Day 541: State of Decay Part 4

It's easy to dislike Adric in this episode. It's as if the episode goes out of its way to make us dislike him intensely. Romana and one of the villagers have just been on a rescue mission to try and save him, but they failed with Romana about to be sacrificed and the villager already dead. So you'd expect Adric to be a little bit grateful for what everyone has gone through for him. But instead, he's quite annoyed because he was looking forward to becoming a vampire, and Romana has gotten in the way of his defection to the bad guys. And it's not as if he doesn't know that they're evil, he just wants to give up on the whole notion of being on the side of good and instead be on the winning side. Granted, he does attempt to save Romana later, but this fails terribly and is dealt with too swiftly for us to even notice the character's change of heart.

This is Adric's second story, and we're being inclined to dislike him already, before we get a full impression of the character. This does not bode well for the character, and it may be some time before we can be willing to look at him with fresher eyes and see his positives for what they are. But for now, we end this story on a low note and hope that this companion will be better treated in the future.