[spoiler] Adam Carter

[Adam Carter]

(20-10-2009 11:43 AM)Margaret Wrote:  For me, Adam's departure was expected: but why did he have to be "killed off"? I think there was the potential for Adam to survive the crash, but with terrible injuries necessitating him to be absent from a series or two.

I think Adam HAD to die, eventually. It didn't have to happen then and there, but it was inevitable.

The whole hook to Adam's character was that he was a huge risk-taker. Go back to when Oliver Mace dubbed him a "loose cannon". Then look at the way Adam carried himself as a leader. He was always taking chances, always coming up with left-field ideas, and always narrowly escaping death.

He and Fiona, before she died, always talked about how reckless they both were. It was who they were as people. Ros had a brilliant quote about it in 7.2 where she says that Adam once told her he knew the job would kill him someday, but that it "gave him a rush".

Adam was the type of person who literally lived on the edge. And he knew one day, his luck was going to run out. That's what makes his death all the more poetic. If Adam was going to die, or leave the show, this was exactly how it was going to happen. And he KNEW that.