In the Morseverse, Terry Pratchett encountered Thursday's mentor while working as a journalist
Meaning that the Vimes of Discworld is modelled on the Vimes mentioned by Thursday. Both Vimeses are the same person
The previous WMG is a bit mundane. For a more fanciful alternative: the Discworld series started out by parodying Fafhrd and the Gray Mouser. In one of those stories, the wizard Ningauble transports the protagonists from their own world to Earth, their backstories rewriting themselves to fit their new location. Something similar happens briefly in The Colour of Magic, with Rincewind the wizard becoming Dr Rjinswand the nuclear physicist.So... at some point, the same thing happened to Vimes.
The whole series is the Dying Dream of Morse after his heart attack in "The Remorseful Day"
Which explains all the anachronistic references and any inconsistencies with Inspector Morse. Building on that last one, Endeavour is actually part of the Life on Mars universe.
Seriously, did you really think that the Gene Genie was the only self-appointed Psychopomp for dead cops? Fred Thursday's one too! Morse, having died while still a serving police officer in the final episode of the original series, has gone back to the 1960s for his spell in 'Dead British Copper Purgatory'. This explains all of the anachronisms and shout-outs in Endeavour as well as the inconsistencies between it and Inspector Morse (including the question of why he never mentioned Fred or any of the exciting cases they solved together). An added benefit for Morse is that when he does (eventually) get to go to Heaven, it'll be a pub.- Let's add it to the list along with Heartbeat and Dixon of Dock Green...
- If this is right, maybe DSU "SuperMac" Mackintosh in Ashes to Ashes is Fred in disguise! Working with Ronnie Box clearly leads him down a very dark path...
The final episode will be called "Morse".
As a bookend to the pilot having no name other than "Endeavour".- Jossed. The final episode of Endeavour is called "Exuent".
Dempsey is a Kingsman.
He has the glasses... Ludo Talenti and Hugo De Vries (the Big Bad from the Inspector Morse episode "Masonic Mysteries") are the same person.
Given that De Vries is an old adversary of Morse's who is out for revenge, it's nigh-on unthinkable that he would not appear in Endeavour. He and Ludo share several similarities; as well as being sociopaths, both are cultured, high-end con men with a taste for fine wine who have no qualms about manipulating people and (should the situation demand it) committing murder in order to get what they want. As something of a Freeze-Frame Bonus, we see in "Zenana" that he uses the alias "De Vere" (very similar to "De Vries") for one of his schemes.- Seemingly Jossed as Ludo gets shot by Fred Thursday at the end of "Zenana" ... although we never see the body, and in the following series no mention is made of him having been killed.
No, Kent Finn is De Vries.
He's the novelist in "Game" who has been referenced in several subsequent episodes. Since such references are clearly not by chance given the attention to detail with shout-outs and nods to previous episodes and the original series, they must surely mean something. It is worth noting that Kent, who shares the same surname as the creepy commune leader in "Arcadia", is a bit manipulative if his friendship with Dorothea Frazil (not a woman to suffer fools gladly) is anything to go by, and he certainly appreciates fine wine. And then there's this line that he says to Morse — a great bit of foreshadowing if he is De Vries.Must be fascinating work, pitting your wits against some diabolical villain.
- Ambiguous. Writer Russell Lewis has hinted in interviews that De Vries has appeared in Endeavour, but hasn't said which identity he uses.
Strange will marry Joan Thursday.
He's married with grown-up children in the original series so he's got to marry someone. Unless they introduce a completely new character to become Mrs Strange (an Unseen Character in Inspector Morse), Joan's the obvious candidate. Given Morse's own feelings for Joan (a relationship that, despite various shipping attempts, is a clear non-starter), this would serve to drive a wedge between him and his future boss, with whom he has a somewhat antagonistic relationship that's hinted at but not really evident in Endeavour.- Perhaps the event of a Strange-Thursday wedding will also be the catalyst for Morse's final falling-out with Fred Thursday, which would offer a Watsonian explanation for why the older Morse never mentioned him (the Doylist one being that Fred Thursday and his family were only created as characters for Endeavour, not Inspector Morse).
- It would also explain why Morse is so keen to hide evidence of Strange's infidelity in The Remorseful Day (an aspect of the novel that didn't make it into the TV episode) — he does this not so much to protect Strange, but to prevent Mrs Strange from getting hurt by finding out the truth about her husband.
- As of the end of Series 8, it's looking like this is going to happen.
- Confirmed. They marry in "Exuent", the last episode of the show — although this is not the Watsonian reason for why the older Morse never mentions the Thursday family.
Morse will eventually be revealed to be James Hathaway's father
In other words, the biological father of Lewis's sidekick is his old boss. We encountered the younger version of Hathaway senior in "Prey"; at some point, he will return to the show as a married man ... and Morse will have an affair with his wife.