Gennifer Hutchison Puns

On this week's episode of How I Write, Gennifer Hutchison (Breaking Bad) joins our host, Al Horner, and reveals how deadlines unlock her creativity, why the trick to first drafts is to let your characters “speak the subtext” of each scene and how you block out the noise when you’re writing a show that’s five seasons deep and hurtling towards a conclusion that millions of viewers are all deeply invested in.

"The types of stories I love to write tend to be stories about normal people in really extraordinary situations… I like things that are kind of totally weird or different," she says in the episode.

How I Write features a new screenwriter every Friday. Previous guests include David Gordon Green (Halloween Kills), Misha Green (Lovecraft Country), and Jim Cummings (Thunder Road).

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What an incredible episode.

I was so worried after last week's ep that Kim was going to just throw all her morality out the window and say screw it, that she was just going to break bad because it would be a shocking twist, regardless of the fact that that's not the Kim Wexler we've all come to know and love. I was terrified that the writing was going to take a nosedive because I could not imagine Kim changing so suddenly like that.

But then here comes our girl Gennifer Hutchison and writes one hell of an episode where Kim not only shows her slippin' side, but still holds on to her morality AND STILL STANDS BY JIMMY despite every cutting thing he says to her. How realistic was that fight on the parking garage BTW? Honest, truthful, hurtful, REAL language and emotion that a couple would have.

Gennifer always, always nails it when it comes to the most poignant Jimmy/Kim moments:

• Wiedersehen (2018)
• Piñata (2018)
• Lantern (2017)
• Sunk Costs (2017)
• Bali Ha'i (2016)
• Cobbler (2016)
• Bingo (2015)
• Hero (2015)

And that's not even mentioning how amazing Lalo's scenes were this episode AND the unbelievable tension that we got from the entire German subplot.

I give total props to Vince for his outstanding direction of this ep but I gotta say BRAVO GENNIFER!!!!

...and formerly a writer on Breaking Bad, has a very active Twitter account.

I've got her on my watch list to see if she makes any announcement about her reputed involvement in the project, but some of her latest tweets are quite thought-provoking i.e. particularly in relation to Sauron/Annatar I think.

Yesterday she wrote a Twitter thread on the question of, "How can you apply the idea that people aren't inherently "good" or "bad", but that it's about the choices they make to your writing?

For me, it helps me make my protagonists and antagonists more interesting and layered"

https://twitter.com/GennHutchison/status/1146141475761033216?s=20

https://twitter.com/GennHutchison/status/1146142974906007557?s=20

https://twitter.com/GennHutchison/status/1146143319799414784?s=20

https://twitter.com/GennHutchison/status/1146144378953457664?s=20

Prime Video’s Most Anticipated New Series of 2022 Reveals Its Title

THE LORD OF THE RINGS: THE RINGS OF POWER

>CULVER CITY, California –January 19, 2022– Prime Video’s The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power officially has a name and it hints at what’s to come.
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>The television series’ complete title was unveiled today, and the significance behind the subtitle will not be lost on J.R.R. Tolkien fans, foreshadowing an epic story that welds the major events of Tolkien’s Second Age together: the forging of the iconic rings.
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>The multi-season drama – The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power – will premiere exclusively on Prime Video in more than 240 countries around the world in multiple languages on Friday, September 2, with new episodes available weekly.
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>“This is a title that we imagine could live on the spine of a book next to J.R.R. Tolkien’s other classics. The Rings of Power unites all the major stories of Middle-earth’s Second Age: the forging of the rings, the rise of the Dark Lord Sauron, the epic tale of Númenor, and the Last Alliance of Elves and Men,” said Showrunners J.D. Payne & Patrick McKay. “Until now, audiences have only seen on-screen the story of the One Ring – but before there was one, there were many… and we’re excited to share the epic story of them all.”
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>Just as so many elements of the show itself were hand-crafted, Prime Video chose to physically forge the title in a blacksmith foundry, pouring fiery molten metal into hand-carved wooden ravines shaped to the letterforms. The process was captured in slow motion for a live-action video, which features voice-over narration of lines from Tolkien’s famous “Ring Verse,” describing the intended recipients of the 20 Rings of Power. The bespoke title treatment appears crafted in a silvery metal, with lines of Elvish script inscribed along the crest of each letterform.
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>Lines from Tolkien’s “Ring Verse” featured in the voice-over as part of Prime Video’s announcement today:
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>Three Rings for the Elven-kings under the sky,
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>Seven for the Dwarf-lords in their halls of stone,
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>Nine for Mortal Men doomed to die,
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>One for the Dark Lord on his dark throne
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>In the Land of Mordor where the Shadows lie.
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>About The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power
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>Prime Video’s The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power

File this under "fairly tenuous" at the moment, but a report is floating around that Netflix has put a TV show based on the Dishonored video game series into development.

