If Red John was not the leader of the BA then i would be a lot cooler with ep 8. If they made Rj a member of the BA for connections but against them thus using jane to take them out it would of been perfect.
A serial killer who is a sheriff? Ok thats fine. A serial killer who is the leader of a mafia like gang of law enforcement is ridic!
All they had to do was tweak it so that he was not the leader, thats all!

Some soft voiced serial killer who controls 1000 powerful people and nobody knows who he is was the problem for me. If i was a senator and some soft voiced weirdo called me and said "do this" id say f u!
At the same time we have 1 ep left of hope. The fbi is the key since rj seemed to have a friend in the fbi plus the fbi always interfered with cbi. Jane knows this and i think its why he took the job among other reasons.
Can a brotha get a Visualize episode !!!

Mentalist worst episodes:
1: Tommy Volker conclusion- stealing a child in broad daylight when his lawyers could eat the kids testimony alive tops my list.
2: The clown episode who killed the math genius. Seriously a clown? They still make ski masks right?
3: The gay guy who was killed by his lover and used a gym elastic band to throw his gun away. Bad.
4: Red John conclusion: Jane strangling Rj was cool and much better then a gunshot but everything else was ehhh
5: Rigsby Gvp wedding crime. Guy gets caught stealing and instead of just putting it back or dealing with a theft charge he decides to hit a dude over the head and leaving his body in broad daylight.
-This show has a lot of murders that were just unrealistic. Like if they got caught doing the original crime they would get community service but no they chose to pick up a lamp and kill a person.
-Jane usually catches people with tricks that result in little to no actual evidence yet the suspects always admit to everything bc cho asks "why did you do it"? Umm lawyers people.

We actually had a taste before of what this show is without the Red John storyline. Remember the Tommy Volker case? It was very tiresome and boring..... not to mention in the end a little boy could have convicted him. This shows backbone is and will always be the Red John storyline. Unfortunately, we the people of this site are a minority compared to the "Jisbon" fans hence even if we boycott...... this show will still get enough viewers. To sum it all up in a sentence : Jisbon fans ruined this great show.

Since there aren't many tangible things to guess where they might take the Season finale I thought it might be fun to share a new inside joke I found smuggled into their set design:

The original FBI logo looks like this:

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/70/US-FBI-ShadedSeal.svg/300px-US-FBI-ShadedSe....

The initials of their Motto "Fidelity, Bravery, Integrity" again add up to FBI.

In the show they use a slightly different logo:

http://i57.tinypic.com/nxnrqu.jpg 

The initial of their Motto "Valor, Heroism, Service" add up to VHS, which is the video standard that was most common before the DVD-Player came along.

Let's all agree on Scarlett Johansson being Red John.

Scarlet = Red

Johansson = Scandinavian derivative of Johan = John

I doubt anyone would object to THAT reveal :D