Also, the Narn Centauri conflict stops being a hamfisted Israeli/Palestinian one. The Narn remain Arabs but at least they stop conforming to the crazy scary Arab stereotypes in this season and actually becomes a deeper more nuanced people. The Centauri on the other hand start taking one more imperial aspects so they become more like the British or Germans trying to revive their empires.
By the way, I was looking for the beginning of this discussion and I saw your post on Hitchens. I would seriously recommend Arguably. I just finished reading it and it is Hitchens at his best (some crazy stuff but not as much as you would expect) and I loved how he dedicated it to an Egyptian, a Libyan and a Syrian - all of whom were killed in Arab Spring (my old roommate is a Libyan and his family is in Benghazi so I was much more vocal about my support for the rebels and the U.S. actions in Libya because of it.)
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Date: 2012-02-10 03:12 am (UTC)By the way, I was looking for the beginning of this discussion and I saw your post on Hitchens. I would seriously recommend Arguably. I just finished reading it and it is Hitchens at his best (some crazy stuff but not as much as you would expect) and I loved how he dedicated it to an Egyptian, a Libyan and a Syrian - all of whom were killed in Arab Spring (my old roommate is a Libyan and his family is in Benghazi so I was much more vocal about my support for the rebels and the U.S. actions in Libya because of it.)