Just a Thought....

[sinanju]

...prompted by someone on my friends list commenting that in her current mood, seeing Pirates 3 would not be a good idea, what with people getting killed or cursed to sail the Flying Dutchman's ship forever despite it being a Disney movie.

Could be worse. Let's hope the Turner family don't appear in Pirates IV, if it gets made.

Why? It's a DISNEY FILM. And what do we know about families in Disney films?

That's right--Elizabeth is a DEAD WOMAN WALKING. She'll expire abruptly be dead before she hits the ground, leaving Will to raise their child alone in classic Disney fashion.

ETA: So, in this vein let's consider the Pirates films, shall we?

Will Turner: first seen as a young child, the sole survivor of a shipwreck. Later we learn that his father is still alive. His mother? Not so much.

Elizabeth Swann: traveling to America with her father. No mother evident; we can safely assume she's deceased. Standard Disney family situation.

Jack Sparrow: POTC 3 demonstrates that his mother, too, is deceased. (Or at least, let's HOPE she's deceased....), though Jack being an adult at this point, the matter is largely moot.

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Or else the scrappy kid, newly orphaned, will join up with Our Favorite Pirates to seek out his father across the oceans, and wackiness will ensue.

Oh, Disney. At least their formula will never change.