If you met The Doctor...

[lastgoodbye]

...and he asked you "Where do you want to go?", then what would you reply? You have three chances by the way, before he replaces you with a younger model.

After much long-winded discussion with Josh, mine were:

1. Go back to the 1920's, party like a flapper and hang out with Zelda and Scott Fitzgerald.

2. Somewhat predictably go back to the early 1950's and, um, meet Marlon Brando

3. Go back to Manhattan in the early 1990's and spend several years attending Jeff Buckley gigs while regularly warning him of the dangers of swimming in rivers at night-time

It kind of sucks that all of mine are in the last century.

Your turns!

[Aly]

1. Go back to the 1920's, party like a flapper and hang out with Zelda and Scott Fitzgerald.

YES.
1. I want to go to Ancient Egypt, because it seems more efficiently developed than the modern day one.
2. The Victorian Age, I want the appearance of a Victorian hooker.
3. I want to go before the Jacksonian Era and punch Alexander Hamilton.
Edit: oh wait it was 3

[Lawrence]

i'd rather go on time travel adventures with bill and ted or michael j fox.

I'd like to go back to the 80s and be an 80s teen, go see the smiths and have a dodgey haircut.
I cant think of any more at the moment which is a bit tragic

[idreamofcherrypies]

Interesting! I love your first choice, not well informed enough about 2 and 3 though. Incidentally, if you did 3 do you think it would change history and everything'd be buggered up, or are we leaving stuff like that out?

1. To the late 70s/early 80s. I'd love to have seen Talking Heads in their early days, and Siouxsie's first performance of The Lord's Prayer (one of my favourites of theirs), and Joy Division and John the Postman's Louie Louie performances and Adam Ant and X-Ray Spex and The Slits in the punk days, and Vivienne and SEX and Seditionaries and all that. I'd love it in theory anyway. In reality I'd probably be too scared to go out for fear of getting a bottling or something.

2. This probably sounds dead weird and wrong but I'd love to go back to when Hitler was big to experience the atmosphere, it must have been incredible. I don't mean in like the usual 'wow this is great!' incredible way, but more in the sense of it just being oh-my-god-is-this-real kind of incredible. Just because it's so hard to imagine living like that now, and I get chills sometimes, from things like the Tomorrow Belongs To Me bit of Cabaret, and seeing those public information films, it's just a whole other world. It's not always taught that well in schools either imo, bit of Goodnight Mister Tom and Carrie's War, Schindler's List while everyone's still too young to appreciate it and then that's it.

3. Errrrm. I’m really iffy on years and decades and eras. But you know maybe Victorian times or just before/after, to have a giggle at the education system and society and values and stuff. I grew up reading Just William and What Katy Did and The Railway Children etc so it’s always fascinated me, the days when family dynamics and values were completely different and father/papa always had a pipe and kept you at arm’s length, and mother would nag about clean aprons or slidey-down socks or dirty necks and collars, and there were servants and regular mealtimes and pantries and grandfather clocks and Latin masters and cakes and scones every day and catapults, traditional sweetshops, and Sunday best. Although I think after a while I’d miss chippy tea watching Corrie.

[Rhiflect]

1. 1920s so I could be an awesome flapper gal, possibly meeting other time travelled wolfboarders there!

2. Ancient Greece, just so I could chill with people at like, the dawn of time.

3. 1940s so I could be a posh-speaking English girl who had to dress for dinner etc, like cherrypies said!

i'm boring, haha

[naaaat]

^^^ Cara (I think?), the fact you've mentioned What Katy Did in your post makes me EXTREMELY happy! That was my absolute favourite book as a kid and I rarely find anyone who's heard of it; I read it over and over again (but always skipped the depressing chapters ) and pretty much wanted to live in that book!

Right, I'm actually too tired for my brain to work properly right now so I might come back to this when I've had a bit of a think! Although my initial reply would probably involve vast amounts of blushing/possibly hyperventilating a bit/generally embarrassing myself because seriously, how exciting would the Doctor turning up be?! Yes, I am a TOTAL geek

[idreamofcherrypies]

Mar 14, 2010 1:13:12 GMT naaaat said:

^^^ Cara (I think?), the fact you've mentioned What Katy Did in your post makes me EXTREMELY happy! That was my absolute favourite book as a kid and I rarely find anyone who's heard of it; I read it over and over again (but always skipped the depressing chapters ) and pretty much wanted to live in that book!

Yeah Cara's right

Oh yayyy good for us! ;D Haha it is amazing isn't it! Horribly outdated in some bits obviously, but genuinely nice and uplifting in others. Have you ever read What Katy Did at School or What Katy Did Next? At School is my favourite by far, the characterization is immense and it felt so real reading it, the spoilt relatives and the strict teachers and the obsession with cakes and waffles, it's great.

[irrelevant]

if it's doctor who leading the way, i'm guessing that would mean every interpretation of the earth's future in dr. who canon would stand as true [grr spoiler alert] which severely dampens the appeal of going forward in time. not to mention there's nothing sentimental, romantic, or comfortable about the future. that's squared away then.

