I tend to agree with you on fantasy television serials. Yes, a certain amount of handwaving can be down regarding the fast writing and scheduling, but...I think that's why I'm loving Sense8. It feels so well planned out. The writers really developed this, and all the characters and each angle, prior to filming it. But that's hardly surprising considering the guy behind Bab5 is involved. He's anal about that sort of thing..
Regarding sex in romance novels?
Eh, the one's I'm reading have graphic sex. And their euphemisms are similar to fanfic, some better, some worse. There's less of it, sex, I mean in the historical than contemporary. Also it takes much longer for them to have sex -- more build up. The contemporary tend to be "kinky" sex and often, rough sex or seduction - rape. More so than the historical. Also the writer's get bored and start doing weird things with sex...like toys, bondage, spanking, three-somes, etc. Or repetitive. And the language is well ...somewhat funny, in how crude it is in contemporary novels.
That's not to say historical writers don't write that too. They do. But usually it's not as casual or sex just for sex's sake. They occasionally will have it out of wedlock in a historical...which just doesn't quite work for that time period. I keep wondering why the heroine hasn't had a kid yet.
You can't really generalize about the genre as much you think, I've pretty much seen everything. But, Regency's due tend to be rather tame. I don't really like the Regency novels, they bore me. I can't read Georgette Heyer, who is the Queen of the Regency, but sucked at dialogue, and has no sex in her books. Reading Heyer is like reading a rip off of Jane Austen. Rather read Jane Austen.
I prefer the non-Regency's which are the other periods, that have sex in them, and often a plot -- such as mystery, or a conflict outside of the misunderstanding.
Regarding fantasy tv shows..
Regarding sex in romance novels?
Eh, the one's I'm reading have graphic sex. And their euphemisms are similar to fanfic, some better, some worse. There's less of it, sex, I mean in the historical than contemporary. Also it takes much longer for them to have sex -- more build up. The contemporary tend to be "kinky" sex and often, rough sex or seduction - rape. More so than the historical. Also the writer's get bored and start doing weird things with sex...like toys, bondage, spanking, three-somes, etc. Or repetitive. And the language is well ...somewhat funny, in how crude it is in contemporary novels.
That's not to say historical writers don't write that too. They do. But usually it's not as casual or sex just for sex's sake. They occasionally will have it out of wedlock in a historical...which just doesn't quite work for that time period. I keep wondering why the heroine hasn't had a kid yet.
You can't really generalize about the genre as much you think, I've pretty much seen everything. But, Regency's due tend to be rather tame. I don't really like the Regency novels, they bore me. I can't read Georgette Heyer, who is the Queen of the Regency, but sucked at dialogue, and has no sex in her books. Reading Heyer is like reading a rip off of Jane Austen. Rather read Jane Austen.
I prefer the non-Regency's which are the other periods, that have sex in them, and often a plot -- such as mystery, or a conflict outside of the misunderstanding.