#Endeavour Morse (Mention)

[morsesnotes]

I'm kind of amused by Shaun Evans going from befuddled about the Morse/Joan storyline to outright annoyed over the years.

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Jace Lacob: You mentioned your love for the fourth episode this season, “Coda.” I’m wondering if there’s a favorite scene that stands out to you from this third season?

Shaun Evans: Yes, and it’s the last scene where Joan leaves.

Shaun: Throughout, we’ve always had little glimpses of them catching each other’s eyes in the mirror, in walking her home, seeing what’s going on, and I’ve always been curious. And each time we have an interaction I always say, “Where are we going with this? Where are we … What are we doing here? Should we be playing that there’s a bit of an attraction here, or should we be … should she just be my boss’s daughter?”

Shaun: I think for something to be engaging, the audience have to root for what the hero wants. Now, if the hero doesn’t know what he wants, it’s difficult for them to root for him, then it just becomes procedural, every week he solves a case. Whereas, if you think of the great sort of stories of like Friends, or like Sex and the City, or any of those stories, you can think, “Will they get together? Won’t they get together?” And it’s that which is engaging.

God I’m going on now aren’t I?

But in conclusion I was pleased because I really felt strongly that there should be some interaction between those guys that we’re really driving towards. But I feel like it really came, the heart of the story, came to fruition in the final scene.

PBS Masterpiece (2016)

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Jace: Why doesn’t Endeavour tell Joan that he loves her when he does have the opportunity?

Shaun: Oh, $64,000 question.

Shaun: There were so many back and forths about this, I’ve gotta tell you. And for me, I really … not agonized, but I thought, “Well, why go to all that trouble and not say anything? Why not? Why not just say something?” And we spoke about it constantly with the writer and it was his instinct that he doesn’t say anything, and I thought, “Why? But what’s the- why not just say one thing, not just say … Even call her by her first name?” You know? Why not say something, you know?” So you go with the majority sometimes, in cases like that. But I think it plays … I think it plays beautifully, you know?

Jace: I mean, so much of the show is in the unstated, rather than the stated.

Shaun: Mm-hmm.

PBS Masterpiece (2016)

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Q: Morse is pretty useless with women -- does he have more luck this time?

Shaun: Yeah, he ballsed it right up with Nurse Monica, but she was just too nice. He needs someone who's a bit more [thinks] "Grrr". But Monica comes back, so we get to end that in a better way. And things with Joan take a twist, which is quite satisfying. It can be frustrating for me, too. I'm like, "Why isn't Morse saying something? Why isn't he speaking up?" But the writer says, "Please, just trust me on this." And he gets it right.

Heat magazine (2017)

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Jace: The dynamic between Morse and Joan Thursday has provided a romantic spine to the series thus far. In the first episode of season six we get a bit of a flashback to the end of “Icarus,” with Morse asking if Joan’s offer of a coffee still stands. What happened between these two after Fancy’s death?

Shaun: This is one thing that we disagree about. I personally think that it would be interesting to have these two people begin a relationship and to have a night of passion and then the next day or a couple of weeks later, they’re like, ‘Oh this isn’t what I thought it would be. This isn’t the answer to all of my prayers at all.’ In a way for me, I think that’s way more heartbreaking, that you can’t be happy with anyone, rather than this, will they won’t they, which I personally think has a shelf life. So we have a disagreement about that, but that’s cool. So nothing happens between them. She’s busy, her life moved on. She hasn’t got time for him any more.

Jace: I do think it would be gutting for him to achieve this sort of idealized romance only to for only to find out that it is not working.

Shaun: Right?

Jace: And that there’s something broken within him.

Shaun: Because that speaks about you. Yeah exactly so, that’s my point exactly, right. That’s my point exactly. I think there’s not a fear, and I hesitate to say fear, but I think that for whatever reason, our writer, who I love and is one of my best mates, likes the idea of this will they won’t they. But I think that it speaks more to a real inability to form a lasting romantic relationship if you do that. So I’m very depressed about that. Someone you’ve lusted after for five years and then she’s like, ‘You know it’s…’

Jace:  ‘Thanks but no thanks.’

