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UNREALITY CHECK
Part Two
July 29, 2004
By Jen Kokoski & Cody Jarret
(New Season: Lost in Translation)

PREVIOUSLY

The crew had to run a restore without knowing what they were restoring. They ended up outside time and space and although Ravena and Phineas were finally able to eat the meal almost cost them everything. As we ended part 1, the crew clung to a spinning console as thievery walls of the TARDIS were flung away.

CAST

The 11th Doctor - [Cody] tall, 6 foot man in his late 50's with gray curls, a wizened face, and sparkling blue eyes. He closely resembles his 4th incarnation after being aged a bit by time and turmoil.

Ravena Shaw - [Jen] Virginian colonist, granddaughter of a local farmer now deceased. She is unmarried, a woman of 23 thus a spinster (by choice). She lives on her family farm with her sister-in-law and nephew. Her brother (who owns the farm) is off fighting in Washington's army. Like the women in her family, she practices the old traditions of home remedies and Irish white witchcraft.

Phineas - (Duncan) - 45, a gray haired (used to be red) scientist who has never undergone regeneration. His blue eyes sees things many of his colleagues don't so he is considered paranoid. A view that isn't hurt by the fact that both his assistants are cousins of his and he can't stand visitors to his lab.

Reldresal - The Principal Secretary of Private Affairs in Lilliput, who explains to Gulliver the history of the political tensions between the two principal parties in the realm, the High-Heels and the Low-Heels. Reldresal is more a source of much-needed information for Gulliver than a well-developed personality, but he does display personal courage and trust in allowing Gulliver to hold him in his palm while he talks politics. Within the convoluted context of Lilliput’s factions and conspiracies, such friendliness reminds us that fond personal relations may still exist even in this overheated political climate.

Skyresh Bolgolam - The High Admiral of Lilliput, who is the only member of the administration to oppose Gulliver’s liberation. Gulliver imagines that Skyresh’s enmity is simply personal, though there is no apparent reason for such hostility. Arguably, Skyresh’s hostility may be merely a tool to divert Gulliver from the larger system of Lilliputian exploitation to which he is subjected.

The Emperor - The ruler of Lilliput. Like all Lilliputians, the emperor is fewer than six inches tall. His power and majesty impress Gulliver deeply, but to us he appears both laughable and sinister. Because of his tiny size, his belief that he can control Gulliver seems silly, but his willingness to execute his subjects for minor reasons of politics or honor gives him a frightening aspect. He is proud of possessing the tallest trees and biggest palace in the kingdom, but he is also quite hospitable, spending a fortune on his captive’s food. The emperor is both a satire of the autocratic ruler and a strangely serious portrait of political power.

The Empress - The empress likes Gulliver at first; he charms her by kissing her hand. However, when he extinguishes the fire in her quarters of the palace by urinating on the building, she is repulsed and turns against him. She represents Queen Anne, who denied Swift a position in the Church of England because she thought his satirical writings were vulgar, even though one of those writings, A Tale of a Tub, defended the Church of England against the Puritans and Roman Catholics. Queen Anne also ungratefully exiled Swift's friend, Bolingbroke, after he'd gone through the trouble of negotiating a peace with France, thereby ending the War of Spanish Succession.

BEGINNING

DOCTOR

Doctor awakens looking at blue sky and tries to get his bearings. He has flashbacks of his previous trip to the Land of Fiction. He looks for his companions but instead finds himself lying on the ground tied down to a bunch of tiny wooden stakes. On closer inspection, he realizes the stakes are actually trees, he’s tied with tiny ship rope and miniature birds fly just over his nose. The Doctor works his way out his bonds to go looking for his friends.

PHINEAS

Phineas is submerged in the middle of a Lilliputian harbor, weighted down by a few dozen ship anchors so only his head is above water. On the dock beside him, a lavish stage with royal red carpet and throne-like chairs, his interrogators question him. The Emperor of Lilliput rails against him for the great insult of invading his country. It seems when Phineas arrived his body fell on the Emperor’s summer palace, crushing half of it and his Shield Gun fell, discharged and destroyed the Emperor’s garden gazebo narrowly missing the Emperor. Lord High Admiral Skyresh Bolgolam accuses Phineas of being a Blefuscudian spy and assassin. Phineas denies all charges even claiming ignorance of Blefuscu. He apologizes for any damage his weapon has caused and defends himself as being an accidental tourist from a land far, far away. That just alarms the Emperor and Skyresh more; they presume he is from the barbaric Colonies and is one of those rumored savages (i.e. American Indians). They debate what to d with him.

