I give up . . . if it's not going to be Mashburn than I've lost interest. None of those other suspects are even remotely interesting to theorize about. Heller said that RJ was definitely one of the people on the list and he filled up the list with flat, uninteresting suspects. Stiles and Bertram are too old, Smith and McAllister would look stupid as RJ, Haffner is just irritating, Kirkland entered too late to be satisfying which leaves Partridge who seems like too small of a creep to be RJ.
RJ has money, resources, the ability to make many friends especially women, Jane level intelligence, etc.
Everything fit if RJ was Mashburn. Two full episodes of interesting dialogue of fooling Jane and Lisbon, a music score with RJ's drum tics in the background, a sad past, and so much more. None of the other characters have sparred verbally with Jane like that except Stiles so I'm done. No more theorizing because I simply don't care which one of them is RJ anymore. I thought it'd be hard to wait for the sixth season but not anymore. This has been the most disappointing final - it played more like an ordinary episode without any of the suspenseful tension that filled the other four finals.
Why couldn't the list be full of more three dimensional characters like Dean Harken, Max Winter, etc? How could it possibly be interesting to watch Jane investigate flat government suits like Bertram, Kirkland, McAllister, Smith, or Haffner? How the hell did I get stuck slightly hoping it would be Stiles because Jane's had suspenseful interactions with him or Partridge because it would make the Season 2 final complete because Jane scares Partridge and then RJ does the same to Jane? Kirkland is only slightly creepy, Haffner is blind to reading people, and Bertram has no personality even if he's been suspicious by quoting Blake, calling Jane the boy wonder, and his part in the S3 final.
I'm thoroughly upset with Heller. Mashburn was so perfect - (even now my mind's trying to come up with a logical explaination for RJ being Mashburn despite Heller's comment that RJ is one of the seven suspects . . LOL)
I admit defeat and I'll try to crush the vague hope that a poor response to the names revealed with cause Heller to write in a loophole that results in it being Mashburn . .
