Our Girl Thread 57 "Our Girl Revisited"

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We have been following Our Girl since 2014 and although there are to be no further series, we revisit time and time again to discuss. As an alternative, we are also watching the 1990s series of Soldier Soldier.

Boxing? Or knocking the living daylights out of each other? I think this is Briggsy's chance at getting back at Reece over his wife's attempts to sabotage their house.

Yawn, yawn, yawn...bet Briggsy smacks Reece one out of of anger.

Do you transfer into the Paras (a bit like joining Special Forces) or is it something you apply to do from the outset? Not for me either Rhu.

No idea on the paras - didn't Fingers want to join them and didn't make it?

Was it the paras or SF? Didn't Bones take him aside and say he was down for selection?

Briggsy packs his bags and goes home!

There's not much subtlety to the story with Jackie. She just started out a bit over the top and carried on without much build up or introduction.

I wonder who it is who is really attacking Debs house? Wonder if she owes a drugs dealer or something?

Will have to google the paras and see how it works.

Yep, drugs and alcohol that will get them through the worst trial of all.

Debs has to confess she got Briggsy home under false pretences. Is there no end to her lies? I think she has a lot to learn about army life!

Jackie comes out armed with a petrol can and deliberately keys Debs' car. This is not looking good.

So, it does appear to be Jackie after all - would have preferred it to be a twist in the tale. She has keyed Deb's car and has a petrol can in her hand.

Debs is suspicious but fortunately the phone rings! Saved by the bell. Jackie gets in the driver's seat, pours petrol over herself and flicks the cigarette lighter! Boom!

Meanwhile the lads are on the final leg of the exercise - a stretcher race apparently.

All is not well at home whereas the men area charging about on manoevures elsewhere.

Blimey, that it is grim. Jackie has torched the car with herself in it.

Gosh, what a heartless individual the Colonel is. He's so dismissive of Jackie's suicide and how it must have affected Debs.

The Colonel really is quite dislikeable. His wife must be so angry with him.

Brize Nor'hun - oh memories....

You are right Rhu that the houses look too nice to be army quarters. My next door neighbour's daughter was up at RAF Leuchars for about five years and their house was nothing like those (and they had two children too). Mind you, they did have some lovely views over the coast.

I don't think they handled that storyline very well. Not much to be learned apart from they were rubbish at dealing with mental health issues. There was another one in series 1 wasn't there?

Sorry you couldn't join us eejit. Better luck for next week.

I wonder where magi is? She's been very quiet of late.

This series was filmed in 1996 - it looks like a new housing estate that's just gone up, especially the roads look fairly new. The style of houses looks familiar too like one of the big builders.

What was the issue in series 1? My mind has gone blank.

Yes, something like Barratt or Wimpey.

I'm off to google joining the paras now!

I'm sure there was a story in series 1 where a sergeant came back after military service somewhere which really affected him badly and ended up holding his wife hostage and then blowing himself up in a car? Will need to go back and check which it was.

It was episode 5 called "Battlefields". The wife of someone called Freddy, was going to leave him for the norther Sgt with the moustache, but he ends up blowing himself up, I think. The suggestion was that he had PTSD and his wife was struggling to live with him. She was German, I think.