Tiger, Tiger.
Jul. 24th, 2010 10:53 amAll right, 'Red Sky in the Morning' didn't have a great deal of Jane/the team, but I can forgive it for shallow and also slightly worrying reasons.
( Spoilers for the second-season finale of The Mentalist, 'Red Sky in the Morning'. )
In less 'things I shouldn't find hot but do' news (come to think of it, quite a lot of The Mentalist falls under that category), I'm not quite sure what to make of Hightower. When she was first introduced, there was a lot of emphasis on 'if Jane steps out of line, Lisbon is out'. Tension! Conflict! And then that idea never went anywhere and completely disappeared after two episodes. Was the plan just to go 'aha, you thought Hightower would be an antagonist but it turns out she's all right really'?
My main problem with this is 'how am I supposed to know what Pokémon Hightower would have when I can't get a handle on who she really is?' Honestly, Mentalist writers, you have to consider these things. (I still don't know what Pokémon Jane has. Perhaps he doesn't have one; perhaps he had one before, but Red John got to his Persian as well as his family. The Persian was his house Pokémon; he also had an Abra for public appearances, as a psychic would be expected to have a psychic Pokémon, but he gave it away after the Red John incident.
Actually, as actual psychic powers exist in the Pokémon world, The Mentalist probably wouldn't work there at all. Whoops.)
( Spoilers for the second-season finale of The Mentalist, 'Red Sky in the Morning'. )
In less 'things I shouldn't find hot but do' news (come to think of it, quite a lot of The Mentalist falls under that category), I'm not quite sure what to make of Hightower. When she was first introduced, there was a lot of emphasis on 'if Jane steps out of line, Lisbon is out'. Tension! Conflict! And then that idea never went anywhere and completely disappeared after two episodes. Was the plan just to go 'aha, you thought Hightower would be an antagonist but it turns out she's all right really'?
My main problem with this is 'how am I supposed to know what Pokémon Hightower would have when I can't get a handle on who she really is?' Honestly, Mentalist writers, you have to consider these things. (I still don't know what Pokémon Jane has. Perhaps he doesn't have one; perhaps he had one before, but Red John got to his Persian as well as his family. The Persian was his house Pokémon; he also had an Abra for public appearances, as a psychic would be expected to have a psychic Pokémon, but he gave it away after the Red John incident.
Actually, as actual psychic powers exist in the Pokémon world, The Mentalist probably wouldn't work there at all. Whoops.)
