I bet everyone on the planet $5 that before the end of this year, someone will have written POTC/Temeraire cross-over fanfic in which Norrington and Jack Sparrow are aviators, and the Pearl is Jack's dragon.

It will certainly not be me, mind you. But I bet a fangirl somewhere is plotting as I type. No lie. And there will be FANART, even.

Why yes, I am reading book 3.

ETA: Book 1 also meets with the approval of The Jill. woo!

Norrington/OFC - Rated PG-13ish for smut for yahtzee63, who tempted me over AIM.

( Trick )

Okay, I have to get something off my chest. I'm now on my 3rd viewing of POTC1 on dvd (on account of going through the commentaries one at a time) and every single time I've seen this film in the last 3 years, two little things make me grit my teeth and flinch and fly into a split-second of complete and total RAGE that no-one spotted these and fixed them LONG before I ever saw the movie.

1) "It's okay. My name's Elizabeth." No, it's NOT okay. Would you like to know why? That would be the part where, Miss Early 18th Century Moppet, "O.K." will not become absorbed into the common lexicon for, oh, I dunno, another hundred years or so. Or more.

2) "And for these crimes you have been sentenced to be, on this day, hung by the neck until dead." Jack may be hung like a horse, but if you want to be killing him, you want him to be hanged. His tricone hat may be grammatically hung on a peg, but if you're being executed, then you're hanged, mate.

*stabstabstab*

I know this movie is hardly historicaly accurate by a long shot. But honestly, really... The writers were on set for pete's sake! Surely they would have said something? Both lines would have been so easy to fix in ADR...

So I'm rewatching Curse of the Black Pearl, and it's got me thinking...

( vaguely spoilery DMC observation )

So, I skived off work early and saw POTC2 for cheap at the theatre by work.

OMG JACK DAVENPORT.

Also?

( slight spoilers )

I think I need to see it again. It is flawed, but I do not care. For OMG JACK DAVENPORT.