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.

Comments

[elle-is-for.livejournal.com]

I saw it as more a comment on Elizabeth than on Jack. No I don't think he'd have jumped ship, but I think it was important to Elizabeth's character development that she was prepared to do it. what I want to know is

would she have kissed him anyway? or was that just entrapment.

and the state of her in Tia Dalma's hut - did she really regret it, or was she upset in a "that needed to be done" kind of way?