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it like his character in Cucumber; the Doctor being married to the Master would be weird; Paterson Joseph auditioned to replace David Tennant, so it won’t be him. Sorry, still got my heart set on Fleabag’s Phoebe Waller-Bridge!
#ARMANDO GOES SCI-FI Paul Hill, email After reading Armando Iannucci’s My Sci-Fi (SFX 287), I couldn’t believe that you let him casually mention working on a new HBO show set on a spaceship, yet failed to find out more. SFX, you’ve lost the news!
SFX This is why you must read every last word of an issue – in case we tuck away a big exclusive in a corner somewhere, just to check you’re paying attention.
#SOME CANDY TALKING Owen Hollifield, email Loved your article about Candyman (SFX 286). When I was 12 it was the first movie that everyone seemed to be talking about, and I became desperate to see it. I ended up walking for miles to find a video store that would rent a horror film like that to me, and it totally blew my mind! I didn’t look in a mirror for weeks afterwards!
SFX I love Candyman too, though whenever I see the name nowadays I think of a drunken friend’s remark – “He should really be called Hooky-hand” – and am reduced to childish giggling.
#AFTERLIFE APPROVAL
Paul Calf, email Thanks for recommending The Good Place in Viewscreen (SFX 285). Whizzed through the first season and can’t believe it hasn’t been picked up by a uK channel, as it’s probably the funniest and most original series in a long time.
The cast and characters are perfect, the set-up is great (the wife said it reminded her, in parts, of Pushing Daisies) and each episode’s cliffhanger meant that you just had to watch the next. As for the final episode… well, fork me, we didn’t see that coming! It’ll be interesting to see where season two goes from there.
I was too embarrassed to ask if that’s Paul’s real name, in case it is and he’s fed up of people asking. Ah… I just made it even worse, didn’t I?
#POLL POSITION
Steven Morrish, email When SFX ran its top 100 sci-fi and fantasy characters of the 21st century back in 2011, no characters from Game Of Thrones or The Walking Dead made the list, though both had premiered. How prominent would they be if the list was made now? I think they’d make up at least 10%, if not more. And I really doubt that Mal Reynolds would be in the top 10, let alone the top spot as he was six years ago!
SFX River Glau’s Sarah Connor Chronicles character placed at 16 too. That’s online polls/ Browncoats for you…! Not convinced re: The Walking Dead. Star Wars could do even better now, though – I’d definitely vote for K-2SO!
#WE ALSO HEARD FROM
Rob Graham, email Thought Legion was excellent – like if David Lynch made a superhero series, and very adult. And I don’t get all the hate for Iron Fist. Yes it’s slow, and the weakest Defenders series, but I still find it intriguing!
Roland Robinson, email I knew nothing about the new Ghost In The Shell film, so I went in fresh. Okay, it’s not a masterpiece, but I liked the story and the execution.
Mollie Barnes, email Is it just me, or did the Walking Dead season finale take forever to come to the boil? Still, I should have expected as much – can’t believe it took 16 episodes to build up to a conflict that barely started properly.
SFX Shall we all make a pact to start watching The Walking Dead on 4x fast-forward?