You're right Willo, let me correct myself. In the long run, I believe Jack was always her intended choice, but she has to get there first. She's confused, because she's sent a man to death that she "may in fact love" (quote from Terry).
There are going to be bumps in the road. Jack's behavior after he returns from purgatory is going to be a huge road block. Her alligance to Will is another. They won't resolve the tension until the end of the story.
There are sooooo many little things that I think are really important to keep in mind. That their story begins from the first frame of COTBP and ends with the last in AWE. So the little moments between them in COTBP play a huge signifcance in the events of DMC and AWE.
I have some other theories that I'll put up for discussion later, but I want to finish watching COTBP right now.
Wow...this thread is amazing. I have never read it until tonight. So let me get this straight. Ya'll have figured out that the compass only points to material objects, through Ted's post on wordplayer. The thing that is important is what the holder of the compass believes it to be pointing at. So the compass was pointing to the chest, not Will. There is no love triangle. There is no love triangle. What does that mean? The triangle is resolved at the end of DMC...why? Because Jack comes back to the Pearl, and everything that they discussed is the curiosity scene comes to fruition in this scene. Jack has proved he is a good man and Liz proves that she is willing to act on selfish impulse. They kiss. She leaves Jack there to die.
Mina...I LOVE your new siggy. It is hysterical. The look on Will's face is priceless. All of their expressions are wonderful.
So, Jack is in love with Liz, but he thinks Liz chose Will.
Liz, may in fact be falling in love with Jack, but doesn't like what's become of him after she sends him to his death. Go figure.
But in the end they come together.
I'm glad you girls are so optimistic. I'm utterly confused. Well, there is no doubt that that one silly little ole compass has our heads spinning.
So when Jack is looking at the compass in his cabin and it points to Port Royal....there can only be one reason for that. Why on earth would Jack want to return to Port Royal. To be hanged? Doubt that. To visit Will, highly unlikley. To see Governor Swann, notta. To exchange small talk with Norrington, extremely unlikely. So that only leaves one other person...Elizabeth. Ah, and so it gets interesting. Why is the rum always gone?
That sneaky, sexy Jack...I love how he can manipulate Elizabeth into thinking she wants the chest most in this world. I don't care what Surreal thinks. I think the scene when Jack gives Lizzie the compass is very sexually charged. I love it. He even licks his mouth real quick with that lucious tongue of his.