[spoilers] Lucas. Just Lucas.

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(23-11-2010 01:54 PM)NightOwl Wrote:  I think Maya was supposed to represent the road not taken. Had Lucas stayed with her years ago, he'd be a husband and father with a 9 to 5 job living the kind of conventional life most people have. He wouldn't have been imprisoned and tortured, wouldn't have had his heart broken by Elizabeta, wouldn't have seen his colleagues die. In retrospect, her photo awakens in him not love, but regret.

Of course, it's just another missed opportunity by the writers. It could have been interesting to see Lucas struggle with the idea that he could have had a different life. They could have explored what choices Lucas made and what choices were made for him. They still could have explored issues of identity and (self) deception. They still could have ended up in the same place with Lucas and Harry on the roof.

Honestly, I will never understand why the writers chose to make Lucas a terrorist who assumes a fake identity. Even without all the plot holes and inconsistencies with prior series, it just seems like an incredibly bad idea.

I agree, even with the Maya and the John Bateman plot, they could have made an equally riveting and interesting story about how he could have had that simple normal life, and maybe even how he was now regretting this choice of becoming Lucas North. Lucas North could have just been another alias that he had created because he wanted to run away or something.

But instead the writers had to write an implausible story of how a good loyal man became an evil terrorist who didn't care about anyone but Maya. They could have built on his already stated character history instead of re-writing it all.

I rather watch Lucas struggling with choosing between that simple life with Maya or stay as Lucas on the Grid rather than Lucas hiding some deep dark evil John side that wanted to betray everyone.

The writers took the easy way out, and it's shameful.