Fridging is killing a (female) character for no reason other than to give motivation for a male character. I'm not sure most TV deaths aren't fridgings of either gender, ergo Carter's was kinda gonna be, but without knowing more about it, I can't say.

It makes sense to me that the whole team could not make it out of the fight against HR alive so somebody had to die. But I was very, very glad that Carter had asked John et al. for help in the first place. I feared that she would die fruitlessly going it alone. She went above and beyond that. The fact that it was almost all over and they had pretty much won makes it heartbreaking and frustrating. I do love that she went down fighting - Simmons shot Reese, Carter drew her weapon and started shooting back but took a bullet in the chest. Reese is going to hate that this woman that he cared about died - but he is going to doubly hate that she died trying to protect him. And to think, he had more issues than a box of National Geographics in a library basement before.

Now it's a show with white males and psychopathic white females. Carter was far and away the best realized character.

I am so over the whole "we're going to die so I'm going to tell you my true feelings" thing. The show had established a bond, but it didn't seem like that kind of bond. It just seemed like a cheap setup to have a "John goes over the edge" episodes. Also, while I've become fond of Jim Caviezel as this character, it's not like he can actually do emotions.

I thought Fusco's son lived with his wife. His son was barely mentioned and suddenly becomes a major plot point?

I am not happy.

I thought Fusco's son lived with his wife. His son was barely mentioned and suddenly becomes a major plot point?

I don't believe they ever specified that the ex-wife has full custody of the son such that there were never overnights with dad.

Now it's a show with white males and psychopathic white females.

Sarah Shahi is not white.

Sarah Shahi is not white.

Psychopathic Caucasian females, then.

The show hasn't established Shaw's ethnicity.

I don't care that they killed her. I care that they did it badly.

I don't care that they killed her. I care that they did it badly.

I'll miss her as a character, but doing it badly was the worst part.

Did the show establish anyone else's races? I don't know what she's playing, but although her role is race blind so far (as are all of them, pretty much) I'd be startled if someone hired Aahoo Jahansouz Shahi to play white. It's not like she looks white, or anything.

With Carter gone, the show has such a deficit of people I like that I'm not even tempted to watch this episode. I like the fixer that comes by sometimes, in low doses. I don't like the rest of them (Shaw I did at the start, but she's become a parody of herself and every woman who's been cast as a tough, and well, no more.)

They gave Shaw a Persian first name ("Sameen") during her flashback episode, so I think they're incorporating Shahi's Iranian heritage into her character.

Anyway. I'm still bitter about Carter. With her gone, the only thing I'm invested in now is the sentient Machine plotline and the role Root plays in that. Agree that they've been hit and miss with Shaw -- I still like her, but most of my affection for her involves my being nostalgic about Dani Reese.