Don't let Cho's mind explode
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shallownessThe Mentalist 6.17 Silver Wings of Time
So, apparently there are cancellation rumours regarding the show – I don’t know if that was why they did what they did at the start of this season or not. I was aware that things have been quieter in fandom, but I think the show has been slowly peeling people off for the last three or so seasons and there’s the migration from livejournal too.
It would be a shame, because I think they’ve established a pretty decent new set-up, although it’s quite a departure, in some ways, and mid season 6 is late in the show’s run, but goes along with the change in the main character’s life.
Anyway, I enjoyed this episode, although it was far too obvious about the theme of time and hand-wavey with ‘Wiley fixed it up on the computer’ regarding the TV feed. I didn’t suspect the second wife until late in the game, but I was mainly enjoying the Star Trek casting that’s a feature of this show. Q was a pretty good opponent for Jane, up to some of his tricks, and the moment of realisation that May had killed his first wife was well played.
I also liked what they did with Abbott, humanising him. Kim had a random moment where she raised the fact that the system had worked and pretty much everyone said ‘but Jane says the guy’s innocent’ and she just caved and went along with it.
But the other big thing about this episode, was the Jane/Lisbon development. If you look at the scene where the team arrive at the crime scene, Jane is basically ignoring it and wondering where she is. When he sees her, he points at the watch, which again ties into the coming countdown and the time motif of the episode, it’s also a reminder of that episode recently where she grabbed his wrist to look at his watch. She’s flustered at having to talk about her romantic adventures with Jane – although she wouldn’t be comfortable talking about it with anyone.
Kim, as the outsider, asks Cho about Lisbon’s dating habits – Cho wouldn’t know as much as viewers would and it turns out it’s a deliberate choice. His line about definitely not wanting to think about the possibility of Jane/Lisbon was hilarious.
While Jane/Lisbon wasn’t directly tackled for a lot of the episode {ETA I forgot the bit where Jane overhears Lisbon arranging the next date, and he doesn’t really have a response to it, like she was expecting, probably because he doesn’t quite know how he feels about it), Jane’s main focus seemed to be a man whose wife had been murdered and who had then gone on and remarried and rebuilt a life. There were parallels, most powerful in the conversation after Jane told him that the convicted killer had been executed. We were led to think that Jane thought he’d done it, and certainly that Jane didn’t think much of him – with the remarriage a part of the reason for that.
But then the final scene and time to decode Lisbon’s wardrobe (it would be interesting to see meta comparing her and Fischers wardrobes, they seem pretty similar in terms of colour choices). Unlike the dresses for last week’s shenanigans, or the dress at the fundraiser or the bridesmaid’s dress she was forced to wear, this was a dress Teresa Lisbon picked for herself. A simple, black dress that was tailored and flattering – that was very much her and a sign that she was letting her date get to know the real her better like he’d wanted.
But then there’s Jane, lying down on his sofa, seeing everything – seeing Lisbon sneak in to the office to get something she’d forgotten. She’s resigned to it, but her emotions are slightly more complex because she’s dressed up for another man, showing him a side of her that she doesn’t want her colleagues to see, but maybe would have liked Jane to see had he shown an interest in seeing it. He pays her a compliment and it’s straightforward – more so than the compliment for the hat disguise. And there’s no teasing, just a note of regret and the use of her first name.
GAH.
He’s just been dealing with a case involving a man who got married three years after his first wife was murdered and might well have been married to his second wife for longer than his first. Granted, he didn’t know her well enough to realise she was a killer – in fact, a serial killer. She was a student he’d been having an affair with while his first wife was still living and it did pander to his vanity, so we’re not talking the exact same situation as Patrick Jane’s, but it was something to chew over.
However, IF Jane is moving on – which they’ve been teasing us with for years – so is Lisbon. There doesn’t seem to have been a man during the Washington years. She was still in some form of contact with Jane, while Van Pelt and Rigsby moved on personally and professionally and Cho moved on professionally. But now she’s giving another guy a chance.
Again, GAH, with a side of about time.
