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― mark s, Tuesday, 29 August 2023 18:38 (eight months ago) link
gwladys probert
― mark s, Wednesday, 30 August 2023 18:16 (eight months ago) link
actress welshing it up to the max
― mark s, Wednesday, 30 August 2023 18:20 (eight months ago) link
show always improved when the pathologist is (a) a woman (dr hobson) who (b) doesn't take morse's ridiculous shit
(max was also good, for the same reason)
― mark s, Friday, 1 September 2023 19:03 (eight months ago) link
even so the plot-tic that morse is the only faintly adequate copper in the country remains annoying
― mark s, Friday, 1 September 2023 19:28 (eight months ago) link
lol they shd have called this show HECATOMB
― mark s, Friday, 1 September 2023 19:45 (eight months ago) link
show always improved when the pathologist is(a) a woman (dr hobson) who(b) doesn't take morse's ridiculous shit
― mark s, Friday, 1 September 2023 bookmarkflaglink
I would to re-watch more but this makes me realise the only characters that took no shit were the 'educated' sorts.
― xyzzzz__, Friday, 1 September 2023 19:57 (eight months ago) link
i imagine it's different in the original books but there's not really a coherent throughline of class politics or anything else in the show: even the way long-term characters interact swerves just wildly between episodes
but yes it is almost entirely about chaos and competition within the professional layers
― mark s, Friday, 1 September 2023 20:10 (eight months ago) link
it's just funnier when he doesn't get his way
sir clixby bream
(tremendous slimy performance from richard briers)
― mark s, Saturday, 2 September 2023 17:42 (eight months ago) link
oh dear i've reached the ep that is set in victorian oxford which morse is solving while in a narcotic dream in a hospital bed
― mark s, Monday, 4 September 2023 18:03 (seven months ago) link
maybe it will not be terrible
i have bad news
― da elephant in daruma (Noodle Vague), Monday, 4 September 2023 18:06 (seven months ago) link
OMG, never even knew such a ridiculous thing existed
― Monthly Python (Tom D.), Monday, 4 September 2023 18:11 (seven months ago) link
i have a very vague memory of something like this occurring in a book-detective series -- like a break from the present to dig into the past -- where it maybe worked a bit better? but i can't remember which detective so making the comparison is a bit bogus really
― mark s, Monday, 4 September 2023 19:05 (seven months ago) link
the daughter of time?
― difficult listening hour, Monday, 4 September 2023 19:56 (seven months ago) link
doesn’t work that well in that tbh.
― difficult listening hour, Monday, 4 September 2023 19:57 (seven months ago) link
haven't read it and not what i had in mind -- if i had anything at all -- but yes!
― mark s, Monday, 4 September 2023 19:58 (seven months ago) link
(lewis sat this one out btw)
― mark s, Monday, 4 September 2023 20:07 (seven months ago) link
(he made the right decision)
actually what i might be thinking of is a tv reinvestigation of the ripper murders which i saw in 1973: the faces fronting it were barlow and watt (stratford johns and frank windsor) of z cars and then softly softly
i remember my dad having to explain to me what "poses plastique" were, something abt a male brothel (i don't recall why this was relevant; maybe he didn't explain that)
― mark s, Monday, 4 September 2023 20:15 (seven months ago) link
anyway it's 50 years since i saw that but i think it was better than this is
― mark s, Monday, 4 September 2023 20:26 (seven months ago) link
it was a half season of shite in the sopranos is what i remember
― close encounters of the third knid (darraghmac), Monday, 4 September 2023 20:39 (seven months ago) link
last ever ep
morse: "you know you really should persevere with wagner, lewis, it's about IMPORTANT THINGS"
― mark s, Tuesday, 5 September 2023 18:10 (seven months ago) link
lewis going off when the woman suspect says "Morse will understand" That's INSPECTOR Morse.
― oscar bravo, Tuesday, 5 September 2023 19:07 (seven months ago) link
at least he had strange with him when he went
― mark s, Tuesday, 5 September 2023 20:04 (seven months ago) link
so i started watching endeavour from the start bcz in the evening after a day's work i am always fatigued ftb beta blockers and demanding TV is no longer for me :(
mostly it sucks MIGHTILY (very badly written) but in this ep (no 3 in all: rocket) YUNG MORSE caused the girl he's currently interested in laugh when he called a disco a "pop dancing club" (ep set in 1965) -- that was actually a good line and a good exchange, where the anachronism is the great man's callow error not the scriptwriter's
― mark s, Tuesday, 12 September 2023 09:05 (seven months ago) link
One I saw was set the week of the 1966 world cup final and I peaced out pretty quick
― xl bully romance (Bananaman Begins), Tuesday, 12 September 2023 09:15 (seven months ago) link
"Would you bring Greaves back into the side Morse?" fuck off
― xl bully romance (Bananaman Begins), Tuesday, 12 September 2023 09:17 (seven months ago) link
Morse would refuse to watch because Ramsey wasn't playing wingers.
