The Mentalist is eating my brain. No, seriously.

[icarus_abides]

In case anyone missed it, I've become slightly addicted to The Mentalist in recent weeks.

I believe that I've gone through about 95% of the good Jane/Lisbon fic out there (I WILL NOT REFER TO IT AS JISBON, C'MON NOW).  I've been borrowing Season One and Season Two DVDs from the library.  I've been hitting up the Mentalist Wikipedia.

So I was bored

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[anr]

I've heard this theory before, and I think I've maybe seen a fic about it before, but can't remember for sure. Maybe I've just seen a fic where Jane becomes his new apprentice? IDK.

I don't particularly love the idea, but a few secondary characters have sort of considered it before in the show.

[icarus_abides]

Ya know, I really don't LOVE the idea because I really, really want to like Jane. And I obviously really, really LOVE Jane/Lisbon, which would probably be a problem if he would turn out to be a schizophrenic serial killer.

I think that the idea that a show would possibly do something that extreme is what draws me to it. It would just be so BALLSY and get so dark that I could totally accept it just for that. But if that were to happen I don't think that we'd really see any of the aftershock of the revelation. It would take an incredible group of writers to really pull something like that off properly, the easier way would just be The Reveal and then the end of the show, which is probably what would happen. Nuts.

I am having far too much fun just enjoying the show at the moment though!

[aprilvolition]

Hmm...If I come across a fic like that, I will send it your way. I don't have any theories on who RJ is at this point. It would certainly be very daring for them to go in that direction (and I kind of feel like that's something someone out there would have written a fanfic for).

I love Lisbon. Well, I loved her more in earlier seasons, but she's still my favorite character on the show.

And there is no such thing as too much of your current obsession (says the girl who has been ridiculously obsessed with Xena for weeks now. My eyes are ready to fall out of my head from all the reading and watching. I'm probably out of good fic, too. Dammit. Why must I pick dead fandoms? WHY?)