Hats for Eleven
When I asked for journal content suggestions one of 
calvinahobbes' ideas was "Hats! Hats are good! Do you want to talk even MORE about all the cool hats Eleven has yet to wear? IDK, it could be like an unordered list of tiny scenario ideas..." I would just like to say that the wikipedia entry for hats is amazing, and, also I had no idea how much I liked hats. (I do not know how I managed that.)
So, indeed, hats:
There is, of course, the bowler hat. I mention this, in part, because I think Matt Smith would take extraordinary delight in re-enacting the dinner roll ballet and I think he would be an adorable dork doing so. Smith strikes me as a man who appreciates Chaplin, so seeing his Doctor fanboying would be delightful. Chaplin had an anecdote about entering a tramp impersonation contest and placing third. Maybe The Doctor also entered.
There's the Phrygian cap for American revolution, democracy, and smurfs! (Link also wears a Phrygian cap.) It's an interesting hat for all of the symbolism tied up with it, pretty silly looking, and so quite mockable by companions. The political turbulence that it's tied to is something The Doctor would be fairly happy to muck about in, I should think. So, The Doctor wanders about in his cap, stirring up revolution, and then when someone questions the hat the guy next to him is all, "Are you mocking this hat?" and then they bond over their excellent taste in hats together and possibly get smashed and sing glorious songs of the revolution.
The Akubra is an Australian bush hat. What is there not to love about Australian bush hats, I ask you? They are fabulous. So of course the Doctor would want one, and he could go to Australia! That would be exciting! I don't know that there has been any kind of Australian canon since Tegan, or, indeed, that he has ever been to Australia, so I think that one is rather spoiled for choice in terms of scenarios - all that unexplored history. He could meet Ned Kelly, some particularly vicious alien wildlife that's made its home there - perhaps Australia is a kind of beacon for vicious alien wildlife - or maybe the Australian Torchwood.
He would, of course, wear a cordrobé. It is the hat of Zorro. Do you know what is cool? A cordrobé. And Zorro. I imagine he would swan about the place making swish swish swish noises to amuse himself, because he is a great child. He would probably come across some greed-filled villain to defeat and then set about doing so with a few of Zorro's stratagems thrown into the making of his solution. Perhaps he would find something improbable to swing from, a trusted steed for that one episode, or maybe he would sign something, leave a mark. Maybe it would even be a "z". "Z" is a pretty cool letter.
The Ascot cap: hat of grandfathers, feeders of ducks, and turn of the century adventurers! Goes well with a scarf and/or goggles. Available in tweed. Because that is what the doctor needs. More tweed. It would tie in rather brilliantly with the kind of professorial look that he has going on. I think that this would be the sort of thing that he would just happen to have in his closet, decide to wear one day on a walk outside the TARDIS, and then, terrible, terrible things would happen to it. (As usual.)
I could go on for a while, and I expect it would eventually degenerate into... crazed excited raving about hats. It seems likely at this point. Anyway. I offer you this rather bare sketchy thing (you have seen nothing) in closing:
"He's wearing a deerstalker," says Amy.
"Deerstalkers are cool."
Rory, walking by the control panel, shakes his head and goes right on up the stairs.
"Are you like Sherlock Holmes now, Doctor? Are you going to detect, now?"
"I always detect, and I am cleverer, cleverer than Sherlock Holmes."
"You're more clever than a fictional character?"
"Yes. Hand me the blue thing with the glowing bits on it."
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calvinahobbes' ideas was "Hats! Hats are good! Do you want to talk even MORE about all the cool hats Eleven has yet to wear? IDK, it could be like an unordered list of tiny scenario ideas..." I would just like to say that the wikipedia entry for hats is amazing, and, also I had no idea how much I liked hats. (I do not know how I managed that.)
So, indeed, hats:
There is, of course, the bowler hat. I mention this, in part, because I think Matt Smith would take extraordinary delight in re-enacting the dinner roll ballet and I think he would be an adorable dork doing so. Smith strikes me as a man who appreciates Chaplin, so seeing his Doctor fanboying would be delightful. Chaplin had an anecdote about entering a tramp impersonation contest and placing third. Maybe The Doctor also entered.
There's the Phrygian cap for American revolution, democracy, and smurfs! (Link also wears a Phrygian cap.) It's an interesting hat for all of the symbolism tied up with it, pretty silly looking, and so quite mockable by companions. The political turbulence that it's tied to is something The Doctor would be fairly happy to muck about in, I should think. So, The Doctor wanders about in his cap, stirring up revolution, and then when someone questions the hat the guy next to him is all, "Are you mocking this hat?" and then they bond over their excellent taste in hats together and possibly get smashed and sing glorious songs of the revolution.
The Akubra is an Australian bush hat. What is there not to love about Australian bush hats, I ask you? They are fabulous. So of course the Doctor would want one, and he could go to Australia! That would be exciting! I don't know that there has been any kind of Australian canon since Tegan, or, indeed, that he has ever been to Australia, so I think that one is rather spoiled for choice in terms of scenarios - all that unexplored history. He could meet Ned Kelly, some particularly vicious alien wildlife that's made its home there - perhaps Australia is a kind of beacon for vicious alien wildlife - or maybe the Australian Torchwood.
He would, of course, wear a cordrobé. It is the hat of Zorro. Do you know what is cool? A cordrobé. And Zorro. I imagine he would swan about the place making swish swish swish noises to amuse himself, because he is a great child. He would probably come across some greed-filled villain to defeat and then set about doing so with a few of Zorro's stratagems thrown into the making of his solution. Perhaps he would find something improbable to swing from, a trusted steed for that one episode, or maybe he would sign something, leave a mark. Maybe it would even be a "z". "Z" is a pretty cool letter.
The Ascot cap: hat of grandfathers, feeders of ducks, and turn of the century adventurers! Goes well with a scarf and/or goggles. Available in tweed. Because that is what the doctor needs. More tweed. It would tie in rather brilliantly with the kind of professorial look that he has going on. I think that this would be the sort of thing that he would just happen to have in his closet, decide to wear one day on a walk outside the TARDIS, and then, terrible, terrible things would happen to it. (As usual.)
I could go on for a while, and I expect it would eventually degenerate into... crazed excited raving about hats. It seems likely at this point. Anyway. I offer you this rather bare sketchy thing (you have seen nothing) in closing:
"He's wearing a deerstalker," says Amy.
"Deerstalkers are cool."
Rory, walking by the control panel, shakes his head and goes right on up the stairs.
"Are you like Sherlock Holmes now, Doctor? Are you going to detect, now?"
"I always detect, and I am cleverer, cleverer than Sherlock Holmes."
"You're more clever than a fictional character?"
"Yes. Hand me the blue thing with the glowing bits on it."
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