― Monthly Python (Tom D.), Tuesday, 12 September 2023 09:25 (seven months ago) link
2 ("fugue") was abt a serial killer playing fiendish games in codes that only an advanced musical brain could ever crack ("every good boy deserves favour")
i don't mind shaun evans -- very watchable -- but so far i hate his oh-i-just-cracked-this scene and pray it is not going to be a fixture
― mark s, Tuesday, 12 September 2023 15:21 (seven months ago) link
academic misuses "refute" in 1965* -- not very likely but might have happened? an angry morse not jumping scornfuly on the solecism -- would absolutely not have happened lol
*it's not a synonym for "deny": to refute you must supply the proof
― mark s, Tuesday, 12 September 2023 16:53 (seven months ago) link
oh-i-just-cracked-this scene and pray it is not going to be a fixture
oh no
― carson dial, Tuesday, 12 September 2023 19:43 (seven months ago) link
(very dislikeable) character mentions the new left review while teasing morse (it's 1966 so ilx's beloved perry anderson is editor) #onethread
― mark s, Tuesday, 12 September 2023 20:19 (seven months ago) link
this is the silliest stuff
― mark s, Tuesday, 12 September 2023 21:00 (seven months ago) link
now watching the world cup ep: it also features chopin and heraldry plus a haunted girls school that's very picnic at hanging rock when it's not harry potter
getting unrelated topics to clash fruitfully is a morsey thing tho i think it fails at this more often than it succeeds and i don't have high hopes for this
― mark s, Wednesday, 13 September 2023 16:35 (seven months ago) link
scooby-doo-ass garbage
― mark s, Wednesday, 13 September 2023 17:11 (seven months ago) link
gotta hand it to em, sway was a pretty good ep, maybe it's finding its feet!
(i mean still p silly in some ways, but also quite affecting and the anachronism kept in check for a change)
― mark s, Thursday, 14 September 2023 19:45 (seven months ago) link
(i like the one-word titles btw, that's a nice tic)
deems said this show got better and in s3 it has, which is nice
is there another drama which wd open with a close-up of a man deploying MOLE TRAPS on a well kept lawn, i think not
― mark s, Wednesday, 20 September 2023 17:23 (seven months ago) link
the mole trap man is in fact lozza's dad :|
― mark s, Wednesday, 20 September 2023 17:39 (seven months ago) link
a hathaway
ok that was the silliest story i have ever watched, mole traps or no mole traps
― mark s, Wednesday, 20 September 2023 19:58 (seven months ago) link
Do you think Fox's breakdown into whatever he is now was precipitated by expecting to replace Kevin Whateley as the main guy in the franchise and they're all like, lol no, we're gonna do heartbeat morse instead
― xl bully romance (Bananaman Begins), Thursday, 21 September 2023 10:59 (seven months ago) link
it can't have helped that they included his character's dad as a completely inconsequential walk-on character (who doesn't even get to be a red herring)
― mark s, Thursday, 21 September 2023 16:30 (seven months ago) link
history of Loz's life tbf
― skin like puff pastry (Noodle Vague), Thursday, 21 September 2023 16:39 (seven months ago) link
this record is ok but it's no "l'amour"
https://head-records.bandcamp.com/album/beliefs-destroyer
i know, i haven't thought of "l'amour" in about a decade either
― Kate (rushomancy), Thursday, 21 September 2023 20:13 (seven months ago) link
I bet it's better than this...
https://laurencefox.bandcamp.com/album/a-grief-observed
― I Left My Harp In Sam Frank's Disco (Tom D.), Thursday, 21 September 2023 21:19 (seven months ago) link
... OMG I just listened to it!
― I Left My Harp In Sam Frank's Disco (Tom D.), Thursday, 21 September 2023 21:22 (seven months ago) link
this is the stuff: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=41KgNJ9qGDI
― mark s, Friday, 22 September 2023 09:24 (seven months ago) link