Autons! I love Autons. I love surprise Autons.
Starts off with a typical TARDIS didn’t go where it was supposed to go routine. The Doctor and Lucie wonder into an apparently abandoned town. Once there they discover that everyone things it’s September 1, 1991. Only the TARDIS says that it’s 2008. Bit of a difference no? The set up lead me to believe that they were going to do something with people being stuck in a timeloop or something like that. Instead there are Autons. Autons stuck awaiting orders after they stopped receiving them. Autons thinking they are human and British.
I just loved the set up and the execution of this one. I love that the Autons thought they were human, acted like they were human and really just wanted to go back to pretending to be human. It was the Nestene that made them go on their brief period of killing all humans. Once that was safely locked away they were perfectly content to go back to their old lives.
Although once again I’m left disturbed by what could be the events following the Doctor and Lucie leaving. Here it looks as though the local government is going to turn them into spys and soldiers. Whether they want to be turned into these things or not. Not as disturbing as what happened to Red Rocket Rising (still confused as to whether I was supposed to find that funny or not, cause I didn’t), but not really all that comfortable of an ending. Which may have been what they were going for.
I like these Autons. Created by an experimenting government that found bits of the Nestene that fell to Earth. They walk, they talk, they complain about the music. *hugs Autons*
In conclusion: This is how re-imagining an old enemy should be.
