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john_amend_all ([personal profile] john_amend_all) wrote2016-01-24 09:59 pm

Weirdest Master-Apprentice Chain Ever

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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[personal profile] liadt 2016-01-25 02:49 pm (UTC)(link)
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!
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[personal profile] liadt 2016-01-28 04:01 pm (UTC)(link)
Aha! Was there any room for plot in between the pop culture refs?
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[personal profile] liadt 2016-01-30 02:40 pm (UTC)(link)
I would like to think of 'The Stranglers of Bombay' in the Morseverse instead;)

(My first thought at the mention of thuggees!)

[identity profile] daibhid-c.livejournal.com 2016-01-27 07:08 pm (UTC)(link)
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.