-So Max steals the dress from the store. Did it just happen to be her size?
I wondered this as well.

Impossible jumps Max takes to get into Angelo Biondello's window.
And not only that but it just happens to be wide open! How conveeeenient!

Max's hair, dress, etc. seem to stay in pretty good shape, considering what she does during the episode!
Yeah, that was the joke of it.

-So Max steals the dress from the store. Did it just happen to be her size?
Given her super senses it stands to reason that she could tell lust by looking at it that it would fit her, and that's why she picked it. Remember that she is the same person who could eyeball where the ball would land on the roulette wheel.

she could tell lust by looking at it that it

ROFL.

You'd think that the clerk would remember the (shabbily dressed) girl who asked her to hold the dress, and give the cops a description.

When Max told Original Cindy she'd come help her out at the architect's office, why didn't she ask Cindy to get some clothes for her, so she didn't have to worry about the dress?

Did nobody at the party notice Max cueing Logan during the toast?

Since it was obvious Logan was going to read his speech (he reached into his coat pocket and started stammering), when Max shows up, couldn't she just apologize and say she was holding it, and then give it to Logan?

Logan accidentally bumps his wheelchair onto the side of a table, and is surprised to realize that he can feel the pain in his leg.

Is that what that was? I didn't get it at the time. Thanks!

she could tell lust by looking at it
While that was just a typo I'm sure that she can tell "lust" by looking at it. Given the number of times that she must see lust on the faces of new people that she meets, she must be good at spotting it by now. LOL

JMA rules!!!!!!!!!!!
(Note JMA = Jessia Marie Alba)

Liked it okay, lots of nits though!

-Where did Max get the shoes to go with the dress? One shot showed pink high heel strap sandals. When did she get these?

-Was it really *necessary* for soldier/thief Max to mumble about what she goes through to look good *in* the store? She couldn't have waited until whe was out of enemy territory to comment on her problems?

-The hairstyle seemed a bit precarious at hiding the barcode. But whatever.

-Is there a good reason Original Cindy couldn't have gotten Kendra to drive over with some other clothes?

-Whose car was Max in? How did she know which car the keys she took belonged to?

-A better understanding of Logan's injuries might clear this up, but . . . he said "Ow!" because he was surprised bumping his foot into a coffee table was painful. As in, he normally doesn't have feeling in his legs, this is a new thing, yay yay yay. In that case, why does it hurt when Blaine helps him with his exercises? Logan sweats and makes faces like he's in great pain, but this episode suggests he normally can't feel his legs (which makes sense, his spine was fractured). So why does he seem in pain when he's exercising?


I liked this ep as filler-fluff, but it just had too many nits for me to like it as any more than that . . . I was actually kind of disappointed in it. Ah, well.

Okay, I know this has been mentioned and cited as a joke. But, being female, I feel obligated to point this out: Um, NO. That dress? It would be unrecognizeable by the time Max arrived in the building to get the painting, not even counting all the jumping she did. It just would. Dresses like that attract dirt like honey attracts flies. And they attract it in amounts directly proportional to the price times necesity to keep it clean. Trust me. Walking through smoke in the alleyway, as Max did, would get the dress dirty. MOVING gets a dress like that dirty.

Oh, and you could *not* take a dumpster dive in any outfit (or no outfit!), put the dress back on, and expect to go within a mile of that wedding again. Wouldn't happen.

AND, Max trips *once*. No. Now, I don't have a whole lot of experience with $6000 dresses, I admit. But I have worn floaty skirts, and moderately high heels. And I do not care how genetically enhanced you are . . . You want to talk impossible moves? No missteps in that skirt and those shoes while doing the physical stunts Max did. That’s impossible . . . I'd let her get away with, I dunno, walking around the party, since she is genetically enhanced. And maybe a bit more. But only tripping once? While beating people up? Uh uh. Skirts get tangled in your legs, in your feet, in the things around your feet. The hem trips you periodically. You hold it up to walk. It gets caught on things along the way and rips. The shoes make it so you can't judge the ground beneath your feet and you trip easily. The only way people manage that is if they're REALLY used to it. I kinda doubt Manticore had drills for the girls that involved poofy dresses. I'm more inclined to be lenient here, as opposed to in the matter about the clothes not getting dirty, since Max does have special DNA.

Okay, I know I'm probably taking it all too seriously (chant with me: It's JUST a TV show . . . it's JUST a TV show! . . .). But these ones really affected my enjoyment of it . . . I liked it, I just would've liked it so much more had they acknowledged that stuff and maybe made a joke out of it.

I believe that the shoes came with the gown and
Max "borrowed" them along with the rest of the
outfit(the purse was also part of the ensemble).

Great Normal line: "I know you kids don't like
me.."

Loved the way Max snitches the locket without
Logan's Aunt realizing she's taken it!

Logan shoots the corpse, then slips the gun in Master P's bag. Problem. Master P never touched the gun, hence his prints wouldn't be on it. His claim to the cops that it wasn't his gun could be validated.

This doesn't really explain it, but isn't the law enforcement in this show really, really corrupt? With some money in the right place, couldn't Logan count on the guy being locked up, regardless of the evidence? Just a thought. Of course, if that was the case why bother with the gun, except maybe to hold the guy up at the airport so Max could grab the painting back?

Oh, and what is Logan planning to do with the painting? Keep it himself until the Depression is over? If he gives it to a museum, it'll just be stolen again, right?

Brian,
Did Master P not pull the gun from his pocket at the end when he was told to empty his pockets? That would put his fingerprints on it. I can't remember if he took it out or the airport police.

sci-fi girl,

I heartily agree with you about how impossible it is to wear a dress without lots of practice ;-) If Max had been older at the time she fled from manticore, I would have expected the manticore people to give them training: after all, they were supposed to be undercover soldiers, fitting in everywhere. But at age 10 I don't think they already trained that.

I missed the first half of this episode, but I wondered about something else: when max goes to the korean ship, the time left till departure is 1 hour, yet the professional Max does not take the 5 min. time to dress in something more appropriate, like pants and sweater? Not only that a dress hinders you while fighting, it also does not serve for camouflage! A girl in a dress on a ship arouses immediate attention, because she does not belong; a person in pants and sweater would look like a crew member from a distance.
I got the impression Max is just too much sure that she can kick down everybody else because she is genetically enhanced. Maybe not that smart for a soldiert to assume you can overcome all odds?

How did Max get the locket without being seen? Logan's Aunt was talking with someone when Max came over to her; and from what I could see that woman was still looking at Max and the Aunt while they spoke. Surely she'd have seen Max take the locket from around her neck?!