Unfettered Brilliance: Walter White Wednesday 109

Wednesday, July 9, 2014

Walter White Wednesday 109

Breaking Bad in 2014?

This post is a day early for the 2014 Emmy nominations, which will be announced tomorrow (July 10). One reason Breaking Bad's final season was split into two parts was to guarantee that the show would be eligible for the Emmy Awards for work produced in both the 2012-2013 and 2013-2014 seasons. We'll see if that's a strategy that pays off in wins (surely in nominations!) As the Los Angeles Times points out here, there's an awful lot of superior TV out there right now and it's possible that voters will go for newer shows over Breaking Bad which broadcast its final episode in September of 2013.

Ensley has posted on his blog about our recent signing at Beers Books in Sacramento and we're ironing out the final details of a live interview with the fine folks of CultureSmash who reviewed Wanna Cook? - check back for the final arrangements shortly!

Also, at the end of July, we'll be appearing close to home to talk Breaking Bad and sign copies of Wanna Cook? for the discerning fan. Look for both of us (and some of the blue!) at the Gastonia location of Books-A-Million on Saturday, July 26 beginning at 5 pm! That's at 3710 E. Franklin Blvd., if you need to find directions. Wanna Cook? is the perfect companion for AMC's binge-broadcast of all five seasons of Breaking Bad which is scheduled to begin on August 10 and here's your chance to make sure you're ready, whether it'll be your first watch or your tenth re-watch!

Of course, Wanna Cook? remains available for purchase through the usual online suspects:

Amazon

Barnes and Noble

Books-A-Million

Powell's

and here in Shelby, you can get your copy over at Got Books!

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Points of Interest

Lurker's Guide - Excellent fan-run resource guide for Babylon 5

Breaking Bad - The official AMC site for news and recaps about the best show on television

Mockingbird's Nest - What I do outside of my day job

Ensley Guffey's Blog - Musings and links worth noticing

Nik At Night's Blog - Most things TV, including the 2011 Rewatch

TV Tropes - What you've seen, over and over and why it matters

Slayage - Whedon given the scholarly treatment

Whedonesque - Clearinghouse of all things Whedon

BuffyWorld - Shooting scripts, screenshots, and more

Who?

K. Dale Koontz may have watched too much television as a child. She learned to count via Sesame Street and first learned that genres could cross-pollinate through M*A*S*H. When she discovered Joss Whedon's Buffy the Vampire Slayer, the die was cast. In 2008, McFarland published her book Faith and Choice in the Work of Joss Whedon which focused on themes such as redemption, choice, and consequences in Whedon's work up to that point. (She's fairly sure Volume 2 could be written to include Dr. Horrible, Dollhouse, and The Avengers.) She is a founding member of the Whedon Studies Association (a great group of people, but don't mention Twilight. Just sayin'). She has presented original work on the Rossum Corporation in Dollhouse, Kitty Pryde, and Japanese anime. In 2014, she and co-author Ensley F. Guffey worked with ECW Press to publish the critically-acclaimed Wanna Cook? The Complete, Unofficial Companion to Breaking Bad. Her most recent project was to team again with Ensley and ECW to publish A Dream Given Form, which is the only guide to all the canonical works in the Babylon 5 universe. That book is currently available for preorder and will be released in September of 2017. Dale is available for speaking engagements and only occasionally uses puppets in her presentations.

What?

I have long been interested in storytelling - how we do it, why we do it, and what happens when we mix things up. This interest might be the result of being born and raised in the American South, a region that has long celebrated the involved story over the quick answer. Television - the good stuff, anyway - does this brilliantly. Far from being film's red-headed tacky cousin, good TV lets characters and relationships build slowly and often mixes up genres, so horror is next door to humor and fantasy rubs shoulders with procedurals. This blog focuses on both the "good stuff" being broadcast that catches my fancy (with a special emphasis on Babylon 5, since that's the book that's in the process of being written right now) as well as film. The films are usually new releases being watched for TV19's weekly Meet Me at the Movies, although I reserve the right to veer off into classics and under-appreciated gems as well. Older posts cover what my introduction to film class was up to - currently, I'm not teaching that course, but who knows what the future may hold.

Notable Whedon Work