Pirates of the Caribbean Davy Jones Villain Plot Missed A Very Simple Fix

Pirates of the Caribbean: Davy Jones’ Villain Plot Missed A Very Simple Fix

Calypso and Davy Jones’ Pirates of the Caribbean plot may seem sad, but the most tragic thing about their story is the major plot hole it ignores.

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Pirates of the Caribbean Davy Jones Villain Plot Missed A Very Simple Fix

The Pirates of the Caribbean movies aren’t without plot holes, but there’s an egregious oversight in the backstory of major franchise villain Davy Jones. Beginning in 2003 with The Curse of the Black Pearl, the Pirates of the Caribbean franchise reignited the failing swashbuckler adventure sub-genre, introduced audiences to Johnny Depp’s iconic Jack Sparrow, and led to a string of sequels of varying quality.

Despite their best attempts, the Pirates of the Caribbean sequels Dead Man’s Chest and At World’s End couldn’t quite recapture the magic of the original movie. A big problem for the franchise was knotty, complex plotting that relied on overcomplicated backstory and endless double-crossing, resulting in some hard-to-dismiss plot holes.

Take, for example, the supposedly sad story of Davy Jones and Tia Dalma. Davy Jones promised Tia Dalma he would sail the sea ferrying the dead into the netherworld for ten years but, because she never met him on the last day of his sentence, he’s stuck doing so for eternity. He’s understandably annoyed and starts building an undead army instead of doing his ferrying duties. But there’s a lot wrong with this seemingly simple plot. For one thing, it’s a major twist reveal in At World’s End that Tia Dalma, the lost love of Davy Jones, is the sea goddess Calypso, trapped on dry land in human form because she broke Jones’ heart. But if she was a sea goddess during his ten years as captain of the Flying Dutchman, couldn’t they just meet at sea whenever they wanted? They’re both tied to the sea and both supernatural beings, it makes more sense for them to be together at sea than on land.

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Not only that but by the time viewers meet him, Davy Jones is turning into an octopus-faced monster because he refuses to continue ferrying the dead, which means he can fail to meet the requirements of his curse without immediately dying. He’s even found a clever workaround for the curse, as at multiple points in the Pirates of the Caribbean sequels, Jones stands in a bucket of water to get around the “never leaving the sea” rule of his curse. This means that, even if a literal sea goddess never wanted to meet him in the sea through his entire ten-year tenure there (for whatever reason), Jones could do have just met Tia Dalma on land by using his nifty bucket loophole.

Pointing to a plot hole this niche and specific may seem like nitpicking, and there’s no doubt that blockbusters get away with bigger oversights all the time. However, the real issue with Davy Jones and Tia Dalma’s nonsensical subplot is that it illustrates a larger problem with the original Pirates of the Caribbean trilogy as a whole. The movies attempted to force tragic drama out of the character being unable to see one another despite their love for each other, but never actually explains why this would be the case. Thus, both Jones and Tia Dalma ended up dooming themselves to misery, but for no real reason, much like the Pirates of the Caribbean franchise at large upped the pathos and grim elements of the story, but didn’t deepen or clarify the mythos in tandem with this tonal shift.

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