Day 560: Four to Doomsday Part 3

Adric is rather annoying in this story. And by rather annoying, I mean that when he was knocked unconscious halfway through this episode, I may have breathed a sigh of relief that he wouldn't be gracing the screen for another couple of minutes at least. There are several reasons as to why he's so annoying, but we can easily start with the fact that he begins the episode by being a chauvinist and proclaiming that Tegan is a horrible person because Tegan is a woman. As first impressions go, it's not terribly great. But how can he improve on this, I hear you ask? How about actually teaming up with the villain of the story who proclaims that he is going to control the human race to Adric. Adric agrees with him, and thinks that this is a wonderful idea, ignoring little concepts like love and free will, that will of course be removed once the villain gets his way. I suppose that this plot element has been introduced in order to introduce an amount of conflict between the regular characters, which makes the story more interesting as we have to ponder the moral dilemma of which one is right or not. However, because the dilemma is so blatantly one sided between good and evil, it's clear that Adric is in the wrong, and so we grow to detest him as an audience. Hopefully things will improve for the character though as the series continues, but for now we have to focus on the conclusion to Four to Doomsday.