http://tvline.com/2014/05/09/the-mentalist-season-6-preview-jane-lisbon-finale/

Doesn't look like anyone posted this yet.  Interview with Heller, Tunney, and Baker published today.  

My favorite line:
Heller: Sometimes I think I’m way too dumb for this audience, to come up with clever solutions like that. 

Just wanted to share a neat documentary I found on youtube. It aired just prior to the season 1 finale. In between a lot of typical idealizing there are a few very interesting tid bits, especially in part 1:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_Ho05_Npzcg&list=PLy0CY2IDLfZaustsJVeJToNXQEsyeEZNT

For example around 4:30:
It's Heller describing the show followed by Baker. Bakers facial expression when he talks about deception is just priceless. You can really see how much he appreciates the irony of being deceitful while still giving an honest answer.
They cut back to him again at 5:55, after that there is the the part about mentalism that continues in part 2 and maybe the most interesting thing about that documentary. 
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w-lt3_fCWOk&list=PLy0CY2IDLfZaustsJVeJToNXQEsyeEZNT

At 0:30 of the second part the show a clip from 116 saying Jane reads Van Pelt non verbals. In fact at that point of time in the episode he is supposed to be blind, if that is in fact the case a very bad example to chose otherwise a great one. Also like that woman mentalists comentary.

I'm just bored to death. I just can't believe they chose to don't give a damn about giving more backstory about RJ in the 6x20, it was our only chance to see something else about the character...

This is just so dumb, so stupid, so insulting. 5 fuckin' years building theories, BECAUSE of Bruno Heller and this crew of dumb screenwriters, with such things as :

-RJ has worked with Visualize!
-RJ has turned Krye into a mindless zombie!
-Kirkland kills a RJ accomplice EVEN IF IT IS STUPID AND POINTLESS (there WOULD have been a point IF Kirkland was the long lost twin)...
-etc etc...

And in the end, nothing, nothing, nothing. They just... Blow up... Visualize's leader... a worldwide sect... with absolutely NO consequences... they just put that stupid and lonely sheriff, pigeonphobic, as the great RJ who seduced countless women, turning them into his drones, using some psychopaths and making them believe in him to the point of gladly giving their life in his name...

Oh god, oh god... I just hope, please, that someone will write a book, even a databook, telling us how to explain all this shit...

http://www.trolino.com/image?id=130714.jpg

Check out this meme.

The one that should have been the real Red John

http://img4.wikia.nocookie.net/__cb20121009222823/thementalist/images/1/15/Vlcsnap-2012-10-09-23h24m......

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http://i.ytimg.com/vi/hVmQFzq8Jeo/0.jpg

http://i.imgur.com/DuLy1uV.jpg

http://img3.wikia.nocookie.net/__cb20131107211246/criminalminds/images/a/a8/Tanner_Johnson.jpg

Bruno Heller's 2013 Checklist:


1) WHO IS RED JOHN?     McAllister  [check]

2) WHAT IS RJ PHOBIA?   Pigeons!  Pigeons are everywhere.  [check]

3) HOW TO SHOW PROOF THAT MCALLISTER IS RJ?    Have McAllister freak out whenever a bird appears and in the final scene have Xander Berkeley do a high pitched voice [check]

4) WHAT TO DO ABOUT BLAKE ASSOCIATION?   Bloody pain in the ass.  Stick it on McAllister also.  Write in line:  "It didn't occur to him that I AM the Blake Association."   [check]

5) WHAT TO DO WITH THE HORDE OF SUSPECTS?  Just kill them all. [check]

6) WHAT TO DO ABOUT ALL THOSE DAMN OLD CLUES NOW?   Have Patrick Jane say he doesn't care about knowing any of them [whew -- check!  That was a big check!  Glad I figured that ONE out]

7) CAN I GET AWAY NOT EXPLAINING HOW RJ GOT THE LIST? [because I have NO IDEA, really]  Just have McAllister "offer" to tell and Jane say it was a good trick, never wanting to know and then just moving on to physical confrontation as quickly as possible [CHECK!]

8) HOW CAN JANE GET THE UPPER HAND ON RJ?  Breadcrumbs.  Pigeons LOVE breadcrumbs.  And then have Jane pull the pigeon from his pocket.  McAllister ends up disoriented and paralyzed with fear...Jane shoots him [check]

9) HOW CAN RJ ESCAPE SO I CAN KEEP THE ACTION GOING FOR THE FULL 42 MINUTES?  Have some random woman [Robin Tunney's out of work actor sister that I've been promising a bit part to] walk into the church to interrupt, allowing RJ to run off and thus, Jane having to chase him. [check!]

10) HOW WILL JANE KILL RJ?  Let Simon Baker make it up.  [check]

11) WHAT TO DO WITH SCORES OF FANS WHO WILL HATE THIS?  Just tell them they're GOING to be disappointed -- that'll shut 'em up.  It's just a show, after all! [that made me filthy rich and famous] but who cares what these bloody fans want.  Do they really know what they want, anyway?  Can't please them all, so who cares if I please any of them.  I can't be bothered now that I'm busy with a new project!  Really!  [check]

12) WHAT DO WITH SHOW AFTER RJ SINCE I WON'T BE AROUND MUCH?  Hand over to Baker, who's been dying to take over, anyway.  The writers, at this point, should be on automatic pilot, they've cranked out enough murder of the week episodes...[check]

13) PACK FOR A HOLIDAY IN THE ITALIAN COUNTRYSIDE [check]