Charles clearly understands that Erik is preparing to kill Shaw with the coin, and is emphatically trying to telepathically talk him out if it. When Charles realizes he is about to fail at this, why does he continue to hold Shaw immobile? In doing so, Charles is literally holding Shaw helpless t...

I was re-watching the fellowship recently and had this question. When the fellowship enters the mines of moria, the entrance is destroyed behind them, and Gandalf decides the only way forward is to move through the mines to the other side. But we also see later that Frodo catches sight of Gollum ...

Frank Herbert's way of thinking is almost completely inside his books. Between the very few of his writes outside, there is an article resuming what his books are about and how he wrote these books. Only one of the fans of his Science Fiction material could give context to a phrase in that artic...

I've always been curious as to why hasn't she performed this this ability. Since electromagnetism and electricity are the same force, why haven't we ever seen Storm bend metal via ferromagnetism manipulation? We know Storm can control charge particles with her mind and psionically (mind control)...

Season 9 Episode 13. There is a conversation about Atlantis. Cam says the ZPM is being used to cloak the city from the Wraith.. But when Stargate Atlantis starts, the expedition team finds Atlantis submerged in the ocean... I thought the Ancients hid the city under water. Can someone explain ...

I'm looking for a story that I read a few years ago. I cannot remember if it was a short story in an anthology of other stories or stand-alone book, but here are some details I do remember. Definitely a book. This was not a TV show or movie. The story revolved around a robot/automaton who, in a...

In Lord if the Rings: The Return of the King Denethor implies that Gandalf might be not strong enough to fight Lord of the Nazgûl. ‘Yet now under the Lord of Barad-dûr the most fell of all his captains is already master of your outer walls,’ said Gandalf. ‘King of Angmar long ago, Sorcerer, R...

I'm looking for a book I read about 20 years ago at a library. It was about a young man called Ian (AFAIR, but I believe it was translated to French so the names could have been changed) which has to flee hostile forces. During his escape he discovers that he is the son of some public enemy/cons...

In the latest teaser/trailer for season 8 we see a feather which is being held in Lyanna's statue's hands which falls to the floor as Jon walks past it. Jon does turn to look behind him when the feather hits the floor as well. We then see the feather being the first thing to start to freez...

I read the first chapter of this book while I was waiting at a train station. The protagonist is a normal person of our world who responds to a job advertisement in the newspaper, only that the job in question is to become king of a fantasy kingdom. After responding to the announcement he finds h...

Heimdall's sword Hofund is reported as "made by the Dwarf smiths of Nidavellir". It seems like it is also the "Thanos-killing kind". I was wondering why Thor didn't use it against Thanos (instead of the long process of forging a new weapon), but the link says: After having escaped Asgard's de...

Decades ago I read a short story anthology that had a story that told the tale of a woman who kept trying to commit suicide, and the police detective who was trying to figure out why the body kept disappearing. It was told from the perspective of the cop, but also from the woman’s body’s immune ...