Problematic punctuation that could have been avoided

I was doing some Flickcharting the other day, and Julius Onah's Luce from 2019 landed in between Bridget Jones's Diary and Wild Things after the approximately dozen duels that help determine a movie's initial placement in my chart. 

Because I make note of things like this in a spreadsheet -- because of course I do -- I had to record the names of the two movies it landed between as part of my process. 

I initially spelled Bridget Jones's Diary wrong, momentarily confusing it for the spelling I would choose if I weren't aware there was a movie and had to put these three words together in a vacuum. I'd go with Bridget Jones' Diary and be done with it.

The spelling that was actually chosen was a good way to emphasize how they wanted the title to be pronounced, which is Bridget Joan-Zez Diary. So at least there's that.

The thing is, this whole situation could have been avoided entirely.

Bridget Jones is not a real person, is she? 

Then why the hell couldn't she have just been Bridget Smith?

Or Bridget Johnson?

Or Bridget Brown? With this one you even get the alliteration. 

You might say "Well Bridget Smith's Diary just doesn't sound iconic," but what do you know from iconic? You only think the actual title sounds iconic because you've heard it so many times. Take yourself back to a time when you hadn't heard it, which you obviously cannot do, and one would sound the same as the other.

I guess I just don't get why people make these things harder on themselves than they need to be. A friend of mine posted on Facebook the other day that she was getting confused between characters on Battlestar Galactica named Jack and Jackson. YOU HAVE ALL THE NAMES IN THE KNOWN UNIVERSE, PLUS MADE-UP NAMES THAT NO ONE'S EVER HEARD OF. JUST CHOOSE A NAME FOR THE SECOND CHARACTER THAT DOESN'T MAKE HIM INDISTINGUISHABLE FROM THE FIRST.

Surely it's worse to force people to confront their mislearned grammar from the third grade, when our minds were first blown by how to write possessives when the word ended in S. No solution was good. No second S? Sucks. Second S? Sucks. The apostrophe looks like it's in the wrong place no matter what option you choose, the two S's look stupid next to each other (he says as he writes "two S's"), and without the S it violates what we thought we just learned about how to do possessives.

This alone would be reason enough for me not to name a child Thomas or Charles.

But no, Bridget Jones is the character name Helen Fielding chose for her 1996 novel, and in the process, she fucked us. 

Well, I hope you laughed your way all the way to the bank, Helen. And that you stopped fielding questions about this choice 25 years ago. (See, two can play at the game of causing name-related headaches for other people.)