1950s does sound good. malt shops and female fashion trends.

i can also relate to the desire above regarding hitler and intensely surreal scenes. i was thinking more along the lines of witnessing an event like pearl harbor.. or any one time where you suddenly become aware of the grinding gears of fate screeching toward global mayhem. something that gets that spinning newspaper movie cliche thing fluttering right in front of me.

third choice.. i guess the fall of rome. you'd have to think it'd be breathtaking when it's not too rainy, and who can pass up that mediterranean air. probably beautiful any time of the year.

[Aly]

After the Pearl Harbor, where they have the korematsu case, that would be awesome.

I think I want to change my third option, only because the era isn't that facinating to me, and Hamilton got punished enough. So I would like to go to the prehistoric era instead and go fishing, because I get to see Benthic zone-esque fish. Hopefully, I won't have to rough house with them.

[Rosie The Red]

1: Victorian era; so I can wander around in corsets and look like a hooker and generally have a laugh. And wear a bussel! Yay. Ooh, and visit a proper Victorian Asylum, and meet some plague doctors {but not get the plague}, and see all their freaky 'cures'.

2: Ancient China; when all the bad-ass stuff was going on, like inventing fire-works and star-gazing and stuff. I'd also be cheeky and 'accidently' jump on a boat over to Japan and meet some awesome samurais, or something.

3: Hmm, not sure. Yes, I am, infact! I'd go to the end of the universe, and eat in Milliways, and watch the universe explode at my leisure. Wahey.

[Lawrence]

I'd like to add my second and third. I'd like to go to 1800s america...

and I'd like to go back about 10 years and talk to my younger self, that'd probably fuck up the whole space/time continuum but who cares!?

[tarantella]

1. I would like to go to ancient Persia and see the land that my ancestors lived in.... Maybe observe Zoroastrian culture, see Persepolis before it was destroyed. This only works if I'm a voyeur, able to move around without being seen -- I don't want to be sold into slavery or anything.

I also want to stand in a desert alone, simply watching the landscape with the knowledge that the world around me is from the past.

I'm guessing the Doctor has the ability to travel forward in time as well as outside Earth? If so, then

2. I would like to travel maybe 30 years forward in time to see what the world is like. I wouldn't want to go too far forward or stay too long. I want to remain hopeful about the future.

3. I want to be in space, in total blackness. (It's magic, so let's say I wouldn't need a spacesuit and I wouldn't suffocate or explode or anything either.) Not being able to hear would probably freak me out, but if it didn't, then I might like to die in space.

[wanderer]

1) The 1970’s so I can become a major figure in the Glam Rock scene and befriend all the famous people of the time, design clothes for them, have crazy parties and generally make a spectacle of myself.
2) 1969 (but I’d have to take my friend Seb with me) so we could buy a campervan, do some travelling, meet crazy people, do some drugs, go to lots of festivals, join a band then write epic psychedelic memoirs of it.
3) I’m not sure where/when else I would like to go, if I think of somewhere I’ll come back and add it. Anyway travelling with the doctor would be pretty epic wherever I ended up!

[lastgoodbye]

^ And I thought mine were bad being in the same century, yours are within a year of each other

[wanderer]

Mar 15, 2010 12:43:38 GMT lastgoodbye said:

^ And I thought mine were bad being in the same century, yours are within a year of each other

I know, I should just be dropped there and abandoned and just allowed to live out my life :\

[sarah]

i think i'd go and hang out with some amoebas

[choolin firth]

1. 1930s/40s Amsterdam so I could befriend Anne Frank. I'd say I'd make sure the family weren't caught but I think history needs them as an example of all the horrors of the Holocaust, so I'd leave that part of the past alone.

2. 1930s/40s/50s Hollywood! Oh God, I'd stay there for years. I know all the stars hated being treated like cattle but I could have Clark Gable's illegitimate child and make friends with all the musical stars! I wanted to put the American Civil War and the 1920s in my list as well, but I only really wanted them for the dresses, so I'd raid the Gone With the Wind and Singin' in the Rain wardrobes before I left to make up for not being able to visit the real times. I'd stop James Dean from driving to his death and we would become soulmates and we'd only understand each other because we'd be deep, poetic and romantic teenagers who need no one else in the world! Ha.

3. Tonbridge in Elizabethan or medieval times, just because I often walk around my town and think "wow, hundreds of years ago people walked around here" and I wonder what it was like then.

[Jazzy Jeff]

I'm going to try and do this in 3 centuries and not say the 70s 80s and 90s.
FIRST:
Singapore in the late 1800s like it is in Pirates of the Carribean. Because that would be incredible.
SECOND:
Berlin about four years ago and go to lots of parties and all that.
THIRD:
Probably most obviously, 1974 where I would either create a musical career with the doctor in the glam rock world and/or feed off the fame of others and just be in parties and music with the very well dressed and very skinny people. I'd DEFINITELY be friends with Brian Eno while he was all sparkly and beautiful.
I'd also stop Marc Bolan from dying. I know it's probably against the rules but I would have to.

[Lemon Bloody Cola]

Mar 15, 2010 17:47:12 GMT choolin firth said:

1. 1930s/40s Amsterdam so I could befriend Anne Frank. I'd say I'd make sure the family weren't caught but I think history needs them as an example of all the horrors of the Holocaust, so I'd leave that part of the past alone.

They should totally do that as a plot for an actual episode of Doctor Who.

[choolin firth]

Haha, what save Anne Frank's family or prevent the entire Holocaust?!