A thought on gender and people in fridges

[neadods]

So, I'm starting to kick around the prep work for my March presentation to the Tin Box, which is on canonical stories with plots that don't translate to modern times. (Yes, that will be a future pitch.) It's going to include Scandal, because hello, dynastic marriage. (Nobody focuses on Irene as blackmailer, ever notice that? It's always the sex or the slippery opponent angle or the love interest. But I digress.)

Anyway, all we know of Irene in Elementary is that she has been the textbook fridging - her death made S the man he is today and *is the direct reason why he met Joan Watson.*

Which makes me wonder how interesting it might have been to have called the character ”Mike Stamford."