See h-loquacious’s take on this episode here. It looks as if the UK is really not far behing US air dates now.
So, apparently there are cancellation rumours regarding the show – I don’t know if that was why they did what they did at the start of this season or not. I was aware that things have been quieter in fandom, but I think the show has been slowly peeling people off for the last three or so seasons and there’s the migration from livejournal too.
It would be a shame, because I think they’ve established a pretty decent new set-up, although it’s quite a departure, in some ways, and mid season 6 is late in the show’s run, but goes along with the change in the main character’s life.
Anyway, I enjoyed this episode, although it was far too obvious about the theme of time and hand-wavey with ‘Wiley fixed it up on the computer’ regarding the TV feed. I didn’t suspect the second wife until late in the game, but I was mainly enjoying the Star Trek casting that’s a feature of this show. Q was a pretty good opponent for Jane, up to some of his tricks, and the moment of realisation that May had killed his first wife was well played.
I also liked what they did with Abbott, humanising him. Kim had a random moment where she raised the fact that the system had worked and pretty much everyone said ‘but Jane says the guy’s innocent’ and she just caved and went along with it.
But the other big thing about this episode, was the Jane/Lisbon development. If you look at the scene where the team arrive at the crime scene, Jane is basically ignoring it and wondering where she is. When he sees her, he points at the watch, which again ties into the coming countdown and the time motif of the episode, it’s also a reminder of that episode recently where she grabbed his wrist to look at his watch. She’s flustered at having to talk about her romantic adventures with Jane – although she wouldn’t be comfortable talking about it with anyone.
Kim, as the outsider, asks Cho about Lisbon’s dating habits – Cho wouldn’t know as much as viewers would and it turns out it’s a deliberate choice. His line about definitely not wanting to think about the possibility of Jane/Lisbon was hilarious.
While Jane/Lisbon wasn’t directly tackled for a lot of the episode {ETA I forgot the bit where Jane overhears Lisbon arranging the next date, and he doesn’t really have a response to it, like she was expecting, probably because he doesn’t quite know how he feels about it), Jane’s main focus seemed to be a man whose wife had been murdered and who had then gone on and remarried and rebuilt a life. There were parallels, most powerful in the conversation after Jane told him that the convicted killer had been executed. We were led to think that Jane thought he’d done it, and certainly that Jane didn’t think much of him – with the remarriage a part of the reason for that.
But then the final scene and time to decode Lisbon’s wardrobe (it would be interesting to see meta comparing her and Fischers wardrobes, they seem pretty similar in terms of colour choices). Unlike the dresses for last week’s shenanigans, or the dress at the fundraiser or the bridesmaid’s dress she was forced to wear, this was a dress Teresa Lisbon picked for herself. A simple, black dress that was tailored and flattering – that was very much her and a sign that she was letting her date get to know the real her better like he’d wanted.
But then there’s Jane, lying down on his sofa, seeing everything – seeing Lisbon sneak in to the office to get something she’d forgotten. She’s resigned to it, but her emotions are slightly more complex because she’s dressed up for another man, showing him a side of her that she doesn’t want her colleagues to see, but maybe would have liked Jane to see had he shown an interest in seeing it. He pays her a compliment and it’s straightforward – more so than the compliment for the hat disguise. And there’s no teasing, just a note of regret and the use of her first name.
GAH.
He’s just been dealing with a case involving a man who got married three years after his first wife was murdered and might well have been married to his second wife for longer than his first. Granted, he didn’t know her well enough to realise she was a killer – in fact, a serial killer. She was a student he’d been having an affair with while his first wife was still living and it did pander to his vanity, so we’re not talking the exact same situation as Patrick Jane’s, but it was something to chew over.
However, IF Jane is moving on – which they’ve been teasing us with for years – so is Lisbon. There doesn’t seem to have been a man during the Washington years. She was still in some form of contact with Jane, while Van Pelt and Rigsby moved on personally and professionally and Cho moved on professionally. But now she’s giving another guy a chance.
Again, GAH, with a side of about time.
See h-loquacious’s take on this episode here. It looks as if the UK is really not far behing US air dates now.
