Does Every Book Need An On-Screen Adaptation?

A comfort read is supposed to calm you down, not take over your entire brain, yet that is exactly what happens when the right characters sink their hooks in. We start with reading slumps and the question that always gets personal fast: what makes a book worth rereading when there are thousands of new releases screaming for attention?

From there, we get specific about the kind of romance novels that become “automatic returns,” including Emily Rath’s Jacksonville Rays world and the hype problem that BookTok can create. We talk about managing expectations, why a long and spicy hockey romance can still feel emotionally satisfying, and how bonus scenes and side stories keep a fandom fed while also keeping us impatient.

Then we pivot into book to screen adaptations, because nothing sparks a stronger opinion than watching a favorite story get trimmed for time. We unpack what movies and TV series can and cannot carry, why Harry Potter fans still mourn missing subplots, and why the new reboot raises both curiosity and discomfort. Along the way we vent about remake culture, dig into Outlander’s biggest liberties, and ask the question that sits underneath all of it: do we actually need our books turned into shows, or do we just want to feel the story again?

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Transcript

Cold Open And Quick Catch-Up

Emma 0:01

Welcome to the Wrecked by Fiction podcast.

SPEAKER_01 0:06

Yes, it is.

Emma 0:07

Did I read it on my lunch break?

SPEAKER_01 0:08

Yeah. I made I made notes because I didn't know there was gonna be a quiz.

Emma 0:13

Hey, everything's for a great while I was watching a movie with my six-year-old. Yeah. I didn't know I could be both right and so fucking wrong. Wrecked by fiction, where we read, cry, and question our emotional stability.

SPEAKER_01 0:31

Hey. Hi. How goes it?

Emma 0:35

It goes. It does, whether you like it or not, I suppose.

SPEAKER_01 0:41

Yup.

Emma 0:42

Oh man. How are you Ben? Trucking along. Yeah. Not to quote Gray's Anatomy or anything, but the carousel never stops turning. So fucking true. Just gotta keep moving along. Yep. But happy Mother's Day. Thanks. Same to you. Thank you.

Amanda 1:08

It's been a day. It's crazy. It's been alright. Oh my god. We're making it.

Emma 1:17

One of the things, one of the things we talk about on here a lot is like comfort reads. Yeah. And our different version of those things. And the last time we sat down and talked, I said, whoop. I said that I was probably going to reread something because I was in like a slump and I needed to read something that I knew was going to be good and not like hope that something was going to be good. And then you turned around and read an Omega verse. Two, actually. Um I did reread the Queen herself, Dr. Emily Wrath, though. I did reread Pucking Around. Um I have read the that series in its entirety three times in the last two years.

Amanda 2:06

Can I just say I love that you rolled your eyes at yourself? Yeah.

Emma 2:10

I three times the last two years. So I actually convinced Excuse you, you just made my microphone hit me in the face. We really gotta level the table. I was just, I was just three legs are on the back and then one leg. One is on the wood. Yeah.

Emily Rath And The Hype Trap

Emma 2:32

Um but so I had been staying away from the Jacksonville Rays series by Emily Rath. Um because we're all familiar now. I don't love to the hype of certain series. Yes. Um I try to stay, I try is the uh operative word. Yeah, operative word there. Um because when, especially like BookTalk gets a hold of something that is at least hopefully genuinely good, um, they can like run with it really hard, and then it doesn't live up to the hype all of the recommendations that you've seen, right?

SPEAKER_03 3:15

Yep.

Emma 3:15

Well, so I knew how spicy that series was. Um, but I thought that I wasn't gonna like it because of all of the hype.

Amanda 3:30

Yeah.

Emma 3:32

And it was not my first Emily Wrath read. Um, actually, that might be a lie. I we'll have to double check that. But I read it because I was like, oh, it's 700 pages of hockey smut.

Amanda 3:50

Yeah.

