[spoilers] Lucas. Just Lucas.

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(02-02-2011 04:17 PM)Silktie Wrote:  My main issue with the Lucas/Sarah relationship was that it made Lucas look like an idiot. She played him like a banjo, and I always thought of Lucas as more intelligent than that. He kept on defending her long after he was given strong proof that she was bad.

Well, yes. Lucas is presented as this brilliantly intelligent man who can supposedly read people as if they're books, yet as soon as he's presented with an attractive woman he's clueless? Perhaps if they had explored the psychological implications of this hamartia further (rather than leaving us to draw our own conclusions... again) it might have been a more successful plotline. As it was, Lucas seemed to move on from Elizavyeta remarkably quickly, and was happy to pretend Sarah was a lovely person right up until the very end. I mean, he was prepared to let her kill him in 7.7. Why did she have such a profound psychological effect on him? Did he like the fact she was (to all intents and purposes) a complete bitch? There's a startling contrast between Elizavyeta and Sarah, which is something interesting that could have been explored further, but was rejected in favour of gratuitous sex scenes

I think we need Spooks to be 20 episodes per series just so that we can sufficiently explore the lives of each character I suppose there's always supposed to be an element of secrecy and deception though, such is the convention of the show!