Oh yes, Zack was so wonderfully, obsessively screwed up and devoted...actually, my current obsession, Yum Moon in "Emperor of the Sea"(I shouldn't love the other man/villain to the point where the hero, much as I like him, is an afterthought) is like him, in a way.

And yeah, Max/Alec were completely brother/sister and that's how the 2 JAs played them, but I had a feeling TPTB were thinking about actually doing a bit of a triangle.