The Doctor, on the other hand, thought it was downright brilliant.
“If it was a good idea we wouldn’t be doing it,” he said, giving her hand a squeeze. “I don’t think I even need to point out how many things your species alone has accomplished from terribly dangerous, stupid ideas.”
It was his odd little way of trying to be comforting. Probably could go on in the same vein about humanity if you let him. He rewarded Barbara with another one of those “nothing at all can go wrong with a plan like this (or if it does, at least go wrong in an interesting direction” and set off to where he thought he’d seen one of those big skulking fellas. You’d think being that large would make a good skulk rather…difficult (especially with the low ceilings in some places), but they were surprisingly decent at it and it took them a bit to even track one of the guards down. Eventually they managed to locate one, the Doctor approaching and even giving the big alien a wave and a grin and not quite elbowing Barbara to do the same.
“Hello! Are you busy? You don’t look busy standing there like that. I’m the Doctor, this is Barbara,” the Doctor paused to give Big Fella a chance to introduce himself, half out of politeness, half because he needed to take a breath between words. “She’s one of those humans that hasn’t seen many aliens until now,” he added, almost in a stage-whisper.
He didn’t even miss a beat in fibbing. It came second-nature to him and he’d found that pretending to be a tourist and/or one of those starstruck pre-space travel humans could open up all sorts of doors.
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“If it was a good idea we wouldn’t be doing it,” he said, giving her hand a squeeze. “I don’t think I even need to point out how many things your species alone has accomplished from terribly dangerous, stupid ideas.”
It was his odd little way of trying to be comforting. Probably could go on in the same vein about humanity if you let him. He rewarded Barbara with another one of those “nothing at all can go wrong with a plan like this (or if it does, at least go wrong in an interesting direction” and set off to where he thought he’d seen one of those big skulking fellas. You’d think being that large would make a good skulk rather…difficult (especially with the low ceilings in some places), but they were surprisingly decent at it and it took them a bit to even track one of the guards down. Eventually they managed to locate one, the Doctor approaching and even giving the big alien a wave and a grin and not quite elbowing Barbara to do the same.
“Hello! Are you busy? You don’t look busy standing there like that. I’m the Doctor, this is Barbara,” the Doctor paused to give Big Fella a chance to introduce himself, half out of politeness, half because he needed to take a breath between words. “She’s one of those humans that hasn’t seen many aliens until now,” he added, almost in a stage-whisper.
He didn’t even miss a beat in fibbing. It came second-nature to him and he’d found that pretending to be a tourist and/or one of those starstruck pre-space travel humans could open up all sorts of doors.