u/Paddyharvey

This is taken from the final page of the novelisation of Pirates of the Caribbean: At Worlds End, surely written by Homer.

I just rewatched On Stranger Tides a few hours ago - I didn’t release how underrated Angelica is! Does anyone else agree? I know some think she’s forgettable and didn’t mind that she didn’t show up in the fifth film.

Before today, I didn’t think much of her character apart from being played well by Penelope Cruz. Otherwise, I thought she was quite generically characterised as the love interest for Jack.

However, today I realised how much depth she has! She is the only one who can challenge Blackbeard and who he’ll listen to. There’s her past - after her religious career was derailed, did she then go looking for Blackbeard as her God figure? For whatever reason, this depth didn’t register in my head previously. This time, I felt so sorry for her when she’s left on that island when it’s clear she has a lot of issues and is desperate. What do you guys think?

I feel they didn’t explore her as much as they could have and the ending seems a bit left-field, like they were establishing an arc about her not needing a father figure/God to tell her what to do and being open to fate and life, and then they neglected it last minute.