Our Girl and Captain James Addicts Thread XXXIX

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Glad you liked Bridget Jones's Baby rich - that's three of us on here now who liked it and my Mum and Dad went to see it last week (very senior citizens) and they both really enjoyed it. My mum was telling me how it put a real smile of her face and cheered her up. We both agreed, however, that we really didn't think there could be any more films after this.

Rhu as I described before, the one person in RL I thought I could have an in depth discussion with could only comment on the series on a very general level. I mean, how could she not find it funny when Elvis and his acolytes come out of the helicopter towards CJ? There was no chance of discussing the use of army issue towels v John Lewis's best fluffy ones when Elvis is having his shower!

I'm not ignoring your beautifully written essay on poor Elvis' character but my head has been anywhere except where it should be for the past couple of weeks and I'm not sure I could write anything anywhere near as coherent as your analysis. I might have to think about it overnight.

I am writing a response to yours rhu, but I'm getting sidetracked by Poldark. I've been wandering around Sainsbury's thinking about OG as well.

I loved BJ Baby ... watched last weekend (can't remember if I posted) after a full on cub camp, and it kept me awake. Still think Colin Firth is the best ... Patrick Dempsey doesn't do it for me at all ... although did have a very bizarre conversation with someone this week who said PD wasn't at all sexy, which I agreed with ... turned out she was being ironic, she thought everyone thought he was sexy! Oops!

Anyone seen Bad Mums? That's next on my list for when I can find a spare evening.

Evening ladies.
ilove the food looked lovely from your visit today. We have a lot of prisoners come through work with varying degrees of security depending on there crimes, I always want to ask what they are in for but obviously I'm the consummate professional so stay quiet

I'm still not sure about elvis. Thought the hotel room/crying scene was a bit much. Now I know this is probably a massive overshare but I'm going with it anyway. A similar thing happened to me that happened to georgie. Not on the day but about 10 days before. There wasn't a baby involved (well not that I know off!!) and it was a fair few years ago now. It was down to immaturity and so he ran away but for me there is no forgiveness for that. And I know when that particular person came back i was never able to forgive and trust him again. Therefore I hope georgie tells them both to bugger off and goes on tour with the lads. Obviously i know it's not real life (!) and I'm probably rambling and embarrassing myself now so I'm off!!!

Gosh Maddie that's some sharing. It takes courage to do unload like that to us and I do know what you mean - I keep saying that in real life you would never, ever forgive somebody for doing that and you would never trust them ever again.

I only admire Elvis from a TV perspective and I promise you, if that had happened to me in real life, the guy wouldn't have had any of his male appendages left - come to think of it, it sounds as if he had no balls in the first place.... I seem to recall telling my ex at the end he had no balls as well.

Cheers ilove I may delete that post . The elvis situation is very different though so don't worry. I think I was just trying to point out if I was Georgie I couldn't trust him to open and honest anytime there was an issue.
wanders off to find a cave to hide in...

Don't mention the words 'Captain James' and '4 year sandwich' this close to bed time NVM!

Aww Mads, that's horrible. What a git. You're right, you couldn't trust someone who did that, and nor would you want to. A sure sign they aren't up to it in my opinion.

Oh mads . I have a very good friend who had a similar experience. She got married (successfully) recently, but had a very bad experience a few years ago, which left her devastated. You will know anyway, but you had a lucky, lucky escape by the sounds of it!!

Elvis is, at the moment, pretty irredeemable as a character in my opinion. His only priority is himself, and his own happiness. I have a lingering suspicion (sounds like rhu might have too...) that he won't still be around by the end of the series, and that the ultimate redemption might be to save Georgie at the expense of himself. Hope not, but can kind of see it going that way.

My homework (leaving it up to the wire as per usual) rhu.

Elvis comes across to me as one of those men who react to what's in front of them. Poor Debs gets the heave ho by text because he's met Lane. Dumping Debs was less to do with her, more of a gesture to impress Georgie. He likes the big gestures, flying her down to meet his parents, proposing with a message in a bottle? Trouble is he doesn't really follow through. He also seems to go from 0-50 rather fast; Debs pregnant in 2 dates with his SAS grade sperm; proposed to Georgie within 4 weeks(!). It's a high octane life like his working life.

So when the baby comes along he deals with it in the same way. Throws himself into it to the exclusion of everything else. No talking to Georgie. No postponing the wedding, just dump and move on. Now maybe he thought he needed to make a go of it with Debs which is a bit old fashioned but that's the only positive I could construct from his behaviour.