Emma 3:50

Um who doesn't want that? I do. Straight to the dome. And I but I had been avoiding it, and there was, I don't even remember two years ago I picked it up the first time, and I was like, oh, you know, lower your expectations going in, you know, try to keep myself from getting too excited about it. But goddamn, I inhaled that book. And then the next one, and then the next one. And then when so when I first read it, um I believe the first three books had been released, and then there are she right, so she traditionally publishes that series. Um I'd have to double check. I believe it's Berkeley, but that could also be a lie. Um so she traditionally publishes that series. However, she independently publishes um like mini stories that fall, they're like uh scenes or side quests, essentially, okay, from each book that builds on what you just read. Okay. So pucking around, and then there was a volume one of these like five or six side stories, and then traditionally published, um, and then which I believe was Pucking Sweet, I think came next. Um, and then another volume two of her little side stories. So she keeps saying volume three of the side stories comes, is coming whenever it still hasn't come out. There are now rude.

SPEAKER_03 5:31

Yeah.

Emma 5:32

There are now uh we're waiting on number five in the traditionally published series. And we still haven't gotten the extras from the other books. What a tease. But oh my god. I so I read it all in one go. All everything that was released, I read it. And then last summer I reread the whole series because I convinced my high school friend's book club um to read the first book. And then I couldn't stop. So I we read the first book as the book club choice. Right. And then I just read the rest of them again. And then last November, again, dates are hard. Um the last, the most recent release came out. And I've talked about that release before on the pod because it was uh when the audiobook came out, there was a really weird accent. Do you remember me bringing up? Yeah. So um I read that, and then I was like, this time I was like, I'm just gonna read the first book because I have other things that I literally have to read. Lies. Um, so I read the first book, and there's just something that group of people, um, those characters are probably some of my favorite characters ever written. And I don't know how to move on from them. I don't think I ever will. I don't have any of those books, like physical copies, and that will be uh, you know, something that I I want them so bad.

Amanda 7:13

Hang on while I make a note on how to surprise Emma finally with a book.

Emma 7:19

I want them so bad. They're on my uh actually they're on my Amazon wish list because I desperately want them.

Amanda 7:28

Yeah.

Emma 7:28

Yeah, so I I reread Dr. Emily Wrath because she just is so good. And I realized that there really is like a very specific handful of things that I will reread as like my comfort. I can read a book that I literally I think is so incredible, I'll never come back to it.

Amanda 7:52

Yeah.

Emma 7:52

So I don't really know what the like categories are that make me come back to read a book again.

Amanda 7:59

I don't read fast enough to go read a book again. I can't keep up with just reading. Well, what to go back and read a book I've already read. Have you ever reread a book? I have reread parts of books that I have started and couldn't remember that I started them and then finished them finally, but no, I don't think that I've ever gone back and read a book that I have already read. That's not comfort to me. Uh to me, it's going and reading something that's just lighthearted and silly and goofy or whatever.

Emma 8:31

Yeah.

Amanda 8:31

So it doesn't necessarily need to be something that I have already read.

Emma 8:37

Yeah, no. Well, and that's like why I am always surprised when I see people like going through their bookshelves and like donating. Like, oh, I'm done with this. And I'm like, done with it.

unknown 8:50

What do you mean?

Emma 8:51

What are you what are you talking about? Yeah. No, because um, I even rearranged my shelf the other day to add some things onto it, and uh one of my kids was like, Have you read all of these? And I'm like, like 90% of them. And they're like, why do you keep them? I'm like, bec because I'm not a library. I'm not returning them when I'm done with them. Like, I want them. That's why I own them. Right.

Amanda 9:22

So I take that back. I may have reread Eat Pray Love now that

Rereading Versus Reading For Comfort

Amanda 9:28

I think about it.

Emma 9:28

I know what I know what that is, but I have never read it, obviously.

Amanda 9:31

No? No. It's actually really good.

Emma 9:34

Yeah? Yeah. Wasn't Julia Roberts the movie? Yes. Okay, that's what I thought.

Amanda 9:39

And the mov that is on topic and talk about on topic. Yeah. That movie actually was really good and followed the book well.

Emma 9:48

So I always think that the like creative liberties they take when they turn things into movies can either be done beautifully or just like horribly unnecessary. Right. Yeah. Well, like, and one of the things that people talk about all the time is when they take a book series and turn one book, you know, into a movie. Right. Um, and that's not happening as often now.

What Adaptations Leave Out

Emma 10:17

There a lot of TV shows are happening out of uh book series, but I mean, the best example of that is like Harry Potter, where when you take, let's just say, the Philosopher's Stone, and you get one book or one book and one movie, but there are so many things that are missing. Yes. That I'm like, all of these little side stories and character development that you don't get to have. And I just that's so frustrating to me.

