Like I (think) I said somewhere else in all this, Keira said flat out that the deleted scenes make her look horrible, and she's not wrong on that.
I can *see* the logic, but I can't accept it, if that makes sense. Yes, it's entirely possible that Norrington would have just said, "They can't die? Bollocks to *that*, sweetheart," and gone home. And by skewing it the way she does, people end up dead that otherwise would not have, and that's...upsetting. And more than that? I don't see anything in the movie to suggest that it occurs to her *after*, and that makes it worse.
And yeah, when I first saw the battle on the Dauntless, I was almost certain that Norrington was dead. Like, he was the Sympathetic Character Who Had To Die to Prove How Serious It Was. Only...it wasn't serious.
Aagh. I have lots of thoughts. Some of them make more sense than others.
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Date: 2004-05-09 01:12 pm (UTC)I can *see* the logic, but I can't accept it, if that makes sense. Yes, it's entirely possible that Norrington would have just said, "They can't die? Bollocks to *that*, sweetheart," and gone home. And by skewing it the way she does, people end up dead that otherwise would not have, and that's...upsetting. And more than that? I don't see anything in the movie to suggest that it occurs to her *after*, and that makes it worse.
And yeah, when I first saw the battle on the Dauntless, I was almost certain that Norrington was dead. Like, he was the Sympathetic Character Who Had To Die to Prove How Serious It Was. Only...it wasn't serious.
Aagh. I have lots of thoughts. Some of them make more sense than others.