History Headscratchers / RomeoXJuliet

*** I get the love part. However, skepticism is hard to have when your kingdom is obviously about to fall from the sky and is clearly falling apart from Escalus dying. Any like-minded person would have shown some sort of moral dilemma about choosing between saving their lover or worrying about the populace of Neo-Verona instead of being a love-obsessed loon that almost jeopardized the lives of thousands.

* Why did they make Capulet the good Prince and Montague the evil Prince? It breaks one of the biggest themes in the original play; that both sides were in the wrong, caught up in their foolish pride and petty feuds, and too consumed with their mutual hatred to see the suffering and pain they were causing to the city and the families that followed them. It wouldn't even have been that difficult - Montague uses Capulet's petty tyrannies to win popular support in the nobility for his overthrow, then [[NotSoDifferent gradually adopts the same kinds of expediencies himself]]. Instead, you end up with the Capulet retainers and Juliet pursuing a classic RightfulKingReturns against the [[EvilOverlord evil tyrant]] through the first half, with no real ambiguity about it except for where it concerns Romeo (but that's OK too, because we can see his father is just as nasty to him anyways). [[TheyWastedAPerfectlyGoodPlot Pfft]].

*** Uh, ''because he's in love with her''. Do you honestly expect a man to just willingly stand by and let the woman he loves sacrifice herself, even if he knew the consequences? Sure, it's selfish when you consider the thousands of lives in the balance, but humans aren't emotionless robots that function only on logic. (Besides, considering how this plot point came from nowhere at the 11th hour I'd be skeptical too.)

** Or perhaps even better, why was Romeo making such a big deal of Juliet being sacrificed and trying to thwart it? Seemed a pointless sacrifice of his life to make if his reckless acts almost prevented Juliet from saving Neo-Verona.

** If I remember right, I thought the tree needed the blood of Capulet women to keep it healthy. Except he kinda screwed the pooch on that one because he'd killed them all (except only one). A better question is, why didn't the Capulet's have a back-up plan just in case something like this happened? What if a plague hit, or a natural disaster, or something else that drastically thinned the numbers of Capulet women?

* Apparently, Lord Montague is the only one aware of the existence of Escalus (before anyone else does) and the tree needing positive emotions to ensure its health and keep Neo-Verona from being reduced to ruin. So why does he still behave like an irredeemable scumbag when he knows the kingdom he rules will fall to ruin if he continues behaving as he does?

* I need something straightened out- is Montague's name Laertes or Leontes?!

** ForTheEvulz

* I understand Montegue's motivations for wiping out the Capulets, but why ravage the economy and screw over the common folk? What did that get him? What did that accomplish? Was it to add insult to injury, and to further sully the Capulet legacy?

** Jesus christ, ''this right here''. I loved the premise of this series because it seemed to take the Capulet/Montague conflict and drastically increase its scope. Romeo and Juliet would have far more hurdles to overcome, including being raised to hate one another and being the heirs of their clans, which would have made their love more beautiful and tragic. Romeo would have had to struggle between his family/royal duties/throne and his love, so his line of 'I am but Romeo, only Romeo' would have so much more weight. Can you imagine what this story would have been like if Romeo was such a sweet person because his father was a good and loving man who doted on him? Or that Juliet, after being raised to hate Montague all her life, saw how much her lover loved his father and family? The entire point of a tragedy is that there is never a perfect happy answer for everyone. But this hardly would have been the first time that a story skipped over possible conflict so that two lovers wouldn't have any negative feelings against each other, because true love can't have bitterness or resentment, right?

* Why did they make Capulet the good Prince and Montague the evil Prince? It breaks one of the biggest themes in the original play; that both sides were in the wrong, caught up in their foolish pride and petty feuds, and too consumed with their mutual hatred to see the suffering and pain they were causing to the city and the families that followed them. It wouldn't even have been that difficult - Montague uses Capulet's petty tyrannies to win popular support in the nobility for his overthrow, then [[NotSoDifferent gradually adopts the same kinds of expediencies himself]]. Instead, you end up with the Capulet retainers and Juliet pursuing a classic RightfulKingReturns against the [[EvilOverlord evil tyrant]] through the first half, with no real ambiguity about it except for where it concerns Romeo (but that's OK too, because we can see his father is just as nasty to him anyways). [[TheyWastedAPerfectlyGoodPlot Pfft]].

* Why do they need to keep her hair long this whole time? If she has been disguised as a boy this whole time, wouldn't it just be easier to cut her hair that short? If a soldier just tugged on her hair, the wig would come off and it would be well known that she is female. Cutting her hair short would also help her move around more easily. And there is just no reason to keep her hair longer other than for it to blow in the wind.