Shaun: Yeah, totally, or even if it’s him it’s like, ‘What’s this here?’

PBS Masterpiece (2019)

#endeavour #itv endeavour #shaun evans #morse x joan #jace lacob #shaun gets it #the sex and the city mention threw me lol #russ lewis #morse #joan #coda #pylon #pbs

[jessieren]

Aaannddd with alarming speed we’re back to Moustache Monday again…

@librawritesstuff favourite day of the week… ummm… possibly

How can you not love that smiley face and its smiley tache

#shaun evans #itv endeavour #endeavour morse #moustache mondays #morsetache mondays #he’s always cute when he smiles #with a tache or without #love the tache cake #it’s a masterpiece #as is the tache itself #I love how no one mentions it #across the entire series #no one goes… errr hang on what? #not strange when he pops to see him #not bright #not Thursday #nada #I mean you’d mention it right #Thursday mentions when he doesn’t iron his shirt #but nothing about the tache #no… seriously mate… what? #no jokes about caterpillars on his top lip #nothing… #Joan kind of mentions it #at the fete.. #with the ‘you don’t look like you’ #but that’s it #anyway….

[mywingsareonwheels]

1974.

Morse is interviewing witnesses to a murder at one of the colleges, and one of them is strikingly familiar. He's a man in his early twenties, a recent medical graduate back visiting friends before heading off to move into a totally different career. He has a posh accent, a friendly smile, warm brown eyes.

Oh he's truly, desperately familiar, and Morse isn't looking too hard into his own motives when he lets the younger man talk him into a drink out, and then a one-night stand, and then something rather more like a friendship played out over Scotch and crosswords and literary quotations.

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He does mention, briefly, that his new friend reminded him of someone else on first meeting. And somehow that turns into a discussion of ancestry, and the young man discusses with some glee the skeleton in his family cupboard: the fact that his paternal grandmother when barely eighteen had a dalliance with a working-class ruffian of the same age from Mile End, of all places. That she'd got pregnant, but her parents wouldn't let her tell the lad, but instead got her engaged to a somewhat stuffy friend of theirs called Richardson.

"Dad hates to talk about it," says Morse's friend, "he's rather a stuffed shirt, especially for a surgeon. But Granny used to love telling me stories. She did come to love my Granddad, I think, but she missed that boy from Mile End all her life." He chuckles, but a little shakily, because he has yet to learn the effortless-seeming confidence he'll spread before him one day. "I'd give anything to meet him."

Morse swallows, heart suddenly in his mouth. And something in his face makes the young man carry on, more intensely.

"Granny told me that she named Dad after him, though he doesn't know. So that's what I have: Frederick, from Mile End. Fathered a child around 1930 when he was just a lad and doesn't even know he did." He laughs, wryly. "Not much to go on, is it."

"Douglas," says Morse, and his voice is shaking but there's a smile in his eyes. "I... I'll need to look into this, but I think. I mean. I think I can help."

The postcard is of York Minster, which is only a half hour drive from where three exiles from Oxford have settled. On the back it reads just:

"Sir,

Un bel di, please could we talk? There's someone I think you should meet. Bring 2 rounds ham and tomato sandwiches. --"

At the day and time thus ordered, Fred Thursday finds Morse standing admiring the rose window, and follows him out to a bench in the Minster gardens. He's torn between confusion and shame, though above all trying to hide how overjoyed he is to see the rusty curls and those haughty, sea-green eyes again. When Morse explains, and introduces the young trainee pilot with a face Fred remembers from his mirror as a long-lost grandson... well, it's good he's already sitting down, is all.

The years past, and they are gentler than they might have been.

Fred lives to see his grandson a captain, to meet his great-granddaughter. To introduce his grandson to his uncle and step-grandmother and eventually even his aunt. To become friends with Morse again, even if quietly, and for the most part only by letter. To relish that Douglas and Morse, despite occasionally enraging each other beyond reason, seem to be friends for life. (He suspects that they might once have been more than that; if they aren't going to tell him though, he's not going to point it out.) Something healed in him that day in York, and it never breaks again.

