Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-5094906-20140720170816/@comment-4839682-20140802175119

CoolDudeAl wrote:

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. Basically what my point was, although I'm not trying to tell anyone what to do. I just find the habit of changing/shortening the characters and Shakespeare's name in this manner to be... disrespectful, for lack of a better word. It's not "Rom and Jules", it's "Romeo and Juliet". It's not "Doc Frank", it's "Victor Frankenstein. It's like, if I introduce my child to you as "James", and you insist on calling him "Jimmy", even after being informed that he goes by "James". I'm sure you don't mean it in that way, but it comes across that way. It makes me take you less seriously, and that's a shame, as it detracts from the great, thought-out points you're making. (I apologize for rambling on this, it just really sets my eye to twitching!) It's, admittedly, a personal hangup, I just wanted to point it out to you. Feel free to carry on or do whatever you like, I've said all I need to on the subject. XD

I don't think Romeo and Juliet would fit in Storybrooke. I can't quite quantify why, their story just has an especially dark tone to it, at least for me. The suicides, the suddenness and depth of their love, their ages, etc. It doesn't fit, to me.

But then, I might have said the same about Frankenstein if asked during season one.