Autons - Plastic Menace

I wish I still had all my old international film posters. I miss my Polish Blade Runner poster.

I had the Luke, Leia, and Mara Jade prints, but didn’t know what they were from.

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It’s one of the ones I’m always bringing up, but The Auton Infinity is easily my favourite auton story, and one of my favourite Doctor Who stories of all time really. It’s a love letter to the Davison era, with UNIT, the Brigadier and the Master all for good measure, but the autons themselves are anything but an afterthought.

Covertly, it’s an Auton origin story, there is some really juicy Nestene lore here along with giving us a proper Nestene/Auton character (I’m admittely not sure which name best describes Prodigal). I’m also just a big fan of how it takes something as niche and fanservicy as an intended Auton scene in The Five Doctors that was dropped before filming and manages to make it a totally organic story element, one the really dedicated fans who know about that sort of thing and go “ah!”, without that context being essential for understanding. The cast are great too, one of Davison’s best turns as the Doctor I should think. Highly recommend to fans of the era.

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Rose was the beginning of a journey which has now made me bankrupt and while it has removed every piece of money from my card, the episode is quite good.

(Side note, when I first watched it, the weekend after bonfire night in 2022, at the start, I guessed that the mannequins would start moving :joy: I must be psychic)

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