User blog comment:TheWarrior29/Should POTCO be considered canon?/@comment-1999071-20140304034810/@comment-31601543-20140305150134

Good points, but that still doesn't explian why they tried to make it more family freindly for a franchise where a crow chews a man's eye out, cannibals try to kill you and eat you, a living beating heart, and killer Mermaids dragging a whole ship down a few scenes after dragging a seaman to his watery grave before drowning him and eating him. Or sometimes, the other way around.

As for Price of Freedom, there was a deleted scene in whitch Becket said that he had a deal with Jack saying that he gave him cargo to deliver and Jack says People aren't cargo, mate. The problem, admittedly, with that is that the scene was deleted, the factual accuracy is disputed. I apologize if i had tried to bring evidence that was actually from something that was deleted. I'm no saying they wrote this with Price of Freedom in mind, but i think it is more vice versa. They are mentioning the events, not the book itself. The book is based on the events mentioned.

As for Teauge, it would have been better if Barbossa had said You can't shoot a member of your own crew. Wouldn't have helped with Navy Soilders and Bystanders, but it would be more in character. Teague could have shot him and claimed that he was going to Mutiny or wasn't actually a part of his crew.