#out there ITV

[just-whump-and-suffering]

Out There Ep 05

[sircolinmorgan]

ENDEAVOUR | PRELUDE.

Directed by Shaun Evans.

[paranormal-taters]

Endeavour Morse is a man that is so thoroughly fed up with idiotic social conventions and by golly do I love him for that. They put him on general duties for being too good at his job and he says "nah" and continues to make everyone eat crow and he doesn't even care about adulation, he literally just wants to do his job. Someone in much higher social standing than him tries to intimidate him into not doing his job and he's just like 🤨 His superiors (with the exception of Thursday) constantly belittle him for being too good at his job and then are like "hey can you come off of general duties and help us catch this serial killer 👉👈" because that man is deeply brilliant and deeply autistic about opera and he's like "yeah" and he catches the serial killer. He's the perfect balance of "idgaf" and "I give more fucks than literally anyone else here" and by golly. I love him. A lot.

[valkyri]

The audacity of this man to look so good with tattoos 🙄

[hoosbandewan]

EWAN MITCHELL as Billy Taylor in The Halcyon (2017)

[endeavourfiles]

[jessieren]

New Evans!!

[too-antigonish]

Update to "So this is the geekiest thing I've ever posted about Endeavour..."

So way back in February I wrote about the gunshot scene in Exeunt and some rather geeky symbolism that came out of the fact that the church was called "All Angels" in the script—short for "St. Michael and All Angels." You can go back and read about that here. 

But for a while now, I've been waiting for it to be September 29th so I can say:  Wait! There's more!

September 29th is the traditional feast day of St. Michael. It is also Colin Dexter's birthday. As it happens, it's also when the world was first introduced to Morse. The main narrative of the first Inspector Morse novel, Last Bus to Woodstock, opens with the words, "Wednesday, September 29th." 

So in a sense, Colin and Morse share a September 29th birthdate. Given Dexter's cryptic tendencies, I don't for a minute think this was accidental.

La fontaine Saint-Michel, Francisque-Joseph Duret

Now the fact that September 29th also the feast of St. Michael is something that Russell Lewis may or may not have chosen to intentionally build upon—but it's sure fun to think about--because it's another layer on top of what's already one heck of a layer cake. 

September 29th is Colin Dexter's birthday

September 29th is the date of Morse's first appearance in Last Bus to Woodstock.

The gunshot scene occurring at St. Michael's and All Angels gives it full Pagan-Endeavour-Morse symbolism (see Feb post). 

Michael is the patron saint of police officers. 

Finally, you can also throw in Michael's traditional role as guardian of the dead, a point raised by @te_angeli  on Twitter in response to the February post, where she said: 

"St Michael is, more generally, the warrior-protector of justice. He also happens to be the Christian angel of death - a psychopomp who not only walks the newly departed to their judgment, but stays to advocate for them. ...which, to think of it, had been a large part - perhaps the main part - of E.'s earthly function."

It's all more over-the-top geekiness but I find it hard to resist.

Of course I'd be negligent if I didn't include a disclaimer, courtesy of S4E1: Game:

THURSDAY: Right! Just don't go making something out of nothing, that's all. MORSE: That’s what we do, isn't it? THURSDAY: That’s what you do.

Well, it's certainly what I do. It's half the fun.

**Note: Author Mike Ripley's lovely tribute to Colin Dexter first drew my attention to the connection between Colin's birthday and the appearance of Inspector Morse.

[sandfordsmostwanted]

[silverfoxstole]

For anyone who might have wanted to see the 2002 Big Finish Talks Back interview with Paul (and India, though sadly the separate little interview with them both is missing), I came across it while looking for other links yesterday:

Interview

Extras

[incorrectendeavourquotes]

Morse: We all like a bad boy, though, don’t we?

Jakes: Yeah, not a fucking serial killer, though, Morse.

[thewatcher98]

| ENDEAVOUR X MISS AMERICANA AND THE HEARTBREAK PRINCE (TAYLOR SWIFT)

Don't know if I like it. Let me know.

Anyway you can find more posts like this here. At the moment there's just two but there's gonna be more.

[sircolinmorgan]

ENDEAVOUR | ICARUS.

[girlnadian]

has it occurred to anyone else that ken and wato could have died when the farmers were attacked and wifies, just… wouldnt have known. that he wouldve just stopped hearing from them and would have had no idea what happened

[fanficrocks]

Morsetache + side-eye

Maybe?

Getting there…

What do you think you are doing?

Don’t even think about it…

[gingerteaonthetardis]

{ ROSWIN AU: The Lady & The Seamstress }

Often she finds herself thinking of the seamstress’s hands. 

Of the delicate way they thread a needle, and yet, how strong and capable they feel when she spins Clara this way and that, fitting her for a new gown. When she closes her eyes, she can replicate it almost exactly: Miss Tyler kneeling before her, eyes too clever and knowing, pins tucked between her enigmatic lips. Her touch is firm—a hand on Clara's hip when she wishes for a change in angle.

No one touches her like that. Like they have a right to.

Oh, people bow before her all the time, in deference to her station, and many do go to their knees. But somehow, she cannot picture the seamstress as a supplicant.

She is, Clara feels, something else entirely.

When she has finished her work and must leave once again, Miss Tyler brushes their fingers together, as she always does. Their secret, silent parting.