Do you know what's really unfortunate? Not to sound depressing, but isn't it a shame that the suspects we have are ALL portrayed by really great actors and (especially a few standouts being McAllister [Xander Berkeley], Haffner [Reed Diamond], Partridge [Jack Plotnick], and Kirkland [Michael Corrigan]) that in 2 weeks, he'll be gone? Lately this site has a lot of posts of certain actors and (ex. Xander in Nikita and Plotnick in Criminal Minds) how they would be amazing antagonists and thus amazing Red John's with their eerie, intimidating and spot-on portrayals of killers and anti-heroes. But, we never really got to see our Red John as Red John, and we won't after E08. Additionally, throughout the series, all of our potential RJ's have had little screen time, and we haven't seen him in his true character. So the reveal (hopefully) will give us only a few minutes of actual RJ time (unless there's lots of flashbacks) and then our actors won't be able to show off their RJ-ness (I really don't know how else to express this). 

I'm not trying to put a damper on the show AT ALL, because I know that we will move on to another story arc and I'm so thankful for the mystery and intrigue in this show thus far, but this is just off-putting to me. 

I mean, Red John has been a complete mystery for FIVE ENTIRE SEASONS. That's almost UNHEARD of for a TV show that has this big of a following; that the underlining plot is still just as entertaining and mysterious this entire time. I'm just amazed at this. Not going to lie, I am so attached to this show and it's going to be really depressing to know that our antagonist of 5 years will be gone just like that.