The Starz show Outlander
is running now, and it’s about some woman who travels back through time from a
Stonehenge-like stone circle in Scotland, and then there she is in historical
18th Century Scotland. And she ends up in some castle with a bunch
of Scotsmen, trying to figure out how to get back to her own time, or how not
to get burned as a witch, or whatever.
Well, I thought
it would be fun if she were to try to explain to the Scotsmen as they
approached the castle that she was sent back through time, but using delicate
language. But then the Scotsmen say: “Oh, you’re one of them fancy time-travellers,
aren’t you?” And she says yes, and they tell her they’ve run into lots of them,
and they’ve got a bunch staying with them in the castle right now.
And so upon
arriving at the castle, they introduce her to Mr. Spock, who is stuck there, as
well as some confused primitive caveman, and there’s a dinosaur in the
basement, and some hyper-evolved super-intelligent futuristic being in the
attic, as well as some gauche tourist group from the year 1995, and they all
have to learn to live together, like in the show: Too Close for Comfort.
Oh, the futuristic fun and historical hilarity that ensues!
And, naturally,
every week there would be some special guest star as another trapped
time-traveller from whatever random time period past or future, who would find
their way back to their own time somehow, while leaving everyone else trapped
there, like on Gilligan’s Island.
And the slogan
would be: “Wouldn’t it be funny if your future was the past, but with a bunch
of other time-travellers from the past and present stuck there with you?”
(So, what do you
think, Starz? Maybe for a spinoff? No?)
