Now I'm rewatching from S1 where this character is introduced. I see she does four episodes and recall she finally appears to be abducted from her house but can't recall her ever being mentioned again. The show is constructed tightly enough to not leave this unresolved. I'm asking close watchers to give me this characters concluding fate. Spoiler alerts do not apply to me.
sharenot resolved. She showed up later having been hypnotized into thinking she was dead and they couldn't bring her out of it. The end. Very disappointing.
Ain't no circus like an Andy Serkis
Thanks I'll track that episode down. It sounds surprisingly cheesy.
I'm nearing the end of series one and it occurs to me, ITS A COMEDY! It has more laughs than most sitcoms. Despite ghoulish murder etc the core is dumb procedure vs. our gangs hijinks that have success. I used to think its appeal was Sherlock style smartest guy in the room wish fulfillment stuff but no its a rather sophisticated light comedy. This board is filled with viewers who would disagree but...
Like House, it's definitely at least a dramedy. It has sad and horrible moments, but Simon Baker's portrayal of Patrick Jane more often than not is comedic gold, and there are other funny things too. I definitely laugh and am charmed more than I have any other reaction.
shareThe House association is very good. Something else they have in common is when the primary is off the screen I mostly hit the ff button. More with House. Don't get me wrong I admire both supporting casts but the secondary characters are under written and their affairs are just less interesting.
" For years I tried being smart. I recommend being kind"
Another similarity is that they are both geniuses with questionable methods. At least in Patrick's case, his team and his immediate boss usually realize he's going somewhere with his antics, and they give him some latitude. But in both cases, the upper management is always trying to stifle their ways, even though they both get results doing things their way. That resonates with me so much, which is probably a big reason I love both shows. I HATE being forced to live "inside the box" just because my boss or society says so, when I do so much better doing things my own way.
At my old job, my boss would constantly praise me for being so efficient and accurate. She had not one single complaint about the work I produced, and in fact raved about it, even though she was someone who had a bad word to say about everybody, and was not a person who passed out compliments freely. So there was NO question my work was top notch. UNTIL the day she saw my method of getting it done differed from hers. From that point on, she was constantly harping on me to do it her way instead of mine. And I was like "But then I won't work as accurately, and I certainly won't work as efficiently. Plus, I'll be less happy, so...? What's the point?" For the entire rest of the time I worked there, she never stopped hounding me to do everything her way, even though my way had the results she so praised. Made no damn sense. Thank God I got out of there!
Thus the reason I escape to TV and live vicariously through my TV friends!
Smartest guy in the room is a staple. Humour in our damaged hero's pursuit of truth while his colleagues make excuses or protest his methods makes these shows fresh.
Procedure vs individual action is a dilemma very pertinent to today. For example, Many retired cops dislike today's police forces. Procedures insist that all cops be the same. Adherence to procedure guarantees promotion regardless of true results. For good or bad, mediocrity gets rewarded. Innovation is by definition not procedure. The Wire showcases this conflict large and small scale on its way to demonstrating how 45 years of drug war can continue. " The big fool said to push on"
" For years I tried being smart. I recommend being kind"
The House association is very good. Something else they have in common is when the primary is off the screen I mostly hit the ff button. More with House. Don't get me wrong I admire both supporting casts but the secondary characters are under written and their affairs are just less interesting.
" For years I tried being smart. I recommend being kind"
Definitely, this is what I wanted to say for ages! It's a COMEDY! And that's what I love about this show, being serious and funny at the same time. I love Lisbon's sarcasm.
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phlbrq ...
in a post of yours above, you seem to 'get it'
YES, comedy, and tragedy, and both at same time
and christina frye "resolved" ? ... well, kinda/depending
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No, not "officially" (that was a real heart breaker).
However, there can be an unofficial answer to that, as following:
In the series finale, serial killer Lazarus was finally talking, or to be more precise, "reporting" to a "Madam" via cell phone. It was only a momentary detail, and she was never mentioned again (not even by Jane, who as I recall, was a direct witness to that conversation).
As Lazarus was a candidate for a potential "Red John" replacement, I directly assumed that such details, such style and such inquiry shall belong to a female person that knows the Red John saga - thus, Frye was the definite choice for me as the "Greater Mind behind the scene" this time.
Heller is not a fan of sticking to the clues, hints and earlier statements. So it is just a matter of "messing up with the fans' minds, and wasting their priceless times with motivating them to spend time on solving the mystery".
Loved Frye, though. She was an equal for Jane, and was a prime suspect for many as the real Red John at one time.