Yeah, it's certainly not perfect, but at the time, I really didn't care. And I actually still don't much care.;)

There've been some pretty sweet fanfic ideas about bringing Darwin back, though--as people have pointed out, his power basically makes him impossible to kill permanently, which starts to wear on him later in life. I think my favourite was the one where someone on my flist (I'll check the name in a moment) made Alex cough really hard at one point, expelling him in gaseous form from where he'd been nesting in Alex's lungs all this time.