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This week, The Mentalist ends its storyline about the illegal traffic of human organs, but also Lisbon finally makes a choice about DC. The whole story started on episode 6.19 and it was really creepy with this blonde girl being abducted, till the discover of a human traffic, but I'm glad at least some of those poor girls have had their happy endings. Everyone in the team got involved: Cho kept his promise and managed to save Daniella's little sister from being sold with the other girls; Jane saved the day with Lisbon's help (the scene was hilarious: the two dressed like doctors and pretending to operate on the fake tattoo guy - played by Wiley - while Ridley was watching, in order to get him confessed); Fischer and Cho risked their lives to catch Dr Lark while a bomb exploded in front of them. Once again, Lisbon risked her career to support Jane's plans; just to hear Kim Fischer says "You guys always work together." "Not always." Oh come on, Lisbon, you're a bad liar.
Do you think Lisbon will ever tell Jane about her decision to move to DC? Did Pike go too far with his proposal? Share your comments below.
I just never bought this Lisbon-Pike thing. I agree when you say "Lisbon
ReplyDeletehas always been an indipended woman for her whole life, and in a month
she got a boyfriend, a job offer and a marriage proposal." Too much too quick and too wrong. But when you say "
Jane needs to drive faster than Pike to make Lisbon change her mind, because her heart has alreay decided". I think it's the opposite, her mind is probably telling her that go to D.C. is the right choice for her, but her heart doesn't and both she and Jane are lacking the courage to tell themselves how they really feel.
I think I am the only one want who encouages a Lisbon/Pike relation. I liked Jane with Lorelei
ReplyDeleteI think Pike is mostly interested in taking Lisbon from Jane. Pike is so pushy and controlling. Jane just can't bring himself to speak up. Jane and Lisbon really need to talk.
ReplyDeletePrecisely, it's very difficult to buy Lisbon moving from the independent woman she has been for the entire time we've watched her to this "get a boyfriend -> quit your job -> move to another city -> get a new job for the sake of living in the same place as your new boyfriend -> in the meantime, decide whether you want to marry the guy"...
ReplyDeleteI don't think Pike is intrested in taking Lisbon away from Jane. I think he is overconfident that she will end up with him. That's why he asked her to marry him after she said that she would move with him, because he assumed that since she wanted to move with him that she would say yes to marring him. It's like I said awhile ago, I don't think Pike understands relationships, he just assumes that since he is in love with Lisbon that everything will go his way in the end.
ReplyDeleteLisbon isn't quiting her job she's just transffering from the Austin field office to the DC field office.
ReplyDeleteThat's now, after she
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job and probably hoping that the transfer would be an option (especially
keeping in mind that Cho, for example, had to go through what... 6 months of
training at Quantico before he could join the FBI, Lisbon got in as a part of
the deal Jane made). But that’s not my point here. My point is, she was always
portrayed as a very independent person whose personal experience made it
difficult for her to get involved with anyone (trust issues etc.). Over the
last six years (for us, eight years for her) she had no romantic relationships
(I purposefully ignore her one night stand with Walter Mashburn), and moves
from that into... THIS. It took her about one month to throw caution to the
wind and decide to leave her old and new friends behind for a guy she doesn’t even
seem certain she wants to be with?...
Well, yes.. Also, we all should keep in mind, that she moved down to Austin without thinking twice... just to be with Jane. Surely, she was a bit bored ("what's worse than boredom?") too. But the main thing here, is that she didn't have to decide for a long time. And even there she said to Jane that it isn't his choice to make.
ReplyDeleteI thought Pike would be a great guy at the beginning.. he is just not Jane. But his no pressure - but actually being totally pushy attitude is really annoying. I think with all this, he is going to lose Lisbon (sooner or later) anyway. And that's also why Lisbon chooses Jane over Pike at the end... besides the fact that Jane is the only one she really loves. She might like Pike, but for me he always seemed more like a safe bet for her.
Agreed... Pike started out as a fairly likeable character,
ReplyDeletebut his alternating before pressuring Lisbon for an answer and telling her to
take all the time she needs is getting annoying fast.
