See, if you'd seen Get Smart you'd know that Maxwell Smart gets by more on luck than intelligence. :P
I've said before, Trace is a character who is representative of us all, but not one we like. We see Trace as uninteresting, paralyzed by his ambivalence, or unthinking in his words and actions. Trace has been permitted lately, by virtue of the plot, to float along for a while. His life is about to get much more interesting. We had the battle for Flora's soul. It's time to have the battle for Trace's. When this is said and done, Trace will have made some choice, or had them made for him. He chose Flora before, and again more recently. Next, before they make it off these isles, Trace will declare his love for her so all may hear, including Flora herself. Mark my words. Trace has long been emotionally adolescent, and he's about to hit something which is going to force him to grow up.
Again, as I've said before, while the point of the overarching plot is Trace and Flora's relationship, right now, we're at a point where they're stalled out. Trace has little reason to take things further than they are. He's comfortable. Flora would like more, but she's not going to press. They don't even know that they might have a little one on the way, but until that affects the story, it's a non-issue. So we've been watching the other two kinds of the story: Keith and Natani, as their acquaintence blossoms to friendship, and, unless all us 'shippers are wrong, something more. The time for Keith to make a decision on that is nigh, and I think that decision will break the stalemate of Trace's relationship and force him back into the spotlight.
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