Rants & Raves DARREN SCOTT EDITOR TARA BENNETT US EDITOR

Inside the SFX hive mind

2022-05-18 -

RAVES

→ Star Trek: The Motion Picture – The Director’s Edition was like watching a whole new movie. I loved it.

→ Star Trek: Strange New Worlds is great fun as well.

→ Had a sneak peek at Lightyear and it looks so much more sci-fi than I was expecting.

→ Doctor Strange is great – a Marvel horror movie with the best villain the series has ever had. Spoilers!

RANTS

→ So many new shows, so many embargoes!

IAN BERRIMAN DEPUTY EDITOR RAVES

→ Delighted that the brilliant Severance has been greenlit for a second season. It takes some of the sting out of Netflix axing Archive 81.

→ Looking forward to Titan’s book on the Peter Cushing Doctor Who movies (due in September – see bit.ly/whofilmsbook).

→ We need an entire season of TNG: The Animated Series (see bit.ly/animatedtng). Someone make it so!

→ Penguin Classics’ swanky new Marvel Collection hardbacks are going straight on my Amazon wishlist. Ooh, gold-foil stamping.

JONATHAN COATES ART EDITOR RANTS

→ Outer Range has me hooked. A very slow burn, but just the right side of weird. Great soundtrack too!

→ Another enjoyable series of Inside No. 9 so far. “Mr King” was particularly hilarious/ terrifying. Surprised that they’ve not done more folk horror episodes, actually.

ED RICKETTS PRODUCTION EDITOR RAVES

→ Very pleased to hear that David Lynch would be interested in doing a director’s cut of the 1984 Dune – not least because it might be the last film-related thing we see from him.

RANTS

→ I’m a big fan of Sharon Horgan so it’s a shame that her co-creation Shining Vale turned out to be so poor. Too many cooks, maybe?

NICK SETCHFIELD EDITOR-AT-LARGE RIP

→ Sad to hear of the passing of Dave Bath from Cardiff Fantasy Centre – or Pete ‘n’ Dave’s, as I always knew it. My first comic shop, and such great memories of Saturday morning expeditions to get my Marvel and DC fix.

RANTS

→ Ended up underwhelmed by Star Trek: Picard season two. Too much wheel-spinning!

RAVES

→ It’s rare that a book adaptation is better than the book, but Silka Luisa’s upgrades to Lauren Beukes’s book for the Apple TV+ streaming series Shining Girls make it a fantastic watch.