The Our Girl Addicts Thread 72 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 the three series of of The Musketeers. There was a definite connection between Our Girl and The Musketeers in the delightful form of Luke Pasqualino. We are currently part way through series 8 of Spooks. Having recently witnessed the demise of Adam Carter in the last series, he has been replaced by Lucas North.

We are in the final stages of series 9. We start series 10 very soon.

Cora must be miffed at all her dowry going to an unknown.

Totally agree with you there.

Laughing at the idea of Mr Bates being overcome in the presence of Lord Grantham as if he's a peasant or something! One in the eye for Mr Carson there.

I certainly didn't know that Bates and Lord rantham were previously acquainted.

I wouldn't turn my nose up at having a distant cousin as a doctor, would you?

No, it must be the very idea of having a cousin who actually works!!

Mary is so hard-nosed.

Manchester ...exclaimz his Lordship. Imagine!

Mr Carson shows so much deference to the Crawleys

Yes Magi Manchester is such a den of iniquity and vice!

Miss O'Brien always has her own agenda and she does like to whisper away in Lady Grantham's ear and just let ideas sit there and take root.

The lives and concerns of the family are a constant source of gossip. It really is like working in a company and gossiping about management all the time.

Indeed! Office gossip round the coffee machine or water cooler. It's just the same.

Old Lady G is so funny. She always has the best lines. Fancy hating electric lights.

This episode is really clever at introducing everyone and giving us all the back story of Robert and Cora's marriage, the inheritance problem, the character and relationship of the sisters, the plotting and scheming below stairs.

You're right Rhu. I had genuinely forgotten most of that.

Has anyone seen The Gilded Age? I watched it on Now and it's written by Julian Fellowes as well and is about the new money/old money families in New York in the 1880's - families like Cora's.

Yes they certainly covered a lot of background straightaway.

Lady Edith is such a jealous so and so.

Yes, but Mary is awful to her most of the time. I reckon it's pretty 50/50

Roll up the next suitor for Lady Mary and a Duke!!

Oh, O'Brien...you cow!!

I had forgotten how really nasty Thomas was. Wretched man

So what is the Duke up to?

How terrible it must be to have a maid serving in the dining room!

Good for them to be embarrassed. Lady M does at least know she's misbehaving.