SPOILERS, SPOILERS, SPOILERS

If you haven't seen the RJ episode, you best be avoiding this site right about now, if you're afraid of spoilers.


 Okay, I slept on it and I realized a few things:

1)Jane knew it would be McAllister (foresight about pidgeon/fears), which was a cool,clever twist.  

2)The pidgeon was fitting because it's a magician's trick -- the reason magicians use doves (which are white pidgeons) is because they "sleep" and act dead when they are in the dark -- almost undetectable

3) He is Mar -- We should come up with a million of these, but some possible ones could be "He is Mar-shall" "He is Man-iac" which could be anyone.

4) They played this out as the anti-"Strawberries and Cream." After sleeping on my disappointment, I realized that they didn't want people to just say that they ripped of the Timothy Carter episode (Really die-hard fans wouldn't care, that's why we tune in!!!).  

  So, they did the opposite -- made the team immobile and impotent, set it in he light of day, set it in real time, no resources (just Jane's brain and everyday objects), RJ is no Timothy Carter, just the jerk (not even creep, too high of praise) next door who wants to be appreciated for his "genius."

   Okay, so they played it simple, few frills, Jane's brain only, mundane, not over the top.  One could say it was realistic and elegant.  One could say that, but I think it's like what happened to The Office season 8 or the Seinfeld finale (which were crap) -- they went for the counter-expectation, the bait and switch.  The writers got too writerly, they only talked amongst themselves without looking at it from our perspective.

Hmmm . . . what would the audience not expect?  Was their clarion call.  

 -- Jane in a church
 -- impotent team
 -- low tech revenge: bird and choking
 -- daylight, quotidian locales, soft begging RJ with no real insights to reveal other than the plea for life "Don't you wanna know how I got the list?"
 -- Calling 911 instead of Blake or Visualize cronies

In the end, did the audience just want something the didn't expect? Or did we want Timothy Carter in a different incarnation?  Our collective backlash should give you the answer.  Yes, we wanted the chain-pulling of each Season Finale and RJ episode to finally come to an end, but not JUST to come to an end.

   It's like a bride who decides to cut off all of her hair and dye it red right before her wedding and then gets upset and pissed off when her groom is shocked and disappointed.  He IS surprised, but not necessarily in a good way.  That's just how it feels, Bruno Heller.

   Please give us a Partridge alternative ending (online webisode, in the least) -- Haffner, Mashburn, Styles, Linus Wagner, etc. alternative endings  a la Clue movie -- just to show how it would have played out, even if they don't fit with the rest of the new season.  We have been your loyal fans, please be loyal to us.