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<blockquote data-quote="Daniel Avery" data-source="post: 433027" data-attributes="member: 27"><p>Charles Mesure tended to play Brennan as a leading man, someone who had his own POV and did as he pleased because he had all that WSB power behind him.&nbsp;&nbsp; So many scenes had him doing things &quot;as a favor to Carly&quot; that no one else had the power to do (not even Sonny or Jason).&nbsp; It felt, at the time, that Carly was becoming his damsel in distress that needed saving....which, as we know, isn&#039;t a trait Carly wears well.&nbsp; TPTB seem to want Carly to be the driver of all her scenes (even when meddling in the lives of most everyone around her), busting everyone&#039;s balls at every opportunity.&nbsp; When Mesure got enough of the backstage politics and departed, they recast and then quickly molded Jack into a more &quot;Carly-dominated&quot; version who can&#039;t seem to live without her and whose WSB pursuits don&#039;t define him as much. Though Mesure&#039;s version was certainly taken with her, you got a sense that if forced to choose her or the WSB power and money, he&#039;d choose WSB easily.&nbsp; McKenna&#039;s Jack definitely became a supporting character rather than a leading man wannabe.&nbsp; I think this weakened, almost henpecked version suits certain people better (the certain people who were okay with Mesure quitting mid-story), but the radical change in Jack&#039;s motivations and attitudes makes it hard to reconcile the two versions.&nbsp; McKenna likely wanted the job bad enough that he was willing to accept the changes to the character--in fact, he seems to like doing social-media stuff that helps cement his job security.</p></blockquote><p></p>

[QUOTE="Daniel Avery, post: 433027, member: 27"] Charles Mesure tended to play Brennan as a leading man, someone who had his own POV and did as he pleased because he had all that WSB power behind him. So many scenes had him doing things "as a favor to Carly" that no one else had the power to do (not even Sonny or Jason). It felt, at the time, that Carly was becoming his damsel in distress that needed saving....which, as we know, isn't a trait Carly wears well. TPTB seem to want Carly to be the driver of all her scenes (even when meddling in the lives of most everyone around her), busting everyone's balls at every opportunity. When Mesure got enough of the backstage politics and departed, they recast and then quickly molded Jack into a more "Carly-dominated" version who can't seem to live without her and whose WSB pursuits don't define him as much. Though Mesure's version was certainly taken with her, you got a sense that if forced to choose her or the WSB power and money, he'd choose WSB easily. McKenna's Jack definitely became a supporting character rather than a leading man wannabe. I think this weakened, almost henpecked version suits certain people better (the certain people who were okay with Mesure quitting mid-story), but the radical change in Jack's motivations and attitudes makes it hard to reconcile the two versions. McKenna likely wanted the job bad enough that he was willing to accept the changes to the character--in fact, he seems to like doing social-media stuff that helps cement his job security. [/QUOTE]

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