#this is indeed the ingenuity of russ' script writing

[patrice-bergerons]

This rewatch has made me realise that it's not just Morse who put Thursday on a pedestal. On one hand the audience is a little more aware of his flaws than Morse is, sure, but I at the very least was right with him that Thursday 'has ever been the best and wisest of men' when in fact his violence is there in black-and-white from the start.

This is far from the only example but I just rewatched Colours and I keep thinking of what it means for a child -- a child who was raised in a loving home, mind -- to be afraid to tell his dad that kids were roughing him up at school because he was frightened of what his father would do to them. Like, damn.