Series 9 Episode 8 discussion

[dalia]

Quote:And honestly, seeing who Lucas became, it just ruins for me what I loved about Series 7 and 8, how am I going to go back to those episodes and see the same good Lucas who came through for his team? Was it all just lies and pretend or did he really became Lucas North that he forgot John Bateman and had an identity crisis?

I mean that it wasn´t all lies at all. I understand it so that when he adopted the identity of Lucas North it was because he wanted to start again, that he wasn´t satifsfait with what he did and with his previous life. He wasn´t a bad person, someone like Vaughan, he was just young, adventurous, irresponsible, he did a stupid thing and then he met a wrong person (Vaughan). I mean by adopting the identity of Lucas he choose a quite difficult way for a new life, not an easy and comfortable one. And he "found himself" in it. He was a person with many talents which could be used to become a criminal and also to become a hero. He had both potentials, but he met Vaughan first and Harry later, unfortunatelly... I mean he did all he did as Lucas North sincerelly, not to pretend something. He just used this "new life" to evolve some part of his personality and he became Lucas North, not the "original" one, but "his" one. Lucas North was the better part of John Bateman, that what he would have become if he did make other choices in his youth. Well, I´m not sure if I expressed myself good, I hope so...