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