Just Something I Forgot to put in the AWE Post of Doom

[meddow]

I forgot to mention death no. 3 that pissed me off – the Kraken.

How could they just kill off the creature that had everyone running scared in the first movie with a line and a post death scene? They implied the Kraken was the devil in the DMC, you can’t kill the devil off screen. I know why they did it off course: they had no idea what to do with it.

Then it occurred to me this morning – Norrington is the Kraken. A character capable of turning the tide (what would have happened is Norrington had stayed aboard the Dutchman or gone with Elizabeth with an intention in mind to destroy Beckett and the heart? – since he was crafty enough to steal the thing in the first place and is now the guy in charge of the Dutchman, it’d be hard for him not to have a significant degree of success) and the writers had no idea what to do with him so they just left him rotting on a beach somewhere.

Bitter? Me?

And I quite possibly should be banned from posting before I’ve had my morning coffee.

Comments

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I haven't checked outside the fandom, but most of the fandom in general are not happy about it - Norrington fans or not. I don't think I've read anyone who hasn't mentioned it, or thought it was well handled. You think he is the second most popular character? (Personally I've never thought of him in the scheme of things - he's always been my favourite). I suppose in terms of general like, Norrington is a character that most people like and don't have a bad opinion of, whereas Will/Elizabeth, etc usually have some haters. How can you hate Norrington?

I am also like you - never have I had a character in any fandom that has died on me before. I haven't written a lot of fic, but I do write Norrington, and it is a situation that will need to be handled. Personally, AU is the way I would go, or even just rewriting AWE, the travesty that it was for Norrington. I'm sure a million fanfic writers can come up with something better than they did.