Our Girl Thread 60 "Our Girl, Soldier Soldier and The Musketeers Revisited"

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We started to follow "Our Girl" back in 2014 and although there will be no further series, we do revisit from time to time. We are about to finish the final series of "Soldier Soldier" and will be starting on the first series of "The Musketeers". Of course, there is a definite connection between "Our Girl" and "The Musketeers" in the delightful form of Luke Pasqualino.

So Jeremy is jacking the army but defends the Col, while Jessica, who still wants a carer, doesn’t.

I imagine we are supposed to sigh and go...ahhh! but I think they just deserve each other. What a dreadful love triangle.

Oh, dear, the room has gone silent now that Jessica has swanned in. She is being shunned by everyone.

Good riddance Colonel. You were awful.

Oh Julie, you do not have a good character judgement really.

Drysdale is clearing out his desk. The officers have invited him to have a drink with them. Will he go?

Jessica appears in the mess and the room falls silent.

That is not a flattering dress.

Even Jeremy turns his back on her. She walks out.

And so that's that. How many episodes did we watch? 70+?

No! Julie ....

So, that was the end ladies. Quite a downbeat ending, but taking all the series into consideration, it was generally pretty good.

I've liked Jeremy all the way through this but am feeling rather disappointed in his attitude here and shunning Jessica quite so openly leaves a bad taste

I think it was 84 episodes ilove - it must have taken us at least 18 months.

A sort of nothing ending, really.

At a rough count I made it 82 ilove

Yes, I was disappointed in Jeremy in this episode.

I think Jeremy matured so much along the series. I did find it rather odd that Jessica was his superior yet he was the one doling out the advice towards the end. The way Jessica was shunned for telling the truth makes me wonder if it was a case of "all boys together"? What does anyone else think?

82 or 84 episodes, whichever. Wow! Plus we had the last series of OG to watch in the middle of it all too.

There was at least one other female in mess dress there.

I think the situation with Jessica was that she probably joined the army with a degree and went through Sandhurst but in those days would only have been in a non-frontline role. She was finance/payroll or something like that but dabbled a bit during exercises. I suppose there was a divide between male and female officers and their combat experience at that time. As that lawyer tried to make out - was her judgment of the situation based on solid experience gained on active frontline duty? Not really.

I think Jeremy was looking at it from a different standpoint. He didn't like the Colonel or agree with what happened and his decisions, but he saw the bigger picture and the impact a negativejudgment would have for other officers whilst Jessica was just on a personal quest because she and the Colonel had clashed right from the start and she wanted to have her moment of triumph.

I agree that with Jeremy we've seen someone progress from a bit of daft junior officer to a really decent mature officer and good leader of men. I just wish he'd had a bit of personal happiness too. There was no mention of Lillian's husband when they met again in Africa, so who knows what the future might hold - the fictional future that never was. I shall invent one in my head for him.

The interesting thing is that the Col ended up doing what he’d been advised to do in the first place. Looks to me like the Board and, before it the Brig, sided with Jessica, but was seeing the same picture as Jeremy, and then the Col made his statement, which was a tad off. If it had been set in earlier times, the Brig would have left the Col in his room with a glass of whisky and a loaded revolver and there would have been no boats of enquiry.

Board, not boats FFS!

That scenario brings to mind 'Tunes of Glory' eejit so I think you have a point there.

Hello, please can I gate-crash? I'm a little late to the party... by about 7 years... but I've just watched the pilot and season 1 of Our Girl. Bloody loved it! (I also watched Soldier Soldier back in the day but we're going back nearly 20 years now!) Knew about Our Girl but never got around to watching it before. Didn't realise it had been going THAT long though.

I've just watched ep 1 of season 2... and I'm missing Molly! Tell me it'll pass? I want to like Georgie but I'm missing Molly's cheeky Cockney Sparra thang - she seemed more real somehow. Funny and gutsy and flawed etc. I know I haven't really given Georgie a chance yet - but she reminds me of Cheryl Cole with perfect teeth and a tiny waist and I'm just not feeling it yet.

You'll probably shoot me down in flames for such blasphemy. I can only apologise! Tell me what I can look forward to with Georgie and when I can find my feet with her as a viewer... will it take me long??

Sod Georgie! Some of us only watched for Elvis. #stillmourningElvis

PS - spoiler alert ...

Ha! Thanks for that spoiler! So is this more of an Elvis fangirling thread?
Not my cup of tea I'm afraid, so no loss there... I'm a lady who loves ladies... but Georgie isn't doing it for me either! Mind you, neither did Molly - but I liked a strong female lead for once and a good story arc and character!

Hi Pebble welcome to the thread. Yes I think you would get 100.per cent in agreement that series one of Our Girl was really excellent. I think we all fell in love with Molly and the way the whole story evolved.
Do hope you saw the closing bit of episode five after the credits. That alone gave us hope for a second series with Captain James and Molly. However the BBC were slow to decide on a second series and in that time Lacey Turner had signed up again with Eastenders.

So when they did finally give the go ahead for another series it of course had to be about a completely different medic hence Georgie Lane. Many of us were very disappointed but decided to continue watching because as well as being fond of Molly we were in fact excessively fond of Captain James and hoped that in any ongoing;g series we would hopefully be hearing about Molly as much as possible.

Mentions of her were forthcoming in series two but definitely not as much as we had hoped. As far as the character of GL is concerned I must admit I for one never really engaged with her at all. Did quite enjoy series two although it was completely different. Ongoing series for my part never did come up to series one and I admit I have rewatched that over and over again. As we have done frequently on this thread as a watch along. We decided to intersperse those by doing Soldier Soldier keeping up the military theme. Now we are starting 9n The Musketeers vague,y military but it does have Luke Pasqualino who was Elvis Harte in series two of OG.

I am sure we will be revisiting OG again in the not too distant future and if you were to join us we would love that. So continue watching OG and I know most of us would like to hear your views as you continue and.

Can quite understand, Pebble - I like good strong female characters myself (and male writers / directors usually get them wrong, but I doubt if I’d have persevered without Elvis. I’m sure you will be able to join us in the general criticism of Dr Dull, though.