[spoilers] Lucas. Just Lucas.

[theeyeshaveit]

I was a part time watcher before Lucas came along but I think I will find Spooks too painful to watch for a while at least. I would prefer to try and forget about Lucas than follow up the series in the immediate aftermath of this series. I am not sure I am up for any more Spooks surprises and hate to think what the writers have in store next to take the viewer's breath away.

The case has been put that we had it drummed into us that we didn't know how damaged Lucas was and that his loyalty has always been stressed as ambiguous.

The trouble is, that only made his loyalty, strength and commitment in the previous two series come across even more strongly since he had more to overcome in doing what was expected of him, and he did do it. The fact he did not fail despite those issues made him even more admirable than someone without those demons to face.

We were never given any reason to believe that he was an evil man, only that his trouble and ambiguities were as a result of service to his country and this does not diminish his fundamental good qualities. Why would we ever think he was the like of John Bateman, who was a coward and a murderer among many other nasty things. I don't believe there is anything in the last two series that should have led us to expect or accept anything like this. Why could they not just have had him to this out of revenge, mental breakdown or some other reason that was not soul destroying to the character and his fans.