I'm sorry, if anyone thinks RJ is still alive...you need a reality check! 
He's dead, plain and simple. Move on!!

Jane dating a women who asks him why he's still wearing his wedding ring, Fischer and Lisbon being jealous about that, etc

The Mentalist has officially turned into a fucking soap opera.

Plus, that blonde woman was OBVIOUSLY the killer, she was just a copy and paste of Erica Flynn.

I'm sick and tired of these new characters! I want Stiles, LaRoche and Kirkland back. :'(

http://gorillavid.in/yna2sioxawny

The link to the new episode if anyone wants it. :)

So, now they are getting to push Jisbon story line?  It is safe to say that the show is done and done.

First, the writing is not that good anymore.  The most important episode, Red John, was wasted with banal chitchat and pointless chase scenes. 

Second, scene development is so slow as to be glacial at times.  If you watch the scene where the church lady attacks PJ, you will get bored.  "Stop, I am with the police."  "No, you are not."  "Yes I am."  "Well, you don't look like it."  "Well, but it is true."  And on and on.  You really get bored with the repetition.  The actors seem bored repeating those lines.

Third, there are way too many characters on the show now.  Not to mention locales.  How are they going to keep them relevant with the glacial pace of scene development?  I fear they will have to resort to introducing characters by subtext on screen: Risgsby enters the scene, we will read in small letters, "Wayne Rigsby, former CBI agent and old friend of Patric Jane.  Now, runs own agency."

Finally, now that all that is left is murder of the week type episodes, those are no longer developed enough to the point of being semi-interesting.  They are going to be so bad as to be inconsistent and illogical within the span of 40 minutes (vs. 5 seasons with RJ) and resolved haphazardly.  (As was seen with the bogus fertilizer clue from the last episode.)

Either we as the audience have given the show way more leeway than it ever deserved, or they are intentionally making it worse with each show.

You know the running theme about "similarities" (or plagiarism) from other shows including Profiler and Dexter?

Get ready for another "similarity" from another show: Remember PJ's surprise for RJ involving a pigeon?  What if I told you it was copied from another show?  Would you believe it?  Honestly!

Well, it is from another show, a movie called I Give It a Year.  In it, Simon Baker pulls the same pigeon trick!  The result is only slightly different: he does it to a woman, and the pigeon dies instead of a nemesis.  Check it out if you want a laugh.

Is it maybe possible that there are 2 red johns? Hear me out...

The real red john has visualize-like followers.
Meaning that they seem brainwashed , they look at red john as a God . They speak as if he is bret styles actually. On a quest of love and stuff like that.
*red john followers commit suicide or happilly get killed after they are caught. They key word is happy. And they never talk. Ever. At most they say tiger tiger and thats it.

Macalister the BA Red john. This guy created a secret society of cops,
Judges, lawyers, and basilly law enforcement. The BA do not seem brainwashed . They have no real doctrine or mission statment. They dont care about "love" at all. They like
money and power and and cover up illegal law rnforcment infractions.
When they get caught they do NOT go easy or happy. They got shot in the back and are told the opposite .
They also talk in more instances of red john followers when pressured by real law enforcement.

*Maybe Macalister used the persona of Red john becuase
1. He thought the real red John was dead
2. He thought the real red john retired(partridge even said
"The real red john hasnt killed in years".
3 He didnt give and shit about the real red john becuase macalisters identity was a secret.
Using serial killer is great distraction to cover up certain murders and stear police in the wrong direction.

**Maybe the real red john has a more "visualize" upbringing.
Maybe he/she hasnt killed in years and is laying low.
The real red john seemed to stear patrick to the BA.
He gave patrick clues which lead to the BA being exposed and taken down.
The real red john was very angry with the BA for using his name and being currupt in general.

I know it sounds crazy but you have to admit there does seem to be a big difference between the red john followers and the BA.
The church scene is a great example:
Cordero is BA and that crazy lady was a typical red john follower.
Macalister didn't seem to know she was even there .

This is the only website where I really see people disliking the New Beginning. Everywhere else I go, most people seem to like it and are relieved the Red John story is over.