2008 roundup
Added : 5th January 2009
Hello everyone and a belated welcome to 2009! I've been updating the website to include history for 2008, something I've meant to do month-by-month, but unfortunately haven't gotten around to until now. Looking back over
this year's posts, I'm amazed more than ever about the story we've been telling!
As the years have gone by, Blue Dwarf has changed a lot. This is inevitable, Red Dwarf doesn't seem to be getting the film we've been promised, so our influences have been coming from elsewhere. Our science fiction is getting a bit more serious, with plots now spanning months, or even several months, seamlessly evolving from one to another rather than the stop-start episodic plots. If you've noticed, TV and films are going in this direction too. With shows like Lost, 24 and Prison Break unfolding their stories over entire seasons.
In my opinion, this is great! And it's what we do best, because it means that what we write has repercussions for the story in months to come.
For example, Andy Roos shot Jed in March, this is still having repercussions to Jed's character now, months afterwards. Justin Pancake's story unfolding over the entire multiple Blue Dwarf's plot lead to the cool twist of the Hymenoptera's "General" being Human/Hymenoptera cross-breed Jed Calvert from a parallel universe.
Also we've proved this year that we don't need to stick within the constrains of the Blue Dwarf. We started the year abandoned on a planet inhabited by xenophobic Shellites, hiding in the city and scavenging for food until we hijacked a ship and got back to the Blue Dwarf. Also the Blue Dwarf was towed back to Earth and the crew disbanded, and the Blue Dwarf sent alone into Krylon space.
The story took the crew from finding jobs on new spaceships, to crashing on a Krylon planet, to helping defend the Mollopod homeworld, to attacking a Krylon factory on a volcanic moon, to launching in a holographic ship all before we even got the Blue Dwarf back!
Throughout all these incredibly dramatic storylines, I'm also glad we've kept our sense of humour. I'm thinking especially about the week where toxic gas caused penises to attack everyone!
We've been very creative this year, and I've been very entertained by everyone posts. Keep it up for 2009 guys!
-Onion, GM