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redfiona99I have given Endeavour a go. I have tried to like it. I have tried to appreciate its production values. I do appreciate them employing Roger Allam and Anton Lesser.
It's just, and I don't know if it's the writing or Shaun Evans, they don't convince me that this person grows up into the Morse we know and love.
Part of the problem is that Endeavour lack the fierce intelligence of Morse, and he's always had that. They don't convince me that this is the boy who, not more than 10 years before the film is set, wrote a list of ways to kill himself and then decided that, since he was clever enough to do that, he had too good a mind to waste*, while John Thaw did convince me he was that character 30 years on.
I don't know how much of that is John Thaw's iconic performance rather than the writing because I've tried to read the books and I've bounced off them (except the Wolvercote Tongue, which might not be called that).
So yes, I'm sure Endeavour is perfectly well made but I think I'd like it a lot more if it was called something else and didn't keep dropping references to Inspector Morse.
*In Cherubim and Seraphim, which might not be the best mystery but is great for Morse background.
It's just, and I don't know if it's the writing or Shaun Evans, they don't convince me that this person grows up into the Morse we know and love.
Part of the problem is that Endeavour lack the fierce intelligence of Morse, and he's always had that. They don't convince me that this is the boy who, not more than 10 years before the film is set, wrote a list of ways to kill himself and then decided that, since he was clever enough to do that, he had too good a mind to waste*, while John Thaw did convince me he was that character 30 years on.
I don't know how much of that is John Thaw's iconic performance rather than the writing because I've tried to read the books and I've bounced off them (except the Wolvercote Tongue, which might not be called that).
So yes, I'm sure Endeavour is perfectly well made but I think I'd like it a lot more if it was called something else and didn't keep dropping references to Inspector Morse.
*In Cherubim and Seraphim, which might not be the best mystery but is great for Morse background.
