Yea, it wasn't as good as the first season, but you have to admit that it was a good starter. Did a nice job of explaining everything so that people who just started watching could get hooked onto it.
[spoiler]As for the sniper part, I dunno, I personally thought that they wanted to bring him back alive. Maybe they hoped that by killing off Adam then Kyle would be easy to capture and take back to Zyzzx. Then they could figure out how to make the one girl who's like Kyle better.
And the part with the Nicole worrying so much seemed a bit unnecessary. It just was like the producers didn't want to just ignore the family for that episode, so they made up a stupid story for it.
However, one thing that I'm loving, lack of product placement. I didn't see one bag of sour patch kids in the entire show, as opposed to every episode last season

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