Our Girl

[anotheoldgit]

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/tvandradio/tv-and-radio-reviews/11110136/Our-Girl-BBC-One-review-great-action-shame-about-the-script.html

With a choice of watching Downton Abbey and this 2nd episode of Our Girl I decided to watch the latter.

If ever there was a case for women not to fight on the front line it was this.

It would not be too bad if Lacey Turner who plays Our Girl, was amongst other female soldiers, but she is alone in a company of men, and it is then that her female emotions come out, when she befriends a young Afghan girl, thus putting her not only her male colleagues lives at risk, but also her own.

[wolf63]

As my late mother would have said - it's only make believe.



:-)

[andy-hughes]

AOG, i appreciate your desire for authenticity, but I have to concur with wolf63 on this - dramatic nuance will always trump reailty.

[jackthehat]

I wonder how many of 'our brave girls' threw their hands up in frustration at the portrayal of a female on the front line?

Although most of us know that 'dramatic licence' has been taken, obviously there will be some people (like the OP) who will use it as a basis to bolster their argument that women should have limited roles in warfare.

[anotheoldgit]

Yes I know it is only a TV drama, but it did highlight the fact that when it comes to emotions there is a big difference between males & females.

No need to be so touchy jackthehat it is only my slant on the show, your position is still safe.

[jackthehat]

///If ever there was a case for women not to fight on the front line it was this.///

I got the impression that you had allowed your response to a fictional programme to make a 'real world' judgement.

[EcclesCake]

I quite enjoyed the pilot but the series has turned out to be typical of the trite twaddle that is dished out on Sunday evenings.

Programmes like this could be better researched and advised on so that they don't compound popular misconceptions.

[andy-hughes]

AOG - "If ever there was a case for women not to fight on the front line it was this."

I think any recreation of a battlefield provides a case for everyone not to fight on the front line.

There shouldn't be a 'front line'.

Killing people is wrong.

[andy-hughes]

Anyone who relies to my last post by signalling their intention to miss the point by starting their post with "So ..." will be in line for a smack!!

[lilacben]

She isnt the only women in the camp ...she is in a female tent as well.

[Slapshot]

So.... ( sorry Andy-Hughes couldn't resist )

I don't like any of these programmes that glorify and dramatise what goes on on the frontline no matter which battle zone it happens to be. I simply think they are wrong and present a wholly different view of what battle really is.

My wife and daughter watch it... then Downton.... hate Sunday evenings..!!

[andy-hughes]

Slapshot - I'll let you off!

You should be aware that due to the lateness of the hour, and the fact that I have worked all evening and am now seriously tired, I replaced the second vowel if your name with the third vowel the sequence - an innocent error, and I am glad I spotted it in time!!

[Slapshot]

Lol..;0)