Comments | geekmama: Pirate!Recs, and ooooh! Meta on Elizabeth and Norrington

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Pirate!Recs, and ooooh! Meta on Elizabeth and Norrington

Jul 06, 2007 10:57

Recs:

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geekmama July 7 2007, 02:54:27 UTC

Thanks. I was going to try to wedge this in among the 270 or so replies to yours, but I was afraid it would get too long, and I was right. *G*

Now back to reading your last post!

dharma_slut July 7 2007, 03:04:50 UTC

Thank you for taking the time to think all of this out!

geekmama July 7 2007, 03:09:27 UTC

LOL! It's stuff I've said before, here and there, but I felt the need to reiterate. It does take some time to type it all out, though. *G*

dharma_slut July 7 2007, 04:40:58 UTC

oh, the typing, the typinnnng! LOL!

shrieking_ell July 7 2007, 03:37:03 UTC

WORD! to all of this!

(And especially to the hurricane bit. I've posted about that before but to sum up - 1) Tripoli (either one) = Mediterranean = Generally no hurricanes. So why would he even expect one? 2) weather prediction = voodoo even up until, well now. 3) people, ships, the entire Pacific fleet,etc. still get caught in hurricanes and no one accuses them of bad judgement...

/ranty

(sorry, that hurricane is one of my biggest pet peeves. it could have happened to anyone.)

geekmama July 7 2007, 03:41:54 UTC

it could have happened to anyone.

Exactly. And yes, no hurricanes in the Med, but I'm sure they have some pretty hefty storms anyway. He gambled and lost. It's that simple.

the_dala July 7 2007, 03:59:36 UTC

That's pretty much exactly why all of that plot and characterization works for me through three films. Thank you.

geekmama July 7 2007, 04:18:00 UTC

You're welcome! I can't help but think that ignoring Norrington's faults makes him a far less interesting character.

torn_eledhwen July 7 2007, 04:43:13 UTC

Yup, yes, aye and "word". :) I'd have missed this if you'd stuck it to fabu's post, so thanks!

geekmama July 7 2007, 05:25:05 UTC

I was amazed at the number of responses to fabu's post. People feel very strongly about this stuff. But it follows from writing fanfic, I suppose -- we spend hours and hours thinking about these characters in such detail that it's painful when someone comes to vastly different conclusions about them.