Mickey Smith provides another unintentionally bizarre moment in Rose that causes amusement for all the wrong reasons. Put simply, he loses a battle against an Auton disguised as a rubbish bin and gets eaten by it. And then the bin burps. Because Autons can burp, apparently. Embarrassingly, the production team felt a belching bin would make the kids in the audience laugh. It's more likely that they rolled their eyes.
Mike has lived in the UK, Japan and the USA. Currently, he is based in Iowa with his wife and 2 young children. After working for many years as a writer and editor for a large corporation, he is now a freelancer. He has been fortunate enough to contribute to many books on Doctor Who over the last 20 years and is now concentrating on original sci-fi & fantasy short stories, with recent sales including Flame Tree, Uffda, and The Martian Wave. Also, look for his contribution on Blake's 7 to "You and Who Else", a charity anthology to be released later this year.
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