[spoilers] Lucas. Just Lucas.

[theeyeshaveit]

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.