Friday, February 1, 2008

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.







1 comment:

  1. I believe Gilligan should be portrayed as a classical late 1800's era anarchist.

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