Thread:Uskok/@comment-34326446-20170826180630/@comment-996391-20170827143227

A) You'll have to ask Jeff Nathanson and Terry Rossio for explanation. They wrote the story. Not me.

G) You'll have to read the prequel novel The Brightest Star in the North: The Adventures of Carina Smyth. In it Carina begins her search for the Trident of Poseidon. She's is not searching for it because the Trident is supposedly a magical object. She's searching for it because Galileo also searched for it, because he believed it was real, and he never found it. If she could find it she could prove herself, a woman, as a scientist greater than Galileo and take her rightful place among the great scientists of her time.

"Just for money...the dmned money."
 * You have finally realized what makes the world go round. Welcome to the grown-up world. Of course they are making these movies for money. People who are doing something out of the goodness of their heart are an endangered species.

"Did Disney give some explanations about the mistakes about the compass and about the Wicked Wench's origins?"
 * No, they didn't. Probably because they don't even know they made them. As for the compass, even before DMTNT the backstories about the compass were inconsistent. The first source was DMC, which said Jack bartered the compass from Tia Dalma. The second source was Pirates of the Caribbean: The Complete Visual Guide which said Jack acquired the compass from Tia Dalma seven years before the battle of Isla de Muerta. The third source was Terry Rossio who said Jack already had the compass before Barbossa's mutiny, and thanks to the compass he knew where to search for Isla de Muerta. The fourth source was the short comic The Compass of Destiny! which shows Tia Dalma giving the compass to Jack before his first search for Isla de Muerta. The fifth source was The Price of Freedom in which Tia Dalma gave him the compass shortly before he was 20. The author of the novel, Ann C. Crispin, specifically asked the guys at Disney if she could put the compass in the book, and they said yes. You can see our conversation with her here. The confusion created by DMTNT is not such a big problem as some people think. As for the Wicked Wench, I wonder if Jeff Nathanson even knows about The Price of Freedom because the Wench in DMTNT looks more a reference to the ride than a serious connection between Jack's present and Jack's past. But there is one tiny hope for salvation. Jerry Bruckheimer says Jack was 18 when he trapped Salazar in the Triangle. In The Price of Freedom he was 25 when Beckett gave him the Wench. That still leaves plenty of time for Jack to lose the Wench and become her captain under Beckett. Hell, we can't even be sure if Morgan really died that day when he gave Jack the compass. When Jack steered the Wench toward the Triangle I didn't see the bodies of Morgan or any other pirate on deck. I know you don't like DMTNT but in some things the film actually helps us. Before DMTNT we had to put the events of The Price of Freedom between the late 1720s and early 1730. In the novel New Providence was still called a pirate-controlled island. In real-world history piracy in New Providence ended in 1718. But now, thanks to DMTNT and Henry Turner's age, the events of The Price of Freedom are pushed back in the 1710s, when New Providence was still ruled by pirates. So you see, not everything that came out of DMTNT is bad.