SPEAKER_01 10:51

Right.

Emma 10:51

Because so like Corey read that read the entire Harry Potter series last year for the first time.

Amanda 10:58

Oh gosh, okay.

Emma 10:59

Um, and I remember him saying, like asking me questions about why certain things weren't included. Yeah.

Amanda 11:08

Yeah.

Emma 11:09

And I'm like, I couldn't tell you, but it is very frustrating.

Amanda 11:12

Yeah. My thing with Harry Potter in specific is there was a lot of like the magical elements or how certain spells worked that weren't included, and I was like, oh, they probably couldn't CGI that. Where now, maybe technologically wise, they could have, but back then they couldn't figure out how to make it versus 20 years ago almost.

Emma 11:38

Yeah. I could see that. There was one storyline in the books that I loved that was not included in the movies, which is the nearly headless Nick storyline. Yeah. Where it goes through his entire like why he is nearly headless Nick, yeah. And his uh his death day party and like all of that. Yeah. And I hated that they didn't include, which is such like a small it's so minuscule, like in the grand scheme of Harry Potter, but but still Yeah, he was included in the movies, so why not include his story? His story.

Amanda 12:16

I thought that was I do think that there is so much in Harry Potter that there's no way that they could have included.

Emma 12:23

Yeah, they really had to do you think that the new TV series well, number one, will you watch it?

unknown 12:32

I don't know.

Emma 12:33

And number two, do you think they will n include more? Do you think that they'll do a better job at including more of like the book elements?

Amanda 12:43

Right. I don't know. I am torn on it. Because I mean, we've talked about JK already, but just because of the controversy around her, I want to mostly because I want to see if it's something that my daughter would enjoy because she's also into Harry Potter. And I'm not gonna lie, I'm a little tired of some of the shows that we've been watching on repeat. So it would be nice to toss something else in there. Um, but I don't know yet. I haven't. I'm very torn on it. I don't know. Because there's the curiosity part of me of like, is it is it good?

SPEAKER_03 13:21

Yeah.

Amanda 13:21

But then there's the part of me that's like, I don't know that I can support it. So yeah. I don't know. Are you guys gonna watch it?

Emma 13:28

I don't know. We haven't. I did I did not watch the teaser. Um, the only pieces of the teaser that I have seen have been like on TikTok, right? So other people have posted, but I have not gone to HBO and watched the actual teaser. So I don't know. There is a pretty solid chance we'll watch it, but I want to say that like I am like conscious of what that means, right? You know? Yeah. So I don't know. I think that there are so many books that are being made into TV adaptations right now that maybe I just let it go and I live in my past Harry Potter, you know, experiences and not bring this next generation of Harry Potter into my life. Yeah. So I don't know. I think that there's so many. This is a conversation we have around my house all the time.

Remakes Fatigue And Outlander Choices

Emma 14:29

Stop remaking things that already exist.

Amanda 14:34

Amen.

Emma 14:35

Give me something new. Agreed. I don't need another Harry Potter. No. I had Harry Potter. Yeah. I don't need, and we don't watch them anyway, but this is the first thing that comes to mind. Another Fast and the Furious movie.

Amanda 14:50

Right? I don't need another Lion King. Yeah. Another, yeah. That's my thing, is like all of the movies that were already made, and they're they're not doing like the next vert, like it's not Lion King 2. It's we're remaking the Lion King, which has already been done. Like, why? Why are we redoing a movie that's already been can we not come up with other stories to tell? Because just or even the future of it. Can we go past it?

Emma 15:18

And well, and I think we discussed this when we first talked about it might have even been the first episode. Um you talked about uh the We're the Crocks thing, and I asked if it had been a movie before. And I can't remember. And because I I think it might have been. Um, but that that's happening all the time, and it's not just like the cartoons are being redone or they're being made into real people movies or whatever, right? But we're seeing so many movies that are being redone now. Um, and I'm like, why? The one from the 60s is perfectly good. Right.

Amanda 16:06

It was not 2018 best-selling novel, and the film came out in 2022.

Emma 16:11

Okay, so it was the first. Yes.

