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Whilst Greeks Bearing Gifts is well worth watching, it is not as good as Who Killed Harry Field? and Second Time Around, but I do still think that Fat Chance is the weakest episode of the 5th series. Here, the script is very intelligent, and the scenery beautiful. The plot once again is very intriguing, around a murdered chef and Morse and Lewis facing a language barrier. The performances are top notch, I continue to praise John Thaw and Kevin Whately, and the supporting performances from James Hazeldine, Jan Harvey, James Faulkner and Martin Jarvis are excellent if careful not to overshadow the two leads. Lovely music, including excerpts from the fantastic Introduction and Allegro for Strings by Elgar.(this is the music on the documentary video about ships that Morse is watching)The ending is also very good and tense, if not the best climax in a Morse episode ever. Overall, very well done. 9/10 Bethany Cox.

Greeks bearing Gifts is a very strong episode of Morse, a fabulous scrupt, some very fine performances, and one of the most shocking, dramatic climaxes I can recall.

I love the Greek vibe throughout, the musical, characters, the wonderful and charismatic elderly couple. The story is wonderfully clever, it's very much about longing and desperation. Martin Jarvis is a fine actor and given some great performances over the years, but I always class this one as his best.

Very good all the way through until that ending, which conjures up all sorts of feelings, panic, outrage, and if it doesn't have you on the edge of your seat I'd be surprised.

Wonderful production values as always, glorious music. Greeks bearing Gifts is a great episode. 9 /10

Other than Episode 2 - Fat Chance - Season 5 of Inspector Morse has been brilliant. The plots are still quite complex but at least they're understandable and not anticlimactic, unlike many of the other seasons.

Episode 4 - Greeks Bearing Gifts - typifies the great writing of this season. A highly intriguing plot: a murder with no apparent motive or suspects. Slowly but surely Morse and Lewis piece together suspects and clues. They literally start with nothing to go on and have to just ask questions and follow the smallest leads until something substantial pops up. It's a great example of good police work when you're facing a dearth of evidence.

A dark atmosphere and a great twist at the end round this off neatly, making this one of the best Morse episodes.

Mores gets involved with a Greek family that spends much of its time watching behind it. There is a murder. Someone has broken the neck of a guy named Nikko but every effort to solve the murder is met wit internal resistance. Morse, bottled up by the language barrier, enlists a young woman who is bilingual. Things seem to revolve around a professor who has gone into the business of reconstructing and sailing a trireme. But there is a dark side to him and his wife, the perfect couple. The wife is incredibly strong on television with a daily Dr. Phil type show. The closing scene is a bit pat and I must agree with a previous writer that things get really scary, and the danger could be beyond the bounds of acceptable television.

Whilst I have never been an avid viewer of Morse, i have watched it occasionally and enjoyed them. A repeat of this particular episode has just finished and i was rather disturbed by the scene near the end involving the baby. I won't give any specific details, but the baby was obviously real and obviously in distress during the scene. I'm not easily shocked, but it did make me feel uncomfortable watching this scene, the way the camera is positioned its almost as if the director intended to catch the poor child's reaction. I'm surprised nobody else has commented, and as i say I'm not easily shocked but did find the scene very uncomfortable viewing, which encouraged me to look it up and comment.

The fact that I felt much MUCH worse for the poor Siamese cat that was plunked on a pool table, left yowling in terror in order to add God-knows-what to a scene having nothing to do with cats, than I did for the slightly traumatised baby in the end scene-which had everything to do with its presence-speaks volumes of my own rather severe sensitivity issues and views of humanity in general! I simply cannot abide the use of animals for filming anything anymore after working on a set where multiple cats spent an entire day cooped up in stacked cages, crying to move around, get some water or food, a little affection-just horrendous! NEVER AGAIN!

With youngens on set, I always question what sort of parent allows this, but also know that sets are practically shut down when they're there due to safety concerns, etc. The crew see animals merely as living props-it's truly awful.

I wholeheartedly believe that anything or anyone, including the mentally handicapped, who doesn't have the ability to give their explicit permission fisrthand, should not be exploited for entertainment purposes. Our insatiable lust for constant distraction means that more innocence will be lost via our screens, whether filmjng is "above board" or well below.

Our demands need to evolve, and I'd like to think that we're better than this, but fear that most aren't, and are becoming more cold-hearted.

And speaking of evolution, or rather the lack of, I've read several comments elsewhere about the rampant sexism written into this series. Morse's constant scrutiny-not to mention hounding- of nearly every female character above the age of 10, murderous or not, is incredibly creepy and off-putting no matter the era. While Morse stays away from the implied "randiness" of everyone in the village doing each other (pig-ugly titled men and desperate middle aged décolletage do not equal sexy, dangerous liaisons or no) of series like Midsomer, can't we just move on from such objectification at some point? It's tired. We all know what an "attractive" or appealing person looks like, but not everyone needs to discuss it, even if women never seem to be able to move on from needing to hear it. Morse's constant use of this word is generally inferred as a compliment, but it's just a bit pathetic as well as superficial coming from an old alcoholic who's supposed to be in a professional capacity.

I realise that this is a fairly ancient series, relatively speaking, but not much has changed; only the size of the screen and the quality of film seem to indicate improvement. A few gay and brownish people added aren't fooling anyone; we're still stuck in the quagmire of misogyny and the shallow waters of sexism.

How refreshing would it be to present more than a few men to be more complex than what's beyond their fly, women more than a pair of this or a pair of that. Maybe a more symbiotic relationship in which the woman isn't badgering or trodding upon her hen-pecked husband will be in the English repertory at some point.