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> 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.
Oh dear! The answer to your questions is I don't know (I know nothing).
Now
if gandalf was still alive ... On the other hand, Since LMS posted a
query,
she may be back shortly. I'll try emailing a couple of 'old' members and
alert them to a living presence on the ng and we'll see where we go from
there? If they're game, you'll find them the nicest bunch of people you
could possibly hope for.
grim
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