Hey everyone

Yesterday I had a huge rant after seeing the long awaited reveal. I felt disappointed because like many others on the site I felt like no closure was given in terms of many clues and observations we made over the past 5 season.

However, last night after rewatching the episode, I realized that even though they picked someone who may not be anyone's first choice to be Red John, the ending of this saga was truly poetic. 

Jane's expression when the sheriff walked in was one of relief that his search has come to an end. He knew that this is the man he had been looking for for 10 years. Nothing else mattered.

Everyone, including me, was angry that Jane declined the opportunity to get answers from Red John.  But if you think about it, Jane is there with a plan, he wants to throw this man off of his game, this man expected Jane to want answers but Jane had to throw him off of his train of thought so that he can't see the pigeon trick coming nor the gun that Jane hid in the church in the previous episode (it is not shown but obviously that is how he planned it).

Then we have to see Patrick chasing this man, and see Red John have these escape opportunities like the school bus right there but not be able to get away. Jane finally has him where he wants him, in his sights, wounded and just beyond the reach of an escape.

Finally Jane catches him and in my opinion, when McAllister pleads for mercy, it's an ode to Bruno saying that we will be disappointed in the end, he will be just a man, not an amazing monster with god-like features, but he is a man who is like most men afraid of death.  He wanted to bring this man who fans saw as a powerful leader of many, who can have men killed, evidence covered up, people freed from prison to be seen as the everyday man he actually was.  In 10 minutes he brought a man who claims to have the life of thousands at his hands, down to a everyday guy begging for his life. This is Bruno's design and I salute him for sticking to his guns.

Jane kills Red John by strangling him, it's intimate and he wants to feel this man's life slip away. He wants to feel the man who took his family struggle for his life.

I read last night a blog by Bruno Heller talking about the idea with the final sequence where Jane runs away. He runs past all these extras and it is said that the Director placed them there to show Jane running from everything Red Jonh took from him , we see a lady and her daughter, an old man and his wife holding hands and then a father playing with his daughter. 

Rewatching the episode and taking  into account that they can't be expected to provide answers for 5 and a half years worth of mystery and conclude the story in 42 minutes, and also when you take in to account the absolute brilliance in the poetry and feeling you get from this episode you appreciate it as an ending.

And even though most of us would like to have seen someone else be Red John, I can say that I finally made peace with the Red John we were given.

Thanks

PS. Now that we know whoisredjohn, let's turn the site into "www.whokilledbriangriffin.com"