Bingowings said:

Oh disagree.

Rose was awful to the poor guy. Everytime he tried to move on she would turn up again with her wonder friends to rub his nose in it.

He rang true, the Doctor and Rose however were smug and uncomfortable to watch.

I was a bit miffed by the signals sent out by having Martha and Mickey both split up from their mixed ethnicity relationships and end up together. Sure it happens but we don't get enough positive examples of this sort of thing working so having them both fail and end up together left a sour taste.

Rory is sort of Mickey treated right by both Doctor and writer.

The cartoonish aspect of Mickey in that episode felt more like a spoof of JNT Doctor Who than a genuine use of the same concept seen in the first two Auton stories.

I couldn't agree more. In fact when I saw Martha and Mickey together I turned to the person watching with me and asked "Why are they together,because they are both black?!" that just felt so weird.

I am glad they finally got it right with Rory.