On Wed, 30 Mar 2005 18:30:40 GMT, "Grimble Gromble"
<grimble.gromble@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
>"catherine" <catherine@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote in message
>news:Apz2e.34$G8.17@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>>I was just wondering if there had been any new posts in 2005.. I don't
>>think there have been, so I'm seeing it as my duty to make a post in the
>>hopes that this newsgroup hasn't died a horrible, nasty death..
>>
>> ~ little miss sun****ne
>
>A couple of new year messages. My eternal plea to Janey to speak to me.
>'Nowt else. It's been like that for a very, very long time.
Hi,
Thanks for your "is anyone there" post. I searched Usenet for an Ally
McBeal group and thought that with the series long gone that these
groups were all dead. Now that I know there is someone here, can I ask
a few questions? (There are some spoilers, but by now I guess everyone
knows what happens anyway).
I just got the Ally McBeal dvds (hence my late arrival in this group).
I've watched series 1, 2, 3, and am now halfway through 4. Series one
and two were full frame but series three was wide screen. Series 4
reverts back to full frame. I thought may be they had experimented in
series 3 and decided against the wide screen aspect and thus gone back
to full frame in series 4. But... I see on my (unwatched) series 5
dvds that they are wide screen! Why the switching back and forth
between screen formats? Why did they not film series 4 in w/s too?
I am puzzled about Billy leaving. Surely the attraction of the show
was the will they/won't they of Billy and Ally. Did the writers decide
to get rid of Billy, which seems mad, or was it that Gil wanted to
leave? OTOH the writers may have found it difficult to stretch to 5
series of will they/won't they.
With Billy gone, Georgia disappears too (good!) but why? Whatever
happened to Rene's law firm? We never see Whipper or Georgia again.
Did these actresses wish to leave or did the writers want to replace
them with fresh faces to keep things new? I thought we might see her
firm fight Cage & Fish occasionally. I think it would have been
"tidier" to have had Georgia move away after Billy left, perhaps to
whatever part of the US she came from, perhaps to be nearer her
parents?
I searched on google to find the answers to the above and accidentally
found that in series 5, Rene disappears too. It seems the actress got
into some trouble, so they dropped her. Convenient that this happened
between seasons! But why lose Rene without a trace, why not have one
sentence in one episode saying she had been offered a better job in
another city and had moved?
I've got a few more questions, but I hope that will start to bring
some life back round here.
Thanks.
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