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Thomas McAllister

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Well, I'm going to keep watching The Mentalist in hope that they tie up the billion loose ends that there is; but i doubt it.

The actors themselves, I feel, were and are brilliant. Simon Baker can do no wrong in my eyes; he's been the perfect Jane the entire way.
I'd also like to say that I have no problem with the way the last episode was acted, or that T McAllister was RJ. However you can't do the reveal in a 40 minute episode. You can't just leave so many clues like that unanswered. The list - that's just appalling because lets face it, Heller has no idea how RJ knew and he made it up. All the red herrings he has put in the previous series' have no relevance and do not fit in with the end story line.

This is why it doesn't work, because Heller doesn't know the answers himself. It now feels as if he made it up as he went along. I've loved this show for 5 years, and always will, but I will always be disappointed with the ending. You can't build up one of the most loyal fan followings in TV and leave it like that. 

Lets hope he answers the lose ends in the rest of the series or in interviews at least. 


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In an interview Xander said that he was honored to be chosen to play Red John, but that someone else deserved it.
And in the same interview Bruno said that he had chosen Thomas a year ago, after looking at everything and choosing him in the end.
Myself i like the idea of Thomas as Red John.
Sure i hoped it would be Bob or Michael Kirkland but i still like it.
Xander is such a good actor and i just hope that he will be known by this role.

Xander thank you for the amazing series, Bruno thanks for all the years you wasted in to the series to make us intrigued and enjoy it. I'm still gonna follow it even though i said i would stop after seeing Red John, but i'm still gonna follow it!

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So McAllister has been revealed, and there were some odd things about the episode. I'm okay with McAllister wigging out about the pigeon; if we accepted the fact that he was a deviant sociopath who like to brutally murder people (usually women), I can go with the weirded out by the bird. How PJ kept the bird quiet I am interested in....

I can also accept RJ begging at the end. RJ though he had it all, and in the span of a few minutes, his backups were neutralized, he was shot and running out of strength, could not call for help, and did not have the upper hand, something he probably had not experienced in quite a while. I see his begging as one final attempt to manipulate PJ. RJ was using all he had left; playing on PJs emotions.

RJ made mistakes, as Bosco said he would quite a while back. Two of them were the bomb and he let PJ play the game too long; RJ's arrogance did him in. End of the saga.

The next to last episode did have my favorite quote in quite a while:

Stiles to Van Pelt: "You didn't marry that genial oaf.....Oh! Congratulations then." 


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Okay, after the big disappointment .. here are some thoughts. But I don't know.. ever since we watched the Mentalist the one thing we learned is: never ever trust the obvious..

Does Bruno Heller really wanna tell us that PJ never knew who RJ was before he revealed himself? If so, in my opinion PJ lost to RJ. The whole series was like a chess game. Both of them made some moves to confuse the other one or take some pawn in game out of the way. And in the end PJ still didn't know who RJ was. He just hunted down all the 3 suspects that were left. WOW.. that's very Mentalist-like... all the cases alongside the RJ-storyline were solved with brilliance and true 'mentalism' ... and now he's meeting with some guy who he thinks he might be RJ (and besides tells the whole world about it) just to notice 'oh dude look.. there's some other guy walking up the hallway' .. 'trololol here i am patrick.' ... screw that!!! And here comes my question. Why did PJ look down the hallway at ~24min (before RJ appeared)? Was he just acting with coution or did he wait for the 'true RJ' to show up because he knew neither Smith nor Bertram are RJ? Was he sure that the man with a tattoo who supposedly died HAS to be RJ?

But one thing is sure.. If Bruno Heller doesn't give us a shit load of RJ vs PJ flashbacks this whole series is fucked up. There were and still are so many plot holes, so many clues that don't fit and so many scenes that need to be answered.

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"If you don't get horny Watching The Mentalist, than  I'm PIGEON!"

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The mentalist plot: 
A famous "psychic" outs himself as a fake and starts working as a consultant for the California Bureau of Investigation so he can find "Red John," the madman who killed his wife and daughter.

TL;DR - waste of time.

 thanks bruno

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i just read the interview of Heller and baker about Red John episode.
Really you can go fuck your self Bruno Heller, PSYCHIC ?? seriously??

Q- How Bret Stiles knew where to find krystina??
Heller: he is a psychic.

Q- How the private investigator know about the three dots?
Heller: she is psychic too.

Q- How krystina become a zombie??
Heller. mmm...i think because she is psychic and she slept with Sheriff mcallister who is PSYCHIC too...and that's it.

Q-Why RJ kills Partridge??
Heller: because he knows too much about PSYCHIC'S stuff...

Q-What means "He is Mar", and how can somebody dying write in CAPS??
Heller: You know i can´t tell you much about this, you asking the sames questions that partridge have been asking me in 6x01, but it's PSYCHIC stuff

Q-Since when playing "rock paper scissors" a form of handshake?
Heller. it's the official handshake between psychic's come on...wanna play??

Heller: if you have more questions you can ask INTERNET.

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