[spoilers] Lucas. Just Lucas.

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(13-12-2010 10:21 PM)Byatil Wrote:  Also, I was in London today looking at various art galleries, when I happened to stumble across this Blake quote in one of the exhibitions:

"I must create a system or be enslaved by another mans; I will not reason and compare: my business is to create."

Naturally, my first thought was "Lucas!" (you know you're a fan of Spooks when... ), so I thought I'd share it with you to support the argument that Lucas has a desire to control the system rather than be under its control, yet perhaps because of his inability to control the system surrenders his control to others? Interpret as you wish!

My interpretation of the Blake quote is that there is a need for the person who says this, to live his/her life by his own rules, to make/create his own world and own thoughts and feelings in order to 'survive', not to give in to prescribed rules made by our society on how to behave, how to act and how to think. Because that would mean the dead of the soul, of the free thinking, of the ability to create. Whether it is in literature, arts, poetry,... or it is in the simple gestures that makes life worth while, creativity is indispensable and crucial, if there were to be only rules made by others to follow, without the possibility that lays within our creative mind to give those rules our own twists, we would lose the core of our self and be soulless shells.

I do not personaly think that there can't be creativity if there is reason, in fact I feel there is a need for both to exist, but there lays a danger in overreasoning creations to the point where they become mere letters on paper or paint on a canvas, or gestures towards people without meaning, where the true heart of the creation is lost in explanations.

As to how this conects with Lucas, I think that he chose Blake because the freedom of Blake's thinking attracted him very much, I guess that Lucas rather had a strict yought, followed by the severity of the MI5 training (not including S9 again ) and all the harsh times and things he has seen during his time as an officer or while in prison. So maybe he loved Blake as a sort of rebelion towards the system he chose to be a part of (MI5).
I can imagine that he felt a deep desire to escape to a self created world, to survive mentaly, whilst he was in Russia, longin for an ability to shake the system he was in from his skin (maybe a literal translation ON his skin?), but he also felt the need to survive physical, and in order to do that he had to blend in with his inmates, hence the other tattoos.