things I noticed last night about *spoiler* and *spoiler*

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1. Jack was absolutely in the longboat to save the Pearl, whether by drawing the kraken off her or trying to head back to the island and find the heart... the chest... James... something. Anything, and he's just got to get it before the kraken takes the Pearl. Which would explain why he's rowing like there's a fucking fire under his skin. But then he takes a long, sad, worried, determined look at the Pearl, under all those badass tentacles, and checks the compass -- and whatever he sees, I don't know what it is, but whatever it is sends him straight to the Pearl, and with that gun in his hand you can see that he's at the point of, "look, if there's no way to out-negotiate this thing, I'm just going to have to fight it mano a tentacle. Which he proceeds to do, and when the fucker finally pulls off he shoos the crew away but makes absolutely no mention of leaving -- which makes perfect sense because it's his fucking ship and he's the fucking captain. Gibbs says some things that might be construed as expecting Jack to leave ship (for which I am more pissed at Gibbs than anyone, wtf dude?), but Jack himself starts heading slowly and thoughtfully back to his cabin, and I've seen this walk before; it's the "this is my ship and I'm staying with her" walk.

Of course ELIZABETH, who is a JACKASS, decides to not trust him, and be a bitch, and not even get it, and um again. Be a bitch. I think Elizabeth took Will's former position as Massive Fuckup in this film, seriously, because... really. And of course the whole time she's wasting time with her spiel about "the kraken wants you, Jack, not the ship, not the crew," I'm thinking 'of COURSE the beastie wants the Pearl, you idiot, but of course you weren't listening there when Davy Jones fucking SAID THAT, but Jack was, and he KNOWS IT, so let him take on the fucking kraken!' But oh, no, he's got to figure a way out of the manacles before he can do that, because ELIZABETH HAS APPARENTLY ABSORBED ALL OF WILL'S DUMBFUCKERY. But oh man, when Jack does get free, and faces that nasty sucky stinky bastard, he does it with his hat on and his sword drawn, and he's jumping in head-first. "You take my ship, you've got to answer to me, fish-brains." And believe you me, kraken, Jack Sparrow will kick your ass.

And that is why this time I fucking broke apart when I saw the Pearl go down in the kraken's grasp. I was a mess, and I don't care if most of it was convoluted justification I completely made up; the point is that it allowed me to accept that part of the movie. And when it all comes down to it? That's what's important. I'm a selfish bitch, and it's all about me.

2. James really, really hates Jack. No, really. A lot. Which is something I appear to have forgotten in all the "omg sparrington <3!" and such, but seriously. Norrington sincerely, passionately, totally hates Jack. Liek whoah, and I'll write up the rest of my Norrington notes from last night later, because now I have to go to work.

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