For God's sake, bring back Bret Stiles!
If the writers, producers want a great season with lots of excitement, they should at least bring back someone important from the past.
They could easily arrange for Bret Stiles to be alive, hiding somewhere in England, enjoying his money and the fact that everyone thinks he is dead, lol.
They could have one last adventure with Jane for old times sake.
One can dream, right? :)
I've been reading some of the excellent theories, thoughts and reflections on this site.
The problem for me is to isolate what I think will happen from what I want to happen.
I would like to hope that:
The last season was a "long con" - an attempt to lead everyone in the wrong direction and to set us up for a surprise in season 7.
Or, maybe, they thought that the show was about to be cancelled and tried to wrap everything up in a hurry, but left space for an alternative resolution in case they got another season to play with.
Or, they were lazy and cynical in their approach to wrapping-up both the Red John and the "will they, wont they" Jisbon arc but will revise their plan due to protests from the fan-base and (perhaps) from the cast / writers.
If any of the above are the case then we can look forward to a cracking seventh season. They will have had time to finish off the Red John story-line with style. Maybe they could begin with the murder of Lisbon. Perhaps RJ waited until Patrick dared to love again before striking against him a second time?
Also, we should see the return of Lorelei. The ONLY way she could have known the names of Patrick's suspects was that her death was faked (remember, Patrick had not finalised the list until after her death).
Brett Stiles should also return. His death was obviously faked, plus he knows way too much about Red John. He probably also knows who he is. Maybe he uses him to dispose of people?
It is also likely that someone close to Jane and Lisbon was in the (stupid, stupid, stupid) Blake society. (This really was a low point - can you really imagine a secret group of corrupt cops running around quoting William Blake to each other?)
In the final reveal I suspect that RJ is someone you would least suspect - Rigsby or GVP, etc.
OK, so that is my desire - now what I think will happen:
Nothing.
More Jisbon crap.
More murder-of-the-week high-jinks.
And the grande finale? The wedding of the year!
A third possibility is that Cho will finally flip-out and get shot holding up a liquor store :)
In everyone's opinion, besides season 6-What was the worse season of the Mentalist?
For me, it has to be Season 5. I feel like the RJ Storyline hit the wall and it wasn't until the fall of Season 6 that it SEEMED the show was recapturing the initial excitement with RJ.
Simon Baker at a recent WB press conference:
“The experience that we had last year, in the last season—it was really interesting because you have the arc of what a story is and what the story should be. Then you have the idea of the business outside of that, of whether it will continue or whether the story is finished.
“If you ask me, the original story that we started off with and laid out in the pilot episode many years ago—that story finished probably around the end of the second season. When was Bradley Whitford (in the show as a man who convinced Patrick he was Red John but was not)? Like third season? I don’t know. They all blend into one."
He goes on to talk about Jisbon so I won't include it here. Just found his "opinion" (whilst among WB execs) to be interesting and similar to some thoughts expressed here recently.
http://entertainment.inquirer.net/155649/simon-baker-coy-about-rumored-end-of-mentalist
(Sorry about the wierd source material....Philippine Inquirer?)
Discussion question for anyone out there-What moment did you realize that the Red John story had been completely mismanaged? For me it came about 3 episodes after the reveal when I realized they were dropping the storyline, but for some it might have come in Season 6 before the reveal (I saw someone mention Fire and Brimstone below)-or even in an earlier season.
I never thought this site would "die" like this. The last comment is from one week ago. I must say I feel nostalgic sometimes. We had the best show and they ruined it. Other tv series will come and we'll forget this show. Cheers people.
PS: Can anyone recommend me shows like the mentalist (when it was good lol)
im not a person that is going to watch every episode 50 times to catch every word a phrase said but if had to take a stab on who Red John was i would say that Jane has split personality and Red John is his other personality