Anyway. 2 years later and it sounds like the gloss of fatherhood is wearing off a bit. He wonders to Charles whether he made the right decision. Kids aren't really a decision mate. If you're any kind of human being you have to give up something for them. Georgie reappears in his life and now it's all suddenly 'I need to explain', the motivation seemingly to make himself feel better.

And now what? Is the woman he was with when he was holding the baby Debs? Or was it a new girlfriend? Is she going to be sacked off the minute he thinks Georgie is back on the scene? To me Elvis is one of those guys who likes the fun times but just buggers off when things become stale or difficult. I think he believes what he feels is love, but it's the love of the good feeling, the greener grass, for how it makes him feel, nothing more.

mads I completely understand your feelings on what happened to you and yes, that is the difference between real life and fiction. Unfortunately, real life seldom offers up any redemption for someone who does something like that and as far as the fiction goes, we don't know yet that it will work out any different for Elvis (as I said before, I wonder if there is anything else he hasn't mentioned yet).

Ooh thanks nvm I think I could accept an unconditional offer like that but I'm just wondering what I would get at the end of it - I;m very tempted to suggest a BA with honours - but only if he's wearing low slung combats

Oh pix SAS grade sperm Presumably no weapon-grade scrotum was involved!

Seriously, yes, I'm liking your analysis. I think the prequel not only set the scene but it was probably supposed to let us into Elvis character as well and I did think that neither of them had probably thought everything through properly before deciding to get married. I hope there is some redemptive quality but I'm afraid jen might be right. Imagine the state of twitter - how much grief does TG think he can cope with.

On the issue of 'Debs' from what I have discovered from the Episode 4 cast list, it appears that the woman shown with Elvis is 'Debs' but the 'happy families' scenario may not be as it appears...or is it????

Also, I saw the trailer for OG just before Poldark - nothing much new apart from Dr Bland telling Georgie "Stop lying!" shortly after he asks her if anything happened with Elvis - but I expect that's just editing!

Just seen the cast list for the final episode and have noticed certain peeps are back but there seems to be someone missing.

Kazza, do you mean Molly?

I hope it's Molly you mean as well Kazza. It looks like a full cast list for episode 5 but, if it's anything to go by, episode 2 didn't list LP and I wondered if that was intended to be a surprise to us all. Can't help but hope there might be just a little teeny-weeny surprise for all of us at the end of episode 5 - possibly after the trailers

Morning all. A very damp, autumnal day in Lancashire today.

Need to get my backside in gear this week and put in a full week at work. Need to put all thoughts of CJ and Elvis out of my head until Wednesday night.

I've just been thinking about why I love this drama so much. obviously the love stories and drama is great, but what I really like is the banter and close friendship between the soldiers. It's like they become very close fiends and family, and have a good laugh too. I'm a freelancer and I'm really missing that type of social interaction and hanging out with people who get you or you can just have a laugh with.

It's quiet on here today.

I know what you mean giantcar. Our company is quite relaxed about homeworking and I've done it a few times when for instance, I've had workmen in and needed to be around but it's not something I would want to do all the time as I like the day to day contact and chats with my colleagues.

I suppose when you live and work with your colleagues 24x7, they will feel like family in a very short space of time.

I've always enjoyed the 2 section banter bits giantcar although I don't think I'd want to be in that close company with most of my colleagues; they're nice enough but I'm a bit of an antisocial sod.

Afternoon! Back after a frustrating day with computers. As I squealed and huffed and puffed with annoyance for half the day my colleagues, bless them, just looked on patiently and I had to tell them "it's my age," I also usually tell the younger ones they've got all this coming to them in time. Actually, it was the computers not me! We do have a bit of banter and we do have a laugh - which is sometimes very necessary in my line of work - so I'm grateful for the company. It's not a big office and thankfully, if we annoy each other sometimes I think we've all learned to be diplomatic about it and just ignore it until it goes away.

I like the fact there is banter in OG giantcar but I think I still liked it a bit more in series 1. I suppose more of it was focused on Molly and Smurf with Two section and this time they're a little more separate and we also have Elvis' crew in the mix.

mads that was big thing to share xx

So, does anyone know what Kazza meant when she gave us a clue about the cast list?

I so hope it's Molly...but it's probably Mansfield.

When I think back to Keeley Hawes reprising her fab role in Line Of Duty, it makes me think it could be possible for them to have kept a little Molly appearance quiet. Well, that's what I tell myself. Sap!!