Amanda 16:13

But I I don't know why I did think that there wasn't, I don't know, previous version.

Emma 16:18

Interesting. Well, I think that that and like so like around the holidays and stuff, we watch a lot of Christmas movies that we watch that are like the replay every year ones, um, is like white Christmas and like movies, old movies, and I just I have no desire. If they remade white Christmas, I might cry. Yeah, I wouldn't watch it. Like what you know what I mean? Why are we redoing things that already exist? Right. Maybe a remastered sure. The re but not add, like, you know, make sure the color grading is up to date and all of that stuff. But I just think, well, and that we're not talking about this specifically, but like one of the things White Christmas is so controversial because of how small that actress was and how petite she was, and it was something that she lived with and she struggled with her entire life, people making fun, and like as an actress, there was so much heat on her because of her size. Right. And I just know that they it wouldn't be the same if they were to redo those that specific movie, it would never I don't I don't think it wouldn't live up to what it has become now. And it's like uh, you know, God forbid they remade Rocky Horror.

Amanda 17:44

Yeah.

Emma 17:44

No. Which which they kind of have done in bits and pieces, you know. There are like children of the corn. Right. There are so many things, and it oh I don't need another Friday the 13th movie. No, I don't need another Freddy Krueger, I don't need another, you know, I Scream for the love of God. I love Scream. I re-watch like the first three Screams every Halloween. Yeah, it is probably one of my favorite, like scary, because it's not scary, scary movies. Right. But I don't need that.

Amanda 18:23

Scary movies just make me laugh.

Emma 18:25

Well, that's because you're dead inside. I have a hat that says that says dead inside.

Amanda 18:32

Maybe maybe I need one.

Emma 18:34

I got it at Spirit Halloween, I think. A couple years ago. Um but like, yeah, the the constant, like just let let let it die.

Amanda 18:45

Yeah.

Emma 18:45

Let it die.

unknown 18:46

Yeah.

Amanda 18:47

It's okay to end something and come up with something new.

Emma 18:50

Right. Season 57 of Gray's Anatomy coming to you 2027. Right.

Amanda 18:55

Also says the person who has read a series of books that's over 30 books long.

Emma 19:00

Right. Which you specifically have said when I have asked why are you still reading that? And you're like, because I have to keep going.

Amanda 19:09

Because I'm invested in these characters.

Emma 19:11

What if something happens now and I miss it? Right. Yeah. I don't know. I mean, so Outlander is one of those things that have been made into a TV show versus um a movie.

Amanda 19:26

Yeah.

Emma 19:27

And I while I am grateful that it is a TV show and not movies, um, they the further into the TV series they have gotten, the more liberties they have taken.

Amanda 19:43

Oh, see, that's frustrating.

Emma 19:44

Um, and so it is further and further away from the actual series. Um, however, Miss Diana, she kind of like writes books um like giant puzzles.

Amanda 20:01

Okay.

Emma 20:02

So in the middle of writing Outlander, she was also writing a side characters series.

SPEAKER_01 20:10

Okay.

Emma 20:11

Um, which is Lord John. And again, you don't know any of this, but like um so she was also writing John's books. Um, and so in the C T V series, they have interwoven like timelines of the way that like the books come out, and then they like insert information from one of John's books into whereas in the original series of Outlander books, they those characters don't have that information because it's from John's book. Do you know what I mean? Yeah. Um, and I this is a hill I will die on. A one of the, you know, they they used their artistic license, um, and they didn't kill a character when he should have died in the books. So in the books, he died. Right. And in the show, he didn't. They kept him alive. And I will I will die on this hill that it was the wrong thing to do.

Amanda 21:14

Yeah.

Emma 21:14

That's um his death in the books, like, wrecked me. So your main characters in Outlander, you have Jamie Fraser, you have Claire Beacham, Fraser, and then um, you have like the uh you have Captain Jack Randall, and then Jamie's right-hand man, his name is Murtaugh.

Amanda 21:38

Okay.

Emma 21:39

And in so your antagonist is Captain Jack Randall, right? And you go through the whole first season in the show, and they uh leave Scotland um and to get away from everything that has happened to them. All of the awful shit that I have told you that.

Amanda 22:00

They did in the We could have a whole episode on Outlander and I've never even seen it.

