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Oct. 11th, 2008 10:26 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
captainsblogIt's 9 o'clock on a Saturday. The regular crowd shuffles inPBS no longer runs Mystery! as a separate series as such on Saturday nights, where we grew to love it, but it seemed an appropriate time to catch up on one of the masters of such mysteriousness through DVD at that hour.
A few weeks back, somebody ::waves to somebody across the pond:: mentioned having just watched an old Inspector Morse episode, which got me waxing nostalgiac for it. Also, it got me to waning in my laziness over having left my VHS copy of the final Morse episode in a pile of waiting-to-transfer-to-DVD cassettes in the middle of our living room. Earlier this week, I took care of that task, transferring the VCR back to the living room and, with it, "The Remorseful Day" and the fairly lovely accompanying video on the making of the series onto the current century's format. Netflix then provided the other bookend the other day, delivering the first go-round between Morse and Lewis, from the year we were married, The Dead of Jericho.
It's such fun to watch these two, and all of the Oxonian universe orbiting them. So much of the original setting- from the Jag to the Chief Super to most of the surroundings- lasted through the entire 13 year run of the series. At least one other element from the premiere- the character of Max the coroner- came back to me with some sad nostalgia. I hadn't realized that he continued to act for long after his run on the Morse boards.
What I also hadn't realized until just now is that Kevin Whately has continued his character of (now) Inspector Lewis in a series of series that began soon after Morse went off the air. I've Netflixed the first disk of that, as well. I doubt he'll produce as much raw intelligence, or good music, or consume nearly as many pints, but I'm optimistic that the best of his old boss will still live on inside him.
A few weeks back, somebody ::waves to somebody across the pond:: mentioned having just watched an old Inspector Morse episode, which got me waxing nostalgiac for it. Also, it got me to waning in my laziness over having left my VHS copy of the final Morse episode in a pile of waiting-to-transfer-to-DVD cassettes in the middle of our living room. Earlier this week, I took care of that task, transferring the VCR back to the living room and, with it, "The Remorseful Day" and the fairly lovely accompanying video on the making of the series onto the current century's format. Netflix then provided the other bookend the other day, delivering the first go-round between Morse and Lewis, from the year we were married, The Dead of Jericho.
It's such fun to watch these two, and all of the Oxonian universe orbiting them. So much of the original setting- from the Jag to the Chief Super to most of the surroundings- lasted through the entire 13 year run of the series. At least one other element from the premiere- the character of Max the coroner- came back to me with some sad nostalgia. I hadn't realized that he continued to act for long after his run on the Morse boards.
What I also hadn't realized until just now is that Kevin Whately has continued his character of (now) Inspector Lewis in a series of series that began soon after Morse went off the air. I've Netflixed the first disk of that, as well. I doubt he'll produce as much raw intelligence, or good music, or consume nearly as many pints, but I'm optimistic that the best of his old boss will still live on inside him.