It has been a monster end to the TV show season that I watch so far and to be honest, there is only one left to conclude. The Mentalist is to come to the end of it’s first season next week.
In some ways, I am more interested in how The Mentalist finales, compared to the big hitters such as Lost, Grey’s and House etc etc.
I mean come on … it’s a no brainer that Lost would climax with a peak so high, you could see above the clouds. It was no surprise that Grey’s Anatomy would end with a tear jerker so intense that an admission to ER would be needed for acute dehydration. And with House!! Well I still have the black eye following that smack in the face.
But The Mentalist is different. Through out the season, it has been happily plodding along like a modern day Murder She Wrote. Imagine for a second, Paul Nicholas (from Bread days) along side Jessica Fletcher busting it up! Mega
However according to TV.com, the plot line goes:
As the CBI investigates the murder of a young girl and the abduction of her twin sister, Lisbon suspects that Red John is trying to draw Jane into a trap.
ooohhhh – nasty old Red John is back and trying to draw Jane into a trap. Now, Red John with his small percentile appearance in the show, is almost a distant memory for me. Who is he again? What did he do? Oh yeah – slaughtered Jane’s family, remember? Waaaay back at the start of the show.
It seems then, that Red John’s sole purpose is to purely give backfill and motivation to Jane’s character, and to act as a season finale plot line! He’s done nothing else in between.
Check out Dexter. The Ice Truck Killer themed through out the WHOLE show, and acted nicely as the season finale villain. The same goes for all the other mainstream TV shows don’t they? A seed from the start slowly grows into a monster ready for the end of the season.
This must mean then that The Mentalist will literally have a 40 minute season finale of what should really be called, an episode finale, right? Red John will be referenced after about 15 mins to set the rest of the 30 minute show down. Ahh man, it’s gonna rock!! :S
Now in my opinion, the only way that this could work with an appropriate punch in the gob and subsequent “WHOA!!!!” factor, is if Red John was really one of the main characters that features in the show, like a fellow CBI agent. Hmmm, this is very unlikely, BUT it would make for a nice finale that was topped with a healthy amount of twist.
If this doesn’t happen, and the Red John thing blows over just like any other Mentalist episode, I think it will feel kinda lame, a bit faked even. Maybe even Jane will wake up in the shower, and hear his wife talking to his daughter, who knows.
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