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[pauraque_bk]

We rented PotC this holiday. I'd already seen it in the theater, but I think I liked it better on second viewing (perhaps because I wasn't seeing it as part of an awkward social occasion).

Liked it so much better, in fact, that the result is several hundred words of pirate slash. It's one of those stories that just hit my brain fully-formed (while we were watching a different movie, in fact), and had to get out *right then*. Once it's all written out, it may not turn out to be suitable for public consumption, but I'm having a good time with it. Talk about your fun character voices....

In any case, I have a plot question. I realize that trying to make perfect sense of a summer movie may be a fool's errand, but humor me. When Bill Turner Sr. took a piece of the gold, he must have incurred the curse too, and must still have been cursed when the crew sent him to sleep with the fishes. In which case, shouldn't he still have been down there when they realized they needed his blood to lift the curse? Wouldn't the logical thing be to go back and find him? Or am I missing something?

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[ex_amurderofcrows752]

I think ol' Bootstrap Bill was 'curse free' due to the fact that he opposed the theft. He didn't take any from the chest, but he DID take it from another pirate.

At least, that's what I gathered.

I could be wrong. But it could be that, well, he's at the fucking bottom of the OCEAN man. They probably didn't dump him in a cove -- if they dumped him in chains, they probably did it in deep water. Now, he may not have tired or anything-- but if they bound him/weighed him, he probably sank...

...and if the fish didn't eat him little by little, suddenly becoming mortal after 20 years under water, well, fuck, he's dead THEN. :O

[typicrobots.livejournal.com]

I always just figured that he took the gold piece off another pirate. And that the "blood repaid" meant the blood of anyone who fell victim to the greed of the pirates when it came to the gold.

I could be wrong. I try not to think about it much. I'd much rather look at pretty Johnny. Oooh, pretty.

Now, it could just be me

[theseventhsun.livejournal.com]

Yeah, yeah, you don't know me, but I'm posting anyway.


My own theory on this matter, and I've pondered it before, is that the crew of the Black Pearl wasn't "invincible" per se. They couldn't die in most conventional means, but they could still be smashed to bits with enough effort- as an example, I think it's assumed that even before the curse is lifted, Mr. Bombadier (the grenade-chucking pirate) is, after having one of his own explosives going off in his chest, out of commission for good. Being trapped under millions of pounds of pressure at the bottom of the ocean would have a similar effect.