Then I Was Thinking About A Sandwich.

[rionaleonhart]

I love The Mentalist so much. It has its flaws, yes, but I love it. Patrick Jane is a contender for my favourite fictional character of all time, and Jane/everyone in Lisbon's team (with optional Hightower) is without question my favourite 'ship.

Have I ever said that before? I know I babble on about how Jane is in love with everyone in every other Mentalist post I make, but have I ever said it's my favourite 'ship in the world? I'm saying it now. If I had the power to pour hundreds of high-quality fics about a single 'ship into any fandom: Jane/everyone. I wouldn't even need to think about it.

The second episode of series four ('Little Red Book') demonstrates what I've always suspected: Jane can't work with people he's not in love with. Try to put him in a new team and he'll just sabotage it until the team of his heart are gathered around him again. I love him so much. He's such a child; he's completely incapable of maturely putting up with a situation that isn't to his liking. NOPE. RUIN EVERYONE'S LIVES UNTIL I HAVE MY FAVOURITE PEOPLE WITH ME AGAIN. I WIN.

I've been rewatching a few second-series episodes recently, and I'd forgotten how heartbreaking 'Blood In, Blood Out' was. Cho. (Also, I've mentioned several times that I'd like to see Jane screw up more often; I'd evidently forgotten about his tendency to get bored, wander into a high-tension situation and ruin everything. The man needs to be kept in a cage.)

I'd love to write more fanfiction for The Mentalist, actually. Point Five is a piece I'm really fond of (my view of it is probably skewed by the fact that it deals with, as mentioned, my favourite 'ship of all time), but save for a few snippets I've never managed to write anything else. I don't know why I find it such a difficult fandom to work with. I need more ideas. Does anyone have ideas I can borrow?

This is a really pointless entry, I know, especially considering how few of you actually watch The Mentalist. I HAVE A LOT OF FEELINGS I NEED TO EXPRESS.

Comments

[rionaleonhart]

I got Rigsby and Van Pelt confused when I first started watching! In the first episode, I thought that Rigsby was called Van Pelt; in the second I managed to work out that Van Pelt was in fact the woman, but I still had no idea what Rigsby was actually called for some time. It took me ages to shake off the residual name-confusion that had me believing on some level they were both called Van Pelt. Apparently they're a confusing couple of characters.

I do actually have a handful of scraps of Jane in Silent Hill written. Maybe I should see whether I can do anything with that at some point.

[amy-wolf.livejournal.com]

For two characters who aren't that much alike, they are surprisingly easy to confuse with each other. Lisbon I picked up immediately, because I saw the episode with the disease lab (PATRICK JANE, WHAT IS WRONG WITH YOU?), and I've seen Blood In, Blood Out, so Rigsby and Van Pelt are the sticking point.

Patrick Jane in Silent Hill should not be too difficult, considering that Red John is perilously close to being a Silent Hill character.

[rionaleonhart]

Oh, the disease lab episode is one of my favourites! But, yes, it's a pretty major WHAT IS WRONG WITH YOU JANE episode. I love you, Jane, but I am extremely glad that I don't work with you.

Red John is like Silent Hill concentrated into a single man for Jane. I'm endlessly fascinated by Jane's feelings about him; it's such a strange mixture of guilt and respect and longing. You're never in any doubt that Jane wants to kill Red John more than he wants anything else in the world, but it's very difficult to say for certain that Jane hates him.

[amy-wolf.livejournal.com]

And she immediately suspects that he is faking and he is all "I AM TOTALLY NOT FAKING!" and she actually ends up believing him!

Yeah, if a person was a city, Red John would be Silent Hill. (I think Patrick Jane would be Gotham City, being consistently centered around murder and revenge, but veering between creepy levels of dark grittiness and cheerful wacky adventures.)