and another thing
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shallownessThe Mentalist 6.12 The Golden Hammer
Blah blah case of the week. The company lawyer should be glad that all he had to deal with was the lady Fed eye-rollers and not Jane. Whodunnit was credible and a new spin on cold or self-interested. It was satisfying to have the living brother to find out the truth about the brother he'd underestimated.
Most interesting thing? The Lisbon-Jane interaction.
Let us start the fact that he got so into the argument/negotiation about the state of their working relationship, now a partnership, that he missed the conversation on the other side of the glass. And then there’s his response to Lisbon’s ‘date’. Jane did not like that at all, and to some extent, she was playing with him, with-holding information and changing the topic to give Kim top tips about how to handle Jane. Heh. I also liked her continuing to interpret Jane’s signs for the new colleagues.
This week’s shipper bait, after she pooh-poohed the theory that maybe the guy who had a crush on her wanted a date and grabbed Jane's wrist to check the time:
‘You have to have patience, Lisbon’
‘I’d rather have coffee.’
And the stake-out was ridiculous and cool. Likewise Lisbon’s disguise. I enjoyed the banter and although Jane managed to get a rise out of so many people who then hit him that that bit of the interaction doesn’t signify, but there was teasing and a compliment – who knows if it was sincere?
I barely remembered the guy who called Lisbon aka Tassled Loafers. I vaguely remembered his face, but I really don’t recall when he crossed paths with her before. The main question for me was whether he was going to introduce a new arc or bring Wayne and Grace back in.
Looks like it’s both. (I don’t mind if it’s the Blake Association, because there’s the unfinished business of the uncracked code.)
I loved Rigsby and Van Pelt's domesticated security firm.
Cho was good value with Jane. I laughed out loud at Jane crying battery. Is Cho right to be worried that Jane’s acting crazy?
6.13 Black Helicopters
I watched the first part of this (up to Jane’s disappearance in Mexico) and then was interrupted so caught up with the rest on Demand Five this morning.
It wasn’t exactly a surprise that Jane would be in the truck of the important community farm people, but he carried it out with aplomb.
You would have thought Kim would have come across people who are hostile towards the Feds before. I get her being naive about Jane, but that, no.
So it looks like Rigsby and Van Pelt are going to play a role as satellite detectives on the ‘who’s after us?’ plotline.
I think Jane wrapped up a lot of truth in saying that the silver bucket was where he lived until he found a home and that he was still travelling and not ready to settle.
Also, of course he’d buttered up all his other new colleagues (bar Fisher) with gifts that reminded them of childhood. Kim having to wait until the end - the wand, which made me think of Glinda and witches rather than princesses, but that they used the p-word and that Lisbon was there reminded me of the Bridesmaid's Dress of Horror.
I did think I should be worried about LaRoche – especially because he was searching the place in the dark – why not time it better or switch the light on? Wayne is going to have to watch that he doesn't become a suspect.
Blah blah case of the week. The company lawyer should be glad that all he had to deal with was the lady Fed eye-rollers and not Jane. Whodunnit was credible and a new spin on cold or self-interested. It was satisfying to have the living brother to find out the truth about the brother he'd underestimated.
Most interesting thing? The Lisbon-Jane interaction.
Let us start the fact that he got so into the argument/negotiation about the state of their working relationship, now a partnership, that he missed the conversation on the other side of the glass. And then there’s his response to Lisbon’s ‘date’. Jane did not like that at all, and to some extent, she was playing with him, with-holding information and changing the topic to give Kim top tips about how to handle Jane. Heh. I also liked her continuing to interpret Jane’s signs for the new colleagues.
This week’s shipper bait, after she pooh-poohed the theory that maybe the guy who had a crush on her wanted a date and grabbed Jane's wrist to check the time:
‘You have to have patience, Lisbon’
‘I’d rather have coffee.’
And the stake-out was ridiculous and cool. Likewise Lisbon’s disguise. I enjoyed the banter and although Jane managed to get a rise out of so many people who then hit him that that bit of the interaction doesn’t signify, but there was teasing and a compliment – who knows if it was sincere?
I barely remembered the guy who called Lisbon aka Tassled Loafers. I vaguely remembered his face, but I really don’t recall when he crossed paths with her before. The main question for me was whether he was going to introduce a new arc or bring Wayne and Grace back in.
Looks like it’s both. (I don’t mind if it’s the Blake Association, because there’s the unfinished business of the uncracked code.)
I loved Rigsby and Van Pelt's domesticated security firm.
Cho was good value with Jane. I laughed out loud at Jane crying battery. Is Cho right to be worried that Jane’s acting crazy?
6.13 Black Helicopters
I watched the first part of this (up to Jane’s disappearance in Mexico) and then was interrupted so caught up with the rest on Demand Five this morning.
It wasn’t exactly a surprise that Jane would be in the truck of the important community farm people, but he carried it out with aplomb.
You would have thought Kim would have come across people who are hostile towards the Feds before. I get her being naive about Jane, but that, no.
So it looks like Rigsby and Van Pelt are going to play a role as satellite detectives on the ‘who’s after us?’ plotline.
I think Jane wrapped up a lot of truth in saying that the silver bucket was where he lived until he found a home and that he was still travelling and not ready to settle.
Also, of course he’d buttered up all his other new colleagues (bar Fisher) with gifts that reminded them of childhood. Kim having to wait until the end - the wand, which made me think of Glinda and witches rather than princesses, but that they used the p-word and that Lisbon was there reminded me of the Bridesmaid's Dress of Horror.
I did think I should be worried about LaRoche – especially because he was searching the place in the dark – why not time it better or switch the light on? Wayne is going to have to watch that he doesn't become a suspect.
