#exeunt

[morsesnotes]

What's that book? A Spy in the House of Love, that's you. Outside looking in at what you want but daren't ask for. You'd be a spectator at your own funeral.

[morse-perez-and-davenport]

Shaun Evans and Roger Allam filming Endeavour S9F3 exeunt, Radcliffe square Oxford, august 8th 2022

© Endeavourneverland

[too-antigonish]

So this is the geekiest thing I’ve ever posted about Endeavour…

I’ve been trying to write this thing about Exeunt and I keep getting distracted by details. This one is about the church where Joan and Jim get married—the same one where the infamous gunshot scene occurs at the end of Exeunt.  

The church is called All Angels in the script. This is not the name of the actual church used for the location, so it was an intentional choice. The name “All Angels” is usually short for “St. Michael and All Angels”—and it’s not an uncommon name/dedication for Anglican or Catholic churches.  

I’d bet money that Russell Lewis knew full well that St. Michael is the traditional patron saint of police officers when he wrote this into the story. 

So as I was thinking about that little tidbit today, something from my long ago days in medieval studies occurred to me: For a variety of reasons that I won’t go into here, there’s a standard rule about older (i.e. many UK) churches dedicated to St. Michael. They were usually built on top of older pre-Christian religious sites.

So, the church where we symbolically have the "death" of Endeavour to make way for "Morse" is on a site that was previously…Pagan.

(Yes, I know it’s awful—but I think Morse would approve.)

[theohhelloslyrics]

I was all alone,

we were young,

you were like wine

heady as the fog rolling in o'er the hillside

lovely as the song in the air as the wind blows

opiate as the cold of the frost on the windows

lo, the rose is gone from my eye, so deceiving

so my little dove I'm afraid I am leaving

- Exeunt, The Oh Hellos

[seeherdchen]

[soapcan18]

WHERE R MY FELLOW THE OH HELLOS ENJOYERS?? RISE UP

[shakespearenews]

“I, Peaseblossom” is one in his series of Shakespearean minor character plays; there’s also “I, Malvolio,” “I, Caliban,” “I, Cinna,” and “I, Banquo.” What seem to be radical or aslant applications of post-dramatic techniques help to imaginatively situate the audience in the play’s world, working to peel back layers of familiarity or unfamiliarity with Shakespeare’s stories alike. Peel back to what? In I, Peaseblossom, to the vulnerability of being very, very small in a world gone mad with love.

[earworms-daily]

Day 7: Exeunt - The Oh Hellos

Listen Here

Now, I am not the fool I was when I was younger Crocodile eyes, I have seen how you hunger Fluttering your lashes, like ashes and embers Warm and bright as fire devouring timber

Song Fact Book

Released October 16, 2015

Exeunt

verb used as a stage direction in a printed play to indicate that a group of characters leave the stage.

My Thoughts

The Oh Hellos and I go back about five years or so, and I've listened to just about every song of theirs, but nothing really sticks in my brain quite as much as the opening measures of this song. Like the musicality of it is so good. The string work, the rattling wave, the strong vocals. I just want to put it in my mouth and see if would explode like popping candy and fireworks.

Bit of a theatre nerd so it should not surprise you that I vibe with the title of this song quite a bit, but it's also highly symbolic in the context of the contents of the song as it's about the exit from a toxic relationship/situation (aka the stage) and it examines the characters in scene, essentially naming them to remove their power as they leave to make room for the new actors in the scene

This is almost a what if scenario of the conclusion of the relationship depicted in their other song Bitter Water

[luses-art]

Crocodile eyes, I have seen how you hunger.

[prettiestbodyinthebog]

EXEUNT BY THE OH HELLOS IS SO FEYRE AND TAMLIN CODED

Except the first ACOTAR was only released a few months before the album Dear Wormwood in 2015, so while it is likely that the Oh Hellos could have read it, the similarities between this song and the second book (2016) are uncanny

[morsesnotes]

I'm to retire. D.C.I. Thursday's with Carshall. Now I hear Strange is to be seconded to Kidlington. Yes, sir. What of your own future? Well, I suppose I'm undecided sir.

[paperbunny]

Woke up with these words in my mouth.

"Love, in pursuing it, becomes it."

No idea what they mean, or if they came from something, but I've been reading too much @neil-gaiman lately for him to not infect my brain somehow.

[theohhelloslyrics]

now I am not the fool I was when I was younger

crocodile eyes, I have seen how you hunger

fluttering your lashes like ashes and embers

warm and bright as fire devouring timber

no, I cannot trust what you say when you're grieving

so my love, I'm sorry, but still I am leaving

- Exeunt, The Oh Hellos

[seeherdchen]

For curious @astridcontramundum a little snippet of german translated version Endeavour.

You were right, Morse addresses Thursday always with „Sie“. Except in one sentence in this scene.

I know thee not old man.

Ich kenne dich nicht, alter Mann.

[soapcan18]

You haven’t lived if you’ve never experienced the Bitter Water -> There Beneath -> In the Blue Hours of Morning -> Exeunt combo sorry 🤷🏼‍♀️