Dynamic Duos (which devolves into fan-tarding)

Even though I am perfectly fond of stories that have a solitary protagonist, I am even more fond of the team. It reminds me a bit of this interview I either read or heard with Wes Anderson, in which he said that he liked writing about teams of people, having them work together and meshing personalities to get things done. The three person team is notable for its presence in some things I love, like Black Books and others I'm forgetting at the moment, but I have a special soft spot for teams of two.

Maybe it's because I tend to only have one close friend at a time, who knows, but man, the dynamic duo gets me every time. The sorts of double acts, where the characters seem wildly different at first glance, but who have deeper and stronger characteristics in common that hold them together. The Doctor & companion(s), Vince & Howard, Jemaine & Bret. It extends to real life as well, I love both The Daily Show and The Colbert Report. So it is no mystery (HA!) how I got sucked into Holmes & Watson.

Always the late bloomer, I only read the actual stories this summer, whereas literally everyone who's heard I'm reading them read them between the ages of 11-14. I guess I was too busy with James Herriot, or Julie's Wolf Pack, I don't know, but it's ridiculous, like a fifth grader just discovering Sesame Street, or something.

"OH MAN, YOU GUYS, HAVE YOU SEEN THAT SHOW WITH THE PUPPETS, ABOUT LETTERS AND NUMBERS?!"
"Sesame Street? Yeah....we got over that like, three grades ago."
"SO GOOD. IT IS SO GOOD."

It gets me in the same place as Doctor Who, really, with the largely socially isolated super-smart hero with the badass sidekick/equal who brings the normalcy and decency that's sorely needed in the whole endeavor. I am especially partial to the latter, I cannot resist adventurous sidekicks, good Lord.

AND THEY SOLVE CRIME/SAVE THE WORLD. I am always about adventure (in books)!

Anyway, I barely know what else to say about it, except to throw a bunch of recommendations your way, all of which you've probably heard if you know me in real life (Russian TV Holmes, Granada, new BBC Sherlock show, the 2009 RDJ one). This entry seems to have gone slightly awry, coherence-wise, as things usually do when I try and write about something I'm currently rather passionate about.

I could swear to you this is the last time I obsess about this, but it would probably be a lie. Usually I keep intense loves like this on the down-low in real life, because I will go on and on and frighten people.

P.S. Janelle told me to write something, and I wrote this lol she should be proud.