Xiam
I think that if you were going to post a Shakespearean play in Fractured Fairy Tales, you could have at least gone with one that actually involves fairies. Like The Tempest, or A Midsummer Night's Dream. The best Romeo & Juliet has is a single mention of Queen Mab, doesn't it...?
Hello again.
Romeo and Juliet has been twisted to turn it from a tragedy to a happy romance where these impulsive lovers get a happily ever after and somehow years of hatred are just dropped and forgotten for the sake of their marriage.
Ha! Even if they were allowed to marry just think of the pains Juliet would suffer living in that household. And you know eventually Romeo would stray.
But one twist on the tale I remember well is "The Magical Legend of the Leprechauns".
As always with Hallmark they have to take one story and make it happily ever after. So Romeo&Juliet are now Leprechauns and Fairies, there's some outside human help, deaths, romance and instead of them dying a la Darwinism they are saved and the feuds are ended, oh and just about everyone who 'died' returns.
They did the same thing to "Animal Farm". I'd love to see Hallmark do "Lord of the Flies".
A Midsummer Night's Dream I'd love to see twisted but not done again in a modern setting. Too many good Shakespeare stories were converted into teen flicks and half of them don't even realize that it's Shakespeare. "10 Things I Hate About You" "O" "She's the Man" "Midsummer's Night Rave". I know someone did the Tempest under a different name but I never saw it and don't want to.