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[bonefall]

Tree really does come into a loving dream scene with all the grace of a fucking gas leak.

[k-wame]

lol his mind is so filthy😍 Interview | Actor CALLUM TURNER 🎥 Evening Standard Magazine · 13.11.2019

[too-antigonish]

My Strange but Unified Theory of Exeunt

Last week I talked about the poem Horatio in a post about Morse and fathers and @astridcontramundum asked what I thought it meant in the context of Exeunt. Hopefully she won't be sorry she asked because here's my (as usual) long answer:

Horatio is quoted from twice in Exeunt. The first time, Prof. Fortescue is lecturing to his students at a tutorial and gives us the most famous lines:  

Then out spake brave Horatius, The Captain of the Gate:  "To every man upon this earth death cometh soon or late. And how can man die better Than facing fearful odds For the ashes of his fathers And the temples of his gods?"

The second time occurs just before Thursday’s has his “turn” in the same spot where Morse will many years later experience his own collapse. He says: ”’How well Horatius kept the bridge in the brave days of old.’ We'd a padre big on that out in the desert. Drumhead service just before Alamein. ‘And how can man die better than facing fearful odds?’ Always stuck with me.”

I think they used those lines to plainly tease the idea that Thursday was going to die. Prior to Exeunt airing, almost everyone thought Thursday would have to die in order to explain Morse’s never mentioning him again in the future. When Fortescue says those lines in the beginning, I think we’re supposed to think that someone—probably Thursday—is going to die heroically. Then Thursday repeats some of the poem—connecting it to his WWII service—just before he has his “spell” and it seems like more foreshadowing. 

The thing about the poem though, that most people *don’t* know, is that the big surprise at the end is that Horatio *doesn’t* die. It just looks like he will: Even when his companions have abandoned the bridge because it is on the verge of collapse, Horatius remains. He stays until bridge finally does fail, and then plunges into the river below with the full weight of his armor. It is certain death and both sides stand stunned into silence by his final sacrifice.

But then, both sides find themselves even more surprised when they see the crest of his helmet beginning to rise from the water and he slowly emerges, striding towards the Roman bank. He not only survives, but arrives home to a hero’s welcome and a long life.

All of the usual narrative pieces are in place for us to expect Thursday to make the ultimate sacrifice—to die. For me, Thursday—like Horatio—does sacrifice everything, but the poem was actually foreshadowing his survival, not his death. And for Thursday, his survival is in many ways a far more difficult sacrifice than death would have been. It would have been easier for him in so many ways if he had died in defense of Sam or even fighting Lott. Instead he has to live with the ambiguous and messy aftermath.

Morse could also be Horatio in the sense that he goes to Blenheim Vale facing a high probability of death. What were the chances that the bikers would “come through” for him? That Morse went expecting to be double-crossed and killed by Lott seems much more likely to me. But I do think that Morse, like Horatio, would reason that, “If you’re going to go, then there’s no better way than defending the things that are most important to you,” and so he goes anyway.

He survives too—but unlike Horatio, his heroism will always remain a secret *and* with his realization about Thursday’s guilt and Lott’s revelation about Tomahawk’s identity, it brings perhaps more sorrow than it does victory. And, I would argue that his survival is only temporary or perhaps partial.

The gunshot scene has many possible interpretations, but at its core, my (forever unprovable) theory is that it balances out the survival foreshadowed by Horatio. Horatio was all about the audience assuming that Thursday had to die. But along with that went the assumption that of course Endeavour had to live. This is a prequel after all.

But the gunshot scene said a big, loud, “No. We can kill off Endeavour if we want to and we will.” You can go back and forth until the cows come home about whether or not the scene was simply him contemplating death, actually going through with it, or absolutely, purely symbolic and imaginative. However, I don’t think you can honestly argue that the scene doesn’t somehow connect the concepts of  “Endeavour Morse,” “gun,” and “death” to each other. Somehow those concepts have to be included in any interpretation.

So this leads to my weird theory about Exeunt, which is that Russ Lewis heard everyone saying, “Well I don’t know what’s going to happen in the end, but of course we all know that Morse is going to live—so no suspense there. And Thursday, well, he has to die. I mean it’s the only way to explain why we never hear about him later.” And to this, Russ Lewis thought, “Ha! I’m going to do exactly the opposite. Thursday lives and Morse dies!” 

Am I right? I will never know. Do I have more thoughts on Exeunt? You really, really don't want to know just how many.

[catholicxknees]

I screen recorded the full TBS Alternative Press Veeps interview, bc fuck making an account on some stupid website just to watch one video :)

[geekynerfherder]

'Shaun Of The Dead' by Kevin Wilson.

Officially licensed 36" x 24" fine art lithograph print, in a numbered Regular edition of 175 for £39.99; and a numbered Foil Variant edition of 160 for £49.99.

On sale Thursday March 28 at 6pm UK through Vice Press.

[jarofalicesgrunge]

Jerry & Sean Rare picture Raw Magazine October 3. 1991

📸 credits to the photographer!!!

[zwan99]

New Reticle S-Rank Bianca

New Catalyst A-Rank Shawn

New 2 Star Attire for Lamia

This time I'm truly weak for the A rank lady~

Cr. @ PathtoSnake

[ifourloveisdead]

Various Taking Back Sunday scans from Alternative Press Magazine.

[endeavourfiles]

Ok. Here’s the press pack that contains all the interviews, info, and pictures that the press use. Enter at your own spoiler risk.

SERIOUSLY…. SO MUCH SPOILERS! BEWARE!!!!!!

[clove-pinks]

Everyone pray that I can get these school assignments completed, I have interesting Paul Gavarni thoughts to share!

...also I am starting to wonder if all this talk about school (university) makes me sound like a kid. Alas no, I am an adult non-trad student who is wicked old and also works full-time, giving me not a lot of time and space for the creative life I want to live.

[professionaljester]

this part of amnesia rebirth is always so funny to me

[catholicxknees]

For Alternative Press, by Brennan Cavanaugh 12/01/2003 (x)

[geekynerfherder]

'Wallace & Gromit: A Close Shave' by Mark Bell.

Officially licensed A2 sized (16.5" x 23.4") fne art pigment print on 270gsm Mohawk paper, in a numbered limited edition of 350 for £29.99.

On sale Thursday May 25 at 6pm UK through Vice Press.

[boredymcbored]

Ran Even

tho my brain wanted me to stay in bed. It was kinda a shitty workout stamina wise but I can't push myself too hard in the cold while getting back to shape or my lungs assault me. So win, I guess.