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.

I absolutely agree with you on that part of the character. He finally called her out on it in a later episode and it was one of the few times where he came across as a deeper character.

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.

Point two I agree with. On top of Martha and Mickey not being a good match (she always seemed deeper emotionally), the race alignment seemed like lazy writing. A quick way to sew up what had become two loose ends.

I know I'm in the minority on this one (particularly on the Who board), but I always liked Martha and felt she didn't get a fair shake following Rose. I loved the character of Rose and and what she developed into, but Martha was a great companion also. I thought 10 keeping her at arms length was a very realistic dynamic.

Martha suffered by following Rose. Just as 10 couldn't get past Rose (completely understandable), neither could a large portion of the fan base.