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Could not have put up with Romeo


If every time I came home at the end of a long day I had to run the gauntlet of Romeo having to make small talk in that emotionally needy Mystical-Fisher-King-Homeless-Guy way I would have found somewhere else to live, anywhere. I know, we're supposed to think how wonderful and nice and mystical he is in contrast to all the *beep* on the show, but he's still getting in people's personal space, getting between people and their home, their front door. He's still making people have to be polite and chat with him every time they come to the apartment and when they try to go on their way he keeps reengaging them and asking for more time. I could not have that at my home which is supposed to be my refuge.

Maybe it's because when I was in college I had so many homeless men follow me, yell things to me every time I walk by, loiter around and try to start up conversations and then ask for money or say some crazy thing to me (like in my first year of college a guy who hung out half a block from my dorm would follow me and tell me how easy it was to make a bomb and that he knew where to get all the ingredients) and when you're really young you feel such a strong pressure to be "nice" and "polite" to people that street people take advantage of that and keep bugging you and engaging you when you've made it clear you have to get going.

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Yeah that annoying Romeo. Saving people's lives, how passé. Carrying someone's bags up the stairs, or hefting their mattress up them? Pssssh. Being the ONLY person to care about the girl's emotional needs? Who needs it!

I feel sorry for you. That is a very self absorbed way to look at that kind of situation. Even if he didn't actually help them out, I can't understand someone being so Scrooge-like that they couldn't devote two or three minutes, which were clearly the highlight of Romeo's day, toward being kind to him.

And I say this as someone who lives in a large city, where two homeless men come to exchange a few words with me and I buy them a drink and sandwich. Yeah, sometimes I don't feel like it. But I am so damned lucky and my life is amazing, compared to theirs, and like Romeo, they are both mentally challenged.

i think I can spend just a few minutes of my "pwecious pwecious time" making their lives better, and not just by talking. Which is the bare minimum you can do- literally, the bare minimum, is listening and engaging
with someone and letting them "use your air" or whatever snotty people like you think.

you're probably the type that pats themselves on the back for doing something nice for their parents, and thinks they are a good person simply for "being nice" to your friends and family, since clearly you feel as though you're giving the world's most pwecious gift just by blessing someone with your presence. UGH.

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Romeo was annoying and did not live in that apartment building, i would have reported him to the landlord and called the police and said that he tried to steal something and gotten him arrested and removed, basically contact the proper authorities and get rid of him, he goes to jail for a night and then gets out and goes to the homeless shelter and wont return to the building again, homeless people have no business living outside of an apartment building by the main entrance pestering people, they are trespassing and squatting and being a nuisance.

Also you could just drive him away by being mean and rude, he would get the point and take off and go somewhere else to live, without coming back, failing that pepper spray the guy and call the cops and say he tried to steal her purse, he wont dare come back after that.

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Yeah, he was a tough character to take. (PS, please don't be upset by what "Sage Romeo" says below. You're absolutely justified in saying that the real-life equivalent of his character would be a nuisance and even unsettling. Some people come on to these boards with their own agendas and it has nothing to do with you :) )

As far as his character goes in relation to the rest of the show: I understood that he was largely metaphorical, and that the "Fisher King" aspect was meant to place Claire's story in a larger Grimm Fairy-tale kind of context. But it got grating and too on-the-nose for me really quickly. (The whole "Velveteen Rabbit" thing was also pretty precious and obvious for me.) I seriously wanted to fast forward through his scenes, but I knew if I did, I'd probably get lost later down the road.

As for his role in the ending-- spoilers-- it made it kind of obvious for me where they were going with the whole thing. Especially since we had already identified Romeo as the "hero mouse" character who will "slay the dragon" by freeing the princess from the soldier monster... well, kind of tipping your hand there, eh, writers? And as soon as I saw Bryan walk alone onto that empty stage thing down by a deserted dock, it was kind of like, "Well, bye bye, Bryan."

Is it terrible that a part of me kind of wanted Bryan to kill Romeo instead? But of course, that's not how the fairy tale ends.

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Yep.Romeo was annoying

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