Good trip and fictional musings

[veronica_rich]

Three weeks ago, my friend Susan got married, to a college professor she's known for more than a year. Like me, Susan is in her almost-mid-30s and I didn't think she'd ever get married, even though she did date and had lived with a guy before this one. At any rate, she was never searching for a husband, so I think that's the best way to go. (Unlike me - I do not live well with other humans, and I know this from experience. Sex would not abate that.)

Last night I went to her delayed wedding reception, and met a lot of new people (and some old ones, from the wedding and once or twice before, mostly his friends who'd adopted her into their circle). Susan was telling me how I ought to move closer to them (they live 100 miles from me, which is hard to visit because of gas prices) - of course I can't because of decreased job possibilities. But anyway, it was much fun and it's the first time in a long time that I've drank a LOT, didn't get drunk, and woke up this morning without a headache. Maybe I'm aging in reverse! LOL


Okay, fictional musings. In order to proceed to this next part, you have to have an interest in POTC2, you have to not be scared off by some spoilers (believe it or not, I am trying to avoid really major ones, but I've been sucked into looking at some of the still photos and seeing the two trailers now out), and you have to watch the current Japanese trailer first, especially near the end. It can be found at http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mZhzUAs5W7I&eurl if you haven't seen it.


Near the end is a very brief cut-in scene of what looks like Jack and Elizabeth very close, facing, his hands up, almost like they're about to kiss or something. That's what I'm referring to herein.

I certainly hope this is either one of them leaning in to bluff and make a point, or a quick kiss that will result in the same reaction Marty McFly and Lorraine Baines had to each other in the 1950s part of "Back to the Future" when Lorraine tried to kiss him and felt icky for it.

HOWEVER ... I do not have the faith in the writers that others in this fandom seem to. My opinion is the first movie was saved much on the backs of Johnny and Gore fixing dialogue and plot points (I don't mean the other actors weren't good; what I mean is the writers did a less than stellar job and were saved from themselves. Listen to the writer commentary on the DVD sometime and how often they talk about being asked to change the script here and there, and THEIR ideas of what made the movie so successful). I have a worry - in the fictional sense, of course; I realize this isn't war in Iran or "real world" stuff - that these two are going to try to set up the old, tired, lame-ass "conflict between two men for the love of a woman" angle, using Will, Jack, and Elizabeth.

I know some on my f-list will disagree with my following statement just like some will disagree about my previous statement about Ted and Terry, but I'll say it anyway: Jack and Elizabeth are NOT a feasible pairing. They are too alike. They would work well together to achieve an end, and they could have a fabulous mentor-student partnership. But sexually? Just - NO. There IS tension in that threesome, but it's not between Jack and Will for the attentions of Elizabeth ...

Comments

[captsparrow4evr.livejournal.com]

a) Liz is an intelligent woman, so why would she have to distract Jack with her sexuality when she can quite easily match him in wits. I really loved her character in the first movie, but I fear that I may strongly dislike her in this one.

I HATED Liz in the first movie. So if they change her character, maybe I'll like her more in this movie.

e) I wanted this movie to be full of slashy context, not a dramatic love triangle with Jack and Will fighting for Elizabeth's heart.

*sigh* Unfortunately, this is Disney. And if, as I suspect, the writers etc. have been checking out the fan-fic, they may be trying to get away from the slashiness. Now that doesn't mean the writers _have_ been dropping by to read a fan-fic or two and that we slash-girls won't be very pleased with the results (after all, the scene I mentioned in the first trailer) but I don't know that I trust a Mouse with only three fingers!:)

[veronica-rich.livejournal.com]

But - BUT - part of me has to think the whole J/E thing is a smokescreen, an act or a ruse of some sort. The only way I could take it seriously is if Johnny thought it might work some way, because I would think he has as much or more control over his character in this movie as in the first one.

I told a friend some months ago that I thought the "twist" for the series might be that Jack turns out to be Elizabeth's biological father. I'm still sort of hoping that, because it would make a great scene.

[veronica-rich.livejournal.com]

You might want to surf back over here and read ref_1985's comment about what she read in the supposed script. I see major J v. W conflict ahead, and not necessarily in a good way.

[captsparrow4evr.livejournal.com]

I read it. As I said before, it doesn't encourage me about the film but it doesn't really _dis_courage me either. Just makes my anxiety level go up.:) Eek.