Fridge / Touched by an Angel

Fridge Logic

• They (being the angels) almost never actually prevent the life-destroying events that led the targets into their current crises.
  • That's not their job, nor would it be very relevant to real life. The show's message is that crises can happen to people of all walks of life, and that love and truth have a better chance of improving the outcome for those affected.
• The ending of the season 4 episode Flights Of Angels (aired in 1998). The Character of the Day Richard has ALS, better known as Lou Gehrig's disease. The doctors never give him the medicine introduced by the FDA in 1996 to treat the disease, and when their family is all together his wife does not call 911 (the emergency telephone number was introduced in 1968) to get medical help to save his life. There was no reason why he shouldn't have lived.
• How did they become angels in the first place? Did they die tragically young (or in Tess' case, after a long and happy life) and God offered them this as compensation (or in Tess'case, a reward)? Or did he just. . .create them?
  • Angels are not dead people, both the Bible and the show are clear on this. The show talks many times of the angels being created. We see it actually happen with Gloria