Talk:Barbara Gianna/@comment-121.127.203.149-20120106154101/@comment-1405841-20120106194757

That and they probably just needed to do something with Angel's character at the time. It would have been inappropriate for him and LaGuerta to start their relationship during Season Three due to Miguel Prado (which they were trying to convey that they were former lovers with a partial spark between the two despite their separate lives). Barbara, for all she's worth, was mainly a plot device to give Angel something to do. ;>_> Season Four at least plays it off nicely enough during a scene where a Detective asks what happened to her and whether or not he should try to get with her (Angel says yeah, go ahead).

Now either this or they couldn't afford to hire the actress on again so they wrote her off the show and instead went with the Maria/Angel relationship. Series do it all the time, for instance the show MONK...Sharona Flemming leaves midway through the third season (during the halfway break that most cable networks have) and the reason is that she wanted more money with her contract to stay on...so they "mutually agreed to go their separate ways". I'm sure curse words were involved but you know how networks are...they have to say to the public that "everything was just peachy keen" when it was most likely not. Anyways, they spent the 10th episode of that season explaining that she left back to move in with her husband, remarry and would never be back plus how Adrian Monk is dealing with the situation. She's referenced quite a lot but hell she was the deurotagonist (second main protagonist) so they had to involve her heavily one way or another. Anyways, they moved to a new female protagonist in Natalie Teeger.