#trewlove

[morsesnotes]

Endeavour | Prey

#endeavour #itv endeavour #endeavour: prey #endeavour morse #shaun evans #my gifs #sean rigby #roger allam #anton lesson #dakota blue richards #strange #thursday #bright #trewlove #prey

[murdermostace]

#endeavour morse #george fancy #shirley trewlove #peter jakes #endeavour #mine #textposts

[sircolinmorgan]

Endeavour | 5.06

#endeavour #itv endeavour #endeavour itv #endeavouredit #endeavour morse #shirley trewlove #shaun evans #dakota blue richards #perioddramaedit #morse's abandonment issues kicking in again #their friendship is so important to meee #my gifs #endeavour1

[hurricane-eva]

Trewlove Appreciation Post

She takes no shite, but she's unapologetically feminine, which is a balance I don't often see. She's funny and thorough and wise.

I could absolutely ship her and Morse. I kinda feel like she wouldn't have given Fancy a second thought if Morse had taken an interest. Imagine what a dynamic crime-stopping duo THAT would have been, in an AU where Morse doesn't end up alone and grumpy instead of just grumpy.

#endeavour itv #itv endeavour #constable trewlove #wpc trewlove

[arpiii]

Passenger

Endeavour 5.3

#endeavour #endeavour morse #bbc #fred thursday #shirley trewlove #george fancy #cinematography #film #perfect shot #aesthetic #vintage #dark acadamia aesthetic #dark academia

[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 !

#endeavour #max debryn #shirley trewlove #dorothea frazil #monica hicks #they surely enjoy a good bitching session and win first or second in the process #yes this whole idea came merely from me redrawing that vid of james bradshaw not managing to solve an anagram #and also the amount of max + dot content we receive #and also the fact i miss monica and shirley with every part of my being

[gaytobymeres]

the confusion on his face in this scene is golden

#also when trewlove says 'kiss me?' and hes like what?! #endeavour #morse #also i do <3 the rainbow #happy pride morse <3

[mywingsareonwheels]

Ugh, that thing Russell Lewis does...

... of dropping in devastating or revealing character information in off-hand bits of dialogue or the info on a tombstone you see for one second or this this that and the other. Right up until the final episode.

Some of the things that are really blink-and-you’ll-miss-it the first time around if you’re not careful:-

Bright lost his daughter. While way posher than most of the characters he’s still not from quite as upper class a background as his wife (who cheated on him at least once, though they weathered it). Her nickname for him means “tiger”. He doesn’t seem to have fit in comfortably at any point with anyone, perhaps indeed until he starts to bond more closely with Fred and Morse in the last 2-3 series.

Win was stalwartly in London for at least part of the Blitz. She once met a guy with a foot fetish who flirted with her and she’s still tolerantly amused decades later.

Constance was less than 20 when she had Morse. (AAAAAAAH.) (Everything about her marriage to Cyril sounds horrifying frankly.)

Max is gay and has a lost love (“and one was fond of me” / ”the one that got away”)

Fred grew up without indoor plumbing and generally in fairly intense poverty, he and Charlie at least (presumably Billy and I suspect their mother too) were physically abused by their father (who was an alcoholic).

Also on Fred: he was already an anti-fascist in the 1930s including when it meant joining with one of his colleagues (Sgt Vimes, who Sam was probably named after) against the rest. (Frankly Fred is the king of the “devastating info that is easily missed”, and that last point regards some moderately obscure knowledge to decode but it’s solid once you have that.)

Jakes’s non-Blenheim Vale background was very poor too, given his familiarity with the “Never-Neverland” of the kind of housing estate that replaced the kind of slum that Fred grew up in.

Dorothea has had a fricking epic past doing war correspondence etc..

Sam was bullied at school and didn’t tell his father because he was worried about how he would react.

Jim was brought up by his apparently rather obnoxious and judgemental grandmother, which might explain the desperate need to fit in and get on at all costs, as well as the extremely skilled peacemaking at times. He might have been in the navy before the police, though that’s a bit more uncertain.

Trewlove went to a posh enough school to have serious chess-playing as a thing. (She’s definitely the only person at the station with a comparable class background to Bright’s.)

And so on; I know I’ve missed out plenty of things here and especially I know there’s some info about Win that’s on the tip of my brain and I can’t quite remember. (I think she’s from Blackpool originally, e.g. and misses the sea? And did some war work outside London?) I weirdly couldn’t think of anything significant that’s not already foregrounded about Joan, Box, Fancy, or Monica; help me out here lovelies. :-) 

This is on top of eveeeeerything about Morse, which is far more foregrounded but even he has things dropped in very casually sometimes.

Goodness they’re all so messy and I love them all so very very much. <3 (Though also: I so very much wish that Lewis gave just *more* to his women characters. I have the obvious reservations about Joan’s arc (I *like* Strange, but... hmmmmmmmmmm), and the obvious wishing that Monica and Trewlove especially had had far far more to do.)

#itv endeavour #tw child death mention #tw child abuse mention #tw alcoholism mention #reginald bright #win thursday #constance morse #max debryn #fred thursday #peter jakes #dorothea frazil #sam thursday #jim strange #shirley trewlove #endeavour morse #endeavour s9 #endeavour spoilers #russell lewis

[dream-this-nightmare-over]

Life is for the living, Morse. Don't waste time. It's all we've got.

