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So, while everyone and their mothers are discussing SPN, what is it that I do? Write Who Meta about Mickey. Yeah. I don't really get my brain, either.

I don't know. I was just thinking today, about how Mickey is one of the reasons I trust the show to sometimes Get It Right. Like, I'm not saying he's the best Who character EVAH, OMG, or the best companion, or anything like it, but he is the companion in New Who that gets the most character development.

The first time we see him, he's a Loser, capitalized, and all. He is spineless, simple-minded and the show works hard to sell him as That Nice Bloke You Date Because You're Bored. There's just such a stark contrast between Mickey the Idiot and the Doctor at his most confident and appealing ("Did I mention it also travels in time?"). Rose's decision on going away is a no-brainer, at the time.

The next time we see him, he helps saving the world. He's still not All That, though, he's just suddenly become lovable in our eyes, and worthy of respect in the Doctor's. He's still somewhat whipped by Rose, comes at her every call and tries again and again to make her jealous and really, he does have a point. By this point, he respects the Doctor himself, but the dude sort of stole away his girlfriend, you know? He's entitled to some resentment.

And then the Doctor regenerates and suddenly Mickey the Idiot is an endearment rather than an insult. Nine is wary of Rose's links to Earth, because they're an obstacle for her complete attention - which he craves like mad, still unbalanced from the Time War. Ten... Ten realizes just how deep into his influence he's pulling her, and wants her to get those ties back, even if by that time it's too late.

BUT. This is about Mickey. Mickey likes Ten a lot, too, even if he's not particularly glad about it. It's about this time that he gets over Rose, and is determined not to become the tin dog - and he does it, he becomes a Companion in his own right. And then The Age of Steel/Rise of the Cyberman come and he gets a glimpse of the man he can become, and he sees grief, and his grandma, and a place where he can make a difference. Just in deciding to stay, he's becoming that man, and it marks the moment when that scaredy boy grabbing at Rose's leg in Rose stops being.

I just love his journey, the way he finds himself in another universe, fighting a cause that's not his own but in a way, it is anyway. He's gotten over Rose, gotten over his fears, and he steps up for himself. Oh, the love. By the time we see him in Doomsday (or did he first show up in AoG? I honestly can't remember...), he's just completely kickass and wonderful, and as far away from the tin dog as one can be. (with no offense to K-9, who is sort of awesome itself.)

There's also the fact that he becomes sort-of-but-not-really boyfriends with Jake and they both ride into the sunset to fight cybermen in Paris. If that's not love, then I don't know what it is.

So this is me, saying that the best thing to come out of AoS/RotC was Mickey. I would also say something about Ten in a tux, but he seems to wear one like, every season, so that's an apart, lol.

Who has got it wrong a large number of times, but sometimes, just sometimes, it gets it right, and Mickey is living proof of it. AND IF HE DOESN'T APPEAR IN S4 I MIGHT HAVE TO CHOKE A BITCH, KTHNX.

Also, do people still think Last of the Time Lords was the worst part of S3? Because honestly, I don't consider it all that bad, just a big bundle of what. the fuck. And while weird as fuck, it still gave us some little jewels like Martha being The Awesomest Girl That Ever Awesomed and the Master dancing. Which was, you know, sort of beautiful. Daleks in Manhattan/Evolution of the Daleks, though, was HORRIBLE and deserves a slow, slow death and THAT, for me, is the worst part of S3. Just. Ew. I can't think of that combo and not cringe. *shudder* Ah, first Serial of the Season, why are you always the weakest/lousiest?