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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Cthulhudrew" data-source="post: 2937372" data-attributes="member: 4090">I suspect it had a little to do with the fact that, when they first showed up, they needed them to help pilot the ship- I don't recall whether or not they had the requisite 6 men the potentially mutinous crewman mentioned during the escape from the cannibals.After that- why not? It's not as if Jack seemed particularly concerned about the makeup of his crew during the movie. As long as their interests seemed in line with everyone else's, they weren't really a problem.As coyote6 points out, I suspect it was guilt over what she did to him on the Black Pearl. Similarly, I suspect Will's willingness to go along had more to do with him feeling as if he were doing it for Elizabeth rather than for Jack (who he, I think, finally realizes is really a scumbag. Honestly, I still can't quite figure out why they stuck up for him in the end of the first film. I've just never found Jack Sparrow all that charming- and he was even less charming in this movie, where he was way too campy.)He didn't lose to Davy Jones- his father did, when he upped the ante at the end and tried to bluff Davy Jones. Davy himself tells Will that he's free to go- the next time they hit land. (Also, I'm not quite sure if I caught it or not, but if Bootstrap hadn't raised the ante- there were 8 5's there, right? So Will would have won?)He could have gone back to the island and found Norrington (if he had surmised that Norrington was the one who had stolen the heart) and then been able to bargain his way out of the deal with Jones, possibly. Although I have to agree, it didn't really seem all that heroic, frankly.I am just wondering how Norrington thought he could possibly get away when he ran off with the heart. I mean, obviously, somehow a passing EIC ship found him, but it seems like quite a chance to take- that island seemed awful remote.</blockquote>

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