Is it just to motivate Laurel, though? I'd be shocked if it didn't motivate Oliver. It will certainly give him more manpain to work through.

The point of "Women in Refrigerators" is that the victim is treated as a disposable character, so yeah, sure, that can still happen if it's to motivate another woman. You don't think that Tara was fridged?

I think this is an absolutely necessary step to get Laurel to be Black Canary. It will affect Ollie because it's his show, but it's only going to pass as character development for her.

The point of "Women in Refrigerators" is that the victim is treated as a disposable character, so yeah, sure

I thought it no less importantly about whose mill you're gristing.

You don't think that Tara was fridged?

You'd be surprised, apparently.

I thought fridging applied to women whose *only* purpose was to be motivation for someone. What happened to Tara was kind of Greek tragedy-esque, just as she and Willow are getting back together, she dies.

I see fridging as what happens in other shows where the main character falls in love with someone new, only to have the loved one die.

I guess the Bonanza version was root cellaring?

Same with The Big Valley. Thrown from horse, drowned in river, shot by hitherto unknown enemy . . . Hooking up with a Cartwright or Barkley boy was fatal. Winchester love interests don't do too well, either.

Neither do Winchester friends, casual acquaintances or passing strangers. Get within 100 yards of a Winchester, and the odds of your dying in the next few seconds rise drastically. Of course if you are already in trouble, your odds of rescue also rise drastically.

Wow, I'm still amazed how Who can start these episodes that seem so throwaway and yet make them deeply significant to the series (I'm looking at you, way too many Xmas episodes). I wish we'd gotten a little more hint that Clara and Danny were that far along in a relationship, but still cool, and disturbing that she basically lied to him about what was going down.

I will say, beyond the Fridgey-nature of Sara's death, the other thing that bugs me is the way she seemed caught off guard at getting shot. You'd think a trained assassin in a universe where sufficiently badass people can catch arrows would be able to take some sort of effort to defend herself in the time someone she was looking directly at took to pull an arrow from a quiver, knock it, raise the bow and fire. (This is under the assumption that her reaction to seeing someone with bow already drawn and arrow knocked would not be to say "What are you doing here?") A bow is a big, obvious weapon if you're close enough to have a conversation.

I was pleasantly surprised by Who tonight, I really enjoyed it. It could be my love of the Orient Express.

I still don't like the crazy, absent minded, ruthless Doctor (the conversations with himself, etc.). Or the jilted boyfriend bit. But, more episodes like tonight's, I'm in.