Doctor Who/Recap/S7/E04 Inferno: Difference between revisions

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'''Brigade Leader Lethbridge-Stewart''': Then you won't feel the bullets when we shoot you. }}

 

 

Meanwhile, the Doctor has moved the TARDIS console out into the lab and is attempting to repair it with the help of a skeptical Liz. He manages to accidentally zap himself into a parallel universe where Britain is a fascist dictatorship and [[The Brigadier]] is now Brigade-Leader Lethbridge-Stewart (with an eyepatch and no moustache), while Liz Shaw [[Fan Service|struts around in kinky dominatrix boots]]. Hindered by his parallel "friends", the Doctor is unable to stop the drilling, and the parallel world is destroyed as the Doctor escapes.

Watch it [http://www.dailymotion.com/playlist/x13q9s_TheFifthDoctor_inferno#videoId=x8tjt7 here].

 

* [[Alternate History]] - in which Britain has been a Republic since at least 1943. When the Doctor asks what happened to the Royal Family, the Brigade Leader says cheerfully that they were all executed.

* [[Apocalypse How]] - The alternate Earth apparently experiences a Class X, as the Doctor tells the alternate Inferno team that within the next few days the world will blow itself apart. We don't see the actual ''destruction'' of that Earth, but we see it very shortly before the implied end.

* [[Downer Ending]]: Episode 6 has quite possibly the most depressing ending in the history of the series.

* [[Dug Too Deep]]

* [[Evil Is Sexy]]

* [[Eyepatch of Power]] - The Brigade Leader has one.

* [[Faux Action Girl]] - Amusingly inverted (well it ''is'' an alternate universe). The Brigade Leader is a cowardly loudmouth while Section Leader Elizabeth Shaw is a tough leader in a crisis.

* [[Heroic BSOD]] - The Doctor sees the alternate world burn as he leaves it and goes into a coma for a good chunk of the following episode.

* [[In Spite of a Nail]] - In an alternate universe with thirty years or more of historical and political divergence, the same drilling operation is still being run by the same people, although some of them are in slightly different positions or ended up there by different routes. Even more this trope, minor details are the same: notably, the same people have been infected by the green stuff on the same day, even though it was a highly contingent accident.

* [[Interdimensional Travel Device]]: The TARDIS console transports the Doctor to a parallel universe where Britain is governed by Fascists.

** In serial titles, at any rate; the series has previously used one-word titles for some of the individual episodes during the William Hartnell era.

* [[Perp Sweating]] - Used by the Brigade Leader on the Doctor to find out who he is and where he came from, complete with the traditional desk-lamp-in-the-face.

* [[Reverse the Polarity]] - the same catastrophe is averted in both universes by "reversing all systems"

* [[Sinister Shades]] - The mirror Stahlman wears them.

 

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