ficlet project: "Culloden" (Doctor Who)

[kindkit]

Title: Culloden
Fandom: Doctor Who
Characters: Jamie McCrimmon, Second Doctor
Rating: All ages
Warnings: None needed
Word count: 100
Summary: History, truth, and entertainment.
Notes: Written for ellen_fremedon, whose prompt was "costume drama." The program Jamie and the Doctor are watching is Peter Watkins's Culloden, which aired on the BBC in 1964. I haven't actually seen it and have no idea if it's guilty of the inaccuracies Jamie notes.




"They don't talk right."

"Pronunciation changes over time, Jamie."

"And I've never seen a Highlander wear his plaid like that."

"I'm sure the filmmakers tried to get the details right. Not everyone's got a time machine, you know."

"But how could people forget so soon?"

"Two hundred years, Jamie." The Doctor sighs. "I did advise you against -"

"Aye, but I never thought such a battle could turn into a . . . a fireside tale. Something folk take pleasure in because it's not real to them."

"I'm sorry."

"I remember men who died there," Jamie says, switching the television off.




I'm now taking a new request. The first commenter on DW or LJ can name a fandom (see here on DW or here on LJ for a list of fandoms I can write), a character or pairing, and a brief prompt.

Comments

[ellen_fremedon]

Oh, Jamie. He takes so easily to time travel-- we never really see it hit him just how far from home he is. But it must have, at some point.

(And I think this might be the first comment, but don't count it as such!)

[kindkit]

My thought is that Jamie's pre-modern worldview helps him accept time travel because he doesn't have the modern sense of what's "scientifically possible" and what isn't. But something from his own personal experience, like the Culloden film, could create a much greater sense of shock.