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Harbinger3781 wrote: Utter solitude wrote:

Harbinger3781 wrote: Rom and Jules would be "spear"ed and skewered if they continue to live in Shakespearean world. Forget Billy S. If Rom and Jules' love is true they deserve a fair shot. for whatever it's worth.

Just like Rumple. Just like Regina. Just like Killian.

This is not the Shakespearean era anymore. This is the time where nothing is impossible and all routes are open. With proper guidance and interventions they might just earn their proper life - and maybe, like Titanchamp said, a "renegade" true love offspring. It has been a long time coming. They earned it.

Niente è vero, tutto è permesso. Nothing is true, everything is permitted. * Romeo * Juliet * William Shakespeare

(These things irk me, lol! It detracts from the wonderful points you're making, I don't think you realize it.) I know, and I apologize. What I was saying was that though the tragedy of Rom and Jules was classical, they don't always have to be this way in the now. The way I figure, with interventions and family therapy, the dispute between the Montagues and Capulets could easily be dissolved. And the teens might just have their fair shot at true love like everyone else.

That being said, it'll be more fun to see some of their family disputes at first in Storybrooke, 2014 - Get Romeo and Juliet and their whole enchilada to Storybrooke, and see if the Montagues and Capulets are comfortable carrying out their disputes with a circle of spectators watching. I think you missed Utter's point. She's saying to not say "Rom", "Jules", and "Billy S." because it seems like you are just doing a quick meaningless text instead of having meaningful discussion, and it takes away from the point you are making. It's not like Romeo and Juliet are much harder to type out than Rom and Jules anyway.

As far as my take on the whole Shakespeare stories, they are iconic, and could work in Once, but to me I'd much rather them focus on actual fantasy, sci-fi, and horror stories first. And with the exception of A Midsummer Night's Dream, and maybe one or two others, none of Shakespeare's work falls under those genres.