From: ROCxolan@t-online.de   
      
   David Milligan wrote:   
   > "Florian Blaschke"  wrote [...]   
   >> I'd really like to know this. Did you hear the name or see it in a TV   
   >> caption?   
   >         Seems like I heard it, but seems like I also saw the name in a   
   > caption. Maybe whoever wrote the caption was an XWP fan and just figured   
   > that was how it was spelled.   
      
   I see. That's another possibility I didn't think of.   
      
   >> I've always wondered about that one, too. I don't know any internal   
   >> (in-series) explanation, but in view of the idea that Gabrielle is meant   
   >> to stand in for the viewer, as a character the viewer can identify with,   
   >> so giving her a "modern" name (or at least a name that sounds more   
   >> familiar to an American or non-Greek European audience) strengthens this   
   >> peculiar role of hers.   
   >             makes sense. I wonder why no one ever asked that of Lucy or   
   > Renee during any interviews or conventions   
      
   Perhaps they don't know the answer themselves, because after all they   
   didn't invent the name (as far as I know).   
      
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   Florian   
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