tualadies:This bullshit is what gets convictions in a court of law. What you do out there is a fanta
tualadies:This bullshit is what gets convictions in a court of law. What you do out there is a fantasy. I would love to play cops and robbers, wear a mask, and feel important, but guess what? Recess is over. It’s grown-up time.so technically she was killed off only to cause Diego pain and suffering, but I didn’t mind this fridging so much, and here’s my thoughts on why:-she was a character in her own right for a while first. She had her own personality, thoughts, plotline, characters who only knew her (and mostly dropped off the face of the show after she died), and her own character arc that was cut short when she died. We were invested in her for her own sake, and her connection to Diego seemed like a justification for including her, not her reason to exist-i genuinely didn’t expect her to die-the pain her death caused Diego didn’t make him Sad and Broody and also now Motivated to Do Something, which is usually how fridging work. He was already sad and broody, and the Thing her death motivated him to do was actually a distraction from the main plot and an obstacle to everyone else’s goals. -the whole point of the “Detective Patch died and Diego is sad and Vengeful” plotline was that Diego SHOULDN’T get revenge-Diego actually grew and changed as a character as a result of her death. She had an impact on him even after she was gone, and the person he was at the beginning of the show is NOT the person he was at the end, because of her death. We were shown Diego suffering and having to make hard choices and WORKING TO MAKE HIMSELF A BETTER PERSON because of her death. Because she died trying to Solve Problems the way he does.So yeah the only thing I don’t like about Detective Patch’s fridging is that it’s yet another woman killed off for the sake of a male character. If there were more men fridged for women, I literally wouldn’t care. This is how writers should handle creating and then killing a character exclusively for the benefit of another character’s character arc. -- source link