just one of 15 others in the same tank, which escaped for at...

When I try searching I keep getting taken to info about a suspension railway in Germany - not what I'm after. I've been watching Chuggington with my grandson and he wants to know the name of the flying train, it helps people (talking trains!) like a superhero

The goal of throughout much of the show was to slowly bring people to a point where they would accept the sacrament of However, why did he do this? Just drinking the blood was enough to provide "life everlasting," since as we saw, it restored people to a youthful state and perfect health, witho...

If one were to allow DND creatures into the HP setting, which of the above makes the most sense? Similarities: feline, pantherine forms, six legs, considered quite strong and fast. Context: making a sanctuary/farm for blink dogs, phase spiders, and displacer beasts. Blink Dogs are practically fey...

A tv show where there were some group of friends that were collecting some special magical stones (each with different color as i remember) and they had to defeat different monsters to get those stones. It was a journey and after each episode, it showed how many stones they have and how much they...