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My fellow Amyrorycans, it has been a bad day. Our very hearts have been ripped out and trampled upon. It is worse than That One Time We Thought Amy Was Talking About The Doctor But She Was Really Talking About Rory, and worse by far than That One Time We Thought We Thought Amy Was Talking About The Doctor But She Was Really Talking About Rory (Again).

If you're spoiler-free, don't read past this point- it does certainly look the Ponds are going through a very rough patch. They're not even wearing their wedding rings in the most recent pictures. But- the Ponds are not divorcing, almost certainly not. Let's go through everything we know.

First, a quick guide to costumes: Episode One has Amy in black leather and Rory in blue shirt/striped undershirt. Episode Two has both Ponds in blue stripes, with Rory in beige trousers. Episode Three has Amy in a pineapple patterned dress (YAY PINEAPPLE DRESS) and Rory in a grey jacket. Okay! Let's rock-

Here's a picture of Amy and Rory fighting. (Courtesy of the Daily Mail, but the less traffic we give their site the better)-

Here's a video of it. It looks pretty intense and my heart goes 'wibble' to see Amy so upset. Note, though, that after Amy shouts 'I hate this', Rory stops, looks devastated, and turns back…

Now here's Rory (in a different coat) collecting divorce papers (obviously one picture won't tell the whole story, but here he seems to look determined rather than sad, his teeth gritted and his face set)-

Now about these papers- people who were there at the filming noted that the date on them is '2012', but the Whoniverse is meant to be a year or so ahead of us. (The Doctor dropped Amy and Rory off at the new house in 2011, and then returned two years later- 2013 – in TDTWATW). A mistake, or a sign that not all is as it seems? Plus the papers are for 'Amelia Williams and Rory Williams' when Steven Moffat has said Rory's taken Amy's name…

Here's Amy and the Doctor hanging out on some snowy mountain. Amy's wearing the same outfit, so definitely the same episode, but no sign of Rory, and no sign if she's wearing her wedding ring or not-

Okay, so all in all it's not looking good so far. But!

There's also this scene of Amy and Rory in episode one looking happy- very happy, in Rory's case. Wearing the same clothes and in the same place they were in during the previous fight scene. No matter how I look at it, I can't see that that's a couple in the process of divorcing. And there's more!

Here's Arthur in his Episode One costume, now wearing his wedding ring:

While this picture- the first Series Seven one we got- has the whole gang in costume for episode two, and Rory's wedding ring is present and accounted for:

And in episode three, this screencap from the trailer shows Amy wearing both her rings (the engagement one and the wedding one)

So what can it all mean? Well, let's look at Twitter…A Dalek eyestalk on the bus while Rory collects divorce papers? Definitely a sign that something is up. And then there's this other ring:

(A jewellery box has also been spotted on set, I gather) That ring looks very Dalek-y, is something controlling her? Curiouser and curiouser.

Anyway-

You know, I am not entirely adverse to them doing a divorce storyline, if they do it right. Something like 'We married very young and then suffered the loss of a baby, we need to seperate and find our bearings for a while'. It would be…actually surprisingly realistic. An episode where Amy and Rory, unable to settle back into life on Earth after all they'd been through, consider divorce for a while then realise they'd rather be together? I'm actually kinda up for that. Especially if it involves Rory's dad, who, according to a deleted scene from S5, is also divorced.

But guys- these are the Ponds and they are magnificent and even if they do fight, one of them will always turn around and go back to the other. We're going to be okay! Keep calm and carry on.

(With thanks to the many people on Twitter, Gallifrey Base and Tumblr who keep us supplied with videos and filming pictures. YOU ARE OUR LIFELINES)