One bit of good news for fellow Amy/Rory-ites (god it’s been a hard day for us)- remember this picture? That was taken during filming for Episode Two (the one sending us all into a tizzy is Episode One), and Rory’s still clearly wearing his wedding ring.
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I hope Jenna-Louise Coleman’s character name is ‘Patience’
Then we can call them ‘the Doctor and his Patience’
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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)
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OH GOD PUT ME IN A BOX AND KEEP ME THERE TIL SEASON SEVEN STARTS I CANNOT
During filming today, Arthur Darvill was spotted with a prop labelled ‘divorce papers’. And then there’s this filmed argument (probably a argument?) between Amy and Rory…and pictures here. (The original source was the Daily Mail, but I’m not linking to that.)
Now, I’m almost (almost) positive that there won’t be a divorce storyline. I’m sure that this is either an alternate timeline or a dream…or, the crafty production team labelled something innocuous ‘divorce papers’ in order to throw us off. BUT I. HAVE. THE. FEEEEEEEEAR.
Keeping me sane is a) this snippet from filming at the Pond house yesterday, showing Rory and Amy looking happy and Rory jumping around in glee, and b) the fact that this all looks like it’s episode one, and there probably won’t be a divorce hanging over the characters for five episodes. (Or could there? Is this series going to be Amy and Rory struggling to reconnect after all they’ve been through?) But still: OH MY GODDDDDDDDDDDDDDD JUST LET THEM BE HAPPY
Doctor Who: Racebending (all major New Who characters!)
You may have seen this before, but this is where one picks out actors and actresses of colour to play already established white characters. Here’s my take on New Who. (You’ve seen my picks for Eleven, Amy, Rory and River already, but here they are again!) Also available on Tumblr, as most of my stuff is these days.
Ukweli Roach as Eleven: He has Eleven’s sense of bafflement and wonder down pat, and has already played an old man in a young man’s body (see: Eternal Law)
Sophie Okenodo as River: As we saw in The Beast Below, she is badass and knows her way around a gun.
Antonia Thomas as Amy: Tough, smart, and (let’s face it) beautiful.
Richard Ayoade as Rory: Stop picturing him as Moss for a second, and you’ll realise he can do adorkable very well
Lenny Henry as Nine: Contrary to popular belief, he can act. The Independent said of his Othello: “The frenzy within his imagination explodes into rage and, finally, wretchedness.” Oh, he’d have made a brilliant Nine.
Paterson Joseph as Ten: He can do both drama and comedy, and is mega-charismatic
Nina Toussaint-White as Rose: Remember her as Mels? Oh god, she’d be a perfect Rose.
Meera Syal as Donna: Another fine actress known mostly for comedy. Remember her as Nasreen? She’d be great.
Chiwetel Ejiofor as the Master: Ejiofor in Serenity was BRILLIANT, one of my favourite villains of all time, he was so good. Basically he should play every villain ever.
Michael Obiora as Jack: He was Billy Shipton in Blink- the lovely, flirty Billy. Look! He’s got no shirt on!
Art Malik as Wilf: Internationally famous, great actor.
Marianne Jean-Baptiste: Anyone ever seen her in Secrets And Lies, Mike Leigh’s family drama? I just get the feeling she’d make a really good Jackie.
Kehinde Fadipe as Sally: She was great in Misfits, vunerable and tough all at once.
Daniel Kaluuya as Craig: Have you ever seen Black Mirror? Oh god he is a FABULOUS actor. He could do everything required of Craig, comedy and drama and everything.
Angel Coulby as the TARDIS: She’d be brilliant, nuff said
Gina Torres as Canton: Because she ought to be in EVERYTHING.
Amy’s faith
The relationship between the Doctor and Amy: It’s complicated and painful (although very touching too). By the time we reach The God Complex, which is a whole episode focused around Amy’s faith in the Doctor, I was wondering why Amy had any faith left in the Doctor at all. He’s saved her and Rory a few times, true, and saved the universe…but Amy’s daughter is still lost to her. Which is why The God Complex could be ‘fixed’ in just five words…”I can’t save your daughter.” If Amy’s faith had been about faith in still finding her baby, and the Doctor had destroyed that…I think it would have made for a much better episode.
