BK Writer's Challenge: Reimagine Gilligan's Island in Victorian or Edwardian Times

Writer's Challenge #1

Now, you have seven cast members. Plunk them in a late 19th or early 20th Century Imperial British milieu.

What issues would they face? e.g., taming the natives, a lack of quinine.

For this literary effort we must get past the notion of the era that the captain always goes down with the ship, aka the Birkenhead Drill:

To stand and be still

to the Birken’ead Drill

is a damn tough bullet to chew.

[Sniff] Thanks Rudyard, always makes me choke up.

Some Issues:

• Who would play the characters if cast today (in a British production)?




• Would they have enough alcohol to survive?




• How would the repressed mores of that era have stiffled Mary Ann's burgeoning sexuality?




• What quackery would the professor profess?




• What class conflict would emerge between Gilligan and Thurston Howell?

I'll be fleshing out this idea over the next few days.