Plot-holes

[WhiteSwan]

(04-03-2011 02:15 PM)HellsBells Wrote:  Interestingly in 9.7 commentary the writer Anthony Neilson says he never wrote the part where we actually see Lucas/John detonate the bomb, that was added afterwards. He thought that if he had written it he would have wanted more of an explanation as to Lucas' thinking about what he was doing. The Executive Producer, Andrew Woodhead, said it was explained in the next episode, 9.8, on the roof scene with Harry. I think, 'it made me feel like someone', is a bit short of an explanation!

I've always felt that this "explanation" was one of the most pathetic motives I've ever heard or read or seen anywhere. Or the most sarcastic. Because it basically says "If you have low self-esteem, if you aren't as self-confident as you would like to be, just kill a substantial number of innocent people and you will feel much better!"
As I haven't bought the DVDs and have not intention of doing so I have to rely on other people telling me a bit more about the extras and commentaries. Is it really true that the writers/producers couldn't give an explanation about how JB was able to fool MI5? That they just thought it was an interesting idea and that these things could happen? Was there any explanation as to why both JB and Lucas obviously had no family or friends to enquire after them? Why apparently not even Maya had made any inquiries? Ok, she wasn't the kind of person to be bothered by anything, but still...
And did RA really use the tattoo on his chest to explain the somehow extraordinary personality of JB/LN? I can remember that in one of the many interviews he gave he said something like "It depicts God as the architect and it's a reminder to Lucas he cannot construct his own destiny". This sentence has always annoyed me quite a bit, because it just seemed to be a cheap excuse for all the crimes JB ever committed (or in fact the crimes anybody ever committed). If that statement was true it would mean no-one does anything out of a free will and so no-one could be held responsible. So everybody raping a woman, abusing children, killing out of hatred, killing out of religious reasons, killing to get a bit more self-esteem, torturing people for the fun of it, they all could claim that it had not been their fault, because God had constructed their destiny. But that would have been true for someone like Connie as well and Lucas (the real one) certainly did not react in a way saying "Oh, it doesn't matter. You just can't construct your own destiny and so you couldn't help betraying your country." Which shows that the real Lucas of S7 and S8 has absolutely nothing to do with JB.