#endeavour season 9

[crowroacho]

Peter Jakes dancing like a maniac with Ms Frazil - incredibly iconic of them both 🙏

[cinematic-literature]

Endeavour S09E02 (Uniform)

Book title

Books by Kent Finn

Jolly Holiday

Royal Jolly

Jolly Close Call

Just for Jolly

Jolly Bad Business

[rawyld]

There was an actor who looks like John Thaw for the finale

[patrice-bergerons]

the sun always comes up in the end

Chapters: 1/1 Fandom: Endeavour (TV) Rating: Teen And Up Audiences Warnings: Implied/Referenced Character Death (also, spoilers for s9!) Relationships: Endeavour Morse & Fred Thursday Summary:

Morse lets his gaze drift back onto the water, to come to rest on the speck of a ship on the horizon.  They have exhausted the easy topics, how Sam is doing now in France, the news of Mrs Strange’s baby and of Morse’s current governor, back at the house when they were having tea with Mrs Thursday, and silence is no longer theirs to command in easy companionship—perhaps it never was.

An exploration of Thursday and Morse's relationship, through and post-canon.

[wgbh]

Come for the extremely thorough recap, stay for the part where our recapper coins the term "deus ex motorcyclia" (it makes sense in context, we promise).

[oeuvrinarydurian]

Doing an Agatha Christie with the Kent Finn.

SHAUN EVANS as ENDEAVOUR MORSE 9.02 | Uniform

[consultingfujoshi]

some thoughts wrt the two established "romances" in severance so far (burt/irving and helly/mark) inspired by @figmentof who pointed out how irving had to find out mark and helly kissed from the corporate video in s2 e1 and how he must have felt seeing his co-workers' love affair like portrayed like that, and how it ties into the queer narrative at play here which uses workplace dynamics and policies as very clear analogues for real-life prejudice against queer couples. I mean, just look at this:

it's not just documented, but celebrated. used as propaganda for how the conditions on the severance floor have improved. proof that the severed workers are happy. and how even though he is unaware of the sociopolitical meaning of all this, lumon is very not-subtly telling him that what he had with burt is inherently lower and less valuable than this.

irving doesn't even know homophobia exists and yet he is still affected by it, it still seeps into every corner of the way his and burt's romance progresses. burt is positioned as an unacceptable love interest from the jump. irv is actively discouraged at every turn from pursuing it. their friendship is viewed with disgust and apprehension from their coworkers. burt working in a different department that's hated by MDR. dylan himself not being homophobic in the sense he opposes their relationship because they're both men but his attempts to keep them apart still has a parallel sort of prejudice behind it and still ultimately has the same effect as if it WERE driven by homophobia. irving is made to feel perverse for wanting contact with burt. he's told this is for his own good.

and then, just as they manage to overcome that immediate resistance from their peers and escape to a place where they can explore this blossoming romance on their own terms, burt retires. for all it matters to irv, he's dead. and then irving is given the option to live the rest of his life with grief that will never heal, or kill himself too, because there is no reality where they get to be together. that's just the way things are. of course they wouldn't get to be together. he was unreasonable and childish for ever hoping that could happen. this is just the way it goes for innies. he's told to get ahold of himself and not make a scene.

but the thing is, the standards are not the same for all. a heterosexual romance gets upheld as the shining example of success and fulfilment for the severed employees, whilst a homosexual romance is ridiculed and invalidated, and written off as something that was simply never meant to be. and even more importantly to irving, a heterosexual romance is APPROVED OF by lumon, and by extension, by kier. irv held back from allowing himself to even call his and burt's relationship a romance, because his god had told him it was wrong, he followed the handbook, thinking this was what kier wanted, and then finding out after suffering the worst heartbreak imaginable because of it, that this WASN'T EVEN TRUE. it's simply just that someone like HIM doesn't get to have something like this. his love is not the kind of love god wants. he does not approve of irv's love. cynical and manipulative though that approval may be (even within the context of the corporate video, the helly/mark romance is only being celebrated to further the narrative that lumon care for their workers, but the point still remains that it was THEIR romance specifically used to suit this end), when your entire life has been in pursuit of that approval, it must be devastating to learn it was never on the cards for you.

