Just released, Rigsby and Van Pelt will return for the season finale!

http://tvline.com/2014/12/10/nashville-season-3-spoilers-hayden-panettiere-maternity-leave/

To be frank I really have given up on this show - BH lost interest and tied the thing up in a crap-coloured ribbon. The end of the Red John story (and, indeed, Patrick's only real reason/motivation to work for the police) was truly awful.

The character development over the last season feels like it has been handled by a nine-year-old child. For example, how did Lisbon just become an FBI agent? Even Cho spent a year or two training.

But Lisbon was just handed a badge?

How does that work?

It doesn't matter: this is The Mentalist. Nothing makes sense and nothing means anything!

When they got away with the appalling McAllister business they clearly realised that the audience would swallow any old rubbish. And this attitude shows. The plots are repetitive, the dialogue is empty and they have replaced drama with melodrama - story-telling without a strong character-driven plot. Things just happen because they happen.

But somewhere in my jaded, disappointed brain there are a few remaining cells that believe the producers and writers are still just setting us up for the REAL Red John finale. Crazy, right?

And those few cells have been obsessing on the lack of physical contact, intimacy and warmth between Jane and Lisbon, the girl he forced his way onto a 'plane to woo (In reality you would be shot in an american airport, or be taken to a CIA torture room, if you did something like that).

"Supposing they are not really in love", my poor desperate brain cells cry out, "but they want to provoke the real RJ into showing himself, now that Jane has found happiness in a new love?"

So, could this remance be a charade?

Is it a trap of sorts?

So I saw season 7 have started, although all I feel is utter disgust when I think of the mentalist now, I'm just gonna watch it and see if the writers could pull their shit together, probably not, but whatever.

Not a theory, just an observation. The opening scenes of both episodes have now prominently featured the color red. I'm hesitant to think anything of it at this point because of how brutal the last season has been and the quality of the writing dropping so drastically.

However, the old Mentalist fan in me would be hopeful about this, especially for a show which is ostensibly heavy on color symbolism (E.g. every episode title). One episode is hardly noteworthy, two episodes is a coincidence, but three would be a pattern. I'll be keeping a close eye out for the opening scene of episode three to see if it happens again.

Hi guys!


I'm literally grateful for you guys! When most of the fans have already moved on and don't give a s**t, you guys still come up with ideas and try to find answers. That's sweet. We practically care about the show more than anyone else.:)

All I wanted to say was: I know people here are not crazy about 'Jisbon'. I'm not either. But if we HAD to go there, isn't it ridiculous that the freshly 'in love' couple never kiss, touch or hug each other?? I think it's really weird and so far I don't understand the move..They are supposed to be in love and even when they are about to be shot they don't show any affection?? Horrible writing!

If things are so lame with them now, why did they even have to change anything?? They were better off as friends, it was more believable..This whole love story is cringe. 

I know Stoopkid always sounds positive about the show, but we have to face it: they have sold out. They abandoned everything and went for the easy option. It's not embarrassing or shameful to admit this, it's not our fault. They did a shit job and ruined the show. Even now they are not honest: Lisbon and Jane are not f*****g in love! That's not what in love looks like!!!

There's only one little thing that can make me happy now..If Styles come back! But mark my words, he won't! Because the people who write the stories are full of s**t and they don't care about the hardcore fans, they care about the teenage fantasy-dream fans! Just deal with it..

:( 

Watching the show from the last 6 years, Grace is definitely conflicted.  Even when the FBI came in, she was freaked that her stuff was going to be confiscated.  If this were a truly great show, all the last 15 episodes would be a ruse/con to the real final reveal.  The only truly good choices were Stiles with Van Pelt, daughter as accomplice mole, Partridge again with Van Pelt as the CSI mole, CSI Ron, or Patrick himself.  A truly great mystery has the mastermind decided before the writing begins and then gives faint clues.  No way it was ever the sheriff.  That just became a total screwup as the ratings dipped and Heller ceased to care about the show.  No show answers all questions, but it would be great if some got answered in the last 11 episodes.  We can still hope that the last 3 will involve a conclusion we did not get last season.  Until then, it is hard to watch.  The weekly cases used to be much better, but I still like the characters.

So, the weekly story was much better even if the shooting of the convenience store guy was truly horrific -- like NEVER become a cashier at a convenience store people.  In fact, don't even GO into one.  It is apparently thee first place a sociopath on the run goes to.

Yes, Wiley has Rigsby's forehead, but that's about it.  I don't hate him in the show, but I think his input and presence should be minor, at best, and only in lieu of the other team members needing him during a trick

Fischer and Vega seem to fulfill the same purpose:  being stiff and procedural, with a few comments about their irritation with Jane's methods [yawn…]…not even close to fulfilling the gaping hole Grace left

Though Grace did challenge Jane -- it was more on a personal, emotional, existential level -- her views on life….otherwise, Grace was mostly in sync with Jane  on the "team" level

And that's what I miss about this show -- that feeling of the "team" -- despite their differences, they all RESPECTED each other tremendously

Abbott works well as a part of the "new" team -- he's one of the best things about the show now, he adds so much depth to every scene he's in…but the Grace and Wayne replacements have been stale, at best!

AND, as I suspected [yawn]...Vega is likely there for a Cho romance…seems confirmed by this week -- she "looks up to" and "admires" him…asks can she "follow" him around….[like a puppy dog]

Cho is seriously under utilized

And, one last thing….Jane and Lisbon touched more when they weren't together.