Series 9 Rumours & Speculation

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(06-11-2010 01:27 PM)BravoNine Wrote:  

(06-11-2010 01:20 PM)Kirayuki Wrote:  Like i've said before though. I'm happy enough with the new writers, but if they fail to wrap up sufficiently in the last episode (however they probably will wrap up most of it) then i may start thinking they should bring in one of the old writers fromt the first few series armed with a cement mixer and trowl to fill in the p(l)ot holes.

Then again i'm probably gonna be really happy with it anyway. This season has been really good.

I don't deny that this season has been very good in terms of the level of excitement and how they managed to twist the storylines to this level and drawn in the fans so strongly, and not to mention the brilliant cast of actors finally getting to shine. Like I said, whether I like what's happening to Lucas, there is no doubt that this season has had my heart racing, the unpredictability is up high, and I never felt so drawn in so emotionally.

But I hope to God that they fill in those glaring plot-holes, because if they don't, I'm gonna be one unhappy camper!

I've swallowed A LOT of things in my time as a TV viewer, I've suspended my belief a lot when others didn't, but I would not appreciate the writers taking me for an idiot, or that I have to swallow a retcon of what I loved about Series 7 and 8.

So hopefully they find a good ending to fix it. Or else I will be armed with pitchforks and knives and flamethrowers! They think Lucas going psychotic was a bad thing? They clearly haven't met me!

I think this is a good summary of the reason for so much of the angst attached to this plot development. Quite aside from the ??@*!! factor of using (and seemingly undermining) the carefully constructed and subtly shown character of Lucas to make a tired point about whether morality attaches to an action or to the person undertaking the action, there is also the irritation of it being done in such a binary way. Either the many and ludicrous inconsistencies and impossibilities in the story are red herrings and a conscious aspect of the plotting (good, and appropriate for the setting), or they are plot holes of the worst and most lazy kind (bad, and unforgivable in pretty much any narrative setting).