Just saw it...credits rolling at Movie Tavern.
A few things:
- In Dead Man's Chest, we learned that Tia Dalma gave Jack the compass. They were looking for the key and Tia says "That compass I give you, it cannot find this?"
Here, they retcon it to the original captain of the Wicked Wench gave it to him 'just because'. Bad move.
- Whay happened to the Queen Anne's Revenge? Did Salazar sink her?
Yeah, the bit where Tia Dalma says, "Dat compass you barter from me, it cannot find dis?" rang in my ears when they decided to retcon the provenance of the compass. Jack having to barter the compass from her lets the imagination run in all manner of, well, interesting directions.
As for the
Revenge, that be a simple one to suss out. Only one man wanted the
Pearl as much as Jack Sparrow. Barbossa had it easy on the
Revenge. His men were tripping over the swag, and he needn't lift a finger to get any prey to heave to without a fight. That gets mighty boring. The
Pearl meant just as much to Barbossa as it did Sparrow. It meant freedom, it meant power, and it meant working for the spoils you took. And it meant the possibility you might fail. The exhilaration of being alive, your will against that of another captain and his crew and the sea and winds, and fortune itself!
Yeah. Give me the
Pearl, a stalwart crew, and a fair wind any day. The
Revenge made things too easy, says I.
