There was something about the Mentalist fandom (those who make an effort to watch the show regularly) that had me really confused. Why did so many not like the Red John storyline and were eager for it to end? Afterall, there were only a handful of RJ-centered  episodes in a season(not counting s6). The great majority of the episodes were Jane and CBI doing their thing solving the cases of the week. So why in the world were people so eager for it to end?
     And then I realized something. The majority (or at least the vocal majority)of the fandom are Jane/Lisbon shippers, and Red John was the greatest impediment to them getting together. So it did not matter if RJ was never mentioned in the episodes, as long as he was out there, Jane and Lisbon would not get together---whether it was because Jane was scared of RJ hurting Lisbon or whether Jane was so focused on catching RJ that entering in a romantic relationship was the furthest thing from his mind. Either way, the Jisbon shippers had a problem with it.
    So we can say that the fandom is/was primarily divided into two groups: those who watch for the relationships (especially Jisbon)  and those who watched for the Red John storyline.  
   I wonder if those fandoms can be divided among gender...with the majority of Jisbon fans being female and the majority of the RJ story fans being male. I don't mean to be sexist, since I'm female and was/am a huge fan of the RJ storyline (at least until 603 but that's a whole different topic).
  Anyway, I would like to conduct an informal survey. Obviously, everyone on this forum is/was fan of the RJ storyline, even if you don't like the way it ended. Would you please press the green button if you are male and the red button if you are female?
Thank you!

Well, here I am, again waiting for a "Mentalist" episode, I'd sniffed ol' terokal glue like crazy, there's no hope unless there's an open finale. It's gonna be crime of the week and Abbot's secret crime arc as a background from here till "Lazarus". "Jisbon" is not working at all, that computer nerd is a wrong pathetic character and repeating that cheesy "love story" between partners is bad taste. Hope that "Wylie" or whatever his name is will be murdered, along with Vega and Cho who are all wasted fillers. Jane and Lisbon will be forced to leave, to run and hide while the real monster (not that surrogate Pink Joan) starts the final hunt.
None of this is gonna happen of course. I'm not Bruno fuckin' Heller or his shite team.

Brett Styles episodes usually have the word "HIS" in them.
I never knew why but maybe we will find out in two weeks.
We all know Styles said he would return, and i still contend a character of his stature would not die off camera.

"HIS Red Right Hand"
"The Blood on HIS Hands
"HIS Thoughts Were Red Thoughts"
And in two weeks...
"The Whites of HIS Eyes"

Fingers crossed..

I have been reading that there will be this new serial killer the finale will focus on, named Lazarus, right?
In this case, the writers are doing a good job keeping my hopes up, as St. Lazarus was the subject of a miracle of Jesus who restored him to life. The Lazarus Syndrome was even mentioned once in the Mentalist (season 2 episode 17) by...Rigsby.

My obsessed brain wants to see in Lazarus nothing more than a Red John restored to life for our greatest pleasure.