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Right this is not a theory, just something I wanted to share with you guys.

Even though Xander Berkeley is known as an excellent actor, the way Red John was performed is waaaay under everyone's expectations. (it is quite generally accepted that episode 8 was... you know, crap) Just look at some other villains of the show and the way their actor portrayed them.



1. Bob Kirkland

Although not really a villain, that character was awesome! Kevin Corrigan is just a perfect actor. I had seen him in Californication before, but his Kirkland performance was freaking brilliant, he could have been a perfect Red John.


2. Tommy Volker

You know an actor does a good job when his character looks so realistically sadistic and truly evil that you just wanna punch them in the face. Volker was one of those, he was really well portrayed and entertaining, in short an excellent performance.


3. Brett Stiles

Although not really a villain either, he has been a major character in The Mentalist since season 1 (correst me if I'm wrong). Now there's something I don't understand about Bruno Heller. Stiles was the head of a worldwide cult, with thousands of followers who could have died for him, he was rich, powerful, had the power to read through people, etc. He clearly knew what Red John was up to. Now I'm completely alright with the fact he's not RJ, but hello Heller, have gone insane? One of the most important and intersting characters of the show, and you just get rid of him with no explanation other than "he was killed in the explosion" ?? What is wrong with you? I've arleady expressed how disappointed I was in seeing all the best characters being successively killed off with no reason.


4. Partridge.

Right, he's not RJ, and that's fine. I wasn't a Partridge fan, but I must admit I thought for a while he was RJ. Now he's not, fine, he was just a red herring, fine, he was killed by McAllister to keep silence about his connections with him ("anyone who can identify RJ ends up dead"). But keep in mind he was very well portrayed too, the actor did a good job. That creepy thing about him was just brilliant. 


5. Erica Flynn

Remember her? She killed her husband, tried to seduce Jane, was very clever and managed to manipulate people into helping her. She eventually escaped and is still in the wind. Every one must have forgotten about her, just like Heller and that's fine, but she was a good character, in my opinion better portrayed and developped than the actual RJ.


6. Any other villain I forgot to talk about and whose performance was way better than McAllister's. There are loads, but these five are the main ones I can think of right now. 


Despite all those excellent characters, Bruno Heller chose to get rid of them and to come up with shitty ones for the ultimate episode. McAllister, Abbott, Kim, Cordero, Smith, some lady with a knife? You gotta be kidding me.



What are your thoughts about this? All this just to say that McAllister was under-developped, irrelevant to all the RJ clues from season 1 to 5, and simply extremely disappointing. 

TO THOSE WHO ARE TRYING TO WORK OUT BERTRAM's CODED LIST: I've finally decoded the message!

Here is what it says:



"Dear overly attached Mentalist fans,

I see you've been spending your time trying to figure out what this coded list means. Bravo. That's quite a feat of research. You think you're clever, but you're not. I'll show you clever.

This list is another random clue I gave away for no reason, just like every other RJ clue I gave you for five years. They all lead nowhere, get over it.
I don't care about the clues I give you, they're just meant to keep you watching my series so I make a lot of money. If I did care about the clues, you wouldn't be theorizing about how RJ isn't dead because the whole storyline doesn't make sense.

I've changed the rules now. I've made this storyline so bad that you think it can't be the real one. I'm going to start fucking up my series again. Often. Until you throw up... Or I do.

B. Heller"




It's all clear now isn'it?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I7qazEJFu_8 (00:05)

Look how classy Red John would have been if they have developed his character more throughout the season, instead of showing him in only one episode in 5 seasons. A shame they didn't use the character until his name was revealed on the list.

Why was Sheriff Thomas McAllister even on the list in the first place?

Remember, in The Red Barn episode, Patrick told Lisbon something like "400 people on the list are people I never ever saw or heard from again, which means they're not Red John"

Sheriff McAllister was one of them! After season 1 episode 2 we never saw him again. Or did we and I missed it?

Anyway, McAllister being Red John is the worst thing that could happen to the series and I think Bruno Heller signed his series death warrant in episode 8.

http://makeameme.org/meme/i-dont-always-gtdvil

Who else hates FBI agent Dennis Abbot? (or whatever his name is) 

As far as I'm concerned I think this character is completely irrelevant, came out of nowhere, he hasn't brought anything interesting to the series, he's just some random guy that you could think is there just to annoy people. He has no background, we don't know what he's fucking doing around here, to me he had nothing to do with RJ saga's ending. Also I would expect his shoulder to be checked when he showed up at the CBI to close it down. 

When you have excellent characters with an interesting background and a developed story like JJ LaRoche, Kristina Frye, or even Agent Darcy (who screwed up the operation to catch RJ in season 4 finale), I think it is shitty writing to create characters like Abbot. He's useless. He has nothing to do there. He's a mistake. 

Crappy Red John by the way.

Alright so we are supposed to believe that:


- Sheriff McAllister was a real psychic and that's how he knew about the names on the list. He just had a good guess.

- He had a phobia for birds but still he took his time killing Partridge and painting Lisbon's face in a house full of pigeons.

- He had twelve or thirteen wives, among which the incredibly hot Lorelei.

- He is such a genius he controls the lives of thousands of people with no one knowing his identity.

- He anticipated most of Patrick's tricks to catch him.

- And sooooooo on.


But he couldn't guess Patrick would hide a gun in the church where HE wanted to meet with RJ?


Bruno Heller and CBS think we are dumb and will buy anything, but I won't buy this shit. McAllister is a shitty Red John (even though he's a good actor) in a shitty episode, shitty scenario and shitty development, last sunday's episode didn't answer any of my questions.

Where the fuck are JJ Laroche, Krystina Frye, Erica Flynn, Walter Mashburn, Madeleine Hightower, Patrick's father, Rosalind Harker??? Bruno Heller had all the elements he needed and plenty of interesting characters, yet he chose to use Reed Smith, McAllister, Cordero, or some random religious woman with a knife in the climactic PJ vs RJ confrontation. It's like he purposely killed or threw away the best characters (I'm still mourning Bob Kirkland :'( ) and kept all the crappy ones to make his story as annoying as possible.