Lucas North Speculation

[binkie]

(26-12-2010 08:04 PM)BravoNine Wrote:  

(26-12-2010 05:12 PM)binkie Wrote:  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.

That idea would actually be really really cool and would have worked amazingly if they actually had writers who knew how to handle such a storyline without dropping a million plot-holes at every corner.

I do congratulate the writers on being able to make everyone in the show appear incredibly stupid! Because really, the level of stupidity exhibited by these characters and "intelligence" agencies was something I had not seen before! Good for them!

I quite agree that they have done it badly (and entirely without due care and attention), but I do think they genuinely believe this is what they have done.

The plot holes - my God! the plot holes - are, indeed, an indication of the failure properly to invest in the telling of the story. It looks as though the script meetings stopped at the point at which there was general agreement that a cool idea had been had and failed to resume at any point at which consideration could be given as to how the cool idea might be executed. Can it really have been so difficult to have scheduled even a short discussion of the mechanism by which the central contrivance of an entire season's worth of prime time drama might have been sustained over fifteen years?!