I would love to see a traditional period piece drama for James Norrington and the members of the Navy, Government, and East India Trading Company in POTC.
Give me James Norrington sitting in a modestly sized but well decorated room with his mother and sisters who are pestering him about finding a wife.
Give me Norrington making advancements in the Royal Navy and having all of the professional success in the world, but aching to find a wife and to have children.
Give me parties and dances at the Norrington home where Governor Swann and Elizabeth attend, and the once brotherly friendship between James and Elizabeth grows to a deep trust and respect for each other.
Give me James Norrington realizing that this girl, only five or six years his junior, had grown to a beautiful woman who seems to like him, and who he has grown fond of himself.
Give me him stressing and overanalizing every little thing when he realizes he loves her, from his position in the Navy, to his concerns that any advance would be suspect and risk throwing away the years of friendship they had formed.
Give me James and Will having interactions in the smithy when new swords are needed for the men under Norrington.
Give me a professional friendship between them where Norrington knows that Will does all of the work, but that they both keep up the guise to protect the blacksmith and, more importantly, his wife.
Give me Governor Swann discussing business and government matters with James in the room, and offhand mentioning something about Elizabeth at school, and James realizing that he needs to read more literature if he is to keep up with Elizabeth's wit.
Give me James confiding in his best friend that he had plans to propose to a young woman, and keeping everything else close to the chest so as to avoid the potential for scandal or embarrassment, not for him, but for Elizabeth.
Show me James picking the most beautiful lookout he can to ask Elizabeth to marry him, and doing it in private.
Show me him stressing and tripping over his words, and then everything going horribly wrong in an instant.
Show me the meaning behind the words, "Do not make the mistake of thinking you are the only man here who cares for Elizabeth."
Give me a traditional period piece for James Norrington
