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

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[wolfy_writing]

I would write more fic, but at this point I'm still forgetting which one is Rigsby and which one is Van Pelt, and my rule for fandoms other people are trying to get me in is "I don't have to write any fic until I've learned to tell all of the major characters apart without trying."

Ideas...Patrick Jane in Silent Hill would be too easy, so zombies? Ponies? Zombie pony attack?

[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.

[wolfy_writing]

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.

[wolfy_writing]

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.)