Series 9 Episode 8 discussion

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(30-11-2010 11:13 PM)binkie Wrote:  Are we to assume he was lifted in Moscow because he was just too stupid to lie?!

I guess we will never find out the Moscow story, and what we've been given instead was that John/Lucas deserved 8 years of torture as punishment.

It's so stupid and such an insult. What had once been a beautiful gift of ultimate sacrifice and loyalty for his team and his people have now been turned into this twisted sense of self-punishment. These writers sure know how to ruin things!

(30-11-2010 02:55 PM)Byatil Wrote:  Well, if we accept the theory that Lucas is suffering from split-personality disorder, then the plot somewhat makes sense...

Except the writers does not seem to go this way at all. They make no mention that Lucas/John is suffering from mental issues at all, it's just that he wants to do this for Maya and that he was a bad person. They made no attempts to even show to the audience that maybe John/Lucas has some mental issues or suffered some traumatic horrors that may have led to John's actions in Dakar.

If the writers really wanted to go with the Lucas-Is-John story, I don't think it was completely horrid, but they made no explanations of how and why John did what he did or how he became Lucas, the reasons given to us were weak and does not stand up to scrutiny.

If they had explained that John had suffered some unimaginable horrors as a child that messed up his psyche and he has mental problems that led to his actions in Dakar, then at least some of this ridiculous storyline would make more sense.

But they didn't explain, and whatever reasons they gave are just weak and quickly glossed over.