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New episode: Soba It's listed as an "artisan's edition", so if Saito isn't on, we'll start a new thread for "artisan editions".

I like chicken livers, but I don't understand the "pink" trend with them these days. I've watched other cooking shows recommending "pink" chicken livers rather than fully cooked ones. *shivers*

Something tells me that Kate will take Caroline back, even though it's really obvious Caroline is using her. Not saying Caroline doesn't have some feelings for Kate but she's using Kate. lol @ Calamity Jane!

I'm not too sure how I feel about the "remorseful day" poem quoted here, either. Maybe he should have quoted Shakespeare's St. Crispin's Day speech instead? I'm with everyone on the creepy dummy. But being a Buffy the Vampire Slayer fan back in the day, a part of me hoped it was Sid the Demon Hunter. So are they setting up a City v. County struggle when Thames Valley Police is finally formed?

I'll have to rewatch when it comes on again. Because the Morse said the investigating officers noted the musicbox was playing Nocturne.

Cherubim and Seraphim as jjj wrote is where you get to how much stepmom Gwen hates Morse. OTOH, you get to see how much Morse cares about his halfsister, Joyce, and her family.

Poor Morse, he flirted with her and got absolutely nowhere.

Eddie was killed in a log-splitter. I'm presuming that any head injuries he got from Gillian bludgeoning him would appear like injuries a log splitter would cause. Another observation. Celia and Alan toast each other by mentioning old sitcoms: To the Manor Born, The Good Life, and Til Death Do Us Part. In the US, PBS aired To the Manor Born. PBS aired The Good Life as Good Neighbors. Til Death Do Us Part, I don't think was ever aired on PBS, but in the US a sitcom based on it was aired on CBS: it was called All in the Family. It also looks like that toast described their situations: Caroline with To the Manor Born (upper class) and Gillian with The Good Life (self-sufficiency middle class working a farm in their backyard). If All in the Family was anything like Till Death Do Us Part, then there's an argumentative bigot Archie (Celia?) and a gentle, but dense Edith (Alan?) in the family too.

Colin Dexter created the characters of Chief Inspector Morse, Detective Sergeant Lewis, Chief Superintendent Strange, Max the pathologist, the Thames Valley Police and all the fictional Oxford Colleges (like Lonsdale). He also created Lewis' family (his wife at least) and what we know of Morse's family---mother was a Quaker, father was a taxi driver who liked Captain Cook. Mother died. Father remarried Gwen. Morse and Gwen can't stand each other. But Morse loves his half-sister, Joyce, and her family. Anything outside of that isn't Dexter's creations, but are inspired by or based upon his works. Confused??? lol. I think Dexter has some input in the series. http://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/tv/news/the-morse-code-no-other-actors-will-be-allowed-to-play-colin-dexters-detective-after-the-late-john-thaw-9213246.html

But even that love of culture (especially opera, poetry, architecture) is flawed at its heart. Morse tells Lewis that he learned poetry and listened to opera because his stepmother hated it and as a teen, he spent his school holidays touring churches and stately homes.

My comment to this is here: http://forums.previously.tv/topic/10067-where-do-you-see-yourself-in-20-years-endeavor-vs-inspector-morse/#entry183175

jjj wrote in the Sway thread: I agree, but I don't think Morse thought of his life as a disappointment. He had regrets--the scene in The Remorseful Day where Morse is at home listening to opera is chilling because is he thinking of his life or is he thinking about the case or both. But who doesn't have regrets? I think Morse was the kind of guy who couldn't get close to people. Sure he has a girlfriend when he was at Oxford and a steady-ish girlfriend in the last episodes of Morse, and we are currently seeing Monica on Endeavour, but there is something in him that prevents him from committing.

But was it like that when they bought the house? How is joint property handled in the UK? In the US, any property acquired during the marriage is "jointly owned" unless it's inherited. Ex, I inherited Grandma's ring after Mr. Milz and I were married, but that ring isn't joint property because Grandma gave it to me. But the house we bought after we were married is joint property----so is the furniture, the dishes, etc.

Caroline said she wants to live in it until the boys have gone away to university. But I agree with rearranging everyone's lives. I'm not sure if it was John's book money or a combination (I don't know how much money a teacher/headmistress makes).

Unless they completely change the Morse-verse continuity. One of the jabs with Endeavour is we know what happens to Morse: we know he becomes a chief inspector. We know Strange becomes his boss. We know Robbie Lewis becomes his DS. We know his only family is his stepsister's . We even get to watch him die. But watching him get there is the fun of this series.

Symbolism. As he goes up in the police hierarchy, so too does his pants size.

They so knew that dog was the plaintiff's because they refused to have her DNA tested (which the plaintiff was going to pay for.) Awful people.

What I don't like about Strange is that they made him portly in Endeavour because he's portly in Morse. I would have liked PC Strange to be a thin guy, whose girth increases as he rises in rank to Chief Superintendent. Also Strange has to lose that working class accent of his, because Chief Superintendent Strange doesn't have it.

One of the original investigating officers thought the other guy was being framed, but couldn't provide evidence. and his career went down the toilet. Besides that, the suspect was later found dead with his throat slashed ear to ear. So I guess it was more convenient to blame Charlotte. Charlotte wasn't playing the piano. The original police investigation noted that when they entered the home, the music box was playing Nocturne. When Morse is questioning the girls, he asks if there was anyone among them who could play it on the piano.

I keep missing this case!

I'd like to think she's going wacky. But I think she's just that thoughtless. Caroline confirmed it in her phone call to Gillian that Celia's always been like that. I hope Alan will learn that you only tell Celia things you want other people to know. Even her conversation with Kate about the baby being called "The Baby", or "Emily Jane" by Alan, or "Flossie" by Gillian, was too gossipy for her to be saying to Kate and John (well, John was there but they were ignoring him).

Morse gets a girlfriend, Adele, in the later episodes of Morse. And he had a girlfriend when he was at Lonsdale College. This series might explain why he never got married. And if it lasts long enough, it might show his relationship with his half-sister's family: in Morse, he's close to his niece and takes it pretty hard when she dies. Department store owner hitting on Morse....I didn't pick that up, probably because Joan Thursday practically drools all over the set when she sees Morse. lol, funny thought.....Strange is married in Morse. But I don't think they ever mention his wife's name. It would be something if Mrs. Chief Superintendent Strange is Joan Thursday.

Yes, I noticed that too. It's like Morse rubbed off on him. With Endeavour around, I wonder if they'll tie some of its characters into Lewis.

Forgot to add.... The department store. IIRC, one of the writers of Are You Being Served, said he based the characters on people he met while working at a department store. And the department store last night had some Grace Brother's-like characters.

The squid and cucumber salad last night looked good. But we'll have to substitute shrimp for the squid at my house. Is this new show on NHK?