#Robbie Lewis

[fanficrocks]

This felt so cute and funny when I first saw it. And then S9 came along with James' father suffering from - you guessed it!

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Morse and friends

As an accompaniment to my earlier post about Morse and loneliness, especially how he sees himself as more alone than he actually is, here are some photos of him with those who consider themselves his friends. All photos from IMdB.

[wehaveallgotknives]

watching lewis itv is wild bc in a reversal of the stereotypical sherlock/watson dynamic, the main detective is a normie with good social skills and regular hobbies and it’s the sidekick who is an insane autistic bisexual failed catholic priest with childhood trauma.

[idcrrvh]

DS Hathaway: “Struggle with depression” would seem to imply that I am bad at being depressed when I am, in fact, very proficient at being depressed.

[fanficrocks]

This is one of the episodes that keeps on giving. Last time I reblogged these gifs, I was fixated on Lewis’ reaction and the parallels with the IM episode The Way Through the Woods.

But the wardrobe choices here are significant too. Hathaway is wearing perhaps his most poorly put together outfit *ever* in the entire series, which can be seen as reflecting his internal turmoil and inability to find any sort of equilibrium. Lewis on the other hand, despite feeling let down by his sergeant and angry at having his trust spurned, is nonetheless comfortable in his skin and certain of his stance on the victims and The Garden. And his choice of smart-casual clothing reflects that.

LEWIS || Life Born of Fire

[konstantintreplev]

Morse's no good, very bad return to Italy, Geordie aged twink in tow ("The Death of the Self", Inspector Morse, 603)

[too-antigonish]

Ludo is actually...

So maybe someone else has noticed this before and I've just missed it, but I kind of had a shock this weekend.

As a librarian who has also done a lot of genealogy work, I've sort of ended up as my family's historian.  During an informal reunion this weekend I was asked to look up some information about a couple of relatives that emigrated from Belgium to America after WWI—in particular, a certain Uncle Louis.

For Belgium pre-WWI, your main resource in tracking where people were, who they married, what their children were called, and even what their professions were, are church records. And because Belgium was an overwhelmingly Catholic country, most of those records used not the common, everyday version of your name, but the official baptismal version of your name—the one in Latin.

What does this have to do with Uncle Louis? The Latin version of Louis—and thus his baptismal name—was Ludovicus. In Belgium, people with that baptismal name tend to go by Louis or Lodewijk or even Ludo in daily life. 

Suddenly, bells went off in my head. If you're Italian and your baptismal name is Ludovicus, you would generally go by Luigi or Ludovico or Ludo in daily life.

However, what's most relevant here is that these are *all* forms of the same name: LEWIS! So in S7,  Morse's primary antagonist is given the same name as the man who will one day become his staunchest ally. 

That's interesting…

[greenapricot]

"Ah, well, you see, my sergeant's in a group. Apparently, it's world music with elements of jazz, rock and medieval madrigals."

(x)

[patrice-bergerons]

While openly talking about one's feelings is a fate worse than death, bagmen still require validation on a semi-regular basis to be their best and brightest selves!

To make sure your bagman does not start believing himself to be abandoned by God while you are not looking, consider periodically affirming how much he means to you (pro tip: putting a car in between can help ensure you do not endanger your hard-won English repression in the process!)

[mywingsareonwheels]

Men Endeavour Morse definitely slept with and other related matters...

(This is a selection of headcanons, obviously YMMV. :D )

Definitely slept with:

Tony Donn, when they were at Oxford together, probably a lot

Ludo Talenti

Jack Swift

Probably slept with:

Jerome Hogg, when they were at Oxford together

Peter Jakes, either prior to "Arcadia" or in s9

Would definitely have slept with if bad things hadn't happened to the man in question first:

Joss Bixby, and how

Nick Wilding

Would probably have slept with very frequently if the other man weren't in a monogamous marriage for the duration of their friendship:

Robbie Lewis

Didn't sleep with but probably should have done:

Jim Strange (it would have done a lot for both of them I think)

Didn't sleep with but I suspect the other man would have liked to:

George Fancy

Should not merely have slept with but got married to:

Max DeBryn (we know this to be true)

Not platonic or romantic or sexual but a secret fourth thing that was far more intense than everything else in this post, bloody hell:

Fred Thursday

[hekate1308]

Enjoying the "If DCI Morse had been nice I'd still be a Sergeant" scene in Lewis and suddenly remembering that Lewis actively deferred his promotion to Inspector so he could stay with Morse till the end

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Early "them" - so completely partners in (solving) crime!

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The only one with a head for heights?

Aka the problem with partners who are pedants with acrophobia

My apologies for not having noted the original source of these gifs. Lewis gifs from @jameshathaways. Possibly also the IM gifs - if you know a different source, please let me know in comments so I can credit the maker accordingly.

With thanks to @greenapricot for the info.

[idcrrvh]

DS Hathaway, sighing while looking at some academician: Wow, he is so handsome.

DI Lewis: Don’t be upset, James. You’re handsome too.

DS Hathaway: I’m not jealous, Robbie. I’m gay.

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Don’t be so melodramatic!

Pot and kettle, Robbie?

LEWIS || Life Born of Fire

[konstantintreplev]

My father was obsessed with Captain Cook, and his ship was called Endeavour... Why aren't you both laughing?

...[mutters] You poor sod.