[spoilers] Lucas. Just Lucas.

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(11-11-2010 08:05 AM)Nietzsche Wrote:  I was so shocked by the ending that I thought I would never be able to love Lucas again. Was he irretrievably destroyed?

However, yesterday I tried if I could bear watching 7.7 and 7.8 - and yes, the old magic was still there. I still love Lucas, and decided to ignore series 9. JB and Lucas have nothing in common. In my mind, series 9 is the nightmare of the screenwriters. I put it in a file and will forget it.

I think it becomes easier for us to deal with if we think of John and Lucas as two different people.

The Lucas North we love in Series 7 and Series 8, and occasionally showing his face in Series 9, is OUR Lucas, the Lucas who loves and protects his people, and he had always been there. John Bateman is a whole other personality, the monster who wants to destroy everything and everyone around him. But OUR Lucas was fighting him every step of the way, OUR Lucas stopped John from killing Ruth, from using a real bomb to harm all those people, and stopped him from putting a bullet in Harry's head. In the end OUR Lucas fought through the darkness and took his own life to protect that of the country he was always loyal to and the team that he loved.

So whatever happens, Lucas North is still the hero, still loyal, still good. The evil actions were committed by John Bateman, our Lucas tried his best to stop him.