I want to retreat from reality for a moment. I have been listening to the Allman Brothers over the long weekend and they were a good band but back on topic!
Most people will agree that endeavour was one of the great english crime series. The acting, the writing etc was superb. No-one says this about Inspector Morse yet Endeavour is based on the young Morse.
Why the large discrepancy. Well first of all Endeavour had the advantage of following inspector morse after a significant time period. They could see the faults and improve on them.
This did happen but we have to admit the acting in Endeavour was vastly superior to Inspector Morse. I have written before John Thaw was a poor Morse.He did not appear very educated. In terms of writing there was little in Morse's history in Inspector Morse so the writing of Endeavour was not held back as long as it was consistent with Inspector Morse. Thus Endeavour became very interesting because of Morse's back story.
Possibly the only weakness is morse is truly a brilliant detective in his younger days but deteriorates to just a good detective in his latter years.
He is much more a loner in the latter series as well.
Perhaps we should admit a later series should always be better than the earlier one. They have the advantage of the time. We already know part of the story. They only have to make it consistent.
This occurred. Perhaps one thing a lot of people missed is morse needed a mentor in his younger years. This was missed in the earlier series. how could you have a mentor but no-one ever talks about him in the original series was brilliantly written the very last episode of Endeavour.
Back to more serious topics tomorrow!
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