The news comes from the geek site Giant Freakin Robot, who have a patchy record when it comes to rumours. However, it also comes eighteen months after experienced TV writer Gennifer Hutchison tweeted that she was a huge fan of the video game series and wanted to write a TV show based on the books.

Hutchison has serious credibility, having been a writer on Breaking Bad (for which she won an Emmy, with the rest of the writing staff) and Better Call Saul as well as Amazon's Lord of the Rings prequel series (she also started her career as an assistant on The X-Files). Rumour has it that she's been courted for a showrunner position on several projects in the past but has stayed loyal to Vince Gilligan and the Breaking Bad/Better Call Saul team, but with that franchise wrapping its last season (at least until it was delayed by a medical complaint for star Bob Odenkirk), she appears to be free to take on bigger commitments.

Whether Hutchison is involved in this Netflix project - which may or may not even exist - is unknown, but it'd be a bit odd for a writer of her calibre to not be involved after expressing interest. Also, whilst Dishonored is well-regarded critically, it was not a top-tier, mega-selling video game franchise, and wouldn't be at #1 (or even in the top ten) on the list of video game properties to be turned into a TV show unless a major creative talent wanted to do it.

The Dishonored video game series consists of two mainline entries and three expansions: Dishonored (2012), The Knife of Dunwall (2013), The Brigmore Witches (2013), Dishonored 2 (2016) and Death of the Outsider (2017). Set in a fictional world reminiscent of 18th/19th Century Europe, fusing sorcery and steampunk, the story in the games beings with the assassination of the ruler of the Empire of the Isles. Her bodyguard Corvo is framed for the murder by the new Lord Regent, who embarks on a reign of terror whilst keeping the Empress's daughter, Emily, and heir out of sight. Aided by a group of government and military insiders who want to restore Emily to the throne, Corvo breaks out of Coldwine Prison and embarks on a series of d

I don't want to step on anybody's toes here, but the amount of non-dad jokes here in this subreddit really annoys me. First of all, dad jokes CAN be NSFW, it clearly says so in the sub rules. Secondly, it doesn't automatically make it a dad joke if it's from a conversation between you and your child. Most importantly, the jokes that your CHILDREN tell YOU are not dad jokes. The point of a dad joke is that it's so cheesy only a dad who's trying to be funny would make such a joke. That's it. They are stupid plays on words, lame puns and so on. There has to be a clever pun or wordplay for it to be considered a dad joke.

Again, to all the fellow dads, I apologise if I'm sounding too harsh. But I just needed to get it off my chest.

Do your worst!

I'm surprised it hasn't decade.

For context I'm a Refuse Driver (Garbage man) & today I was on food waste. After I'd tipped I was checking the wagon for any defects when I spotted a lone pea balanced on the lifts.

I said "hey look, an escaPEA"

No one near me but it didn't half make me laugh for a good hour or so!

Edit: I can't believe how much this has blown up. Thank you everyone I've had a blast reading through the replies 😂

It really does, I swear!

Because she wanted to see the task manager.

Heard they've been doing some shady business.

BamBOO!

They’re on standbi

Pilot on me!!

Christopher Walken

Nothing, he was gladiator.

Or would that be too forward thinking?

Dad jokes are supposed to be jokes you can tell a kid and they will understand it and find it funny.

This sub is mostly just NSFW puns now.

If it needs a NSFW tag it's not a dad joke. There should just be a NSFW puns subreddit for that.

Edit* I'm not replying any longer and turning off notifications but to all those that say "no one cares", there sure are a lot of you arguing about it. Maybe I'm wrong but you people don't need to be rude about it. If you really don't care, don't comment.

but then I remembered it was ground this morning.

Edit: Thank you guys for the awards, they're much nicer than the cardboard sleeve I've been using and reassures me my jokes aren't stale

Edit 2: I have already been made aware that Men In Black 3 has told a version of this joke before. If the joke is not new to you, please enjoy any of the single origin puns in the comments

What did 0 say to 8 ?

" Nice Belt "

So What did 3 say to 8 ?

" Hey, you two stop making out "

When I got home, they were still there.

I won't be doing that today!