well, I can't blame them, it is a bee train anime....
infact, try watching ep 02 again, i'm sure that even you'll have second thoughts about it...
just kidding, of course, Madlax is great... but I still have to see it end before saying if it's one of the best...
it's certinaly a step above Noir, though, can't understand why people like that crap... they showed the same flashback over and over for 20 episodes, and until the 21st, we didn't get a clue about what it means...
besides, chloe is probably one of the stupidest charecters ever, just watching her idiotic face makes me wanna punch someone, and her fighting style sucks! (not to say that others don't suck, one of the charecters took out 20 goons while she was just walking straight at them, and no one thought of shooting her first or even shooting back...)