#frendeavour

Lustre

Endeavour (TV) | Rated T | Thursday/Morse | Character Study | Transfemme Morse | 2k

Morse rarely paid any mind to what the shop clerks thought of him as he pursued his inquiries, no matter what he was looking for: lipstick, ladies’ stockings, a dress a size too small for a woman found dead in a wood. Things change between Morse and Thursday. Most of all, things change between Morse and himself.

- Morse and promises: he gives Jakes his word he’ll continue the dig, but shuts it down to protect the Thursday family

- Roger Allam and Shakespeare: the episode has 2 nods to Allam’s most famous Shakespeare roles — in Bright’s Prospero speech and Endeavour’s “I know thee not, old man” (what Hal says to reject Falstaff)

- Dickens: the undertakers, Claypole’s, have the same surname as Noah Claypole, the bullying and incompetent apprentice in Oliver Twist

- Holy Social Relevance: the Brexit/Nazi Murderer airing the weekend of Linekergate

- I’d forgotten how much Jack Laskey ups the tempo of the show (and I think his new maturity on camera was really striking)

- A nice tie-in to the otherwise slightly narratologically shaky but horribly moving end of the book version of The Remorseful Day, where Lewis discovers that Morse acted [to avoid spoilers — in a way which disappointed Lewis] as he did to protect Strange’s marriage. In retrospect, this piece of canon makes MUCH LESS SENSE without the Thursdays.

- Lovely parting scene where Thursday’s boy has disappeared behind the mask forever

- Thursday’s Funny Turn in Exeter front quad!!! Cries of Oh No from me

- Morse having a little lie down on the floor of Joanie’s wedding: relatable content even without the stabbing

- I was surprised how much I’d still somehow been hoping for an escape for Morse… when we know though…

- And also, of course, for Max, who similarly dies alone — with Morse as sole mourner

- The determined erasure of LFox from the ensuing documentary is the absolute fucking funniest thing I have ever seen in my life

- I do hate seeing Thaw!Morse look so ill and I thought it was pretty crap of the documentary not to mention how sad Thaw’s early death was

- Please not the hardcore filming fans oh god, the shame of them, they’re terrifying

- Anton Lesser’s lovely hair and discussion of learning his words!!

- Love how essentially we replaced Tigers with Bikers

- Strange not wearing a wedding ring BLEAH, run, Joanie

- Had something happened or is it the changing tech which meant Thaw Eyes looked much grainier in 2022 than they had in 2012?

- NOT MY SON, kill me

In Love on a Tuesday

Endeavour (TV) | Fred Thursday/Endeavour Morse | 2k

Morse, in love? Thursday has a mystery to solve.

actually imagine Morse having to GENUINELY hold Thursday up

ditto S. Evans re R. Allam

not physically possible, soz 

but also as well as the nice (agonising) nod to J. Thaw!Morse’s heart attack in Exeter, there’s one to the pilot, where Morse faints in the post mortem and Thursday catches him (a likelier scenario)