When Captain Douglas Richardson puts down the bottle, in an attempt to salvage something of his career and his relationship with his daughter, perhaps it's partly because he's still grieving for his grandfather, dead some ten years now, but most of all because he's still grieving for his friend and one-time lover, and doesn't want to die so young himself.

When First Officer Douglas Richardson meets his new captain at MJN's portacabin in Fitton, he's a little strikingly familiar too. He's shorter, and more pompous, and vastly less good at word games, but there are rusty curls and haughty sea-green eyes.

He's no relation of Morse's at all though, it turns out. This is, eventually, rather a relief.

#ficlet #itv endeavour #e morse #endeavour morse #cabin pressure #douglas richardson #fred thursday #martin crieff #well this rather ran away from me but hopefully someone else will have fun with it too ;-) #ridiculous crossover time #endeavour #roger allam #long post #tw alcoholism mention #tw canonical character deaths #tw complicated family history mention

[morsingabout]

jakes and morse going from throwing barbs at each other like alley cats to jakes staying with morse, thursday saying jakes always looked up to morse, drinking on his sofa, and asking him to come back with him to the states is so ahahdgsjhfjkskl

#wish we'd seen at least a mention if not a picture of his literal family #endeavour morse #endeavour series 9 #endeavour itv #endeavour spoilers #peter jakes #shaun evans #jack laskey

[softboiledwonderland]

So I’m back to thinking Joan’s gonna die

#I've watched a grand total of 10 minutes of the two new episodes don't ask me why #forming opinions based on vibes alone #and that 9.2 ending #I keep thinking joan can't be the unpleasant mrs strange from inspector morse and MAYBE SHE ISN'T #doesn't explain why morse would never mention her though #I'm probably wrong #but the vibes man #itv endeavour #endeavour spoilers

[thinkingonaname]

Hopefully this works.

The crossover I didn't know I needed. A lovely but also sad fic. For Endeavour keeping it canon. For Dalgliesh also, maybe timing might be a bit off.

#endeavour #itv endeavour #Morse #Dalgliesh #adam dalgliesh #max debryn #joan thursday #jim strange #fred thursday #Mention of mcnutt #Poetry #Feelings #Fanfic #Crossover #Lovely and sad

[rooshappy]

Imagine if Fred Thursday’s last words to Morse are “Endeavour.”  Something like in the pilot episode.  Maybe as Fred is dying? Calling him by the name or Endeavour or encouraging him to Endeavour...Don’t mind me, making myself cry. 

#Itv Endeavour #Fred Thursday #endeavour morse #endeavour series 9 #endeavour #morse #inspector morse #I don't think I could take it if they parted without being friends #Morse just never mentions him because he loved him so much #OKAY

[incorrectendeavourquotes]

Modern AU

Morse: Jakes texted me ‘your adorable’ and I texted him back and said ‘no, YOU’RE adorable’.

Strange: And?

Morse: And now we’re dating. We’ve gone on six dates. All I did was point out a typo, but I like him, so I’m not going to say anything.

#Source: Tumblr #ITV Endeavour #Endeavour ITV #Incorrect Endeavour Quotes #Endeavour #Morseverse #Endeavour Morse #Peter Jakes Mention) #Jim Strange #Jarse

[esriteiatha]

About Esrite

This is a character study. 

About me. 

Only continue reading if you are interested about the woman behind the stories you have read.

Today is the day I have turned 30. It seems like a turning point despite being just a number. 

Today I have been thinking about my past plans. Throughout my teenage years, I have thought that by this time, I would be in a very different place. I thought by this time I would be a mother, a wife.

The reality is that I’m not any of this. 

But what am I?

I’m a medical doctor who had saved lives, but also watched so many others die. 

I have my own apartment and my own car. 

In my free time I either paint, draw or write stories. The knowledge that one of my stories can help someone through a hard time, or give some silver lining really motivates me.

