Hi all every once in a while this starts nagging me, I have really no idea and not much to go on so here goes...a man wearing a blue? uniform walks in to a town looks abandoned and empty covered in all dust, the skies are brown/dirty with no sun goes into one of houses upstairs. He stops at I thi...

I know I could probably try trawling the online archives of the magazine, but this came to me while traveling and largely limited to my phone. This was a short story in an issue of Dragon magazine, probably in the mid-90s. I don't remember a ton of details except that it felt like a Western and t...

Ok, the lead character is a female who is a strong magician/sorceress/mage and power wise, she is the strongest of all the magic wielders in her country. Her country has a bias against female magic users. She is hired on to protect a rich female. In this story, magic wielders can summon demons an...

Why did the Eastern Gate of Moria not have password protection, like the Western Gate with its “speak friend ‘riddle’”? Were the peoples on the east side considered more trustworthy?

NominSim makes an excellent case that Barty Crouch Jr. was already dying while in prison at Azkaban in his answer to this question. “The Dementors are blind. They sensed one healthy, one dying person entering Azkaban. They sensed one healthy, one dying person leaving it. My father smuggled me...

In the intro text if TNG it isn't "where no MAN has gone before" anymore, but "where no ONE has gone before"? Has there ever been an official explanation why the text was changed? My initial suspicion is that it's the result of a political agenda to avoid 'sexism', yet this part of the intro tex...

In episode special White Christmas of black-mirror, Joe is sitting with Matt in a barack telling stories. Matt is about to tell Joe the story of Greta when suddenly Joe hears a sound like something falling on the ground... MATT : ... what? JOE : Did you hear that? MATT : Hear what?...

I was thinking about one of the major plot points in “The Empire Strikes Back” (1980) which was tracking down the Rebels and capturing Luke Skywalker. So when the Imperial fleet attacks the Rebels on Hoth, Rebel ships of all kind are flying all over the place with the intention of regrouping l...

I watched an anime (not sure if it was a movie or t.v. show) years ago, and it was about a girl who gained powers. It was weird in the sense that the powers that were passed on to her, or granted to her, were previously held by a boy in a wheelchair. I remember that the boy was very unlikable an...

Man and woman searching for their 'dead' children who they suspect are not dead at all. Turns out the kids were taken by aliens to experiment on human reactions. People can suddenly be removed from the experiment by being lifted into the sky.

In the last jedi Rey confronts Luke about what he had done with Kylo Ren. This leads to the two characters fighting with Rey soon pulling out a lightsaber. Luke appears surprised by this and falls backwards. However he doesn't actually touch the ground and is instead left hovering barely above gr...

In The Last Jedi, Jedi Master Luke Skywalker first refused to talk with Ray and only closed himself in his hut. Rey went to get Chewbacca, who rammed in the hut door allowing her to restart the conversation. Luke: How did you find me? Rey: Long story. We'll tell you on the Falcon. L...

In The Last Jedi, Luke Skywalker tells Rey that he went into exile to die and that he wished for the Jedi to end. He tried to rebuild the Jedi Order, but that went very badly. He foresaw a pupil of his turning to the Dark Side and vowed to end the Jedi Order fearing what would happen. There was c...

I understand that students at Hogwarts learn about magic, but what about the core subjects such as Math, English, History, and Science? If they do not wish to pursue a career in magic, they need to know these core subjects!

In the beginning of the Temple of Doom, why wouldn't Willie just stay at the airport with Earl Weber? Maybe even go back to work for Lau Che? She didn't steal the diamond, and Indy basically kidnapped her out of Club Obi Wan. Lau Che didn't seem to care if Indy hurt Willie (saying "You keep the ...