Galactic Vacationing - Wednesday, Period 4

[veryarthurdent.livejournal.com]

"Right! So. Wasn't here last week, was I? I'm sure the TA," he gave Seely a look that had a barely restrained eyeroll accompanying it, "kept you all busy in my absence. Got off to a slow start, which is sometimes a good thing when you're bouncing around the known universe." Why yes, he was being a big hypocrite. He seemed to know it to some degree too, because he was getting uncomfortable. "And, well, let's not even get started on the unknown universe. Anyway! Moving on. Let's go somewhere different."

The Doctor pointed his sonic screwdriver at the Danger Shop controls and, although it could be said that the Danger Shop was somewhat disgruntled by being messed with by a sonic device (which wasn't in any way important for next week's workshop), it complied and their surroundings changed.

"Welcome to the year 200,100. We're not too far from home, a little step out and away from the planet Earth, which is just down there. You can probably find an observation deck if you look hard enough. This is Satellite 5, the largest communications station in the solar system, if I remember rightly. I usually do. Take a look around. Get something to eat. Mingle." He scratched behind his ear and tried not to look too pleased at throwing them into the thick of it, "I'd watch out for some of those rooms though. You might find yourself facing a fate worse than death. Well, not death." He paused and looked upward in thought. "No, on second thought, worse than death. Definitely."

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Re: Reality TV - What Not to Wear

[veryarthurdent.livejournal.com]

"Oh, they're not insane." He leaned against the door frame, ignoring the fact that the robots were coming towards them. "They're just programmed to act that way. Now their programmers? Yeah, probably insane or at least having very, very different standards of acceptability to the rest of the universe." He grinned. "Amazing what you can find only a step away from familiar ground."

Re: Reality TV - What Not to Wear

[new-to-liirness.livejournal.com]

"Tik toks. Masks to keep your hands clean."

He sounded utterly disdainful of the whole thing.

"And I'm not particularly surprised. Mostly annoyed. Thank you for coming, Professor."

Re: Reality TV - What Not to Wear

[veryarthurdent.livejournal.com]

"Not Professor, remember. Doctor." Only one person called him Professor and she wasn't with him anymore. "But come on Liir, it's not so bad. Getting to see new things, meet new people? Crazy though they are. It's exciting. Have a little fun. Live!"

Re: Reality TV - What Not to Wear

[new-to-liirness.livejournal.com]

"I don't mind new things and new places. I tend to prefer those from other worlds to those in my own, in fact, so it would be rather ridiculous otherwise. I'm glad I ended up in your class, Pr--Doctor," and didn't that sound weird?

"I don't like those things, though. It's... it's dishonest."

In a way that seems terrible to him. Lies are one thing but the very falseness to them makes his teeth ache.

Re: Reality TV - What Not to Wear

[veryarthurdent.livejournal.com]

The Doctor frowned, slightly confused. "The robots are dishonest?"

Re: Reality TV - What Not to Wear

[new-to-liirness.livejournal.com]

He nodded firmly.