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Oh! Oh! I have math homework and a lot of personal anxiety staring me in the face, and I have decided to avoid confronting either one! Also I guess my LJ is all about personal meltdowns and memes these days.
Name a fandom (or character) and I will share my unpopular opinion(s) on the subject. Please don't h8 omg.
Name a fandom (or character) and I will share my unpopular opinion(s) on the subject. Please don't h8 omg.
You know that really famous quote of Davy's that everyone keeps quoting?
"I am the sea!"
Let's think on that for a second. There's someone in this series that IS really the sea, and it's NOT Davy. Now THAT, ladies and gentlemen, is what I call foreshadowing done well. Wow, ok? Wow.
The feeling I get from fangirls is that they especially hate the scene in the brig where the two of them confront each other. Apparently Calypso gets docked points because she looks "smug" at the end, when Davy basically tells her he still loves her, and apparently that's the clue that she never loved him, and betrayed him. But betrayal in this movie goes both ways. I think her speech to Pintel and Ragetti is telling, anyway, when she says that after his duty was finished, then he could be with the woman who loved him truly...but he became a monster. It's interesting to see what she left out, and WHY he became a monster. It's as if she doesn't even want to think about that part of the story because that means she would have to come to terms with what she did on HER end of the bargain.
People like to point out that Calypso's had many lovers before and since Davy. But the fact of the matter is that I think Davy is the one she can't let go. She enjoys her control over him, but at the same time it doesn't give her any pleasure any more. I think she just wants to end it, but she can't, being trapped in human form. I also think she did love him truly, but she didn't love him enough. She knew it, but Davy, being the young, idealistic sailor that he was, didn't understand.
I believe, in that scene in the brig, that he did. It's been what, a few hundred years? And he's finally realized that no matter what he did, she would never have showed up anyway. And you can tell he's so bitter about it and at the same time he doesn't care. I think he would be the type of person (squid?) to say "I know she betrayed me and made me rip my heart out, but I'd do it all over again if you gave me a second chance." Cause, you know, he would. And that's very telling about Davy's character in the end - even though Calypso hasn't changed and is just as manipulative and whimsical and unable to commit as ever, at the end he still tells her that his heart has always belonged to her. Davy's not stupid; he KNOWS that she's never going to be faithful to him, and he still says it.
And honestly, Davy gets the last laugh, when she realizes that all this time she's been trapped, it was his doing. If he was going to transform, he was going to bring her along for the ride. That, I think, is quite fitting. Which goes to show that the relationship was doomed from the beginning...and again, that doesn't matter to Davy, and he loves her anyway.
/rant
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