Word. (Even though I think there's a Doylist reason why Martha didn't get paired up with the white boyfriend she'd had at the end of the year that never was arc, given that the actor in question had just made it big in a series in the States and presumably wasn't available/too expensive for a bit part in Journey's End, there's literally no reason to pair her off with Mickey who was a terrible boyfried to Rose most of the time, and a bit of a dead loss as a human being in my view -- a view incidentally I thought at the time, and not coloured by subsequent revelations about Noel Clarke.)