Pick your favourite character(s) in Doctor Who and tell me your favourite episode for them. Not the episode that they’re in that you love the most, but the episode you love the most for them. And then tell me why it’s your favourite!
(And then I will maybe/probably rewatch some of the episodes to get a new insight into the characters you guys love)
I think people have done most of my other favourites already, so I’m gonna go with-
Mickey
World War 3. I was tempted to go with Rise of the Cybermen, but World War 3–
Well, it brings up one of the best parts of Mickey’s story: his relationship with Jackie. Jackie’s spent a year calling him a murderer and harassing him. They don’t like each other at all. But Mickey saves her anyway, comforts her, tells her to run while he holds the Siltheen off-
Long before Series Two, Mickey was a goddamn hero! Well worthy of the Doctor’s admiration, even before the whole thing with the hacking and the missile. And he also quite thoroughly demonstrated that he was absolutely no idiot-
– not that that mattered. >:(
Anyway, yes, Mickey is a guy brave and selfless enough to defend to the death a woman who hates him, and I wish he got more credit for it!