he and burt even used the fact kier met and fell in love with his wife in the same circumstances as them to justify this to each other - and they were RIGHT, god does approve of falling in love with your coworkers - this simply just doesn't apply to them specifically. and if irving needed any more proof that he no longer has a place at lumon, that he's better off not existing at all than existing with this pain that cannot be remedied, pain that won't even be acknowledged for what it is, a symptom of a sickness which plagues the entire severance system, pain that he is simply expected to choke down and get over - this is that proof.

and that's the POINT. they're TELLING us that this is unjust, and there's a double standard. they're using the ways the innies experience romance and the difference in lumon's reaction (lumon being the collective of all the management we've seen, lumon as a singular entity) to burt/irving vs helly/mark to comment on how queer people are not afforded the same level of respect or validation IN REAL LIFE, for their attachments, their love, their pain, their suffering. it is NOT just incidental that irving's romance is with a man. it would not WORK if his love interest was a woman. the POINT is that they are both men and how that puts them at a disadvantage, even if they aren't aware of the prejudices of the outside world, even if they don't TECHNICALLY apply on the severance floor, there are very clear analogues which still end up oppressing them in equivalent ways that they would be suffering if this were a normal workplace in the outside world.

it genuinely sickens me to my stomach that even in a world so divorced from reality and the sensibilities of regular society, a queer couple is still made to suffer and feel inferior in a way that perfectly mirrors their real-life counterparts. how they will never, EVER be allowed to exist in a world where their love could thrive freely and uninhibited - they never get to taste the joy our world has to offer people like them, but they are still somehow subjected to all the pain it has to offer them regardless. it's such horrifically devastating writing. it makes my skin crawl. I can't stop thinking about it

[crowroacho]

In today's TEDTalk I will be breaking down the Endeavour Final Episode trailer where Thursday's voice is heard saying "They're coming for what you love" and then it showed a clip of Jakes and Morse walking together. Now-

[wgbh]

thinking about Them

[to-be-frank-i-dont-care]

Joan looking at Morse

(Morse looking at Joan)

[while-i-procrastinate]

I'm a bit obsessed with this interview of Shaun Evans. Such a delightful read. Just sounds like two people introduced at a party and having a great first conversation. Honestly, most of this interview is just him asking the interviewer questions. About bookstores! He sounds like such a genuinely sweet guy.

[ralchan7]

I'm watching Endeavour again and I can't believe it has so many details that when I first watched it I didn't notice them.

I think Endeavour has a really hard work behind the scenes, and everything is planned as if it was an extraordinary theatre play—a Shakespeare's one. Every episode is as dramatic as the Opera, complicated as the crosswords are.

I'm in love with this series.

[meganjoannamadeline]

can i interest anyone in a 10 piece photoset of the prettiest grumpy detective who i love very very much

[goodassmotherliker]

Okay. I'm considering writing a little post-finale fanfic about my favorite Endeavour side characters (very cautiously cause I'm not a native speaker and keep most of the staff to myself). So-o. What are your headcanons about Max DeBryn and/or Dorothea Frazil?

I am genuinely interested, even if I end up writing nothing like I usually do. Feel free to respond in the comments, reblogs, asks, whatever.

I'll start: I think Dorothea is somehow connected to Lix Storm from the Hour. Maybe they covered France together, but after the WW2, Dorothea returned to local journalism and Lix stayed in London.

[notes-from-sarah]

I've really liked Endeavour and liked the Joan/Morse will-they/won't-they but honestly I feel like the show runners overplayed their hands in the last episode if they expect me to feel sorry for a 40-something year old man who hasn't had the sense to properly pursue a woman for the better part of a decade. They'd be cute together (before the inevitable divorce) but Morse makes all his own problems and this isn't one where I feel sorry for him.

[crowroacho]

I threw my hands up in the air and screamed - my dad said "You called it!"

Sir - I've been begging for this moment since I was 13. That's 6 years. I've been waiting 6 years for this to happen.

The scream I let out, I'd joked that with how little of the episode there was left Jakes would only show up in the last 15 seconds and hoo boy I wasn't wrong, what a way to make an entrance