I have been diagnosed with adult ADHD (to be honest, it’s only called adult, because my parents are simple people who didn’t know or care about mental health and didn’t recognize my symptoms or suspect anything throughout my childhood despite the signs being there.)

Thanks to my job, I acquired Covid which resulted with me having impaired ability to smell or taste things, which means that eating has become only a necessity to me and I can’t find any joy in it. 

And something I’m really not proud of is… I’m a recovered alcoholic. 

I found the TV show Endeavour in 2022. It took me a while, but then somehow it pulled me in. 

Today I thought about the whys. 

- Morse is someone who finds it really hard to get close to others because he is different.

- He is not fan of social events, 

- The love of his life marries his friend.

- He comes from a difficult domestic situation.

Somehow, all of this are true about me. 

Here comes the thing that scares me though. Morse’s future is dangerously looks like something that awaits me too. I have been thinking about this a lot nowadays. I won’t lie, most of my stories are there to correct that. Maybe deep down, I have been thinking that through changing his story may change mine too. However, I’m old enough to recognize that the world doesn’t work like that. 

Morse learnt to live with that. 

This, despite everything, gives me hope. 

Maybe one day I’ll be able to learn to live with this too. 

Maybe, it’s not a bad thing. Maybe this is what I meant to be like. 

I’ll get back to you once I find the answers. 

Thank you for listening to my ramblings. 

I hope you are all well and happy!

Love you all,

Esrite

#submission #About Esrite #character study #Of one self #ramblings #just a writer on the loose #Esrite Iatha #Mentions of Endeavour Morse

[sailforvalinor]

Is the aim of every Endeavour season finale just to rip my heart out of my chest, throw it on the ground, and grind it to powder beneath someone’s heel???

#thursday right at the brink of falling down the path of vengeance?? #everyone turning on Morse for various reasons and him mostly putting up with it until they’ve gone too far and he SNAPS?? #morse realizing he’s in love with Joan right before she LEAVES??? #the ACTING in that scene MY GOSH #you can see the heartbreak #Sean evans does an excellent job at playing him but one of my favorite things he does is that when Morse gets extremely emotional he #makes him turn away or fidget or rub at his face or cough or do anything he can to hold himself together because he doesn’t even know how #to even EXIST in this moment #it’s all too much #and things like this always seem to happen to him but he can’t ever become numb to it #it just punches him in the gut over and over again but he just…takes it #the clear father-son parallel of Thursday seeing Morse standing behind the bus he just sent his own son off on #and then that shattering into pieces when THURSDAY basically infers that this was only meant to be temporary and tells Morse to get out of #his house?? his disbelief?? #and when Thursday TURNS AWAY in that last shot I— #yeah I did a lot of screaming GET OUT OF MY HOUSE this episode #endeavour #endeavour series 3 #endeavour morse #I FORGOT TO MENTION THURSDAY JUST CASUALLY COUGHING UP THAT BULLET WHAT

[morsesnotes]

Here's a question. Do you think there was real attraction to Morse on Eve Thorne's end? Or was she just messing with him out of resentment?

#endeavour #itv endeavour #endeavour morse #eve thorne #endeavour: muse #like did any part of her really want to sleep with him? #i find it hard to tell because she (understandably) despised men and especially the police #and i get the sense she was either bi or a lesbian #but she also seemed as curious of and surprised by him as he was of her #in her last attempt at seduction she mentions how clients “get her. they don't get me.” who was morse going to get? #ahh i wish we got more scenes with them! #thinking thoughts

[jessieren]

A new phone fidget - adding to @season-77 evidence base regarding our boys phone habits

Seems he switches back from right to left to put the phone down too…

More research needed I think

#shaun evans #itv endeavour #endeavour morse #fidget friday #phone fidget #definitely ambidextrous #when it comes to phones at least #as I’ve mentioned before #I see this as a good skill to have #for ummm reasons #hot damn evans

[mywingsareonwheels]

Ugh, that thing Russell Lewis does...

... of dropping in devastating or revealing character information in off-hand bits of dialogue or the info on a tombstone you see for one second or this this that and the other. Right up until the final episode.

