Doctor Who - Inferno

Impressions: I <3 Liz, the Brigadier is fabulous, and Three has wonderful chemistry with both of them. Additionally, dark AUs are my personal brand of sex, so this serial easily goes on my list of favorites in the classic series, along with "Genesis of the Daleks," and "City of Death."

And I haven't even begun to discuss the tight, suspenseful storyline (no mean feat, in a seven-part arc!) or the kickass secondary characters (and their AU versions!). Kudos, Don Houghton. Kudos.

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Originally found on neadods's journal: Avenue Jew.

If you've ever wanted to see the Avenue Q cast perform Fiddler on the Roof, this is it, folks, and it's officially designated Best Thing Ever.

More on "Inferno"

livii, you mentioned the idea of of world without the Doctor, as related to AUs. Well, I was looking up "Inferno" on Wikipedia, and look at what I found:

"During the scenes set on the parallel Earth, images (supposedly) of the UK's dictatorial leader are seen on posters. The image used is that of Visual Effects Designer Jack Kine, in homage to the 1954 BBC adaptation of Nineteen Eighty-Four where the face of Big Brother was Head of Television Design Roy Oxley (Kine had worked on the visual effects for that production).

Fan speculation, carried forward in the comic strips and novelisations, suggest that the dictator may be the parallel version of the Doctor. The Virgin New Adventure Timewyrm: Revelation by Paul Cornell states that the dictator was one of the alternative regenerations the Time Lords offered the Doctor in The War Games."

Book canonicity is its own can of worms, but dude. The irony.