Okay, things are a bit quiet here, so here's a question for the group.

What would the Doctor do if the TARDIS landed in the city of Omelas?

(Let's assume the famous state of Omelas isn't the result of a previous landing there in which the Doctor 'fixed' a past situation but didn't stick around to address the consequences--which, come to think of it, actually sounds plausible.)

And which Doctor would you like to see have this adventure?

Um, what's the city of Omelas?

Wikipedia:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Ones_Who_Walk_Away_from_Omelas

And I had no idea what Kevin was talking about either, Emily (hence my trip to Wikipedia).

Ah yes, I read that story decades ago, I just didn't remember the name.

Obviously any Doctor (well, maybe not One, he'd probably said we mustn't interfere) would have got the kid out of the cage and to hell with the consequences.

I s'pose s/he might have looked vaguely guilty if s/he returned to see the city destroyed decades/centuries later but s/he'd've got over it, fast (JODIE! re wiping out humanity for a Shelley poem - 'I fixed it. Eventually. Just about. Sort of' - the HELL you did!).

You read a book that didn't have the words "Doctor Who" on the cover!?

Satan: Burrrr, when did it get so cold around here!?

You read a book that didn't have the words "Doctor Who" on the cover!?

It was a short story.

Satan: Burrrr, when did it get so cold around here!?

Hey, it's WATCHING stuff that isn't Who that I have...philosophical problems with.

The Who novels aren't generally much good so I have no problem betraying n'abandoning 'em for lesser other stuff.

Plus, there WEREN'T any Who Novels (bar the novelisations and three Companions of Doctor Who abominations) before 1991 so what could I DO? Read Turlough and the Earthlink Dilemma over and over and over again? It would have been enough to turn me Trekkie...

Harry Sullivan's War was not bad, Emily. I enjoyed it.

Never read the Turlough one, so I cannot offer a definitely opinion about it.

What was the third Companion book. I know there was talk of a Tegan one, before legal issues shut them down.

Harry Sullivan's War was not bad

Yeah, OK, I realise I was being a little unfair including it in the 'abominations' category. It WAS actually bad, but in an enjoyable way.

Never read the Turlough one

That's one to leave until last once you finally succumb to the Who novels. In the hope that you'll get the brush of Death's merciful hand before you reach it.

What was the third Companion book.

K9 and Company. See my review of March 01, 2008 in the Novels: Companions of Doctor Who section for the full horror.

Wikipedia - the utopian city of Omelas, whose prosperity depends on the perpetual misery of a single child.

So basically high school?

I got the impression it's a lot more than ONE miserable kid in high school. Admittedly I might be unduly influenced by Class.

The full text can be found here: https://www.utilitarianism.com/nu/omelas.pdf

It's far more than worth the time it takes to read its four pages.

Tenant is the Doctor I most easily see in this scenario, although Tom Baker in full 'But what's it FOR?' mode works too.

Of course, the Doc did leave that kiddie-in-a-spacesuit to ROT in Season Six, which is kinda embarrassing given that it turned out to be HIS WIFE.