Lucas North Speculation

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I’m afraid the current writing team believes it has already served the Lucas redemption theme. A classical interpretation of the tone of the retcon done on this character suggests the writers of season 9 would like us to accept Lucas North as the pivot of both the damnation and the salvation of John Bateman. John’s damnation is guaranteed by his murder of Lucas North, but he pursues his own redemption in the decision to become the man he has killed. John is, for the writers of season 9, a warrior eating the heart of his enemy, thereby becoming the thing he has destroyed, and taking on the admirable qualities of the worthy adversary. It’s not a terribly original approach, but it is an undeniably potent one.

I’m not suggesting it works in terms of narrative or character coherence, but it is what we have been given, and it is what season 10 is going to have to deal with (if it even bothers to return at all to the character of Lucas as anything other than a problem for Harry).