Oops! Forgot the slash!

[ealgylden]

Okay, so for ages now, lots of folks have been expecting PotC to be the next big slashdom, or for it to at least provide us with lots of smutty little Will/Jack (or Orli/Johnny, whatever) PWPs for our delectation and delight, right?. I was too, I admit it. I mean, pirates! Gayer than the flowers in spring! Except... not so much, this time. Not for me, anyway.

There were a couple of subtexty moments, particularly near the end, but in general, I really believed that Will loved Elizabeth and Jack... loved the Black Pearl. Truly, madly and deeply. So while I know some of you will pounce on Will and Jack and slash them blind, and while I do support you fully on that, I guess I won't be joining you. I couldn't break up Jack and the Black Pearl.

But if you really want subtext, keep your eye on the wooden-eyed pirate and his stout companion. Love love love! Or Jack and Barbossa, but again, the Pearl. Wait, wait... threesome!

Comments

[kathlaw.livejournal.com]

You too? I almost expected a repetition of Jack's ... sorry, Captain Jack's farewell line to Elizabeth to be repeated to Will. :-) But the way he caressed the wheel of the Black Pearl... Total adoration, love, and in truth fidelity to death and beyond. You're totally right.

Loved this movie.

[ealgylden.livejournal.com]

Jack/Black Pearl is totally my new OTP. Theirloveissopiratical! Hee!


(How are you doing out there? Safe and not crispy, I hope?)

[kathlaw.livejournal.com]

Today it's definitely dragon weather -- supposed to hit 111, which even I concede is hot. But it's the kind of heat with slight breeze that wraps around you like a lover, caressing your skin, with a physicality that cooler temps just can't match.

Fire-wise, the fire fighters hate the heat, but the humidity is slightly up -- probably to 20% or so -- so they've had success with backburns and feel somewhat confident that they'll get it surrounded soon.

Last night there was a wonderful actual ring of fire on the hills north of me, and I confess if it had been closer I might have tried to hike in and see if I could rescue Bruenhilde. But it may have only appeared to be a ring, given the viewing angle. Point of view is everything. :-)

[ealgylden.livejournal.com]

Ooh, "dragon weather." I love that phrase. So evocative. Could do without the weather that goes with it, but the phrase is great.

Last night there was a wonderful actual ring of fire on the hills north of me, and I confess if it had been closer I might have tried to hike in and see if I could rescue Bruenhilde.

That sounds really neat (ignoring the horrible destruction part for a minute). Perspective is everything, you're right, but I would have been mightly (stupidly) tampted to go look. We had a big forest fire in the Adirondacks when I was a kid (big for around here, nothing like what happens out west), and after it had burned out my sister and I went hiking in this spot we liked a lot. There's this big piece of granite plunked down in the middle of a clearing that we always called the "Ship Rock" (looked like the prow of a ship. We weren't all that creative sometimes), and the fire had burned up all the trees and bushes and leaves on the ground all around it, up to within about thirty feet of the rock. And all around it, inside that 30' radius, there were only a few wee crispy spots. We could never figure out why, officially, but as kiddies raised on Wagner, you can guess what we thought.