My program guide lists tonight’s finale as 2 1-hour episodes with 2 different titles: “Made in China” and “Last Call,” but the descriptions for the shows are the same. Is it a grand 2-hour finale or actually 2 different episodes. (Not even sure what the difference would be, just confused because of the 2 titles.) Anyone know what the deal is?
The have been advertising it as a 2-hour series finale.
I’m glad you posted. I would have tuned in at 9 and missed the first hour. As much as I bitch about the outrageously unrealistic legal stuff on the show (and the preaching), I’ll miss Denny and Alan very much.
Thanks for the advance notice!
Well the series ended on a much more upbeat (not to mention stranger note) thatn I thought it would.
Carl & Shirley and Denny & Alan all marrying in a joint ceremony presided over by Mr Justice Scalia :eek:! Denny got his drug. The firm is now Chang, Poole, & Schmidt. 
Can a law firm even really be bought like a normal company? Now that BL gives alot of weight to realism.
I didn’t see that coming!
I was impressed with the arguments against letting people have drugs before clinical trials are complete, but it’s hard to argue against allowing a terminally ill person do whatever he wants.
The gay marriage arguments had some food for thought as well. The guy arguing against Denny and Alan – he had me worried for awhile. It looked like he might get violent. What did he say? Something like “You’ll be sorry”?
Aww, that was sweet. I’m sad that it’s over.
I thought it was a grand way to go out. I’m going to miss the hell out of this show.
(Also, is the fact that the idea of Denny and Alan together turns me on a little made me a bad person?)
Great ending! I love it that Denny, a lifelong conservative, would marry another man platonically just to get some security and have a companion, though they’re both straight.
There seems to have been a suggestion that Denny and Alan might return to a different network starting a pro bono law firm . Perhaps focusing on issues affecting the poor.
I hope so.
This series, although extremely unrealistic and funny has presented such a fair ballanced perspective on present day issues, that I actually feel better informed as a result.
It leaves me with the burning question though. Are we actually destined to be taken over by the Chinese ?
Oddly enough, I preferred the Thanksgiving episode. I found the finale to be a bit too contrived, even by Boston Legal standards!
I very much liked that series overall, despite the usual over-the-top situations; the solidity of legal arguments put forward time and again more than made up for them. I was always amazed that David Kelly could get away with the network censors with what he put in his lawyers’ mouths. Wonder what’s in store for him (and us) now…
Damn…I didn’t discover it was 2 hours until about 15 minutes into the second hour and quickly taped the last 45 minutes. (My DVR was taping two other shows at 9 and didn’t turn on for Boston Legal!)
I will be watching it later tonight, but can anyone let me know if I missed anything big in the first hour, or does everything come full circle in the last 45 minutes and I will get the gist of it?
Should I have missed an important scene or element in the first half, please spoil it for me and I will return to this thread later tonight or tomorrow AM to read what I missed.
Thanks!
Typical DMark…watch a series for four years and then screw up the taping of the finale…
You’ll be okay. If I remember right, the first hour focused on the Chinese takeover of the firm, with Shirley taking it to court (and losing) and then resigning, and then the entire litigation team (all our stars) being fired, and then not fired.
Well, Denny even made specific mention that they were jumping the shark in that last episode. If a series has to do it, that’s the right time for it.
What I’m wondering is - are those marriages legal? (In real life, of course, ignoring the fact that Denny is secretly Canadian.) Can you take your own judge to a foreign country and be legally married? Wouldn’t you need to use a Canadian judge in Canada?
I’m curious about the legalities of using actors to portray real people, putting words into their mouths, AND then having one perform actions I suspect the real person wouldn’t do.
Could the various Supreme Court justices sue over this if they chose to?
So was that the end of the series, or just the season?
Only in world of Boston Legal.
If it’s obvious that its fiction then it’s free speech protected by the first amendment.
That was the** series** finale.
Sorry, this cannot be completely true, otherwise publishers would not have legal departments to worry about libel laws, and there wouldn’t be clauses in author contracts about who is responsible if some person sues.