Weirdest Master-Apprentice Chain Ever

[john_amend_all]

So I watched tonight's Endeavour. I wasn't mishearing, was I, when DI Thursday described his own mentor as Sergeant Vimes of Cable Street?

Of course, Ankh-Morpork started out as a Lankhmar parody, and Fafhrd and the Gray Mouser have had adventures on Earth. As did Rincewind in TCoM, so... let a thousand crossovers bloom.

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[liadt]

In the trailers they had the characters in the trailers saying "It's in the trees...." "It's coming" which was either an accident or someone on 'Endeavour' is also a big fan of Kate Bush's 'Hounds of Love' or 'The Night of the Demon'. So it's possible!

[john_amend_all]

Last week's was apparently full of homages to Jurassic Park and Jaws — since I've never seen either, I didn't spot those.

Anyway, other people than me spotted the reference, so I think it's fair to say the full master-apprentice chain now goes:

Keel -> Vimes -> Vimes > Thursday -> Morse -> Lewis -> Hathaway.

[john_amend_all]

Someone asked in the Radio Times this week about the Kate Bush reference, and yes, it was deliberate.

[liadt]

Aha! Was there any room for plot in between the pop culture refs?

[john_amend_all]

Not a lot, no. I didn't even mention the Chief Superintendent reminiscing about his time in India near Pankot when they had trouble with the Thuggees (which, apparently, makes Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom Morseverse canon).

[liadt]

I would like to think of 'The Stranglers of Bombay' in the Morseverse instead;)

(My first thought at the mention of thuggees!)

[daibhid-c.livejournal.com]

Rincewind has had further adventures on Earth in the Science of Discworld novels.

Since London also has a Cable Street, I think I favour the "personal echo" theory, where Thursday's guv'nor was Vimes's Roundworld counterpart.

[john_amend_all]

I remembered Science of Discworld after posting, but I've only read the first one so that's obviously why it slipped under the radar.