I think its unfair to include Jon Snow's mother on this list, given that while it is a major question of the series, the TV show is an adaptation — closely involved with the book author — of a longrunning series of books.

The "answer" to that question is more or less given in the show:

Ron Moore didn't know what the heck was going on behind BSG's plots, but acted like he did to the rest of us.

While mildly annoying...think about how far we've come in 30 years when we didn't really have cell phones.

God help us all.

found it on deviantart I think

Your experience was not due to Men, that is, Real Men.

They'll have to learn sooner or later.

Three words: "The Red Wedding".

God help us all.

Battlefield Earth isn't really the worst....relative to its source material, yeah, that's kind of what I expect a Battlefield Earth movie to be like. And its sort of funny as a comedy (even though they MEANT it as a drama).

Many in Rohan *wanted* to help, but they weren't sure what to do, what with their leader being manipulated by the traitor Grima.

the original Edain didn't join the Elves fighting Morgoth "by happenstance" — because Men are more evil than Elves and easily corrupted, he quickly conquered the new race at their place of awakening (Eden) known as "Hildorien".

Having listened to the podcasts and read interviews as they happened....season one had a very "we're doing this show the way we want, screw the consequences" vibe to it. I mean, I truly got the feeling from the writers that they honestly didn't think they'd get a second season...given that they were "pulling no…

simply due to geo-strategic issues; Gondor was the last remnant of the old Dunedain empire; and Arnor *had* been largely destroyed fighting Sauron's forces. Sauron conquered to the east and south first, to get conscripts to build his way up to fighting Gondor.

It is a complicated and ill-defined term, though you could see them as loosely the spiritual successors of Beatniks, etc.

An even better example is how "Battlestar Galactica" in its second HALF increasingly tried to spin out mysteries that weren't even planned out from the beginning (there was NEVER a Cylon Plan, they had no idea why they killed and resurrected Starbuck, or why the Hybrid baby was important). "God did it?" Yikes. Were…

There is much truth to that; but at least Highlander was a bit ambiguous about what the Immortals were exactly.

the Klingons are "The Mongol Empire...IN SPACE!" — according to Gene Roddenberry himself.

"White people" aren't universally good in Tolkien; Saruman became a major enemy. Castamir the Usurper was one of Gondor's worst tyrants, who seized power due to his claims of blood purity, etc. Tolkien explicitly states that most of the Haradrim and Easterlings only serve Sauron out of fear (though they have no…