Best Misuse of Time Travel?

[donutsweeper]

Pretend you could borrow the TARDIS for a day, how would you abuse time travel?    joonscribble mentioned here about  going and picking up TW S2 DVDs to be able to watch them all at once, right now, which is just all kinds of inspiredness. 

Personally, I'd consider visiting this mom and pop bakery that made the best donuts before it closed a few years ago.  What would you do?

And no "I'd kill Hitler before he could rise to power" type of answers please, yeah preventing WWII would be great, as would any other heroic adventure you could go on... but let's be realistic here, wouldn't you rather be backstage during the filming of John Barrowman's defabricator scene?

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[ignescent.livejournal.com]

*grins* I think I'd wander around the filming sites for Doctor Who and leave lots of 'bad wolf' references before they got to filming that episode - just to freak them out. ;)

[donutsweeper.livejournal.com]

oooh, excellent answer! That would be hysterical!

[joonscribble.livejournal.com]

I'm so delighted that it inspired a meme!

If I was going to use the powers of the TARDIS for more altruistic reasons, I'd probably travel to the week after Harry Potter Book 5 came out. I'd specifically land at my friend Rachel's house and clap a hand over her sister's mouth just as she finished reading the book in Rachel's presence and prevent her from giving away the ending with a shriek of, "ACK! ____died!"

[donutsweeper.livejournal.com]

oh no, what a horrible thing for her sister to do!! That would certain be a good use of the TARDIS!

[smithy161.livejournal.com]

I wouldn't be able to stop myself from skipping forward, to see the direction Doctor Who eventually goes in.

[donutsweeper.livejournal.com]

I dunno, that'd make me a bit nervous, what if Twelve is all funny looking?

[smithy161.livejournal.com]

Well. Ten is a bit funny-looking, isn't he? As were Two, Four, Six and Seven. And Nine. And Eight. And One. And, okay, Five, just so he doesn't feel left out, even though handsome is the only adjective for him.

Edit: And three.

[donutsweeper.livejournal.com]

Okay, good point. Although I would leave Five out and place him in the handsome category, even if he is all by himself in it

[smithy161.livejournal.com]

I know what you mean, though. It'd be freaky to know where it's all heading. I wouldn't be able to stop myself, though!

*Moves Five to the Handsome category, where he mocks Eight and Ten, who don't quite make it*

[donutsweeper.livejournal.com]

lol at the mocking!!!! (Although it would be deserved!)

[smithy161.livejournal.com]

You know, thinking about it, I actually have no idea who would make me happy as the eleventh Doctor.

[donutsweeper.livejournal.com]

It's a very scary idea, no idea how they'd go about casting it

[joonscribble.livejournal.com]

I cross my fingers for someone ginger so that the Doctor can finally realize his dream of having ginger hair.

[donutsweeper.livejournal.com]

good point! Although maybe they'd want to wait for Thirteen for that.

Have all versions of the Doctor bemoaned not being ginger? I don't remember

[morgynleri]

Hmmm. Go into the past, build a storage space somewhere that is going to be fairly uninhabited and ignored until the current century, and go around the world collecting artifacts, and precious gems and stuff that when I come back to the present, I can "find" and live comfortably for the rest of my life. Maybe enough to buy LJ or something. And make sure the storage space has damned good security, maybe go into the future, and invest in getting the supplies for the secure storage vault there. Oh, and collect old recipes and other interesting oddments that would amuse me, and bring them back with me, without bothering to give them a chance to age.

[donutsweeper.livejournal.com]

oooh, would you stop at that mom and pop bakery and pick up their vanilla cream filled donut recipe on your travels?

I like this idea! Pick up a painting or two from some of the greats when they were struggling and starting out in the field...

[morgynleri]

Some paintings, some pottery, some donuts, some beer recipes, some ancient yeasts. Some original written works (Chaucer, Shakespeare, an audio recording of some bard reciting a version of Beowulf), some music, some clothing (carefully cleaned, I don't want authentic vermin or plagues), other fun stuff.

Sure, I'll pick up the recipe, and a dozen or so donuts...

[donutsweeper.livejournal.com]

*sigh* my hero!

[pointytilly.livejournal.com]

I'd dig up some good audio/video equipment (surely the TARDIS has better than the voice record on my mp3 player), go see old-school Chicago live, and BOOTLEG AWAAAY.

To share with fans, not get rich off of. Honest.

[donutsweeper.livejournal.com]

It's so sweet, you being considerate of the fans that way... :)

[phoenix64.livejournal.com]

I'd go back to my and tell myself, "Look, I know BASIC bored the hell out of you, but you don't want to miss BBS's - get back on the computer right now!" And I'd probably have a couple of things to say about college.

[donutsweeper.livejournal.com]

messing with one's own timeline. I *like* it!

[http://users.livejournal.com/_medley_/]

skipthedemon's trapped at school and hasn't seen the TW trailer yet. Clearly we need to use the TARDIS to rescue her.

[donutsweeper.livejournal.com]

oh no! That's a terrible fate! school instead of TW addiction?

[http://users.livejournal.com/_medley_/]

I know!

...If I had a time machine, I'd go change the script of Serenity. Just that one bit. And rewrite X3 completely. No, take the script to penknife and let her rewrite it completely.

[donutsweeper.livejournal.com]

oh god yes. I'm afraid I don't know penknife but if she would change *that* she'd be my hero!

[http://users.livejournal.com/_medley_/]

penknife writes very interesting meta, and lately her fic has been mostly Pirates of the Carribean, but she's written some fantastic Charles Xavier and Erik Lensherr fic in the past. That's my old-friends-who-became-enemies kink showing. I'd pay her large sums of money (if I had them) to watch season 3 Who.

[donutsweeper.livejournal.com]

friends/enemies kink? You? Nah, I don't believe it

[ayankha.livejournal.com]

i'd go back and get my dad's family to immigrate to the UK instead of America... American TV is rubbish... UK programming is soo much better... i'd also record the original airing of every single episode of DW for my own private collection... oh, and i'd steal a Pharoah's cowl from ancient egypt just b/c i can X3

[donutsweeper.livejournal.com]

Lol- that's a great list! :)

[terrylj.livejournal.com]

Go to the BBC and rescue old-school DW from burnination.

[donutsweeper.livejournal.com]

oooh, inspired. It'd also probably prevent the movie with Eight, which is not that bad an idea at ALL

[awanderingbard.livejournal.com]

I'd head back to old-school movie musical days and hang out with Fred Astaire and Gene Kelly and the lot. And try to get on screen, of course.

Or, I'd go the Regency era, because I look awesome in an empire waistline, find myself a Mr. Knightly or Mr. Darcy, and spend my evenings doing embroidery and taking turns about the room with my girlfriends and gossiping about the scandalous neighbours.

[donutsweeper.livejournal.com]

Oooh, Jane Austen life! Sounds great! although flirting with gene kelly has it's appeal as well

[the-dark-side.livejournal.com]

forget just TW S2, I'd go to when the series finally ended (which is hopefully still some time away) and get ALL the DVD sets, along with the new Doctor Who.

[donutsweeper.livejournal.com]

ooh, perfect. Can you imagine the marathon DVD watching sessions you could have?

[the-dark-side.livejournal.com]

I wouldn't leave until I'd finished, either, except for the essentials. I'd be in my room for days.

[donutsweeper.livejournal.com]

All the DVD sets? It's take weeks, especially if you watched the commentaries and everything

[the-dark-side.livejournal.com]

oh, god. I didn't think of the commentaries. still...they'd have to drag me out before I finished if anyone needed me for anything.