Series 9 Episode 8 discussion

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(09-11-2010 06:20 PM)molecatcher Wrote:  But in a previous post you got it so right, the fact that the John and Lucas personas were fighting it out ~ to quote you I know Lucas/John jumping off is rather cowardly because he couldn't take going back to prison now he had nothing to live for. But you can always think that he jumped because OUR Lucas is still in there fighting evil John, and that OUR Lucas knew that he had to end this before John hurts anymore people. Think of this as OUR Lucas's sacrifice one last time to save his team and the people who matters. A split personality is just that so you can't blame the actions of one on the other. Vaughn's chilling comment that John had gone to sleep and dreamed he was a hero, then the killer awoke sums up Lucas/John in one sentence.

That is my rationality trying to explain the mess and convoluted storyline that the writers were trying to make. That was my head trying to find some ways to make sense.

The writers never really show any decent reasons, they didn't really even bother trying to explain. If it wasn't for RA acting out all those conflicted moments of John vs. Lucas, I would have never known there was a struggle.

And it's not like they said that Lucas was having a split-personality issue, maybe if they explained it more I would have accepted this crazy storyline.

I can try to make peace with it, or try to rationalize it so that it sounds better in my head. But the simple truth is that the writers disappointed me with this hare-brained storyline that really made no logical sense, and if it wasn't for RA's great acting, I would have long stopped watching.

RA brought the soul into the character of John/Lucas that the writers were never able to do.