Emma 22:08

No nobody needs four episodes of rape. No. You don't need it. No. You don't. And they cut it is, it's not like that's not an artistic license. It's it is taken from the book. She did write it that way. However, the continuation of bringing it back up and how long they drug it out in the show is wholly unnecessary.

Amanda 22:37

See, that's wild to me.

Emma 22:39

And in the books, um, I'd have to double check, but I believe it is um book three. Um Murtaugh dies. Um he is uh Jamie finds him dead on the battlefield um at the Battle of Clauden, and he gets to say goodbye. Like he's like in you know, his last breath, they are right experiencing this together. Yeah. Jamie is alive, Murtaugh is obviously about to cash out, and he he that's where he dies. And in the show, he leaves, uh, he goes to Paris with them, they all come back. So the Battle of Claudon chronologically is after they come back from Paris. And so they do all of this, they come back, they go to the battle. Murtough survives in the show. Um, they travel and everything happens, everything goes on. Um he is still alive, he ends up having a relationship with Jamie's aunt, like in the show. Like they've created a life for him that didn't exist. What on earth? And he does end up dying, like they do kill him off. Uh-huh. But like many episodes later? Oh, seasons later, yeah. Oh my gosh. Yeah. I don't I I do not un Yes, it was sad. The way he died, sure.

Amanda 24:08

Alright. We need the writers and the producers for the show to give us a call. I need answers. Why did those questions answered?

Emma 24:15

Why did they do that? I don't get it. That's so weird. Why create a life for a character that didn't exist when the author wrote it?

Amanda 24:24

Right. I'm curious how authors feel about stuff like that too.

Emma 24:28

I think that's a good question because you know that they're a part of right the producing piece. You know, they're credited as obviously the authors of the books, but also as producers for these shows. I would be interested to hear what they think when they change things.

Amanda 24:45

Yeah. Or how involved are they with those changes? Sure.

Emma 24:49

Yeah.

Amanda 24:50

Is that something that they were like, oh man, I almost wrote the book this way, so what if we do the show, you know, okay, yeah.

Emma 24:57

But yeah, I could see that because I that bothered me forever. Like, obviously, it still bothers me. And I read those books a long time ago. Yeah. Um, and started and obviously the show is now eight seasons in. Like, it's been going. Um but yeah, I do think that there is something to say about number one, the difference between creating a movie versus creating a TV show.

Amanda 25:26

Yeah.

Emma 25:27

Um and then also the changes that they make. Why do they, you know, why do they how do they choose what to change? Like and romance movies are the book world is being created now into movies and TV shows at like a super rapid race. Every author you know of who's blowing up right now is also announcing movies. A movie or a TV show. Yeah. They're like, oh, my whatever was picked up and is gonna be an HBO or an Amazon or uh whatever it is.

Amanda 26:00

I think it's because there's so many different platforms. You don't have just cable and movie channels, right? Yeah. We have all the different streaming platforms, and most of them have their own movie productions and all of that now.

Emma 26:11

So well, and it's like we get teasers of constantly of people saying, Oh, Sarah J Moss is getting a movie deal. Yeah. That's not con none of that's confirmed. Right. Um the romance reading community has just exploded with, you know, different forms of content and ways to consume

Do Books Even Need Screen Versions

Emma 26:36

those.

Amanda 26:36

Are there any books that you wish were a movie or a series?

Emma 26:41

I kind of firmly live in the camp that I don't need things to be turned in into. I don't. Um not even an Omega verse? What the fuck would that look like? Okay, so let's talk about the maybe there is a book that you need. No, you're the one who wants an anatomical drawing of how all of those things fit together. I'm gonna draw you a picture. Okay. And no, because I just read, so I just read

OmegaVerse Anatomy Goes Off-Rails

Emma 27:13

two. Yeah. Um, I read one that was the M preg, which was the first is the first M preg I had ever read. You'll have to tell me which one it was. Oh my god. It's called Broken Alpha.

SPEAKER_01 27:25

Okay.

