I thought to myself, "I'll bet that was originally planned with Barnabas officiating and Quentin rescuing."
Interesting.... Barnabas just sort of lapsed in his evil, for no discernable reason, at one point. Threats to Julia, I know, but the Leviathans' control became a little weak and puny toward the end. Good Barnabas shoehorned back in because of DC's panic over ratings? Though, Philip Todd lapsed in the same way.
They opted for resolving a story about a terrifying menace to everything and everybody by having us find out they were a lame menace that peters out after awhile. That makes the viewer feel her/his time was just wasted, I think. First they're a credible threat, then sorry, we made a mistake.... not very tough after all.....
It's always strange to me when a series chooses to start undermining the threat from its antagonists. Another example is when they all suddenly find out that the Book has been saying all along not to kill anybody, ever, because
ghosts are their worst enemies. Of course, later, it turns out that werewolves are. Man, did he pick the wrong town! Jeb I mean. The Leviathan People seem to be the Bubble Boys of the supernatural world.... now I'm imagining Jeb giving some tough, threatening speech to Bruno, but he stops and points to a corner of the room and screams, because he just saw a leprechaun or the alien from the Flinstones, or something.