Day 278: Inferno Episode 7

As mentioned before, this story features a trip to an alternate universe. Also as mentioned before, the story is about a scientist going possibly too far, and engaging in forces that man was perhaps not meant to meddle with. At the start of Episode 5, things come to a head. By which I mean, in the alternate universe the forces that man was perhaps not meant to meddle with come through in full power and begin to cause widespread destruction. And the cliffhanger to Episode 6 is the Doctor hurriedly trying to get his TARDIS working as lava begins to flow towards him, along with his new friends from the alternate universe. The next we see of the Doctor is him in his normal universe. But without his friends. Everyone else from that Earth died in flames. We got to know and care for some of these characters and now we suddenly realise that they all died horrifically. And to make matters worse, the Doctor, the man who is meant to make things better, was unable to save them.

There's comfort in the fact that the Doctor is able to save the normal Earth from the destruction that occurred in the other universe, but it's not strong enough. This one moment is the most dark and terrifying moment in all of Doctor Who. Because it reveals to us that sometimes not even the Doctor can save us, and that everything might come to an end because the people who are trying to save the day aren't able to make things better.