[spoilers] Lucas. Just Lucas.

[NightOwl]

(23-11-2010 11:37 AM)Belle Wrote:  Then there is Maya:
You don't simply forget about 'the love of your life', even if you don't actually realise anymore who it was (due to memorieblocking, wich I can accept) you must have dreams about them or even flashbacks, or the faint feeling of something missing. And we never got any hints of that being the case, so the writers expect us to take that in just like that, as if we don't have a decent brain of our own.
As BravoNine said, it's not so much the fact that Lucas was someone else (though I still have reasonable doubts someone like Lucas could have been and rebecame someone like John) , it's how they made us see that story that's lacking spine, what so ever.

I think Maya was supposed to represent the road not taken. Had Lucas stayed with her years ago, he'd be a husband and father with a 9 to 5 job living the kind of conventional life most people have. He wouldn't have been imprisoned and tortured, wouldn't have had his heart broken by Elizabeta, wouldn't have seen his colleagues die. In retrospect, her photo awakens in him not love, but regret.

Of course, it's just another missed opportunity by the writers. It could have been interesting to see Lucas struggle with the idea that he could have had a different life. They could have explored what choices Lucas made and what choices were made for him. They still could have explored issues of identity and (self) deception. They still could have ended up in the same place with Lucas and Harry on the roof.

Honestly, I will never understand why the writers chose to make Lucas a terrorist who assumes a fake identity. Even without all the plot holes and inconsistencies with prior series, it just seems like an incredibly bad idea.