[spoilers] Lucas. Just Lucas.

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(23-11-2010 02:14 PM)BravoNine Wrote:  

(23-11-2010 02:08 PM)Byatil Wrote:  I understand what Maya was supposed to represent... she just wasn't developed as a believable character at all. I agree, a plot involving Lucas wanting to live an ordinary life would have been very interesting, and would have been 100x more realistic. Let's face it; the best stories are the ones the audience can empathise with and relate to.

I don't think I'm ever going to understand why the writers chose this script!

Lucas wanting to live a normal life would have been a great storyline, especially after the sacrifices he has made for this and what he has been through, it would be have plausible and more than realistic for him to think about going back to a time when life was simple. I could have actually believed in that storyline.

If Lucas had risked everything to want a normal life, and he was afraid of the consequences he might suffer should they discovered that he lied about living a different life as John, I would have understood that. At least it would have been more plausible that John was his real identity and Lucas was another alias he made up when he ran away or something.

After the losses Lucas has suffered since his return with Ben, Connie, Jo, Ros, and then Malcolm's departure and how his old teammates from before Moscow have all died or left this job, it would have been more than realistic for Lucas to consider that maybe it was time for him to have a chance to get that normal life too.

Instead the writers took a storyline that made no sense and ruined a character who was good and loyal and turned everything he did into some twisted dark lies.

They could have made him leave in a simmilar way Tom left, he was fed up with the lies and the sacrifices he had to make to do his job.
Lucas could indeed be full of regret when he remembered the life he could have had, so it wouldn't be too unlogical if he wanted a 'normal' life, after all the suffering he had indured for his country, they at least could have given him that!