This is just an idea I'd like to throw out there, but I keep thinking RJ holds too much ongoing interest in PJ for it just to have been sparked by a tv appearance that offended. I think there may be some connection to PJ's dad, so how about PJ has an unknown sibling? (Or similar childhood rival that PJ didn't even realize was a rivalry). His father didn't exactly seem the most honorable & responsible man. Maybe PJ was better at making the money, the other child was abandoned (or ignored, unclaimed, etc), leaving him/her (likely male, yes, but not definite), with lifelong bitterness toward PJ, & a STRONG DESIRE TO TAKE FROM PJ JUST AS PJ "took" (the father's attention) FROM HIM.
Also, most important, a lifelong driving need to PROVE TO ALL (HIMSELF, PJ, & THEIR FATHER-dead or alive) THAT HE (RJ) IS THE BEST, BRIGHTEST, ETC, NOT ----PJ----. If RJ did build up the three dotted tattoo (that tattoo was meant to be seen by victim, normal clothes cover it, only a tank top would show it--off) tyger-tyger organization, again, proof he is the best, better than PJ at it all. PJ confesses his lies after family deaths, tries to make right, etc. Joins law enforcement (even if began as selfish, he helps many), now RJ shows he can not just join (did he?), but can amass a secret organization thru the highest branches (CBI, FBI, HOMELAND, etc) successfully. RJ seems to never want to leave PJ's life. He is beyond obsessed. I think RJ is more obsessed than PJ is. There is an interesting idea, WHY?
Childhood can dig deep needs that cannot be reasonably filled later. There are an awful lot of questions about the carnival, about PJ's past, his dad, all that, left unanswered. Red herring? Sure, possible. But what a crazy ass denoumont (sp?) that would be, right? If the family from the past angle came back, it would SHOCK PJ. (Maybe Kirkland's story of his childhood begins the reintroduction into old pasts coming back)
& others have mentioned the Barlows (I think that was the name in the carnival community associated with psychics, yes? Anyway, what if there is a half sibling by PJ dad who is born of a Barlow? What if all those years back, there was a sibling (as postulated above), that actually WAS psychic or something, but because PJ could "sell" it better, the dad chose him as favorite. & some within carnival community resented that treatment of another child, thus the comment quoted in another theory about "only Barlows being real psychics" or something like that.
It just seems RJ has taken many unnecessary risks by staying so very involved with PJ's life all these years. Must be driven by something. He already 'won' by taking PJ's wife & child.
Ok, I am no expert on this, just had a thought & wanted to share. One more thing. I know "Red John" is probably self-given nickname. But when writing RJ & PJ over & over, same last initial. Prob means nothing. Maybe RJ is trying to force PJ to remember --& confront within himself-- the possibility that another child existed & suffered as PJ got the adoration of the father. PJ then threw away his fathers attentions, which would only further enrage one who had coveted & been denied those very attentions.
One more thing, I agree something is strange about recent explanation by Bob Kirkland re: his own motive & how much he spends on talking in detail about a father & twin & how awful it all was. Makes sense RJ came from either sadistic or less than loving home. & I'm not convinced Bob is dead. Probably, but poss of bullet proof vest? I know, that's reaching :). Just interesting he is/was a twin (could he suspect his twin became RJ & feels duty bound to end it bc he never did get his "close" twin out of the dad's house?), he was a twin & in many ways PJ & RJ have become flip sides of a coin?
Btw, Rosalind's word is taken too much as truth, & even if she is telling the truth as she knows it, there are many ways a woman can pretend to be a man in bed & successfully trick someone (it CAN happen), plus they never really LIVED together, which would make it easier to fake. & there are plenty of redheads in the show, esp women. With Irish background, could there have been a red headed mommy back in the day? & Stiles is white haired now, what was he 20 yrs ago, he already has a (real?Faked?) accent from the same island (British & Irish) , etc. I do think there is some crazy strange attachment between Stiles & PJ that PJ is unaware of.
Ok, sorry so long. Just some ideas. Please tear them apart, I'm interested in anyone's ideas. I wonder if we all looked closer at the tyger poem, if it would help more.
