Hello! (short story)

Hello!
Doctor:	Eleventh Doctor
Main setting:	Earth, 21st century
Key crew
Publishers:	Punchdrunk, BBC
Writer:	Tom MacRae
Release details
Genre:	Science fiction
Printed in:	The Crash of the Elysium
Release date:	30 June 2011
Format:	Short story
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Hello! was a short story exclusively given to the participants of The Crash of the Elysium from 30 June 2011 to 8 July 2012 by the BBC and Punchdrunk for completing the adventure. The story was framed as a short letter from the Eleventh Doctor to the reader, whose name would be written on the envelope the letter was given out in.

Plot

The Eleventh Doctor thanks those who received the letter for helping him, as, according to the Doctor, "[they] have done today has made the world a bit safer, the universe a bit brighter, and [the Doctor] less dead-er". The Doctor expresses about what an "amazing" adventure they shared, mentioning the people and places met and visited. The Doctor is deeply thankful for the help he received, telling them he will never forget what they did and that he will likely be around to check up on them in the future, as well as to enjoy their birthday next year as he remembers how amazing it was.

The Doctor concludes, once again thanking everyone from the bottom of his hearts.

Characters

• Eleventh Doctor

Referenced only

• Captain Solomon
• Corporal Albright
• Dolly
• Weeping Angels

Worldbuilding

• The Doctor wants to sing his thank-yous from the roof tops, shout it from the valleys, and to yell it from the street corners.
• The Doctor references the Weeping Angels, Captain Solomon, Corporal Albright, the Elysium, and Dolly.
  • The Doctor can't decide between Solomon or Albright to which his favourite is.
  • The Elysium is beautiful.
  • Dolly was alive before the recipient of the letter was born, and was also the first woman on the Moon.
    • The Doctor also refers to the Moon as Dolly's Moon.
    • The trip to the Moon had been accidental as he had intended to take her to Bognor, but he dismisses it as "a whole other story".
• The Doctor doesn't forget any of his friends.
• The Doctor tells the recipients of the letter to keep half an eye peeled and half an ear open in case he checks up on them.
  • He tells them that if they see a shadow out of place, a knock on the ceiling that "shouldn't be there", or notice something out of the corner of their eye that it could be him.
• The Doctor mentions being near the shrubbery by the time of the recipients' next birthdays, looking through their windows.
  • The Doctor believes that "shrubs are cool".

Notes

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Continuity

• The letter, being given to those who completed STAGE: The Crash of the Elysium, heavily references the events of the experience.
• The Elysium had appeared prominently in STAGE: The Crash of the Elysium, although it debuted in WC: Analysis Lessons.
• This story adds another object to things the Eleventh Doctor finds "cool". Those previously mentioned are fezzes, in TV: The Big Bang, stetsons, in TV: Day of the Moon, and most famously bow ties, including, but not limited to, TV: The Eleventh Hour, The Snowmen, and many others.
• The Doctor mentions his two hearts, a concept introduced in TV: Spearhead from Space.
• This isn't actually the first in-character letter from the Eleventh Doctor to the audience of a stage production; in the previous year, the short story Hello Everybody ^[+]Loading...["Hello Everybody (short story)"] was released in the souvenir programme for The Monsters Are Coming! ^[+]Loading...["The Monsters Are Coming! (stage play)"].

External links

• Hello! at @nitr09-productions at tumblr.com via the Ghost Archive