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Post by sootycat on Jan 23, 2017 12:46:48 GMT
I also want to give Joan a good shake. Thoughtless, selfish girl! She could at least have contacted her parents to tell them she was all right. She was running away from a traumatic event, not an unhappy home. Grr! Morse could have told her how thoughtless she was being – he isn't shy of tearing people off a strip when needed. What a dreadful girl she is. ( Looks like her fella is married) I have to wonder how Thursday will react when he finds out that Morse knows her whereabouts |
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Post by spinninghead on Jan 23, 2017 13:00:13 GMT
I'm sure I wasn't the only one to notice the 'Carry On' references...
Fosdick Ward Finisham Hospital Sir Merlyn Chubb (instead of Sir Lancelot Spratt)
The writer, Russell Lewis, is obviously a fan  |
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Post by goodhelenstar on Jan 23, 2017 13:35:15 GMT
That's the thing though, she wasn't dreadful before her completely out-of-character disappearing act. I'm guessing it's her fella's flat rather than hers – she was a junior bank employee living at home and presumably contributing to the family coffers, so even in the 1960s she wouldn't have been able to afford a flat. If she was renting she'd have needed a deposit and references so it looks as if he has set her up there. Does she have a job now?
Thursday will hit the roof unless something else happens in the meantime. More to come I suppose but it's all very unsatisfactory at the moment. Last episode next week; let's hope it is resolved. There is apparently another series later this year so it may not be.
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Post by marion on Jan 23, 2017 15:17:04 GMT
I felt Morse would have been more urgent with Joan about at least letting her parents know she was alive and well. I know he didn't want to spook her but he was pretty feeble there, IMHO. I too wondered how she could manage the rent for the flat with no apparent sign of a job. Unless that chap is keeping her...... perhaps he is evil and wants to put her on the game!!!!!!!!!!
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Post by LoopyLobes on Jan 23, 2017 17:23:41 GMT
I'm still very much enjoying this series – the acting of the two main characters in particular is first class and I love the period detail, also the little signs of the person that we know Morse will become in later years. Bringing Susan into the story was a nice touch – she is the focus of one of the Morse stories, played by Joanna David. What an awful mother though. That said, I though last night's plot was a bit overdone – would a young nurse really murder ten innocent people in order to frame someone, and without being caught? She wasn't depicted as a psychopath. And where did she get the insulin from? It isn't just lying around waiting to be used to murder patients. I also want to give Joan a good shake. Thoughtless, selfish girl! She could at least have contacted her parents to tell them she was all right. She was running away from a traumatic event, not an unhappy home. Grr! Morse could have told her how thoughtless she was being – he isn't shy of tearing people off a strip when needed. I agree with all of this especially the bit in bold. |
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Post by vicky on Jan 23, 2017 18:33:06 GMT
I was expecting him to tell her how her parents were suffering from not knowing where she is or what has happened to her. Looking at that flat and noticing how evasive she was about her circumstances, I did wonder how she was earning her money. We saw the boyfriend taking off his wedding ring before letting himself in to the flat so maybe she doesn't know he's married.
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Post by Miranda on Jan 23, 2017 23:15:45 GMT
That's a council flat so I'm not sure it would be difficult for her to get. Or expensive to keep. The boyfriend is obviously married but I'm not sure the relationship has been going on for that long as he still bringing her flowers.
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Post by sleepyp on Jan 24, 2017 11:45:40 GMT
Round here it would take years for a young woman on her own to get a council flat  |
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Post by Miranda on Jan 24, 2017 12:47:25 GMT
Yes but we are talking about the early 60s. Different times. And wasn't Leamington Spa a New Town?
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Post by Miranda on Jan 24, 2017 12:54:42 GMT
As it turns out, no.  But, like everywhere else, there was a lot of building there in the 50s and 60s. All in the Modernist style that we all love so much. |
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Post by LoopyLobes on Jan 24, 2017 14:07:18 GMT
Yes but we are talking about the early 60s. Different times. And wasn't Leamington Spa a New Town? No. Not as far as I know and I live close by. It's a beautiful, regency town. www.royal-leamington-spa.co.uk/ |
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Post by Geoffers on Jan 24, 2017 14:35:25 GMT
Think l missed something along the way,but who is Caroline and who was her husband Edgar?
I got confused and though the uniformed Inspector had died.
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Post by LoopyLobes on Jan 24, 2017 15:29:41 GMT
Think l missed something along the way,but who is Caroline and who was her husband Edgar? I got confused and though the uniformed Inspector had died. Caroline and Edgar are the parents of Susan, the girl that Endeavour was engaged to. Caroline is a horrible snob and I'm not entirely sure, but I think the engagement ending was probably a lot to do with her thinking Endeavour wasn't good enough for her daughter. |
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Post by Miranda on Jan 24, 2017 15:35:54 GMT
Edgar was already in the hospital when the programme started.
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Post by vicky on Jan 24, 2017 16:46:24 GMT
That's a council flat so I'm not sure it would be difficult for her to get. Or expensive to keep. The boyfriend is obviously married but I'm not sure the relationship has been going on for that long as he still bringing her flowers. I grew up in a council house which took my parents years of being on a waiting list to acquire in the early 50s. I was around Joan's age at the time Endeavour is set and would have loved to have my own flat but there was no way, as a single girl with a parental home, that I would have qualified for a council one and I couldn't have afforded the rent, council or private, either. When my job (junior civil service clerk) took me to another town all I could afford was a bedsit, much like the one Morse himself seems to live in. |
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But, like everywhere else, there was a lot of building there in the 50s and 60s. All in the Modernist style that we all love so much.
Anymore to come?
