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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[sleepall-day.livejournal.com]

Boy, yeah, and after that scene I kind of inwardly groaned and thought that now, all kinds of girls are going to hate Keira Knightley. I never particularly liked her, and I don't really care myself, but I do have to admit that making out with Johnny Depp is quite a feat - even for Hollywood.

ANYway. She's all, "do the right thing! you're a good man!" so it kind of surprised me when she did that. I thought at first that she didn't have it in her, but then I changed my mind after thinking about how pissed she was at him. So I guess that's why she chained him, but still, it was annoying.