Commodore Controversy and Sparrow Love

jenthegypsy has written a provocative Norrington drabble, regarding the dear Commodore's pride and prejudice toward pirates. I commented at length on this, and was wondering if any of you Norrington aficionados had anything to add?

Also, re: Our Dear Commodore, cjk1701 has issued a Norrington Challenge to any and all comers, asking for input on his habits, quirks, and foibles. The replies to that should be fun reading!!

Huge thanks to everyone who took the poll I posted on Friday (To What Degree Has PotC Effected Your Life?)--the comments were awesome and fascinating to read. If you haven't taken it, please do so--I'd like to get as wide a sampling as possible.

Not surprisingly, the poll results indicate that Jack Sparrow is far and away the most popular character in the movie (even in spite of considerable Will!love, and Norrington!love). __shy__, or Pirate Shy as she'd known around Black Pearl Sails, wrote a wonderfully lyrical synopsis of why we love him...

He's ethereal and earthy, he's friendly and faithless, he's witty and woozy. He's the best pirate, the worst pirate, ever to sail the seven seas. He's a gentleman and a complete scoundrel. He's a legend in his own mind and such is the power of his mind that everyone else believes it too. He's oh-so-charming. He's reputed to be immortal yet he has Death threading its fingers through his hair.

Jack's appeal, other than the physical, lies in the endless fascination of trying to work him out, attempting to sort out the real Jack from the seething foam of contradictions. It can't be done, I think, because it's all him. It's all true, especially the lies. But that doesn't stop us trying. Very often I think of someone's Jack characterization that it's perfect, she's pinned him, or I'll be pleased with my own portrayal of him, but then I watch the movie again and no, there's something else. Something else that no one has ever captured.

I don't want to know what that something else is because if we knew what it was it might be caught and then what would we do? Jack would have lost his mystique. That would almost be on a par with him losing his freedom.

He's a myth of his own making.

I really couldn't have said it better myself.