[spoilers] Lucas. Just Lucas.

[KitKat385]

(17-11-2010 10:00 PM)Annie Wrote:   That was me, and I still tell myself so. Episode 8.8 is the last time we see Lucas as just Lucas, the way the people who thought him up in the first place intended him. And the last we see of Just Lucas, is his very hard landing on the pavement, which in reality could easily have killed someone. At the time that episode was filmed, hero-Lucas was still canon. He was never seen that way again. By the time 9.1 rolled around, he was already Lucas-is-John.

But, I liked Season 9 a little...mostly because of the end. We hear all these horrible things about John and what he's done, and Vaughn mentions before his death that a 'killer's been unleashed (muahahaha, etc.)', but in the end Lucas/John doesn't kill anybody. That means 'Lucas' is still there, reformed and unwilling to kill innocents (or Ruth) anymore. Plus he genuinely cared for his co-workers, otherwise they wouldn't have surivived! He really only had problems with Harry, which season 8 Lucas had also. I would have been happy with season 9 if he'd taken up Lucas North for a better reason than blowing up embassies since he had nothing better to do. Or if Maya hadn't existed. Or if Harry had seen that John was now Lucas, not some betrayer. Since he did serve his country admirably well, only with a false name (he didn't even have bad intentions coming into MI5!)

So yeah. I'll say Lucas lives, and he's my little alternate-reality version