[spoilers] Lucas. Just Lucas.

[A Cousin]

(15-11-2010 03:51 PM)lwhite53 Wrote:  

(15-11-2010 02:20 PM)HellsBells Wrote:  

(14-11-2010 07:09 PM)Aria Wrote:  Even though I am not the biggest Lucas fan, season 9 loses something by invalidating the entire Lucas backstory.

It is really interesting to read the comments of less enthusiastic fans of Lucas.
I hated the storyline because I'm a huge Lucas fan and the writers destroyed the character completely. But I keep question whether I'm biased because of my love for the character.

Lucas was never my favorite character and I, also, think season 9 was compromised because of the unplausibility of Lucas/John story line. The s9 writers destroyed the work of the s7 and s8 writers. If I'd been one of the writer from the earlier two seasons, I'd be seriously pissed off.

There are couple in there from S7 and S8. David Farr wrote 7.6, 8.4 and 9.2. Richard McBrien wrote 7.4, 8.5, and 9.3. Of course you all know that 9.2 and 9.3 were both directed by Simon Canton Jones who, in an early interview, said that he didn't really "get" the Maya/John storyline which I thought showed in his direction. For me, it looked like didn't know what to do with it except to make the shots look really pretty and symbolic. I now wonder if he didn't so much side-line it as David Farr and Richard McBrien? Just speculation....

I have not been a emotionally connected to Lucas, either. Although, ironically, I have been appreciative of RA's other work prior to Spooks. I have always felt/thought that there was something else going on. I think Lucas suffered this series from under-development in previous series. In addition, when the producers/writers decided to go with such a huge departure from the Lucas they had (under) written thus far, they over stretched and it took that much more for me to try to connect the dots. While the Lucas theme is intertwined with the main theme, the Lucas story took over and over shadowed the over-all theme as they affect all of the characters collectively thus sending the series slightly out of whack. In that, they did fail. Once I put it aside, I was able to see the rest. Sad, really, because so much else is so wonderful. Which is the only reason the series was not ruined for me. IMO, of course.

All that said, I do agree with what has been said here before that they would have better served the programme as a whole if they had worked from his known past. It would have done just as well.