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« on: July 24, 2007, 09:05:07 PM »
It's a little problematic saying he acted the part well, when all the proto-Jebs and Jeb proper are so unpleasant that they're the villain you can't stand to see onscreen. I can't blame the casting person (even if I knew the name I wouldn't out her/him here.... maybe quietly retired someplace trying to live down the decision) for seeing C Pennock and deciding he had "something"... he does. Gabriel was the part for him... and he exudes unpredictability and danger, but Jeb as a supernatural menace was all wrong. He was a street thug, not an atmospheric villain that set off your imagination in some way. Actually, CP would have made more sense as a non-supernatural peripheral thug character.
Once you had CP as Jeb, then they had to go looking for the most unpleasant little boys they could find for Jeb the Early Days. I can see them seeing kids, finding David Jay, and saying, "Get him the f out of here! I can't stand to be in the same room with him! He's perfect!!!"
The bad storyline set off a whole series of bad decisions that couldn't be avoided, I think. Executive Producers should be prevented by law from meddling "creatively" in their own shows. I'm just finishing Leviathans again, therefore I'm bitter.