I really think we're being asked to compare oranges and grapefruits, to compare Elizabeth's reactions to Will and to Jack, and vice versa.
Elizabeth is almost always helpful to or admiring of Will, or worried about him - if not actual *worry* then at least concern for his well-being. The only time we've seen her irritated was when he wouldn't call her Elizabeth, at the beginning of the first movie.
On the other hand, she starts off trying to be fair with Jack because he saves her and he's a romantic notion of "pirate." But then he yanks her back in a choke-hold, and she gets pissed off and carps at him, and their relationship consists from then on mainly of one trying to find a new insult toward the other. The idea that this is somehow more "real" than the respectful relationship she and Will have hammered out is all in the eye of the beholder, methinks.
If you want to see E/W, that's what you'll see - if you want to see E/J, that's what you'll see. But to say Will ought to respond like Jack, when he's clearly not being treated like Jack, is problematic. Likewise, nobody can argue that Jack stirs something different in Elizabeth than does Will - but to say it's love is all in how you define love and lust and a combination of the two, perhaps.
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Elizabeth is almost always helpful to or admiring of Will, or worried about him - if not actual *worry* then at least concern for his well-being. The only time we've seen her irritated was when he wouldn't call her Elizabeth, at the beginning of the first movie.
On the other hand, she starts off trying to be fair with Jack because he saves her and he's a romantic notion of "pirate." But then he yanks her back in a choke-hold, and she gets pissed off and carps at him, and their relationship consists from then on mainly of one trying to find a new insult toward the other. The idea that this is somehow more "real" than the respectful relationship she and Will have hammered out is all in the eye of the beholder, methinks.
If you want to see E/W, that's what you'll see - if you want to see E/J, that's what you'll see. But to say Will ought to respond like Jack, when he's clearly not being treated like Jack, is problematic. Likewise, nobody can argue that Jack stirs something different in Elizabeth than does Will - but to say it's love is all in how you define love and lust and a combination of the two, perhaps.