location, location, location and bad star wars jokes

[burntcopper]

What are the chances of Jack Harkness making bad Star Wars jokes or comments (you have to pass through Tataouine, which is the place Ep IV was partially filmed, to get to Tiaret) or is he not that sort of time traveller? (The Doctor definitely would, but as we know, Jack is not the Doctor.)

Opinions?

Also, on looking at the geography and surrounding area, it looks like I might not go as far as Ghadames for final destination - Tiaret's got more valleys and such from what I can tell on the google map, plus apparently has interesting sepulchral monuments on the hills to the south. On the other hand, Ghadames is... sandy and dune-like (though mostly flat) and I can find more pics of the surrounding area due to some bloke taking a lot of photos of the landscape. Whaddya reckon, cross the border to Libya and therefore risk more Nazis or stay in border-country Tunisia? Gah. Still need to find plane and train times. If only so I can make sure that it takes place within the relatively short time period I've got for this. (needs to take place *before* March '42 but *after* November '41)

Next time, remind me *not* to do stories that require this much bloody research. (the problems of writing a period that's fairly heavily covered and still in living memory...)

And on typing 'Tiaret' into Flickr, it seems you get either photos of the town (with many piccies of it in 1910, mwhahaha) or... cat pictures. What's with the kitty pictures?

ETA : Think shall see if the lines work when I write it. It'd only be a couple of throwaway lines as it is.

Also, on the end-of-the-trek-line front, looks like I'm going with Tiaret, if only because how embarrassing it would be if people start going 'but... er... it's a wee bit difficult to drop something and not be able to retrieve it from a flat sandy plain with bugger all around it except one set of ruins'. (seriously, on flickr, there's a tumbled-down ancient wall that I've seen from five different angles in eight different photo collections) Robin Hood : Prince of Thieves is a lesson to us all. As are such things as the giant forests in the recent King Arthur film, whereas anyone who's actually been to Hadrian's Wall, Northumbria or the area north of the wall will know that trees are... er... well, they tend to huddle in small clumps. Against the wall. if they're lucky.

Comments

[derryderrydown.livejournal.com]

Has your Jack spent enough time in the right time periods to be making Star Wars jokes?

[burntcopper.livejournal.com]

well, I'm wondering, because this is set during the time he's on the slow path - and I'm pretty sure I remember him not getting the spock joke in Empty Child. On the other hand, after that he did spend an unspecified amount of time with Nine and Rose before he got killed on the Game Station and then jumped back to 1869, so... what d'you reckon, plausible?

[soulstar.livejournal.com]

You know, I don't think he would. His mind is more likely to be running along the lines of the awkward places all that sand can get...

On the other hand, Nine and Rose might have educated him. So, um. Hell, it's Nano - write it! If it doesn't work, you can edit it out later.