[spoilers] Hermione Norris/Ros

[BravoNine]

Ros was indeed a far better leader than Lucas, I can admit to that even with my adoration for the Lucas character. While he is indeed "hot", his superficial appearance is not how we judge his leadership abilities. Hot does not equate being a good leader. And anyways, a person's hotness is in the eyes of the beholder.

Ros was more clear-minded, more decisive, and far less emotional in many ways that Lucas was not. It doesn't mean that Lucas wasn't a good agent or that he wasn't competent, but with the many turmoils inside Lucas's head and his own tendency to run off rogue, he was far more suited to being a second in command, to have someone there to guide his talents and skills and point him in the right direction. Ros was able to do that, she became the guiding compass for Lucas, we all saw how well he flourished under her command. Ros's calm and stern commanding ways made her the perfect leader. When things went wrong, she was the steady foundation for the team to clutch onto. They look at Ros and they see this calmness, they see this person that they can completely trust to get them through the disaster. Ros has this ability to make her team feel safe, and that calm and steadiness makes her the most efficient leader.

Lucas was always the more unstable one. Now I cannot attest to what Lucas had been like before his imprisonment in Moscow, but the Lucas that came back from Moscow was clearly not the one that Harry or Malcolm had remembered. What Lucas had gone through in Moscow effects who he is now, and he is unstable, he is the wild card, and as steady of an agent he tries to be, there is no doubt that things do trigger feelings inside him. His emotions have a chance to get the best of him and cloud his judgment. But we have seen that under the right direction, Lucas can also be the most efficient and competent agent there is. We saw that when the team was escaping the Russian attack squad in London, Lucas led the way then for Ros and Connie, he was quick thinking, adaptive, and courageous. And we do see even in Series 9, that Lucas can be an efficient leader if given the right chance and circumstance, he did well during the first couple of episodes before his own mind went south.

I still firmly hold to my belief that if Ros had been alive in Series 9, she would have stopped Lucas before things went berserk the way it did. She would have noticed, Ros always had this ability to read Lucas, to notice the little things. She would have seen something was off and have taken care of the issue, or at least, the truth would have came out a lot faster than it did. Lucas lost the compass after Ros died, there's no one to point him in the right direction the way Ros was able to do, no wonder his whole life just fell apart. No one noticed or bothered to do anything.....Ros would not have allowed this to happen....

Gosh I miss Ros! She would have saved us from the mess of Series 9!!!! Lucas would have listened to her....