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RJ DECKER ― S1E04

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No but RJ Decker has one of the most unique batches of character dynamics. He lives in the pool shed of his bisexual ex wife and he’s a private investigator who’s constantly pestering his ex wife’s new wife who he always pesters for help on his cases. Then RJ’s best friend is an ex con who was framed but RJ helped him get out of prison a day early where he bought a lottery ticket and won the lottery so now he feels indebted to RJ for helping him get out of prison. Then the woman who is clearly his love interest who helps him out on cases is part of a corrupt politician family who helped to put him in prison fraudulently. Oh. And they’re in Florida.

#rj decker #like what a group of characters it’s so creative

R.J. Decker (2026—) | Season 1, Episode 9 "Even Walls Fall Down" | Jaina Lee Ortiz as Emilia "Emi" Ochoa and Scott Speedman as R.J. Decker

high potential and the roman problem

i binged rj decker the other day and they managed to do something in 9 episodes that high potential didn’t do in 2 seasons: move a damn plot point forward. then i realized this was an unfair comparison so then i pivoted to the mentalist, a show where we spend the entirely of it searching an unknown and unseen character and they did it better.

the issue with roman isn’t that we’ve spent 2 seasons looking for him, it’s the fact that it’s boring and the one person who’s truly motivated in looking for him, isn’t included. and that the show has tied the entire show to this one mystery and when all is revealed, they’ll be faced with the choice to end it or pivot drastically in order for the show to continue.

morgan isn’t as motivated to find roman as patrick was to find red john because she had to make peace with it because she had a child to take care of. she couldn’t be motivated by the need for answers because ava still had and needed her mother.

morgan was likely content to never find out because she had to learn to make peace with it even if she didn’t want to, her motivation is ava. ava wants to know and deserves answers, so morgan will find them because she cares but not as much as patrick did because he had nothing to lose but morgan does. however, since ava isn’t (and can’t) be included in the search, there’s a disconnect in the emotional investment of finding roman.

you rooted for patrick jane and stuck with him through 7 seasons because you shared and understood his feelings toward red john and watched him constantly struggle with letting it go for the sake of his life and the teams or continuing because his wife and daughter deserved justice. there was also the overlap of red john and the team, when patrick gets the call that teresa is taken by red john, you panic with him, you feel guilt with him when he finds her on that gurney with the smiley face on her and he realizes that this search could cost him her and the team. there is none of that with morgan.

and again the issue of tying so much of these characters and their plots together because of roman which means that again, the show has to pivot. morgan considers the team family and i believe she enjoys working on the cases so if they find roman, that means that she can stay because now they’re her family.

but they could go the way of the mentalist, lucifer, once upon a time, the nanny, etc. all those shows ended because the main characters got what they wanted:

patrick got revenge and married lisbon, lucifer healed and got to be with chloe, regina got her happy ending (it sucked but still), fran got with maxwell.

i’m just over this roman stuff and it’s literally because outside of ava, no one else cares so there’s no investment emotionally in this character or the idea of him from morgan so why should we as the audience care ?