I don't really see how Yuzuru is recycling an old long program. He is skating to a completely different piece of music from the one he skated to in 2011/2012. The fact that both pieces just happen to be soundtracks to movie versions of the same play is irrelevant. Both pieces of music are very different stylistically from each other and can be interpreted in very different ways. Niño Rota's Romeo and Juliet may have been used before (ok used a lot before) but I can't recall another mens skater really owning it. Also I can't really blame skaters or choreographers for not taking musical "risks" during an Olympic season. Sometimes it pays off..but it can just as easily backfire. I for one can't wait to see Yuzuru's new program!
Don't get me wrong, Hanyu is likely to rock as Romeo. He IS just THAT good even if you give him fluff. With JSF support him fully in absence of any other strong Japanese guys once Dai retires this year (Kazuka as well?), he is likely to get 110% inflation at home as he did last year. But here is the thing, he has already done so many good Romeo wins and he is AMaazing, but his team is guilty of type cast what is potentially one of the most exciting raw talent into this one dimension skater that seems only able to romanticize audiences doing the same thing. Sometimes less seduction is actually more seductive, than actively UP the SAME seduction down your throat in a different outfit practically force/tell/remind audiences why they should love him is clearly calculative. It feels like a has been.
I fear he may very well ends up winning by pursuing the same teenage angst ridden type of performance and ends up become a formulaic skater. Although for sure, they will dress him up as a suppose more "maturerrrrr" Romeo (Angst level 10 in a different outfit - less feather more leather
) , I bet all goes out the subtlety just go after all those insane crazy jumps contents - the sort of in your face, a big show off type of way. In doing so, it may win competitions, but may very well missed the whole point of why his original Romeo was such unique touching program the first time. The freshness, raw quality, insatiable, vulnerable, delicate and boyish, struggles beyond means. My heart goes out to this Romeo.
IMO there's nothing worse than being creatively dead, or over packaging (artificialize) a raw Talent like Hanyu. I happen to think Hanyu is much MUCH better than that. I am already having nightmares with the way he is going, he might as well be doing Romeo the Tchaikovsky' version, Romeo the Prokofiev version next year and the year after as well. Do his Romeo until age 38 on all his future ice shows, resuscitating his Romeo with skating titles like
Return of Romeo
Romeo lives on another day
Romeo is aaalive.....
Romeo never dies
Romeo the afterlife
Romeo on a plane
Romeo the chronicle years
Romeo back in the future
Romeo is dead... NOT!
What made his original Romeo appealing and unique was the innocence and lack of pretension that avoided case of self absorption you sometimes get in the more maturer (self aware) skaters. A repeat of another Romeo destroys all these ideals and feels false. The romanticsm of Romeo is someone who loves, struggles, then he dies too young, all too unnecessary due to a tragic misunderstanding. You mourn for him and his beloved. He does not come back to life just to win another day... and where is his flipping Juliette? Winnie the Pooh might be cute and even swoon worthy the first time, but Romeo revive again and again for some skating medal seems desperate and soul destroying to the integrity of the original program.
Do I think too much? Yes! Do I exaggerate? Oh Yes. Am i even a little bit correct? Yes.
The snippet I saw in the practice video was good enough to convince me that the program will be super-b!
, thank you so much for the link! Loved his program and costume already. sorry, I'm his fan. 
