Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-24486170-20140409172813/@comment-1504072-20140410093547

If there were any educational benefits of the series for myself, it would be that it made me want to read more about the real-world history, politics, and science that is featured in the storyline. While the series is based in a reality much like our own, I wanted to establish for myself what actually existed in the real world, and where exactly the series branched off into fiction, so it did help me to learn more about own own world. It also made me think on alternative points of view and belief systems, rarely presenting characters and issues as simply black or white (even if one didn't agree with them), which I think is always a good thing.