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.
I think there are lots of bitter Norrington fans out there, for exactly all the reasons you described. So much awesomeness in DMC, to sudden DEATH. Not what I had in mind. And I remember that line from Verbinski, or Ted and Terry or whoever it was. Jack Davenport was so awesome that they bought him back, and then totally underutilised him for AWE.
I haven’t wandered out into fandom at large, but on my flist alone there does seem to be a lot of bitter fans. I wonder what we are going to do. He’s arguably the second most popular character in the fandom, so where do we go from here? Accept canon, ignore canon or resurrect him? I know I’m going for the resurrection option. I’ve never had a character I was so invested in die on me before, so I have no idea what to expect and that's the x factor about his death that has me worried.
Well, in the fic I am currently heavily invested in, I have to buck canon in a big way. And that's fine, since I was basically working AU.
In future, my opinion for those who want to stick to canon would be resurrection. Perhaps the way Jack Harkness was resurrected (totally without the knowledge of the other characters) in the last ep of Eccleston's run as Doctor Who. Kinda in a Calypso was returned to her full power kind of way, which thus sent a shockwave of psychic energy into the world and especially the immediate area, and that excess of energy sent a lifepulse into the recently and unjustly dead who, since they died on the Dutchman which Jones had "removed" from its intended purpose and Beckett sent even farther from its path, thus creating a sort of limbo where souls got stuck instead of being able to traverse Styx/Nepenthe/Rasa/Sanzu/etc.
Youll just need to figure out where they put the body.
Savvy? And feel free to steal that--just give me credit ;)
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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.
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In future, my opinion for those who want to stick to canon would be resurrection. Perhaps the way Jack Harkness was resurrected (totally without the knowledge of the other characters) in the last ep of Eccleston's run as Doctor Who. Kinda in a Calypso was returned to her full power kind of way, which thus sent a shockwave of psychic energy into the world and especially the immediate area, and that excess of energy sent a lifepulse into the recently and unjustly dead who, since they died on the Dutchman which Jones had "removed" from its intended purpose and Beckett sent even farther from its path, thus creating a sort of limbo where souls got stuck instead of being able to traverse Styx/Nepenthe/Rasa/Sanzu/etc.
Youll just need to figure out where they put the body.
Savvy? And feel free to steal that--just give me credit ;)
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