In all the explosion of fic and meta and questions about and because of DMC, I managed to miss this and was pointed here by tessabeth's recent post.
First, thank you for this: Let me repeat that: Jack is not so obvious about what he wants. because I just have been unable to swallow the explanations (several of them apparently originating with the writers) about Jack's attraction to Elizabeth. She's (a)there, (b) attractive, and, according to this universe's pirate credo, "take what you can, give nothing back," (c) available, so why wouldn't Jack be trying to get in her anachronistic knickers? But Elizabeth filling his brain to the detriment of self-preservation? No. Emphatically no.
I think your comparison of Jack to a consultant rather than a manager has a lot of merit. Perhaps those ten years have something to do with that, since he was probably operating on his own, in one way or another, quite a bit. What we see most often is key individuals responding to Jack rather than large masses of people.
Thank goodness for all the intelligent discussion in this fandom. Interpretations offered by various individuals have made me so much happier with DMC.
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Date: 2006-08-03 11:27 am (UTC)First, thank you for this:
Let me repeat that: Jack is not so obvious about what he wants.
because I just have been unable to swallow the explanations (several of them apparently originating with the writers) about Jack's attraction to Elizabeth. She's (a)there, (b) attractive, and, according to this universe's pirate credo, "take what you can, give nothing back," (c) available, so why wouldn't Jack be trying to get in her anachronistic knickers? But Elizabeth filling his brain to the detriment of self-preservation? No. Emphatically no.
I think your comparison of Jack to a consultant rather than a manager has a lot of merit. Perhaps those ten years have something to do with that, since he was probably operating on his own, in one way or another, quite a bit. What we see most often is key individuals responding to Jack rather than large masses of people.
Thank goodness for all the intelligent discussion in this fandom. Interpretations offered by various individuals have made me so much happier with DMC.