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

[lastwordy-mcgee.livejournal.com]

Actually, I thought it was Jones who was implied to be the Devil. The Kraken was merely his "hellhound," for want of a better comparison.

And I absolutely agree that they had no idea what to do with Norrington, and it's a fucking shame. The fact is he wasn't supposed to be in anything but the first movie--I believe it was Verbinski himself who said it was only due to Jack Davenport's excellent acting that anyone decided to bring Norrington back for the other films. I'm all thrilled to pieces they brought him back, don't get me wrong, but they did NOTHING with him, ultimately. And his role in DMC was SUCH a tease--they made it seem like he was moving, travelling along this emotional arc that was necessary for the character so he could get beyond his past. And then fucking BANG! Dead. And not even in a good way.

It really pisses me off that a character with so much potential was basically thrown away, and time was instead wasted with other secondary characters and endless subplots. ARGH.

Yeah. I'm a bit bitter myself.