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Current Talk '10 I / Re: Discuss - Ep #0937
« on: February 17, 2010, 06:58:54 AM »Quote from: Midnite
He really did break his leg-- a skiing accident.
Hence how contrived it seems... though with a little tweaking, it could have made for a good demonstration of how much of a sadistic, manipulative, loose cannon Jeb was. I think it's probably a personality type that really exists, someone who gets off on dishing out "godlike" vengeance and benevolence whenever the mood hits him, with no fear of judgment. It confirms their image of themselves as godlike: good, yet all-powerful and capable of wrath. And if you sometimes dish out random "vengeance" for no cause, you keep people fearful and off balance and therefore powerless, and then being kind and merciful only confuses things more (as when Jeb visits David and gives him his watch, which he doesn't even want!). Those under his control "don't know which way to jump".
They really should have made it a more direct assault than Jeb's merely jumping out of the bushes, which wouldn't necessarily have done anything to David other than surprising him.