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I'm hooooome.

Also clean, and caffeinated. I feel these things are important. The weekend was awesome, from going up on the swelteringly hot Underground to the pub (hurrah) to the flashmob which was basically a huge play fight (hurrah!) and back to the pub again. (HURRAH!) The only real problem was the heat, which I had been informed was to be lacking, and was... not. Ow. Black leather waistcoats, while awesome, are really hot when running about in the sun. The the next day (rather hungover. Ahem.) There was lunch with

innerbrat and

requiem2adream and chatting and plotting about Runaways pups. Ehehehe. And in the evening, Pirates of the Carribean, where we were joined by some people I have met before but whose journal names I am unsure of,

avariel_wings,

matgb and

malachan, who came out of hiding for the first time in ages!

Oh, wow. Well, we found out where the Wank song came from.

It was a very effective motif, I admit, both for watching, and as a plot device for announcing the pirate meeting. (Which was awesome. I know a lot of people don't like Elizabeth, and I was kind of distracted by how very blonde she had become, but King of the Pirates! That's awesome! And not just because now Will is her Queen.)

And. And Will. I was fairly sure one of them was going to die, but it was really on (ahaha) a knife-edge. And it was the look on Jack's face that did it for me. That one look in that one moment basically confirmed his entire character as a good man. He planned it all the way in his own crazed, spontaneous way, but that was the one thing he didn't see coming. And he wanted to become the ferryman, and immortal himself, but he saved Will instead.

Will, by the way, is apparently well-suited to immortality. Orlando Bloom isn't supposed to be sexy! Good lord. Oh, and Elizabeth finally got married. <3 I'm glad for her. I do, however, bloody hope she'd still the Pirate King as well as mother to Will's apparently very tenacious child. No disrespect to Will's sperms! It's more Elizabeth's physical state I'm thinking of - she's had a hell of a what? Few weeks? - and owie. Pregnant after all that? Oh, well. Disney logic. Because clearly that's what always happens after you get married.

Um. Oh! Tia Dalma/Calypso. I liked that arc, although either my ears were going funny from all the crashing on the soundtrack, or she'd changed her accent from the last movie, but meh. She's ~~the 50-foot woman~~ a sea-nymph, she can talk how she wants. What I do wish is that they'd used her for something more than creating a whirlpool. Not in a Deus Ex Machina type way, t swing the ending one way or another, but seen to be doing something. Like the Armada! The main characters? Pfft, Narrative Causality was going to see them through whatever, but the guys who controlled Davy Jones, and tried to (inadvertently) stop the ritual that freed her, and were taming the ocean and, um, stuff? Instead of having them just turn around, she could have seen them off quite handily, after the flagship was gone. Oh well. I'm sure she and Davy had a beautifully tempestuous and fucked up relationship after he... um. Fell into her whirlpool, okay I'm not going any further with that.

Random other things we noticed: The abundance of slashiness. Yeah. Nothing overt, but between one thing and another that managed to be a very slashy film. Last one was for the het shippers, this one (apart from Will/Elizabeth) this one for the slashers.

Norrington. He didn't have as much as before, regrettably, but when lumped in with all the other army-types, there wasn't much of a way to have him do much, and he didn't the right thing in the end. His death caused much clinging, but he died honourably and bravely, which is fitting, I think. *Sniff*

In conclusion! I liked it. The ending hurt, and there was much clinging in the cinema, but it fit, and it wasn't the end for anyone. The Barbossa/Pearl/Jack threesome o'snark and betrayal continues gleefully onward, and does frankly my favourite pairing, Jack the Monkey/Cotton's Parrot.

And I want in on the Bar-plot. Hey, Debi hasn't killed anyone I'm playing in far too long.

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Calypso gave Davy Jones Crabs!

Seriously, the only way to make that movie better? Would have been if the monkey became the next captain of the flying dutchman.

((Also, I totally think the child should be named Jack Turner, and be only eight years old)

(Hee hee hee. Alas, he is called Will in the credits. But by the look of Elizabeth, Jack did find the Fountain of Youth!)

Awww.... but, yey for not bothering to add ag make up!

Gah! It took so much effort to avoid making that joke at the time, now it's in my head again.

I also wonder if Elizabeth being perpetually young is supposed to be part of Will's reward; can't spend 100 years at sea only seeing your true love every ten years if she's old and withered by stop 4 and dead by stop 6, he'd have many years with no reward.

But then I remind myself it's a Disney movie and it doesn't actually matter.

I don't know why you tried to avoid it. I made it.

Apparently he gets to come back after the first ten years, but I'd rather she died at sea and join his crew.

According to the writers, (i hear) the reason davy Jones had to keep doing it was because his love didn't wait for him. Because Wills love was there when he came back after 10 years, he gets to go back to living on land, supposedly.

Also, seriously. How could they NOT expect the jokes? Crawfish, lobsters, oysters, squids, anything but crabs!

I find having spent about 15 minutes trawling wikipedia, that you're right; because she stayed faithful to him (pass the sick bucket) his curse is lifted, but it wouldn't have been otherwise; I didn't miss anything in the film, they deleted a scene. Gits.

Damn silly plot device. But it makes a bit more sense than my suggestion.

It upsets me, cause, well, I'd much rather (if they have a next movie) not have will and elizabeth in it. Not only do i just plain not like them, but seriously, after this one? Their story is done, happy ending, yey! More Jack and barbossa!

*adds you to barplot list of Interested People*

Email me? *grin*