Hypothesis about Jack's fate - more fiction fun

[veronica_rich]

There's no real way to bring up this discussion without a cut.


If someone else already brought this up, feel free to point me to the thread; I don't always catch everything on LJ, as I am usually just surfing it while doing work online. This is just something I came up with while driving home.

A lot of people have talked about Will possibly replacing Davy Jones in his "office" in the third movie. But it seems more logical to me that Jack would do this - not strictly as Davy Jones as he now is, but Jack's OWN version of being the immortal King of the Seas (meaning, he doesn't have to be all fishy and miserable). And of course, he'd have the Pearl instead of the Dutchman.

Of course, Jack being lazy as all-get-out, he'd have real issues with having to actually *work* as Death of the Ocean, having to harvest big disasters like the Titanic ("Jesus Christ! WHO PUT THAT ICEBERG THERE?!").

Thoughts?

Comments

[pseudoblu.livejournal.com]

I've been thinking if anyone replaces Davy it'll be Jack. It wouldn't be Will because Disney likes their main-character love stories happy (I could be wrong, the movie was shocking dark for PG-13 Disney) and it can't be Barbossa because he'd be scarier and more ruthless than Davy. I think the whole reason Jack couldn't get the compass to work was because he knew whoever killed the heart would take Davy Jones' place and, while he wanted to get out of his debt, he wasn't completely sure he was willing to go *that* far. I think that's why people saying Jack's wishy-washy or not sure what he wants in general has been bugging me, somewhat.

[veronica-rich.livejournal.com]

I just figure Jack didn't know what he wanted because he'd finally attained what he was after for so long - his ship and his true love.

[pseudoblu.livejournal.com]

I can see a bit of that, but I still it's it's mostly that he's not completely sold on wanting the heart because of what it entails. I think it's a big catch 22 because he wants it to be free but to take it would restrict his freedom.

[veronica-rich.livejournal.com]

It's true that responsibility of just about any kind IS anathema to Jack ...