Shirley Trewlove, Endeavour S5Ep6

#endeavour #shirley trewlove #endeavour itv #endeavor quotes #quotes #quote #dakota blue richards #shaun evans #morse #endeavour morse

[morsesnotes]

You know what? Prey is unironically great.

The cinematography is gorgeous. You can tell they were making the most of filming in the summer for the first time.

The music stood out to me as particularly good, especially in the menacing scenes. It really rises to the occasion of being Jaws-inspired.

It's a strong episode for Bright, but really so many characters get a chance to shine here:

Strange has his conflict of being promoted over Morse

Trewlove's "Maybe I like grim" scene

Thursday is still recovering from Blenheim Vale and is too emotionally invested in the case

Debryn's absence was felt and you get insight into him being the Morse of Pathologists

Sam bonding with Morse and Thursday

The actors of the week delightfully lean into their campy characters, and there's so many funny moments. Morse is in prime bitch-mode with Strange now being his boss.

My favorite thing about it though is how it gradually reveals what's actually happening. At first it's all standard - weirdo rich family, sketchy men hanging around, etc. Then around halfway through they start wondering, "Wait, could this be a creature?? Nah there's a reasonable explanation." But as the murders go on that seems harder to believe, and uh-oh, the weird family used to own big cats. The rest of the episode Morse is desperate for evidence that it's someone who wants everyone to think it's a tiger, and you assume he'll be right because surely it's not going to go there? It's a fake out.

Then in the last 20 minutes it switches to "Oh fuck it's definitely a tiger oh god".

Easily one of the most entertaining episodes of Endeavour.

#endeavour #itv endeavour #endeavour: prey #endeavour morse #thursday also pays morse a rare home visit which is cute bc he's prob lonely with win and joan gone #thinking thoughts #bright #strange #thursday #debryn #trewlove #sam

[murdermostace]

#endeavour morse #shirley trewlove #peter jakes #endeavour #mine #textposts

[sircolinmorgan]

ENDEAVOUR | LAZARETTO.

#endeavour #itv endeavour #endeavour itv #endeavouredit #endeavour morse #shirley trewlove #shaun evans #dakota blue richards #whilst i feel bad for morse that shirley is pushing him to reveal stuff he doesn't want to i do love this scene #this scene and the 'if i found someone..' scene in icarus means that shirley knows morse better than anyone else at the station #they have such a strong bond and i still think it's a shame we never saw her again after S5 :( #oh and please ignore how ugly this gifset is i couldn't colour it nicely to save my life #my gifs #endeavour1

[crusoe89]

Endeavour Fanvid

My Endeavour Fanvid.

#itv endeavour #endeavour morse #fred thursday #peter jakes #jim strange #max debryn #fanvid #shirley trewlove #george fancy #shaun evans #roger allam #Youtube

[incorrectendeavourquotes]

Trewlove: Hallowed be thy ween.

Fancy: You’re gonna hollow out my WHAT?

Trewlove: Your ween.

#Source: Tumblr #ITV Endeavour #Endeavour ITV #Incorrect Endeavour Quotes #Endeavour #Morseverse #Shirley Trewlove #George Fancy

[patrice-bergerons]

Morseverse is so afraid of women who don't need men to live fulfilling lives it's mind boggling sometimes.

If they are lucky enough to be main characters, these women are either eventually subdued (a la Joan into a traditional marriage) or at least romantically left paired off and pregnant with a good old man (Laura) and woe betide them if they are minor characters because then they get viciously punished for their sins (the prof from Lewis: generation of vipers) or turn out to be freaks driven to murder by their repressed desire for men all along (the prof from Lewis: old, unhappy, far off things).

Like it's a good thing this verse has such compelling relationships between the male leads because otherwise I'd be throwing hands on the regular (ง'̀-'́)ง

#itv endeavour #itv lewis #morseverse #it's so frustrating #also dorothea is the one shining exception but she IS abigal thaw #even trewlove's story had to at some level be about fancy ya know? #also nothing wrong with getting pregnant etc. but i do think of what my ap lit teacher used to say #which is that while male characters go off to do all sorts of things at a storys end #women are either killed or married and expecting #narratively speaking - subdued #and dont get me started on joan 😤

[h-l-vlovesvintage]

Some reasons why I don’t like Joan/Morse, Joan Thursday in general

Or

Why Morse is destined to be alone

The timing is never right, and neither is never in the right point in life,

When Morse tries something with Joan a la Series 5 at Joan’s flat warming or earlier in Series 4 when he proposes marriage to save her from an abusive relationship, but Joan reads the signs wrong mostly in Series 5 (which in my honest opinion is Joan’s worst season) since she teeters from pushing Morse to another woman, then after said woman breaks it off with Morse, she invites Morse to coffee (which he rightfully refuses) and then she’s pissed when he asks her out. Like girl read the fucking room for once,

And don’t get me wrong, I like a doomed ship when done right, I personally would've liked the ship more if they had crashed and burned, to show that there might’ve been a chance, but the narrative wanted Morse to stay a single pringle forever,

In the early seasons it was kinda cute when the two of them were pushed together but post bank robbery it lost its goodness, since you know Russ Lewis doesn’t really write good female characters with good arcs (the loss of Trewlove to never be seen again post Icarus),

So the inevitable marriage of convenience is to be expected from this lassie since she managed to fumble through life and be rather non committal with her fate,

The narrative doomed them both to be a ship that toyed with the emotions of everyone present for far too long.

#itv endeavour #endeavour thoughts #endeavour morse #joan thursday #shirley trewlove #jim strange