#monica hicks

[hurricane-eva]

Trove

I made a LOT of scribbled notes as I watched this one!

*It opens with CLICKY PEN!!

Favourite lines

Morse: "Nothing suspicious?" Max: "Only you."

Max:"I'm a pathologist, not a road sweeper"

Bright: "This... girl competition, or whatever it is"

Morse: "Venerable the Bede may have been but not clairvoyant"

Max: "He had a fractured everything"

Morse: "A man can't serve two masters. Sooner or later you'll have to choose."

Thursday: "Go home" Morse: *does not go home*

Morse: "I suspect the truth is I was myself all too much"

Morse: "Everyone's someone."

Morse: "A bunch of overgrown schoolboys playing with the dressing-up box?"

Music

I am, as @itsa-me-cavaradossi knows, NOT good at recognising the opera tunes in these episodes, let alone their relevance to the scenes, but I DID RECOGNISE BRINDISI FROM LA TRAVIATA so I'm pretty proud of myself. (Just don't ask me how it's relevant. I know it's a drinking song, that's all I know. ALL I KNOW.)

Word I Didn't Know and Had to Look Up:

"Murophobic" means afraid of mice and rats.

"Salmagundi" is a cold dish or salad made from different ingredients which may include meat, seafood, eggs, cooked and raw vegetables, fruits, or pickles. (I wrote it down and now I don't remember how in the world this word was even used in the episode or who said it)

Monica

MONICAAAAAAAAAHHHH *incoherent morsica noises*

Morse

The PTSD in this episode is soooo OUCH. (Also catnip for Eva.) The backfiring car and just how OUT OF IT he is several times.

Copley-Barnes

Yuck. I had to google to make sure I was remembering right about this dude showing up in OG Morse (I was) and that it was the guy I thought it was (also it was) and that his daughter Imogen was the "Im" turning cartwheels in the garden in this episode and HOO BOY DOES THAT GIVE ME THE ICKS.

Question

What does Bright mean when he says "I ask with no side"?

And now for spoilers:

Sex with daughters is the sick theme here, it seems. I wonder if they did that parallel with Infernal Serpent on purpose.

Oh, and I know the glasses off before suicide was also a nod to OG Morse, but I can't remember which episode. I wanna say it was the creepy church episode in season 1, but don't quote me on that. As much as I roll my eyes at much of OG Morse, I *love* the easter eggs and connections and I'm glad that I've seen it so I can at least have that background.

[too-antigonish]

A Bit on Music in Endeavour

A favorite musical moment in Endeavour is at around 04min45s in Scherzo (S8E2) where you hear Wagner’s Prelude to Act III of Tristan und Isolde. Morse has it going on his record player while he dresses for work. We’ve just come off of the first episode of S8 and we’ve seen the degree to which he is starting to fall apart. He’s a mess really. Perfect time for some Wagner.

If you don’t know about Wagner, he was a horrible human being, but an innovative composer. Tristan und Isolde, in particular, is considered a real turning point in composition because of its very intentional use of dissonance. It’s so significant, in fact, that the very first chord you hear in this piece is actually referred to as the “Tristan chord”—one of only about a dozen or so “named” chords in the western musical canon. 

The chord just…aches. There’s a really intense urge to hear it move on to its harmonic resolution. You want it to get better!

And this particular prelude is at the beginning of Act III, so if you know the opera, you start to picture it in your mind…

…As Act III opens, Tristan is lies mortally wounded. His faithful servant waits for the arrival of Isolde, the only one who has the power to heal Tristan. A shepherd lad has been instructed to signal the servant by playing a tune on his pipes when the ship carrying Isolde is sighted. They wait, listening. Surely help will arrive in time to save the dying man…

Nope. It’s Gwen. 

Another favorite is in Neverland at about 15min. Monica and Morse are in a cozy, domestic scene. He’s doing the crossword. She’s darning a sock. She asks if he’s happy and somewhere along the line you realize that they’re listening to the beginning of Bach’s St. Matthew Passion (basically a musical retelling of the crucifixion). By the first time I saw that episode, I’d learned enough about how they used music in the series to guess that things were about to go very, very wrong. There actually was going to be a crucifixion of sorts.

There are so many instances where they use music (both classical—and if you you are lucky enough to be watching the UK versions—popular as well) to either foreshadow or pull a bait-and-switch or to reference another work or otherwise give a scene additional layers of meaning.

It’s just beautifully done—but it’s also done gently. It’s done in such a way that those not “in the know” aren’t left on the outside. There’s nothing crucial that you’re going to miss out on, but at the same time it’s great fun when you see it.

[bibelots]

I often think of the pub quiz of Harvest and think how it could be improved

(aka form the most powerful team in the world)

non-coloured versions !

