This is part of a series of reviews of Doctor Who in chronological timeline order.

Previous Story: Iterations of I

I can imagine this story must have been absolutely shocking to a child watching it live. This is the first time a true, recurring companion has died on the show. It's fairly obvious from the start that he's going to die in this story. It's a nice moment between Adric and the Doctor where they make up but it's really only there as a last minute correction of the Doctor and Adric's relationship. Regardless, it worked on me and I'm sad to see Adric die so soon after reconciling with the Doctor.

The Cyberman plot is really clever and a drastic improvement over their one and only appearance in the 70s. Unfortunately the Cybermen feel very out of character for most of this story and I couldn't take the Cyber Leader seriously with how many times he said "excellent". It's only really until the last part where the Cybermen speak about logic and emotion that they really feel accurate, for the rest of the story they feel like Darth Vader and his stormtroopers.

This is, in general, a very tense story, it has you constantly on the edge of your seat with the betrayals and the cliffhangers. The supporting cast in this story a really good, especially so for a story set in the future, where I find the supporting cast are almost always annoyingly silly.

The end credits are a nice touch and make for a very moving image at the end.

R.I.P Adric

Next Story: Time-Flight