I can tell you that from my family's perspective, any looks we were giving Dream from Freedom were with the thoughts "bye bye suckers!" On our second Dream cruise we were bummed we were on Dream, since we could see "our" future Freedom sitting there, waiting the 3 months until that sailing.
But you can't see faces at all, unless you're bionic or have binoculars (creepy). So all you are doing is speculating. And I saw and heard *no one* wishing they were on Dream, as we left PC on Freedom. We were all VERY happy to be on OUR ship.
Can't sonvince some of that, though! My cousin falls in with the DCL party line being mentioned here, that ships hang out for the fireworks and they're so jealous etc. She just can't figure out that people choose other lines because they WANT to be on other lines.
As for ships being near each other, that's just part of cruising. I remember in 2003 Alaska, watching off the aft as other ships "followed" (aka went to the same port we were going to because that's just how it is with cruising). The ships hang out near each other, or end up near each other. It is what it is.
I thought the whole pirate show was atrocious on Dream. We caught it once. Never again! Serious waste of our time. I'm spoiled by our town's 7/4 fireworks along with the former glory of
Disneyland's fireworks. No point in seeing others.