[phoenixflames12]

Chapters: 1/1 Fandom: Endeavour (TV) Rating: General Audiences Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply Relationships: Monica Hicks/Endeavour Morse Characters: Monica Hicks, Endeavour Morse, Original Child Character(s), Dorothea Frazil, Constance Morse, Joyce Morse, Joan Thursday, Jim Strange Additional Tags: Alternate Universe- Constance Morse Lives, Endeavour Morse Needs a Hug, Christmas Fluff, Family Feels Series: Part 7 of A Happy Endeavour Summary:

Returned from rehab, Endeavour Morse finds the cheer of Christmas overwhelming. Monica is there to help him realise how much having him home for Christmas means for her and their little family

[morsesnotes]

It really gets to me that it only took one bit of kindness from Monica for Morse to break down and start weeping in Trove.

[mywingsareonwheels]

Time to hug two (2) "Endeavour" characters. :-)

Oh fellow Endeavour fans!

You have the opportunity to share a) some soup of your choice, and b) a hug, with both:-

E Morse

one other Endeavour character

For the purpose of this poll, please assume that both characters are entirely up for the hugging, and (given one of them is Morse...) can at least be gently persuaded into (and will be delighted by) the soup. :-)

(NB: you can use whatever criteria you like. Please feel free to share your soup choice. :-) You can if you wish choose whether you're having the soup-and-hug time with Morse and the other person on separate occasions or whether it's the same event and you're hoping they'll hug each other too. ;-) )

[dream-this-nightmare-over]

that scene with fireworks in background and them kissing on guy fawkes night was cinematic masterpiece. oscar worthy for cinematography.

the more i think about it, they were way less toxic than venice girl. if he gave it a go, they could have had it all.

[bluebell-9]

Chapters: 1/1 Fandom: Endeavour (TV) Rating: Teen And Up Audiences Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply Relationships: Monica Hicks/Endeavour Morse Characters: Endeavour Morse, Monica Hicks, Joan Thursday Additional Tags: Romance, Married Couple, old flame, Pregnancy, Established Relationship, Cooking, fidelity, Post-Canon, Alternate Universe - Canon Divergence, Rarepair Series: Part 7 of The Road Not Taken Summary:

Oxford's Bodleian Library is full of books. Morse doesn't expect to find Joan Thursday Strange in the stacks.

[sandfordsmostwanted]

I'm thinking of writing a fic...

[endeavourfiles]

She made him look like a happy boy.

[hurricane-eva]

mr shy-and-clueless + ms obviously-into-him = 🔥

help me they’re cute

[phoenixflames12]

rules: share the opening lines from a fic you've written, whether a WIP or a published work of your choosing, and tag others. Thanks for the tag @sarkylittlemonster!

This is from a WIP in my Morse/Monica AU that I will, eventually, finish when life decides to calm down.

‘Dev?’ Monica hears the vomiting before she sees her husband, the coughing wretch shaking the silence of the house. The passageway to the bathroom is dimly lit, a sliver of light from the streetlamp outside the window bathing the floor in a backlit, orange glow. She had woken to the weight of silence beside her in their bed, only the faint remnants of warmth clinging to the mattress telling her that he had been to bed at all. He seems to have lost more weight than she had thought possible in the three days that she has been away at a nurses’ conference. Three days in London that had ended almost a week ago, to come home to the man she loves who had greeted her with new shadows under his eyes. Had smiled a small, tight smile that hadn’t met his eyes from the living room floor where he had been playing trains with Freddy. Whose hands had trembled slightly as he had adjusted his trousers, the belt already catching on the last hole.

I have no idea who is writing at the moment, so if you would like to do this, please consider yourself tagged!

[mywingsareonwheels]

An Endeavour prompt (for a reply or a memey post, or if you are really keen a fan creation of some sort!)

Endeavour characters D&D game. Bright is DMing. Who's playing as what, and how's it going? Who's playing to type, who's playing against type, who's written a massively angsty backstory for their character already? Precisely how evil and mischievous or sweet and encouraging is Bright being as DM? :-D

I'm going to assume the players are: Morse, all four Thursdays, Strange, Max, Dorothea, and any or all (your choice) out of Jakes, Monica, Trewlove, Fancy, and Box. :-)

(You can choose any D&D edition; my assumption is usually 5th even though that's obviously anachronistic.)

Go. :D

[fanficrocks]

Morse x Monica 😢😢😢

He really did not know what was good for him, did he?

[bluebell-9]

Chapters: 1/1 Fandom: Endeavour (TV) Rating: Teen And Up Audiences Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply Relationships: Monica Hicks/Endeavour Morse Characters: Endeavour Morse, Monica Hicks Additional Tags: Post-Canon, Fix-It, Romance, Alternate Universe - Canon Divergence, Classical Music, r/FanfictionExchange, Marriage Proposal, Rare Pairings Series: Part 6 of The Road Not Taken Summary:

He always dreamed he'd end up with Joan Thursday. Sometimes real life is preferable to dreams.

[riveramorylunar]

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I Could Kiss You Right Now

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Would It Be Alright If I Borrowed Your Sweater? It Looks Really Comfy.

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