I think 'Paint It Red' is my favourite episode of The Mentalist so far. Patrick Jane is such a dick! I do not know why this delights me so much, but it does. I kept going back to rewatch the scene in which he embarrasses Van Pelt and grinning massively. Sorry for laughing at your discomfort, Van Pelt; I like you enormously, but heeee. (I find myself 'shipping Jane/Van Pelt quite a bit more after that episode.)
Other things I love: the ending! Jane lying adorably on the sofa! His sheer audacity in the mob boss bit, and his massive ':D *thumbs up*' afterwards! The most unnecessary phone call ever!
(...and, hey, it turns out that this episode was written by the person who wrote 'Red Brick and Ivy'! All is forgiven, sir.)
I feel I have now watched enough of The Mentalist to begin tentatively assigning the characters Pokémon. (This is, of course, an essential step in the process of getting to know a set of characters.) Van Pelt has a Growlithe. Rigsby has a Vulpix. Cho has an undersized but fierce male Nidoran that stands on the desk and glares at suspects whilst Cho interrogates them. Lisbon has an Ivysaur; it's generally well-behaved, but Jane delights in trying to make it disobey her orders.
Jane himself is tricky. I considered Golduck, just because it can learn Psychic moves without actually being a Psychic type, but I don't think a Golduck really fits him. Perhaps a Persian or something with a similar air of smugness?
On the similarly important subject of Hogwarts houses: Van Pelt is a Gryffindor, Lisbon is a Ravenclaw, Rigsby is a Hufflepuff. Jane, much like Derren Brown, hovers on the border between Ravenclaw and Slytherin; he'd probably be sorted into Slytherin in the end. Cho I'm not sure about; perhaps another Gryffindor?
...oh, cock, I've just checked my online timetable and realised that my lecture was in fact now, as opposed to three o'clock (as it has been for the past two weeks).
What do you think my chances are of getting from London to Brighton in minus two minutes?
I am an idiot.
(The above was written at eleven o'clock; it is now half past four. Whilst my efforts to go back in time met with failure, I discovered on the train that a second group was attending the same lecture at two o'clock, so I went to that instead. It's a mini adventure!)
Other things I love: the ending! Jane lying adorably on the sofa! His sheer audacity in the mob boss bit, and his massive ':D *thumbs up*' afterwards! The most unnecessary phone call ever!
(...and, hey, it turns out that this episode was written by the person who wrote 'Red Brick and Ivy'! All is forgiven, sir.)
I feel I have now watched enough of The Mentalist to begin tentatively assigning the characters Pokémon. (This is, of course, an essential step in the process of getting to know a set of characters.) Van Pelt has a Growlithe. Rigsby has a Vulpix. Cho has an undersized but fierce male Nidoran that stands on the desk and glares at suspects whilst Cho interrogates them. Lisbon has an Ivysaur; it's generally well-behaved, but Jane delights in trying to make it disobey her orders.
Jane himself is tricky. I considered Golduck, just because it can learn Psychic moves without actually being a Psychic type, but I don't think a Golduck really fits him. Perhaps a Persian or something with a similar air of smugness?
On the similarly important subject of Hogwarts houses: Van Pelt is a Gryffindor, Lisbon is a Ravenclaw, Rigsby is a Hufflepuff. Jane, much like Derren Brown, hovers on the border between Ravenclaw and Slytherin; he'd probably be sorted into Slytherin in the end. Cho I'm not sure about; perhaps another Gryffindor?
...oh, cock, I've just checked my online timetable and realised that my lecture was in fact now, as opposed to three o'clock (as it has been for the past two weeks).
What do you think my chances are of getting from London to Brighton in minus two minutes?
I am an idiot.
(The above was written at eleven o'clock; it is now half past four. Whilst my efforts to go back in time met with failure, I discovered on the train that a second group was attending the same lecture at two o'clock, so I went to that instead. It's a mini adventure!)