* Episode 11, Romeo and Juliet are out in the countryside, getting away from it all. They fly out to a forest over the mountains that Romeo admits he's never been past and neither has Juliet. They find a wild Dragonsteed mare that Cielo the wonder-horse has the hots for who is also of the same color motif as Juliet and injured. Looks like halfways through the season the main heroine is finally going to [[AndroclesLion get her own flying horse dragon right?]] WRONG... instead three dragonsteed poachers try and capture the two dragonsteeds and Romeo and Juliet kick their asses. And the Romeo lets Cielo go free into the wild to be with his mate. Juliet says nothing and they spend the rest of the episode and part of the next trying to get home. At one point they find a boat and Romeo says "We'll be able to travel faster by boat." to which the logical reply is "You Could Have Traveled Even Faster By Freakin Dragonsteed!" If he wanted Cielo to get it on with his new girlfriend, Juliet could take care of it. Instead he left his best friend, who he just said was one of his only sources of comfort, in a poacher infested forest. They didn't kill the poachers, they even said they'd be back, and if that wasn't any more proof Juliet didn't have what it took to be a rebel leader, she turned down a Flying Horse! Did she not see the inherent tactical advantage of having one? It even trusted her because she healed its wounds. And the worst part is the rest of the episode involved to two leads wandering around, staring into each others eyes and finding even more bloody iris fields... Your friends may be dead woman! Grab the flying horse and stealth bomb the castle already!

*** For example; while knowing who the Montagues are, nothing says that Juliet knows what the only son and heir ''looks'' like (having been disguised as a boy and allowed no where near the palace her entire life). After Romeo saves her life the first time, she's wary, but interested in who this mysterious kindhearted nobleman could be. After learning his first name (which, in this scenario, would mean she immediately realizes that he's a Montague), she becomes ''extremely'' wary, with her entire being telling her to bail out on him. But she just can't do it. He's nothing like what she's ever been told, and as time goes on and they continue to meet, she learns that the Montague family isn't filled with only evil usurping murderers. BOOM. Forbidden love. It wouldn't have been that hard to do, writers. -_-

** You're right. It was completely unnecessary and downright idiotic of them to do that and just expect her to be this great revolutionary leader that would lead Neo Verona into some Golden Age. The only reason it happened was so she had an excuse to meet Romeo. Which again falls apart if you think about. If they had raised her as they should have (grooming her to be a great warrior princess that would reclaim her father's throne), then it would still be possible for her to fall in love with Romeo. It would just take an episode or two longer.
*** For example; while knowing who the Montague's are, nothing says that Juliet knows what their only son ''looks'' like (having been disguised as a boy and allowed no where near the palace her entire life). After Romeo saves her life the first time, she's wary, but interested in who this mysterious kindhearted nobleman could be. After learning his first name (which, in this scenario, would mean she immediately realizes that he's a Montague), she becomes ''extremely'' wary, with her entire being telling her to abandon her treacherous curiosity. But she just can't do it. He's nothing like what she's ever been told, and as time goes on and they continue to meet, she learns that the Montague family isn't filled with only evil usurping murderers. BOOM. Forbidden love. It wouldn't have been that hard to do, writers. -_-

*** For example; while knowing who the Montague's are, nothing says that Juliet knows what their only son ''looks'' like. After Romeo saves her life the first time, she's wary, but interested in who this mysterious kindhearted nobleman could be. After learning his first name (which, in this scenario, would mean she immediately realizes that he's a Montague), she becomes ''extremely'' wary, with her entire being telling her to abandon her treacherous curiosity. But she just can't do it. He's nothing like what she's ever been told, and as time goes on and they continue to meet, she learns that the Montague family isn't filled with only evil usurping murderers. BOOM. Forbidden love. It wouldn't have been that hard to do, writers. -_-

*** For example; while knowing who the Montague's are, nothing says that she knows what their only son ''looks'' like. After he saves her life the first time, she's wary, but interested in who this mysterious kindhearted nobleman could be. After learning his first name (which, in this scenario, would mean she immediately realizes that he's a Montague), she becomes ''extremely'' wary, with her entire being telling her to abandon her treacherous curiosity. But she just can't do it. He's nothing like what she's ever been told, and as time goes on and they continue to meet, she learns that the Montague family isn't filled with only evil usurping murderers. BOOM. Forbidden love. It wouldn't have been that hard to do, writers. -_-

* Why in god's name did the Capulet sympathisers think it was good idea to leave the sole remaining heir completely [[LockedOutOfTheLoop completely oblivious]] about her heritage for ''fourteen years?'' They honestly expect her to lead a revolution against the Montagues, but they're upset that Juliet is, [[SarcasmMode shockingly]], a naive and unprepared girl who isn't prepared to drop her entire life for their cause and doesn't react with perfect grace. What the hell did they expect? And let's not forget that even if they succeed, she's completely unprepared to rule an entire ''country''. The only possible reason why the Capulets have their hands wielded to the IdiotBall is so there's a reason for Juliet to meet Romeo, but if you have to write your revolutionaries as being ridiculously short-sighted to make that happen, that's plain ''bad writing''.