First of all, I actually was thinking of her one night stand with the guy in the bar several episodes later.

Ah, no, I didn't care about that one way or the other. But the Thatcherite really pissed me off.

Secondly, with the earlier one night stand, Alex has just arrived in this world and is absolutely convinced it's all in her head, that it is her fantasy, as opposed to Sam, who after the pilot was at least half convinced it might be real.


And her fantasy is to have sex with a Thatcherite? That doesn't make it any better! I know all about 'your kink is not my kink but your kink is ok', but wanting to shag a fascist asshole who is busy evicting people is just yucky. Also, wasn't she the one who gave that kid the idea of bombing people? And it didn't even cross her mind, she didn't even feel a twinge over that. God, I hated her in that episode, I liked her before then, but that episode really made me hate her. She hit all of my guaranteed squicks in a character.

Thirdly, about her mother: honestly, how is this more suspect or less understandable than Sam's obsession with his father?

Oh, I didn't like that either - so at least I'm consistent!

I liked that her relationships with Chris and Ray were different from Sam's,

I did like that, and I liked her relationship with Shaz. What I didn't like - and there's no softer way of putting it - is her. She just gets me spitting mad, I'm sorry, but I so wanted to like her, and was so frustrated when I didn't. :( :(