Emma 27:26

Um, and I couldn't tell you the title, I'd have to get my Kindle. But it was solid. Yeah. Um, it was an accidental pregnancy, which I love. Of course. Um, but at the same time, accidental pregnancy meets uh Alpha goes into you're not gonna understand any of these words. I'm gonna say it anyway. Alpha goes into Rut during the Omega's heat and forces a bond like non-consensually. That that's a lot. Yeah, a lot of words that maybe you don't understand. But I put it together. I Yeah, I get it. He he bites the back of the Omega's neck while in rut and in heat, and Omega basically is mindless and has no idea what's going on. Right. Right. And so there was no way for consent to take place. And then the Omega takes place or wakes up from heat and realizes number one, I'm pregnant because their scent changes, whatever. Right. Um, and then number two, uh, there's a bite on my body uh that wasn't there before heat started. And so in this version of the Omega verse, a bite has to be returned for it to form the official bond.

Amanda 28:45

Gotcha.

Emma 28:46

So an omega can reject it by not biting back the alpha. Okay. Um, which I have seen in other Omega verse stories, that's not the case. Um forced bonds happen all the time. Yeah. And so that was very interesting. Um he he did get pregnant and he did keep it, and he did have a baby, and I there's no explanation of they literally they call it a womb. Okay. They like um they they they don't give an anatomical like Of course not they have an entrance. Okay, but there's only one. There's no like additional entrance. So like the way they're having sex is also the way to their womb. Okay. So I have questions about how we how we go to the bathroom. Uh yeah. Is there like a like what's like like a chicken?

Amanda 29:46

Uh like they only have one?

Emma 29:50

Good question. So so yes, so it what it was it was called a womb, um, but it is the same entrance that is used when having sex on a male. And so maybe we only have one, maybe we have a uh a flap that opens and closes and like changes direction like trains, or this is why we need the anatomical drawings to go with this. Um I did read an Ampreg. Um, it was not as informative as I probably would have hoped. I do have questions. We have lots of research. Maybe I need to read more of them. Um, but it was good. Bummer. Um, but then on the same avenue as I read another Omega Verse uh that was just released, and I had read every other book in the series, so I was like, I don't have anything else to read, so I'm gonna read. Um it was good. Ooh, I don't know what what happened to my voice there for a second. Um it was good, it was it was really good. I uh that series is like uh it's like Omega verse, but it's also slightly like mystery vibe.

Amanda 30:57

Okay.

Emma 30:58

Um, where they're like solving a problem um every book. And uh but the reason I bring it up is your anatomical uh questioning. Um there for the first time ever, I have read my fair share of Omega Verse. Yeah. There was an alpha with a double knot. Okay. So basically regular knot, right? And that's at the base. Um it was above the first one. Okay. And so the first one would swell. Okay. And then the second one would swell. Okay. After they're all locked in place, the second one starts to swell. And the alpha in question called it um a snap orgasm or something, and there were lots of questions in the books. She was like, uh, what are you talking about? What does that mean? Did you just made that up?

SPEAKER_01 31:57

Right.

Emma 31:58

Um, because she was like, Why are you so big? That's an actual quote. Um and he says, Oh, you didn't notice when you were looking at me? And she was like, I was a little distracted, I think. Right. Um, no, I didn't notice the second knot. And basically, when the second one inflates, it creates like a um like multiple firing orgasm over and over and over again. Okay. Or so says this book. Okay. Very interesting.

SPEAKER_03 32:30

That is interesting.

Emma 32:32

And it was even more interesting when they had group sex, and um, there was another male locked in to one of her spots, and then the double knot was locked into the other spot, and then creates the snap climaxes, and then the other guy is like, what the fuck is happening right now? And he's so confused.

Amanda 32:56

This is why they couldn't put those on TV. Yes.

Emma 33:00

They could not. No, it would just be porn. Yep, pretty much. That's why you have um in your do you ever get fed those? We gotta end this episode.

unknown 33:11

Jesus Christ.

Emma 33:14

Do you ever get fed those um shorts on like Facebook or not, you don't use Facebook, um, or TikTok or Instagram where it's the stories. It's like soap operas, but they're like little shorts.

Amanda 33:28

No, we have such different algorithms from they come across um as like ads.

Emma 33:35

So they're basically like they're algorithm-based ads, but they'll if you click on them, they'll take you to an alternate um website or something. Gotcha. But it will play through, and it's like the cheat like cheesiest fucking actors.

SPEAKER_01 33:52

Okay.

