I agree with you about all of this. Especially Mickey, Love and Monsters and Fear Her. In both the case of L&M and The Idiot's Lantern I have a horrible feeling that I am not watching the same thing as everyone else. The main problem I had with this particular run was that in both The Impossible Planet two-parter and The Idiot's Lantern the Doctor made some really wonky choices like not even trying to rescue the Ood and telling the son of the house to forgive his father, who, in my reading of the episode, was beating his wife (but as I said, it's one of those episodes where I think I was watching a different episode).
Jamie, Jo Grant, certainly Sarah Jane Smith, and Romana were all the Doctor's Best Friends, in fact I believe the Fourth Doctor introduces Sarah Jane in a episode as his best friend. I think the popularity of Rose for Nu Who viewers is just that--they were New to Who, and she was the first companion they have met
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I rewatched this run myself relatively recently (save "Fear Her," which I remembered so negatively I didn't want to see it again yet) and I too was surprised by how improved certain episodes seemed
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