Canon Sparrington

[lostwiginity]

The best thing to happen in the third movie for us, the Sparrington-shippers,  would be James Norrington to die.  (And yes, this is, in fact, just speculation! ^^)

James giving his life for saving Jack would be the most dramatic, memorable, and most of all possible interaction between the two of them.

To be blunt and honest, we'll never get to see

Comments

[elessil]

How about you put that under a cut?

[elessil]

(Or designate it as speculation; I am sorry if I sounded too rough, but you seriously upset a friend of mine with the part above the cut)

[wliberation]

I have to agree with elessil; the first time I read that I thought that it was an actual spoiler and got upset, so maybe you want to be a bit clearer about it being speculation.

Otherwise, as for your idea, I'd much rather have him try to save Jack and, I don't know, get seriously hurt but miraculously survive, sort of thing. :)

[lostwiginity]

I'm sorry, I didn't know that someone could take this as a spoiler. *blushes*

[wliberation]

The phrasing in the first sentence just makes it sound more like a statement than a presentation of a what-if scenario, that's all. But your addendum solved it, I see.

[nessaancalime]

As you said - nothing happening would be like we want it :-(
So in a way it doesn't matter what happens, because whatever we can't fit into Sparrington lore, we can just ignore, right :-)
That is what fandom is for...
And if they kill him - well, in this fandom anything goes, right? Undead pirates, magical ships, getting Jack back from dead - so we can always get James back from dead as well.
We should hope for is a lot more scenes for James, and hopefully some with them together.

[scatter_muse]

I actually highly doubt they will kill him because initially when the location placement draft was leaked online Norrington was killed -in the draft. But there was such a huge angry outcry at this, that the writers had to quickly pull the script and assure everyone that the script was not accurate. After the initial public reaction, if they had any intention of killing Norrington then, they probably don't now.

(sorry if this comment rides the fine line of spoilery)

[lostwiginity]

Is it plausible that the script writers changed the plot because the fans complained?

If they really did so, I'd be startled.

[scatter_muse]

They've made so much on the basis that the fans like the characters they present, because technically...POTC is more of a blockbuster and isn't that well written, especially DMC. It's fame mostly comes from how well the actors portray their characters. Killing off a character that people have grown fond of is possibly not the wisest move because there's been talks of POTC4.

[lostwiginity]

HP, you mean as in Harry Potter? I'm not really at home in this subject.

I never would have thought that the fandom is such a powerful force. I presumed they'd go "what do you know, we're the writers, we know better than you" and wrote whatever they wanted.
But of course, there's the money to be made, and the movie is not only about the writers' views.