OH FOR FUCK'S SAKE

I don't have a TV, so I generally watch my handful of current TV shows the day after they air. I'm pretty careful about avoiding spoilers for the less-than-24-hours in between other people seeing stuff and me catching up, although tumblr has screwed me over in the past. I accept this.

But seriously, I just got massively spoiled for last night's Agents of SHIELD by the GODDAMN ABC WEBSITE. Like, this is the site I have to visit to watch the show, and they have the spoiler plastered across the "watch latest episode" page. I am so pissed.

...I mean, I'm pissed about the actual spoiler, too, but also that the network itself ruined it for me. Although, seriously, RL is bad enough, but ( spoilers for SHIELD, Sleepy Hollow, and Doctor Who )

I was gonna follow this up with the December meme, but I'll stick that in another, spoiler-free post.

december meme, day whatever

endeni asks: Favorite Who characters?

All of them, except the Doctor.

No, ok, for real, though, I have a thing with Doctor Who where I love just about everybody unreservedly and asking me to play favorites makes me cry a little. Like, I think Clara has suffered from some really mediocre and inconsistent writing in her tenure as companion, but if you insult her as a character I will rain vengeance down upon you like fires of a thousand suns. (Or, well, not, because I'm not a very confrontational person, but I will seethe quietly and think slightly less of you as a person.) And this goes for ALL THE COMPANIONS. All of them! Except Adam, he's a douche, that's why he got kicked off the TARDIS after an episode and a half, nobody likes Adam.

I can only speak intelligently about New Who, because I've only seen a handful of Old Who episodes (and pledge undying devotion to Ace, butch pyromaniac of my heart), but how on earth am I expected to pick a favorite out of this batch of companions? Rose, my first Companion (and I think your first Companion says as much about you as your first Doctor), with her trust and her optimism and her ability to find the good in anyone and her smile that outshone every star in the galaxy. Jack, the eternal contradiction, the man so wholly comfortable and confident in who he was and what he wanted, yet always trying and failing to outrun his past. Mickey, so much more than a tin dog, finding reserves of strength and bravery within himself that he might never have known he possessed otherwise, including the courage to choose his own path away from everything and everyone he'd ever known. Martha, the true healer, who never needed the Doctor half as much as he needed her, who stitched a whole broken world back together with the strength of her words, who knew when it was time to say no thank you and walk away. Donna, bold and brash and funny and with such cripplingly low self-esteem, who never apologized for who she was but finally learned to be proud of herself, too. Amy, geeky and gorgeous and brave, who truly shared the Doctor's fascination with the unknown and sense of adventure, whose loyalty to the family she created was stronger than even she knew. Rory, the boy who waited, the boy who would do anything and everything for love. And River and Clara and Danny and SARAH JANE SMITH GODDAMN, I can't even.

I enjoy the Doctor as a character a great deal, but I only really care about him through the eyes of his Companions. Nine was my first and probably will always be my secret favorite, but honestly, I don't watch the show for him. It's all about the wonderful marvelous people who choose to travel with him.