This ep actually has one of my favorite scenes - the scene in the museum with the baseball. It's pure ALEC, and I love it. But Max...really wrecks this series for me. It was either the writing or the actress - she came across as really flat and immature and not really fit to be leader of the transgenics.

As you can see from my icon, I'm a Max/Alec shipper - as long as I get the right writer. But the only reason I watched S2 was BECAUSE of JA's portrayal of Alec. He really did a spectacular job.