Just i want to sayed: Please Lisbon stay with Jane don´t be ass-hole and go with Pike ://
ReplyDeletePIke's gotta be a red john minion.. no guy on his right mind would do what Puke did.. no pressure lisbon but whatever jane does.. you gotta run girl the guy is a sicko
ReplyDeleteHi, thanks for reading! I think Lisbon, deep in her heart, knows her choice - stay with Jane.
ReplyDeleteThanks for reading! Yes, you got the point. Lisbon has always been like that, and those last episodes push her too much in this relationship with Pike, and she doesn't know how to act. But well, it was part of the storyline bringing her and Jane together, since the show might have ended with season six.
ReplyDeleteThanks for reading! I agree with you in every points. Lisbon may like Pike as her safe bet, like you said, but Jane is the one she wants.
ReplyDeleteThanks for reading! I think that proposal was made on purpose and too fast. First, this is not the way you proposed a woman to marry you - inside a building, during your job, without kneeling down?! C'mon, I'm not a romantic person, but a thing like that NEEDS to be done in the right way, especially if you love this person - as Pike thinks. That's why I think Pike wants Lisbon to himself and because he's afraid of loosing her, he proposed - with Jane in the other side of the room. Coincidence?
ReplyDelete"Also, we all should keep in mind, that she moved down to Austin without thinking twice.. "
ReplyDeleteJane stayed 3 months in the detention suite. She had time to think about a move to austin with or without job offer from Abbott.
What does all of what you said have to do with me pointing out that Lisbon isn't quitting her job at the FBI that, if she goes though with it, is just getting a transfer from one office to another?
ReplyDeleteThat’s what makes all the situation with Pike even worse for me: When Jane wanted her to move and take the job at the FBI, which was
ReplyDelete1) a great opportunity for someone whose skills were
being utterly wasted in that job she landed after CBI ceased to exist
2)
a chance to work with Cho and other competent
people, again
3)
a chance to work with Jane (with whom she just
spent two years corresponding despite the risks involved, and whose letters she
read in the evenings, drinking a glass of wine rather than going out with
friends or... dating)
...and it took her much longer to make the decision then.
Sure, part of it had to be her irritation with Jane coming back and
automatically assuming that she would go with him, but STILL. I mean, forget
her issues – would any of us rather moved without a thought when offered what
Jane offered her (significantly better paid and more interesting job + working
with friends + co-workers who are competent and challenge you to give your best)
or what Pike offers her now (leaving everyone behind for someone you like, but
you’ve literary just met + leaving the workplace you’ve grown to love for the
branch in another town + giving up your independence for someone you don’t know
well enough to determine if it’s not going to blow up in your face and/or be
over within the next month).
That I do realize that she isn’t literary throwing her job
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transferring (hence me talking about “quitting her job” repeatedly), and she
was still considering moving with Pike. The rest was just me adding a whole lot
of words about the situation in general as a side note. Sorry, I keep doing
that to people.
That's alright.
ReplyDeleteLisbon probably would have had a job to transfer to, it probably just wouldn't have been the one at Major Crimes. I mean I doubt Lisbon would have considered making the move if she wouldn't have had a job, although her mentioning how she had been inderpendent for so long in episode 19 could have been in refrence in a way about how she may not have had a job after the move.
Pike's actions to me seems to scream he was confident that Lisbon would have said yes. I mean remember he didn't ask if she told Jane that she was leaving until after he proposed, to me if he was just proposing to her to keep her for himself, he most likely would have asked if she told Jane before proposing.
ReplyDeleteNow I'm not saying that him proposing wasn't fast, it's just that Lisbon had said that she would move with him and so he just assumed that, that would mean that she would have said yes right away to his proposal, because he saw her moving with him as she wanted a future with him. His proposal was impulsive, but it was done either to show how serious he was or because he assumed she would say yes, I mean if he did it to steal her away from Jane then he probably would have gone all out on his knee, because as you said Jane was across the room. (I mean if it's one thing us guys are known for it's for doing things without thinking or thinking that we know all the answers, now I'm not one of those guys but that doesn't mean that I don't understand those types.)
Of course, that also why i believe that Lisbon its almost doing all of this on purpose to make Jane do something.
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