RAVENA

Ravena sits in the middle of a garden and has tea with the Empress and the Secretary of Private Affairs Reldresal. Their conversation is civil, even downright friendly. The Empress is charmed by Ravena and her talk of womanly things (gardening, tea, etc.). Ravena has found it very easy to converse with the Lilliputians as they remind her of the people back home. Ravena tells the story of her magical trip from home to the land of Lilliput. The Empress believes it to be a terrific, childish folktale but Secretary Reldresal takes the tale much more seriously. He gently questions Ravena about her intentions in Lilliput and her friends.

MIDDLE

PHINEAS’ RESCUE

Doctor breaks free of his bonds in the Lilliputian forest just in time to hear a big melee in the Harbor below. Admiral Skyresh concludes Phineas is a threat like Gulliver and orders the three battleships docked nearby to fire upon him and execute him.

The Doctor runs down to the harbor and to Phineas’ rescue. His giant footsteps rumble the ground like a rolling earthquake sending Lilliputians scurrying for their lives. Livestock runs free tripping the Doctor on the way. When Skyresh and the Emperor see the giant Doctor charging, Skyresh orders the infantry to fire their arrows at the giant.

RAVENA’S EXPLANATION

The Empress takes her leave to go change the evening’s ball and leaves Ravena with Reldresal. Ravena and Reldresal talk frankly. Reldresal assumes Ravena is related to that other giant visitor from abroad… Dr. Lemuel Gulliver. Ravena knows the story well but pretends Gulliver is her much older brother who went aboard when she was young and she’s mostly heard stories of him from her late mother. Reldresal seems ready to believe Ravena is harmless but warns her that her brother made too many enemies there for her to stay. He suggests she and her friends sneak off through the channel to the land of Blefuscu as quickly as possible. Just then word comes of the giant attack on the Emperor at the harbor.

LATE MIDDLE

HARBOUR

The Doctor’s heavy coat absorbs the arrows without incident allowing him to keep charging forward. But when he sees of the tiny infantrymen in his way, he tries to avoid them and trips on some rope. He falls toward the harbour, his arms splash the sea enough to throw the battleships off their anchor positions and bangs his head on the stone fort nearby. He’s felled and groggy but does not lose consciousness. 

The Emperor and Admiral Skyresh argue over what to do. Skyresh orders his men to escort the Emperor to safety, but the Emperor insists both giants be executed horribly right that minute for their insolence. Phineas tries to free himself from the anchors to go help the Doctor and manages the feat while the Lilliputians carry on their argument.

ENDING

COOLER HEADS PREVAIL

Secretary Reldresal arrives at the Harbor and calms the heated argument between the Emperor and the Admiral. While he occupies them, he keeps an eye on the water’s edge beneath the dock.

Ravena swims underwater through the harbor to Phineas. She frees him from his last anchor chains and comes up for air under the dock. She quickly instructs him on the plan: sink into the water and swim out into the channel and away. Then she swims over to collect the Doctor.

Phineas pretends to be mortally wounded by the battleship fire and begins sinking under the water’s edge. The Emperor is pleased to see his adversary dying and insists on staying to watch. While the Lilliputians watch, Ravena swims over to the Doctor and slyly pulls into the water with her. She drags him out to sea.

CLIFFHANGER

IN THE CHANNEL

The Doctor, Ravena and Phineas are reunited away from the harbor. Ravena confirms what the Doctor suspects… they have landed in the world of Gulliver’s Travels. The Doctor is more than worried what will happen next, but then Phineas spots an awaiting beacon of hope. The TARDIS Console, just as big as they are, floats over. The three clamor on top for safety. Phineas suggests they try using the controls to reform to TARDIS around them. But before they can operate the switches, a storm comes up and starts dangerously churning the sea. The three are left to hang on to the console for dear life, again.

NEXT WEEK

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