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[doctorate]

[ There is a high-pitched whistling audible on the Guide today -- nothing too loud, but it might certainly be unexpected. After a few seconds of this, the video flickers on, and a grinning Time Lord is visible on your screen. ]Friends, Vogons, citizens of the good ship Thor, lend me your ears

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[Video]

[holmes_blogger]

[Well, there's a familiar face. Still, hearing someone introduce himself as "the Doctor" never gets old.]

Hello, Doctor. I'm going to take a guess and say you don't remember being here before?

[doctorate]

Well, it might be that the things that look the least like you are the most terrifying. There's quite a bit of alienation from things that are-- [ pauses, then finishes lamely, ] alien.

-- Except, you know, something a bit more clever than that.

[holmes_blogger]

[He just chuckles.] And then there are the aliens that don't look alien at all.

[doctorate]

[ he knows his cue is up, and so he waves and grins ] I'm incognito, today.

[holmes_blogger]

Well you've just arrived. I'm sure you'll be rushing about, saving us from disaster in no time.

[doctorate]

One can hope. Unfortunately, at least from what our friendly, local Vogons have told me, most of the refugees here have had their home planets destroyed. If they're to be believed, I feel like I've come a little late.

[holmes_blogger]

[John hesitates a moment before answering.]

If they're to be believed. I have my doubts.

[doctorate]

[ At that, the Doctor perks up completely ]

Have you a sneaking suspicious that something dastardly is afoot, Doctor Watson?

[holmes_blogger]

[The similarity to Sherlock when he senses a mystery is amusing him.]

Could be just wishful thinking, but I've never seen any proof. And even if I had, with the technology they have here it could easily be fake.

[doctorate]

I had the same thought, actually. I asked them what happened to the Earth, and they told me it had been accidentally destroyed in the process of moving it out of the way for some sort of intergalactic shopping mall.

I mean, aside from that being entirely ridiculous, having personally seen the Earth's end, though, I can tell you that that's complete rubbish.

[holmes_blogger]

[The casual way the Doctor mentions seeing the end of the Earth throws him for a second. Then he realizes he might have seen that episode, actually.]

I can top that for ridiculous explanations. They told us our Earth suddenly stopped revolving around the sun and just...fell into it.

[doctorate]

. . . What, seriously? Like, the Earth just decided one day, "Oh, I've grown quite tired of spinning, ho-hum"? Now that is properly ludicrous.

[holmes_blogger]

So they say. You can understand why I have a hard time believing it.

[doctorate]

I hardly blame you.

Well, aside from the high possibility of their lying about the recent nonexistence of home worlds and what's sure to be several hundred counts of kidnapping -- you're on a proper space station, with aliens and stars and, apparently, a new planet every month. That is a bit brilliant, if you can put aside all of the other completely criminal acts.

[holmes_blogger]

[John can't help smiling in response to that.]

I can't argue with that. Wouldn't even try. Some of the things I've seen have been amazing.

[doctorate]

And a bit odd, from what I've heard from the other refugees. Sounds like something that'd suit me just fine, so far.