A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Gallows (a Pirates tidbit for Sumara)

Sumara, Whilst I was down packing my jar of dirt and trying to get it ready to move I was chatting with my friend Dominic about Pirates 2. He made an interesting observation on Jack's opening line of DMC, "you don't mind if we make a little side trip do you? I didn't think so" (said to the skeletal remains on which he is sitting in the coffin). Dom noted how the whole movie could be seen as that, a "side trip" (deliberate avoidance but willingness to accept the inevitable in the end ... if said inevitability be indeed found, or therein revealed, to be, in fact, and precisely, really, and wholly, and ergo veritably ... inevitable) by Jack on his way to the grave. Which I thought was a pretty cool observation that also uniquely captured the way this movie is definitely a middle movie of a trilogy: it's a sidetrip but not a sidetrip without a point, it's very revelatory. He also agreed with you and I against said professor who thought the "love triangle" superfluous.