Gravity - In Depth

So, this was a little bit of a different sort of chapter, mostly in just the contents. The Betweeners haven't really had any 'adventures in space', and this turned out to be a bit darker than I had originally planned when I had started writing it.

You might get an alien vibe from it, and that's because I watched Prometheus and Covenant within the span of three days (We ordered Prometheus online, and now own a blu-ray of it, and then after watching it, we went to the movies to watch Covenant), and after we did that, I started on this. I didn't really mean to make it based on that, but it sort of happened.

On the other hand, I've been wanting to write something like this for a little bit, based a little off of the Doctor Who episode "Sleep No More" (S09:E09).

Also, I did a split narrative, entirely because my husband/editor never looks at the dates, or even locations of the setting, and since I have the dates/times and things like that, I might as well use them, right?

As for the enemies, the skull-heads, was at least partially inspired by the Vashta Nerada Astronauts in the Doctor Who episode "Silence in the Library" (S04:E08) (Which, come to think about it, also has a split-narrative as well), and Gelatinous Cubes from Dungeons & Dragons (One particularly evil DM of ours had an entire rooms' floor made up of a Gelatinous Cube).

(Vashta Nerada Astronaut - "Silence in the Library")

(Gelatinous Cube - D&D)

If I'm perfectly honest, about halfway through writing it was when I decided that it was going to be an 'unintentional' (It would totally be intentional if he even knew about it) invasion by Shuma Gorath. He may be an Elder God from another dimension, bent on taking over the different multiverses, but that doesn't mean he knows every little weakness. In my mind, he's probably trying to take over several universes at the same time, and with, you know, a Sorcerer Supreme thwarting his actions in every one, he probably puts more effort into some more than others.

And the two at the end, are Kitty Pryde Star Lord, and Krugarr, Sorcerer Supreme. I always try to do things where other characters are doing their own thing, so that it doesn't really seem like the Betweeners are the focal point of that entire universe while they're there, and came up with the idea that Star Lord (Kitty) accidentally went into the future, and Krugarr, being the Sorcerer Supreme of the future, is attempting to help her get back, but in order to do so, they have to go on awesome adventures together for awhile. At least until the writers get bored and give her a deus ex machina to get herself back, or they do something incredibly clever to subvert the laws of time and space. Or they keep writing it until everyone complains about dead horses.

Star-Lord (Kitty) - Star-Lord Vol. 3 Issue 6 ||| Krugarr - Guardians of the Galaxy 1991 Annual

I guess that sort of wraps up this post.

-EDR