Day 583: Arc of Infinity Part 4

So the villain of this story is Omega, the first Time Lord, a character last seen in The Three Doctors. His story is interesting, being that as he harnessed the power of time travel, he was sent through a black hole and arrived in a universe comprised entirely of anti-matter. In both stories, his plan revolves around returning to the normal matter universe and wreaking vengeance on Gallifrey. However, in my opinion, the way in which he is treated in Arc of Infinity comes across far worse than that of how he was treated in The Three Doctors.

My reasoning for this is that we never really get to spend much time with the character of Omega. Much of the time in Arc of Infinity is spent keeping him to the shadows, with his true identity only being revealed at the end of Part 3, which is an ill-advised move in my opinion. You see, in The Three Doctors, we spent time with the character, we learnt of his motivation, we felt his emotions, we accepted him as a character in his own right. For Arc of Infinity, on the other hand, we spend virtually no time with him and so we're just left with this nameless entity of ill intent to the entire universe, and we're expected to remember this character from 10 years ago so that we can have any sort of emotional bond with him. To be perfectly frank, it's a waste of a good character, and is yet another reason why this story is so bad.