ruminations

So.

You have this boy, who perhaps has a sense of...something, a yearning and a wish for something else, and he is told, "Be normal." He perhaps feels different, he perhaps wants more, but he doesn't know what.

He is told, in so many words, that a certain group of people are less than human, that he shouldn't feel the way they feel, and so perhaps he hates them a bit too much because they tempt him.

Perhaps he hates them a bit too much to prove that he's not; one of them, I mean.

Is a thought, no? That gay werewolves and Will Turners might have more in common than sense would advise?

Jack : And you want to turn pirate yourself, is that it?
Will : Never! They took Miss Swann.
_{(all quotes from here)}

heh. Think he doth protest too much?

Also,

Is Will Turner really all that despicable? I see posts arguing against the value, use, whatever, of his character and. Well, okay, breaking it down:

[What Will knows]

-Elizabeth has been threatened by a pirate.

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-Will meets his first pirate, who threatens him:

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-Will, in freeing the pirate who threatens him, notices

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-Will learns while entering Isla de Muerta,

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-Will finally gets proof that Jack perhaps isn't so bad when...

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In essence...

Will Turner is a bit stupid and very young but he isn't entirely irrational. He makes a mistake in not trusting Jack, but he didn't necessarily betray him, not with what Will knew and witnessed (remember, Will never saw, nor heard, that Elizabeth was saved by Jack).

Will is NOT perfect and he's NOT someone you could look up to, but he's realistic; I can sympathize with him and I love him as a character.

Jack : They done what’s right by them. Can’t expect more than that.

::waves Will Turner Defense League flag::