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IIEEEEEEEEEEEE!!!!! OMG!!!! I heard from the Hollywood grapevine that the Pirate executives are cutting Orlando Bloom’s character, Will Turner from the last installment of Pirate of the Caribbean.

I am such a big fan of Pirates of the Caribbean–I’ve watched ”Curse of the Black Pearl” (2003) & ”Dead Man’s Chest” (2006) countless times, feasting my eyes and pleasing my ears on Johnny and Orlando’s antics and physique. So many times did I wish I was Kiera Knightly but then again…I was just as content watching it on the big screen with a huge bucket of buttered popcorn or wearing my DVD player down from watching it over and over again while eating Holy Kettle and Lay’s Sour Cream and Onion.

And now this development, honestly, on the way to work after hearing that news, I could think of little else. I love the character of Will Turner, so sue me, I have a thing for pretty boys! But he’s a BIG character from the very beginning and it feels cheap if you cut his character down without getting closure in the story, after all, there is an ongoing love triangle between Jack, Elizabeth and Will and Will’s father is still cursed as an undead pirate.

I know that “Pirates” is basically riding on Johnny Depp’s shoulders because everybody loves Captain Jack Sparrow, people in France are wild over the tipsy looking, not quite straight pirate but while I also love (actually, insanely adore) Captain Jack Sparrow, it’s heartbreaking for me to know that Orlando’s character gets killed with no preliminaries just because Johnny Depp is the star. Why not kill minor characters like the Elizabeth’s former fiancee Norrington (Jack Davenport) or better yet, why not kill Keira Knightly’s character, Elizabeth Swann? That way, Johnny Depp and Orlando Bloom could go off into the sunset together as the “Pirates of the Caribbean”!

Uwah!!!! *gets the chills imagining the faces of Orlando Bloom and Jonnhy Depp in the setting sun and with the wind blowing against their faces*

“Yo, ho, yo, ho/ a pirate’s life for me/ Yo, ho, yo, ho/ it’s a pirate’s life for me/drink up me hearties, yo, ho…” — sung by the young Elizabeth Swann in Curse of the Black Pearl

Jack Sparrow: [looking at all the swords] Who makes all these?
Will Turner: I do. And I practice with them three hours a day.
Jack Sparrow: You need to find yourself a girl mate. Or perhaps the reason you practice three hours a day is that you already found one, and are otherwise incapable of wooing said strumpet. You’re not a eunuch are you?
Will Turner: I practice three hours a day, so when I meet a pirate, I can kill it.

Jack Sparrow: The only rules that really matter are these: what a man can do and what a man can’t do. For instance, you can accept that your father was a pirate and a good man or you can’t. But pirate is in your blood, boy, so you’ll have to square with that some day. And me, for example, I can let you drown, but I can’t bring this ship into Tortuga all by me onesies, savvy? So, can you sail under the command of a pirate, or can you not?

Don’t kill off Will Turner!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! *sets a picket with a picture of Orlando Bloom beside her*