The Our Girl Addicts Thread 65 Stay focused, Stay alert, Stay alive and carry on....spying

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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 have watched all seven series of Soldier Soldier to keep up our military terminology and have galloped through all three series of The Musketeers. There was a definite connection between Our Girl and The Musketeers in the delightful form of Luke Pasqualino. We have now agreed to watch the old BBC series of Spooks and are currently in the middle of series 2. Please join in if this grabs your attention.

She is - clearly doesn’t believe in the sisterhood.

I think this may have flipped Tom over the edge. He looks like he's truly had enough.

Tom may have reached his limit I think. Can't stomach much more

Tom is about to flip methinks ...... and one more episode in this series to go.

I think it has happened Harry not happening

Oops - Tom and Harry fall out.

I suppose in a job with MI5, there comes a point when you just burn out.

Harry's not displaying much sympathy.

At least Tom has ignored him and is talking to Christine.

That was quite powerful really. A man at the end of his tether in a job he presumably went into with high hopes

I won’t be around next week.
That was a good episode, I thought.

I know it's greatly exaggerated for drama purposes, but there must be so much stress in those jobs. It seems inevitable that burn out happens. I do think in real life (I hope) that here is more emotional support.

Oh eejit, would you rather we delayed for a week? It's the final episode too.

If it’s ok with the rest of you - you know, lockdown had its benefits 🤣

I'm fine to hold on for the final episode - so long as Rhu and Magi are in agreement.

For a while the stresses and emotions are there, but after a while you become numb to the psychology stresses and your training becomes sharper and more focused that you end up basically being part robotic in a sense of your emotions and skills in doing your duties.

I am quite happy to skip next week and do last episode in this series the following week

Sorry, forgot to mention that I'm fine to wait until next week, so see you all here on the 14th.

Well, it's been a momentous week! Are we ready for tonight?

As one, Rhu, I was about to type the same thing!

I’m quite looking forward to some light relief.

It's certainly been a week like no other Rhu. I guess we had some sort of indication how things would be after Prince Philip's funeral last year but this is on a whole different scale. I have watched far too much television coverage this week, that's for sure.

Just a quick point: I'm on holiday next week so would it be ok to delay the start of series 3 until I'm back (Wed 28/9)?

I am here. What a week though. Probably watched too much tv but no regrets.

Pressing play

It’s been fun listening to the inane wittering of some of the presenters, when they have been wittering rubbish about some thing or somewhere I actually know about.

I take it you mean the Edinburgh section eejit I felt the same but was very nostalgic about my ho e town