4.7 - Erebus

Erebus is a story that sets out to tell a bit more of the backstory of Kerr Avon, and does so in an inconsistent tone with a thinly sketched out story. Paul Darrow turns in a great performance with some good writing, while Issy Van Randwyck does the best she can with a thinly sketched character. The writing for this story is just too inconsistent though, as Darrow can’t decide between a light-hearted or deadly serious tone, leading to an incongruous story. The character work for Avon doesn’t match with the tone of the Crossfire series, while the humor of the story doesn’t match with that darker tone. It’s a contradictory story at times, and really just leads to a bit of a messy story that, while doing some great work with Avon, acts as a disservice to the history it’s trying to show.