[spoilers] Lucas. Just Lucas.

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(29-10-2010 01:46 PM)theeyeshaveit Wrote:  When I was thinking about Ruth at least having something concrete in her background to explain why she could run off the rails, I realised Lucas did too.

I would have had as much trouble believing my view of Lucas from S7 and 8 would be a traitor, but at least I would have known the writers had been raising the question in those series and if he had just gone bad and been a traitor, I could have accepted that that story at least had some credibility. In fact, Lucas had so much in his past life that we knew about that could have been used as a credible reason for his going rogue, even a festering revenge for being left in prison for 8 years, or some of the other possibilities that have been raised in discussions.

In addition to the Lucas story being hard to believe for me, his disgrace seems to be worse too than with other options. At least a traitor is motivated by ideology, mistaken though it may be, rather than self interest. What they have done with this Lucas story (things being as they seem at the moment, I hasten to add), is character assassination for mine.

I agree with you, TEHI. The writers have gone to the trouble of writing Lucas as such a focussed character and given him a strong moral compass so why then let him go rogue for so trivial and shallow a reason? We know he is a bit unstable when it comes to his dealings with women so I could accept him doing something a bit stupid for love, but I find it impossible to accept that he would risk everything just to keep his past hidden. There is nothing he could have done in the past as John that couldn't be redeemed by his years of loyal service as Lucas. He should have taken Vaughn to the grid, told Harry everything, and then try to make his peace with Maya. Eventually he could have revealed to her his new life as an officer with MI5 and explained that he'd had to change his name for "operational reasons". If she loved him as much as we are expected to believe, she could have adjusted to this revelation in time.