This is long and mostly unscripted. But it's what we're like in our RR meeting. Go to Youtube for working timestamps/chapters/comments: https://youtu.be/DMPIJmnnGSo


00:00 How we all ended up being within walking distance from each other, completely by accident.
11:19 Why is there very little real romance in Western audience movies, shows, and games, when it sells SO many books?
13:30 Sylvia's answer, pt 1 "you can't find guy actors both hot AND emotionally intelligent enough"
16:50 Raythe hates how the 50 Shades actors were too cool for romance and made fun of the author and material!
20:00 Not only is it hard to find a male lead, but they don't make actors feel cool for being a romantic lead bc it's "unserious shlock"
20:50 Kat thinks it's hard to translate a purely emotional plot to a screen, there aren't any bombs or shooting to keep a goldfish audience's attention. Non-US audiences are different.
21:50 Kdramas and non-Western audiences are different
23:00 Sylvia talks about Turkic romances and non-sanitized romance! (we go WTF is that)
26:55 But Bridgerton!
27:26 Straight men probably have trouble producing this material, they have disdain for it. You have to love the material to create something good.
28:38 Kat: But men haven't been "allowed" to express emotions like being a romantic. So... how will they open themselves up by championing a whole film? People as open about romance as Edward are rare.
29:55 Sylvia says, male romance authors are becoming more common.
31:00 Why is wanting to be James Bond any less "babyish" than wanting to be a fairy tale romantic prince?

Next time, we talk about DARK FANTASIES, and enjoying reading something that you're not "supposed to" like...