Some of the things that are really blink-and-you’ll-miss-it the first time around if you’re not careful:-

Bright lost his daughter. While way posher than most of the characters he’s still not from quite as upper class a background as his wife (who cheated on him at least once, though they weathered it). Her nickname for him means “tiger”. He doesn’t seem to have fit in comfortably at any point with anyone, perhaps indeed until he starts to bond more closely with Fred and Morse in the last 2-3 series.

Win was stalwartly in London for at least part of the Blitz. She once met a guy with a foot fetish who flirted with her and she’s still tolerantly amused decades later.

Constance was less than 20 when she had Morse. (AAAAAAAH.) (Everything about her marriage to Cyril sounds horrifying frankly.)

Max is gay and has a lost love (“and one was fond of me” / ”the one that got away”)

Fred grew up without indoor plumbing and generally in fairly intense poverty, he and Charlie at least (presumably Billy and I suspect their mother too) were physically abused by their father (who was an alcoholic).

Also on Fred: he was already an anti-fascist in the 1930s including when it meant joining with one of his colleagues (Sgt Vimes, who Sam was probably named after) against the rest. (Frankly Fred is the king of the “devastating info that is easily missed”, and that last point regards some moderately obscure knowledge to decode but it’s solid once you have that.)

Jakes’s non-Blenheim Vale background was very poor too, given his familiarity with the “Never-Neverland” of the kind of housing estate that replaced the kind of slum that Fred grew up in.

Dorothea has had a fricking epic past doing war correspondence etc..

Sam was bullied at school and didn’t tell his father because he was worried about how he would react.

Jim was brought up by his apparently rather obnoxious and judgemental grandmother, which might explain the desperate need to fit in and get on at all costs, as well as the extremely skilled peacemaking at times. He might have been in the navy before the police, though that’s a bit more uncertain.

Trewlove went to a posh enough school to have serious chess-playing as a thing. (She’s definitely the only person at the station with a comparable class background to Bright’s.)

And so on; I know I’ve missed out plenty of things here and especially I know there’s some info about Win that’s on the tip of my brain and I can’t quite remember. (I think she’s from Blackpool originally, e.g. and misses the sea? And did some war work outside London?) I weirdly couldn’t think of anything significant that’s not already foregrounded about Joan, Box, Fancy, or Monica; help me out here lovelies. :-) 

This is on top of eveeeeerything about Morse, which is far more foregrounded but even he has things dropped in very casually sometimes.

Goodness they’re all so messy and I love them all so very very much. <3 (Though also: I so very much wish that Lewis gave just *more* to his women characters. I have the obvious reservations about Joan’s arc (I *like* Strange, but... hmmmmmmmmmm), and the obvious wishing that Monica and Trewlove especially had had far far more to do.)

#itv endeavour #tw child death mention #tw child abuse mention #tw alcoholism mention #reginald bright #win thursday #constance morse #max debryn #fred thursday #peter jakes #dorothea frazil #sam thursday #jim strange #shirley trewlove #endeavour morse #endeavour s9 #endeavour spoilers #russell lewis

[morsingabout]

endeavour coming to an end was inevitable but it stings nonetheless. i was hoping for a healing arc in series 9 with it ending in series 10 but i suppose it had to happen either way.

#doesn't mean i won't be sad tho #they chose to have characters like max and strange in endeavour so is the reason they never mention thursday the same as why morse won't? #or is it bc they know he doesn't want to hear his name at all #but not just fred it's joan too #if the joan x strange ship happens then is that the reason his wife is never mentioned in im? #but if whatever happens is so bad strange never mentions Thursday how can he end up marrying his daughter? #shaun evans #endeavour #endeavour itv #endeavour series 9 #endeavour season 9 #endeavour morse #inspector morse

[moonshadowed]

@emcrse​ inquires:  [ POSITION ]:     sender rearranges the receiver’s hands to the correct, albeit more intimate position ( i.e. on their waist, hips, hands, etc. )

' THINGS DONE WHILE DANCING. ‘   always accepting.

