The Inside Skinny
What your SFX chums are thinking about...
Richard Edwards Editor RAVES One Sherwood Forestshaped misstep aside, I’m really enjoying the new series. Great to have Who being unpredictable again. Is Bojack Horseman SFX territory? A world where humanoid animals walk among us is certainly fantastical, so I’m going to say yes – and I loved it. Weird, very funny and surprisingly well crafted characters. Alex Cox Operations Editor HELLO I’m new – why not look at me as the delicious time- placenta left after The Editor’s troubling regeneration process? I’ll be the guy that makes the words fit proper and read dead good, and the one that waves a squidgy fist at the team to ensure that SFX goes to the printers on time. I like long walks on the beach, wrestling, and Magic: The Gathering. But not at the same time. Jordan Farley Community Editor Raves JJ’s Falcon video made me stupidly excited. The new US TV season is upon us! How did I make it through the summer without a weekly Winchester fix? Rants Happy that the Deadpool movie finally has a greenlight. But if the rumours are true and it’s a PG- 13, what’s the point? Jon Coates Art Editor RAVES Still thoroughly enjoying the current series of Who. Don’t get why Peter C has polarised fan opinion, I think he’s great! Also, The Teller – what a cool looking monster! RANTS Thought Guardians was a bit meh. Wanted to love it but it was so overhyped it didn’t have a hope of living up to my expectations.
Joseph McCabe US West Editor Raves Flash’s Grant Gustin as Barry Allen is the best superhero casting since RDJ as Iron Man. The show also has Ronnie “Firestorm” Raymond, while Arrow offers Ray “The Atom” Palmer. That’s a big chunk of the Justice League on TV! RANTS If Warner really has demanded no jokes in DC movies, it has a lot to learn from Marvel/ Disney. Rhian Drinkwater Freelance writer Raves My son’s birthday is a great excuse to fill the house with even more Lego and Star Wars toys. Now, can we really justify the three- foot high Darth Vader…? RANTS Still can’t get over the BBC moving Who to such a late time slot. It’s supposed to be a family show! Nick Setchfield Features Editor RAVES Check out Steven Soderbergh’s wonderful monochromification of Raiders Of The Lost Ark. It’s given me a whole new appreciation of my all time favourite film: http://bit.ly/RLRBnW Matthew Parker’s evocative Ian Fleming bio Goldeneye makes me want to decamp to Jamaica with a rakish cigarette holder and a gold typewriter. Viable career choice? Ian Berriman Home Entertainment Editor RAVES It’s taken a while, as you’ll know if you read last month’s View Screen, but I’m gradually warming to Capaldi’s Doctor. Current reading: new book The Making Of George A Romero’s Day Of The Dead. The BFI’s nationwide sci- fi season Days Of Fear And Wonder has some really good events: www. bfi. org. uk/ sci- fi- days- fear- wonder Dave Bradley Group Ed- in- Chief RAVES I’m firmly in the “Peter Capaldi is great” camp. I’ve thoroughly enjoyed this series so far. Got a chance to meet the cast of The Hobbit last month and am now dead excited for The Battle Of The Five Armies. Had a fantastic time at Fighting Fantasy Fest – brought back great memories of my youth reading gamebooks. Still my favourite? Steve Jackson’s House Of Hell. Adrian Hill Ad Manager Rants I’ve been a Doctor Who fan all my life. When he regenerates it always creates a few ripples in the community. It soon dies down, and we all grow to love the new timelord every, er, time. This regeneration feels different. I hate to admit it, but as good as Peter Capaldi is as an actor, his take on the Doctor just isn’t falling into place for me. I hope he proves me wrong, I really do. Stephen Kelly Freelance writer RAVES Capaldi has been a weekly thrill. Like a furious Blackadder, he’s taken Doctor Who in exactly the direction I wanted it to go. RANTS Still no news of In The Flesh’s fate after the axing of BBC Three. If it turns out that the BBC have saved Russell Howard’s Good News and not this, there will be hoards at their door.
Andrea Ball Freelance productioner RAVES I know I’m late to the ( Halloween) party, but American Horror Story: Murder House is giving me nightmares – and that’s just the credits. Talking of scary, how good was “Listen”? A now less mumbly Capaldi reminds a new generation of the horrors that might or might not be lurking under the bed. I’d only just recovered from Luther…