oh I don’t know, I imagine I would’ve reacted to it differently had I been watching Ally McBeal for five seasons in real time rather than squishing them all into a summer, but I just felt like the whole finale was implausible. like, suddenly Ally’s daughter is having nervous breakdowns (even though she still seems totally strong and spunky and normal), and the shrink is like, HER FRIENDS ARE MEAN YOU HAVE TO MOVE HER BACK TO NEW YORK RIGHT NOW. YESTERDAY IF POSSIBLE. which I’m pretty sure is advice a shrink would almost never give (plus, the shrink is relaying details of her conversation with ally’s daughter, which they’re not allowed to do). & then all these people who haven’t been around for two or three seasons come back (like her roommate who mysteriously disappeared around season 4) and they’re like, “oh hey, haven’t been seeing much of you lately but just want you to know I’m devastated you’re moving.” And anyway, they’re acting like she’s moving to Africa rather than from Boston to New York, which is actually an easy train ride away (you’ll remember, because earlier in the season her daughter took that train unbeknownst to her caretakers multiple times). AND, after they’ve written off the possibility of the Ally-John Cage romance a million times, because Ally could never have “that spark” with John, suddenly at the end, she tells him that if he weren’t her boss she’d probably be romantically involved with him—she maybe talked about him being her boss as a potential barrier sometime in season one for those few episodes where they were perpetually about to go on a first date, but never since, and they had multiple conversations where she turned him down because she “could never love him like that” in the fifth season. And, I was tired of Billy’s ghost by then (with whom she also had a “hey haven’t seen you in awhile” conversation). And, I felt like the writers were making these long heartfelt scenes as a way of ordering us to “cry, viewers, CRY,” and I was like IF YOU’RE GOING TO GIVE US A FLIMSY AND UNBELIEVABLE ENDING AT LEAST LET ALLY HAVE A MAN. we leave ally walking alone on the street crying. poor girl can never catch a break.

oh I don’t know, I imagine I would’ve reacted to it differently had I been watching Ally McBeal for five seasons in real time rather than squishing them all into a summer, but I just felt like the whole finale was implausible. like, suddenly Ally’s daughter is having nervous breakdowns (even though she still seems totally strong and spunky and normal), and the shrink is like, HER FRIENDS ARE MEAN YOU HAVE TO MOVE HER BACK TO NEW YORK RIGHT NOW. YESTERDAY IF POSSIBLE. which I’m pretty sure is advice a shrink would almost never give (plus, the shrink is relaying details of her conversation with ally’s daughter, which they’re not allowed to do). & then all these people who haven’t been around for two or three seasons come back (like her roommate who mysteriously disappeared around season 4) and they’re like, “oh hey, haven’t been seeing much of you lately but just want you to know I’m devastated you’re moving.” And anyway, they’re acting like she’s moving to Africa rather than from Boston to New York, which is actually an easy train ride away (you’ll remember, because earlier in the season her daughter took that train unbeknownst to her caretakers multiple times). AND, after they’ve written off the possibility of the Ally-John Cage romance a million times, because Ally could never have “that spark” with John, suddenly at the end, she tells him that if he weren’t her boss she’d probably be romantically involved with him—she maybe talked about him being her boss as a potential barrier sometime in season one for those few episodes where they were perpetually about to go on a first date, but never since, and they had multiple conversations where she turned him down because she “could never love him like that” in the fifth season. And, I was tired of Billy’s ghost by then (with whom she also had a “hey haven’t seen you in awhile” conversation). And, I felt like the writers were making these long heartfelt scenes as a way of ordering us to “cry, viewers, CRY,” and I was like IF YOU’RE GOING TO GIVE US A FLIMSY AND UNBELIEVABLE ENDING AT LEAST LET ALLY HAVE A MAN.

we leave ally walking alone on the street crying. poor girl can never catch a break.