you know what's been bugging me since the moment I saw it in DMC?

[themeletor]

what was up with the Liz-chaining-Jack-to-the-mast thing?

did the writers really think we were about to believe Jack'd jump ship if she didn't? because that's what it looked like their intent was. and ok, I don't know what Captain Jack Sparrow they had in mind, but the one I know? would go DOWN with his FUCKING SHIP. she's his Pearl, ferchrissake! and Jack, self-serving and finagling as they want to paint him, would not abandon her without a damned good reason.

or have we just, like, forgotten everything about CotBP?

I mean yes, I understand that serving years on the Flying Dutchman is not a happy-looking prospect. but that's the deal he made when he had her brought up. even considering Jack's argument that he hasn't had all thirteen years of the bargain, that doesn't give him an excuse to ditch the Pearl and save his own skin -- if anything, it makes an even stronger case for fighting that cephalopod-headed bastard and his evil beastie to the very end, on the deck of the Black Pearl.


I continue to hold out hope that I just managed to miss something pivotal during that first viewing, and that someone else caught it and can pass that info along. because right now, I am distraught.

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[gryphons-lair.livejournal.com]

I wouldn't have believed Jack would knowingly sell Will into 100 years of slavery, either, but he did. Tossed him to Davy Jones like a bone. What's more, he was apparently willing to do it to 99 others, too, if it would save his own skin.

Rather odd behavior for a man who thinks freedom is the most important thing in the world, isn't it?

[meletor-et-al.livejournal.com]

actually, I've never really seen Jack as a softie or even a good guy, despite all the "...and a good man!" lipservice in CotBP, so I wasn't too surprised at most of his behavior. I was actually a bit relieved to see it, because one of my worries had been that Disney'd be Disney and just ratchet up the "good man" blather at the expense of the ambiguity that made #1 interesting.

I do, however, hold that if there's anything Jack cares about (and admits to caring about) more than his own well-being, it's his ship.

[commodorified.livejournal.com]

I will note that every OTHER time Jack has cheerfully sold someone out, he's had A Plan.

Now, I may be wrong, maybe he's just bowel shakingly terrified of Davy Jones and it makes him willing to do foul things, but.

I'm guessing Plan. Maybe not NICE plan, but Plan.