He doesn’t think he’ll ever get used to it. Not really, anyway. Being with the prince was one thing-- that, at least, was something he’d almost accepted, though even through all the stolen glances and clandestine kisses he could never quite believe that it was really happening, that somehow he was his-- but being in his bedroom, alone, being with him, alone, just the two of them devoid of guards or advisors and all the time in the world? That, Julian thinks, he’ll never get used to, and perhaps that was for the best. He never wanted to feel like this was anything other than extraordinary.

As he so often does these days, he finds himself at a loss for words between the tenderness of his touch and the gentleness in his eyes as he moves Julian’s hand down to the small of his back, palm curling against his waist, and the feeling of their fingers interlacing. 

“...Thank you,” the doctor murmurs, hoping that the dizzy heat he feels is from the warm summer air from the balcony and the overpowering scent of jasmine wafting up from the gardens, not from their proximity. The music from the ballroom, muffled by the many floors between them and the rest of the world, picks up again, and he’s grateful that his feet seem to know what they’re doing, as he can’t take his eyes off of red curls, blue eyes, and freckled cheeks. You look entrancing in the moonlight, my love.

“You’re wonderful,” he begins, awestruck, and he’s overcome by warmth once more. After a moment, realizing what he’s said, he huffs a laugh. “At dancing, I mean, not to mention everything else. Surely it can’t all come from endless hours spent being bored to tears?” 

#ic. #answered. #julian bashir [muse.] #emcrse #dynamic [morse.] #the moon was made for the sky to hold and i for you; [julian & morse.] #verse tbt. #[ooc] this is both extremely soft and extremely gay #[ooc\ so thank you *so* much for sending this in dfkjwnerljknsdfksfs... #[ooc] dancing with your bf in your bedroom is Clearly preferable to any stuffy old boring event #[ooc] i had no idea if prince!morse would want to go by morse or endeavour so i tried to avoid mentioning him by name??? #[ooc] i hope it doesn't come across as too stilted

[quantumleapt]

@emcrse dreams: “you’ve been very kind.”

AN AMERICAN IN PARIS SENTENCE STARTERS : PART II. always accepting.

"Ah, you don't have to thank me," Sam shrugs off, throwing a good-natured smile over his shoulder, corners of his eyes crinkling, as he finishes chopping up the vegetables. He tosses them into the waiting pan, giving them a stir. Above the sizzle, he continues, "I'm just bein' neighborly."

Neighborly, he guesses, is one word for it. How anybody could let the young detective get this hungry-- half-starved of a decent meal and any scrap of kindness he can get-- is beyond him. But that's why he's here, isn't it? Sure, he should've leaped out of here weeks ago, but Sam's not going anywhere. Not when Morse is like this.

Putting on the oven gloves, he reaches down, taking the roast chicken and potatoes out and setting them on the countertop to cool, right next to his mom's chocolate chip cookies he'd made earlier (she'd be proud; he knows the recipe by heart now).

Sam tries to tell himself it's just doctor's intuition that makes him turn around again, eyes searching the detective's face for any sign of... well, anything to tell him that the haunted, melancholy look in Morse's eyes is going away. Short of tucking a blanket around his shoulders and staying here with him all night, he's not really sure what else he can do.

(He can think of plenty that he'd like to do, but, now isn't the time.)

"You warm enough? Do you need more, uh, more tea, or anything? Dinner shouldn't be too much longer, I just gotta finish up the carrots and cut up the chicken."

#ic. #answered. #emcrse #verse one. #endeavour morse tbt. #sam and morse tbt. #[ooc] !!! thank you so much for sending this in i'm so sorry this has taken an age to reply to #[ooc] i have no idea what this is other than complete and utter domesticity and fluff #[ooc] sam really took one look at morse and decided he needed food and comfort and honestly he's right #[ooc] i know you mentioned neighbor plots on your wishlist so maybe somehow sam's moved in next door?? #[ooc] also this can be either romantic or platonic i kind of left it open... but sam *does* fall in love very hard and very fast #[ooc] as of course does morse so really i'm game for anything #[ooc] let me know if this is okay or if i should change anything!!! #food mention tw #food tw