You may be right. I was thinking the “no one can best the devil” was a remark about the Kraken, but it actually fits Jones rather nicely. Still, considering its role in DMC, killing it off like that was one great big disappointment.
And I completely agree with you, and it wasn’t just Verbinski, it was T&T and Bruckheimer too, they all said they wanted Jack back so they brought Norrington back and it was implied heavily throughout that he was going to be just as important to the plot in AWE as he was in DMC. I feel really mislead. And his death did turn DMC Norrington into something of a joke. That man who was so tragically broken and who felt he had finally gotten ahead only to unwittingly sell his soul to an evil he didn’t know existed, the man who was so raw and wounded that he made viewer hearts go out to him in only a few scenes – he was turned into a mere plot device. I kind of wish they hadn’t brought him back, or at least gotten Jack Davenport to sleep through his performance, because that character and that performance deserved so much better than what he got.
![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
no subject
Date: 2007-05-25 11:02 am (UTC)And I completely agree with you, and it wasn’t just Verbinski, it was T&T and Bruckheimer too, they all said they wanted Jack back so they brought Norrington back and it was implied heavily throughout that he was going to be just as important to the plot in AWE as he was in DMC. I feel really mislead. And his death did turn DMC Norrington into something of a joke. That man who was so tragically broken and who felt he had finally gotten ahead only to unwittingly sell his soul to an evil he didn’t know existed, the man who was so raw and wounded that he made viewer hearts go out to him in only a few scenes – he was turned into a mere plot device. I kind of wish they hadn’t brought him back, or at least gotten Jack Davenport to sleep through his performance, because that character and that performance deserved so much better than what he got.