Emma 33:53

Um, acting out these built stories of that are essentially like romance books. But yeah. Um so that's why they can't put them into movies. There's no megaverse movies. No megaverse movies. Dang. Uh, because it's just group sex. You can't you can't make a regular PG-13 movie with group sex. I don't know. Wasn't there full frontal or side nudity in like Sex in the City movie? Did you ever see that movie? I don't remember. I'm pretty sure there was a penis in that.

Amanda 34:30

There's I mean, there's lots of shows and stuff that well, granted, I guess most of those are on streaming services, so not really like Yeah, it's not cable, but Sex in the City was Sex in the City Cable. Yeah.

Emma 34:42

And you there you got lots of nudity. And uh the L-word is cable. Well, I don't know if the L word is cable anymore, but it was before it was originally pulled from the and there's so much nudity on that show. Right. So like it's not like nudity doesn't exist, but I think like actual penetrative sex, you can't like film the action. Right. You can film the idea the alluding to of the action, but well, this conversation took a turn. Um so well that has been uh fun.

Why We Still Choose Reading

Amanda 35:22

Um any other books that you would like to see made into a movie show.

Emma 35:32

No, I I I do. I firmly sit in the camp where I don't need my books to be made into shows.

Amanda 35:39

Yeah.

Emma 35:39

I'm good with it. I like to read. I actually prefer to read overwatch TV.

Amanda 35:44

I get that.

Emma 35:45

I don't watch TV.

Amanda 35:46

I I don't typically watch either. It's just honest background noise. Listening. Yeah.

Emma 35:52

Yeah. I could see if there was one series. Um, I'll be honest, if Avatar was made into a TV series, I would watch it. Or a movie. I would watch it.

Amanda 36:08

You might, that's true. Because then I'm not having to work so hard to Yeah.

Emma 36:13

But I don't really know if there's anything else that like that I would actually like prefer to for it to be moved over. You know what I mean? Yeah. Because for the most part, the stuff I read, I'm good with it the way it is.

Amanda 36:26

Yeah.

Emma 36:27

Yeah.

Amanda 36:28

So I think for me, there's nothing in particular that I can think of. There's just sometimes where I kind of wish there was more of because of how I read books and my brain is visualizing all of it. Sometimes it would be nice to have a visualization to put with it so that my brain's not having to work so hard to make it, right? But if I could shut that off and not have to constantly be making a movie in my head when I read, that would probably be nice too.

Emma 36:58

But I'm trying to like, if I look at my shelf, there's literally nothing over there that I would rather see on not even like Elsie Silver or any of that. I don't I mean i if it was made, would I watch it? Yeah, but I would watch it because I've already read it. Read it. Yeah.

Amanda 37:19

I get that.

Emma 37:20

I don't I don't I don't watch TV. Yeah. So I don't watch movies. I don't like if I'm watching a movie, it's not a movie, it's a documentary.

Amanda 37:30

Yeah. Same.

Emma 37:32

Yeah. So I'm I'm literally like, if you catch me watching something on my phone or at night, it's Outlander is playing over again, or I'm still stuck in the cottage of heated rivalry.

Amanda 37:47

Yeah. Uh it's Gilmore Girls, Bluey, or how it's made at our house.

Emma 37:54

So And see, my kids don't really watch we actually have banned TV shows. If you're gonna watch something, you're gonna watch a movie. Yeah. Because it their attention spans can't handle the TV.

Amanda 38:09

That makes sense.

Emma 38:10

And then they get bored because of the movie, and so then they go actually do something. Right. They walk away from it.

Amanda 38:15

So I had to cut off YouTube.

Emma 38:18

I also read and watch movies at the same time. Um I will sit in the corner of my couch and put a show on and then also read at the same time. Yeah, I can't do that.

Amanda 38:33

I don't know how you read when there's people talking around you either, though. I can't do that.

Emma 38:38

I do it every day.

Amanda 38:40

So you're so vastly different in that it's like the fun part. No, it is for sure. It's just it it intrigues me.

Emma 38:48

So well, this has been blind chaos.

Amanda 38:56

Can't wait for the description on this one.

Emma 38:58

Oh my fuck. Well, okay. Well we'll see you next time. Yeah.

unknown 39:04

Okay.

Emma 39:06

See ya.