#inspector morse

[hurricane-eva]

Watching Trove and I had to pause it so I could just cackle at this at my leisure:

Dorothea: Who do you fancy to win?

Morse: When I was a child, my father took me to a County Show. The stockmen led beeves around a field. The winner got a rosette. The loser got a bolt through their skull.

Dorothea: ...it's just a bit of fun, Morse.

[oc-character-development]

Today marks one year since the end of my second favourite tv show.

One year since Endeavour ended.

One year since I cried my eyes out as my parents poked fun at me for crying over a tv show because I never do that (as far as they know) and I had to accept there will be no more (official) Morse stuff anymore.

I still am not over it and I still love the show to pieces so to mark the occasion and the fact I’m never going to be over this damned show, here’s a poster I made a while back for fun:

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[fanficrocks]

The significance of absence in storytelling

When does the absence of a supporting character take over a narrative? Or at least impact it massively?

Two clear examples from my fave fandom, the Morseverse:

Susan’s absence in Endeavour (we never see her barring the one imaginary sequence in the pilot) is so much more powerful and consequential than Susan Fallon’s appearance and subsequent death in Inspector Morse, even though the latter is played by the incomparable Joanna David

Val Lewis in Inspector Morse gets perhaps 90 seconds screen time, and as the wife of the sidekick, has zero impact beyond establishing her existence along with that of his family. Val Lewis’ headstone in Lewis gets perhaps 60 seconds on screen altogether, but her loss shapes so many undercurrents throughout that show

What do you feel? Look forward to more examples.

[sirkassandra]

how +‎ is +‎ your +‎ father. A popular catchphrase of the 1910s popularised by music-hall entertainer Harry Tate, who used it for comic effect to change the subject away from one about which his character was ignorant (hence sense 1) or a taboo subject (hence sense 2).

[bonemeal12]

Please… Please there’s got to be someone else out there who like this show…

There’s also this comic?? I am very sick so I have no idea if it’s funny or relatable but hey I tried.

[maturemenoftvandfilms]

Inspector Morse (TV Series) S8/E5 'The Remorseful Day' (2000) - James Grout & John Thaw

[bryndeavour]

HAPPY BIRTHDAY TO E MORSE YOU SON OF A BITCH

(and also colin dexter i guess)

[tinkerbelldetective]

Endeavour (2012-2023)

"You have to make a stand somewhere. They're not going to drive me out."

[door]

sure i love my indoor pool but i kinda wish it was an outdoor pool. that’s why i had a mural of an outdoor pool painted on the wall next to my indoor pool

[geese-in-a-frock-coat]

Not enough crime dramas acknowledge periods.

"We found her dress covered in blood!"

"Oh really, Mr male detective written by Mr male crime writer, she must have mashed the victim to death."

[hurricane-eva]

i don’t know who made this but it’s amazing

update: @hekate1308 made it!

[rawyld]

One of the last photos taken in 2000 with John Thaw and Kevin Whately.

[mywingsareonwheels]

Sometimes I think about how proud Morse would be that:

a) Roger Allam has some opera training and is still a massive opera and classical fanboy

b) Kevin Whately's daughter Kitty is a professional opera/classical singer (and a v good one!)

I think he'd like both Shaun Evans and John Thaw too (and would be psyched that Thaw's second marriage was to a Quaker!), though he might be freaked out by how many serial killers Evans has played. But Allam and Whately, especially the latter? Oh that would make his *year*. :-)

[sirkassandra]

•have a shufti (at something)

​(British English, informal) to have a quick look at something •

According to a Martin J Pitt on Quora: “Spelled shufti it means “look!” in Arabic (from past tense of shaf) and was picked up in the Second World War by soldiers such as my father. It is what pedlars would say when offering goods such as dirty postcards, or various article of doubtful genuineness. I actually have his Egyptian phrase book from the time.”

[wellanthropologicallyspeaking]

i hurt my feelings making this actually

[oc-character-development]

Endeavour finale memes because I’m laughing myself through the pain: spoilers ahead