But I guess I have to take The God Complex as it is, not how I want it to be, so I put together a sort of theory. I think perhaps Amy developed a blind faith in the Doctor as a way of protecting herself, as a way of reverting to her seven-year-old self and blocking out all the terrible things that had happened to her. That’s why she sees her seven-year-old self in her room, because she fears being that person, that little girl, for the rest of her life. Always waiting for the Doctor to save her and never moving forward.
Just like Gibbis lost all his sense of personal autonomy…possibly Amy did too, in a way. Because if she puts her faith in the Doctor and lets him make all the decisions then she won’t have to deal with any pain or (misplaced) guilt she might feel. As odd as it sounds, I wonder if him calling her “Amy Williams” wasn’t what jerked her out of it…if that suddenly made her realise “Hey, I was keeping my own name, not taking Rory’s..why are you making that decision for me?”
Some incredibly clever person on GB pointed out that the Handbots anesthetising Amy is an exact mirror to the Doctor’s hand-on-face sign of affection to Amy-
Like Amy’s using the Doctor to put herself to sleep, just run around the universe and forget the terrible things that happened to her. I think it sort of works- people often shut down due to grief, and Amy lost her baby, one of the worst things that can happen to a person. Even if she does know her child as an adult, she won’t get to raise her, and that may well have caused terrible grief. So the Doctor had to jerk her out of it before it was too late.
This theory isn’t perfect- the Doctor is still making a lot of the decisions, after all. Although Amy accepts it, I still don’t like that it was the Doctor’s choice to drop Amy off on Earth, rather than hers. Hopefully, though, this will be retified in S7, and Amy will choose to leave the TARDIS because she’s found other things she wants to do, and because she no longer needs him. (Though she will obviously always care for him.) So…yeah, I guess I like to think he did save her. Any more anesthetic and she’d have ended up (metaphorically) dead.
I enjoy poking at things I dislike until they turn into things I like…
I started thinking, hey, Amy’s a famous person in the Whoniverse now! She’d totally be on magazine covers! And this is Amy, she loves art- she’d have her own craft magazine, she’d do all these fabulous things!
So I put together some magazine covers for Amy, telling a bit of her story between Series Six and Seven. See if you can catch all the references. Rather Big versions can be found here, here, here and here!
DW Series Seven wish list
Dear Moffat, I would like:
- Some sort of ending that ensures the Ponds get to raise their baby while also ensuring that River grows up to be River
- Amy’s killing of Madam Kovarian actually being addressed
- Rory being a nurse a lot and being kind to villains-of-the-week
- The show to remember that Amy is a model/perfume designer/businesswoman now
- Canton to make an appearance
- Captain Jack to make an appearance
- Martha to make an appearance
- (Oh please give us Martha and Mickey)
- River being shown to have a career outside the Doctor, one she both likes and is good at
- Rory and the Doctor asking Amy for permission to hug the other
- You to explain that bloody photo in Melody’s room at the orphanage
- You to kindly plug the plot hole where Melody is a little girl in 1970s New York one moment and a little girl in 1990s Leadworth the next
- To meet all of Rory’s family and them be TOTALLY AWESOME
- Amy’s parents to be in the show again
- More of baby!Amelia and Rory and if possible baby!Mels
- dinosaurs
Amy is not exactly the nicest person to Rory, even after he protected her for 2000 years.
And then she has the audacity to give him shit when she had to wait 37 years for something that was a complete accident.
When Amy and Rory die in…
Erm, I think you misread my post. I wasn’t attacking Rory. I loved what he did and I’m sorry if it looked like I was. I’m just trying to show that Amy’s not a bad person for being bitter because their situations were totally different. Rory had a lot of advantages that Amy didn’t have, such as immortality, knowledge of the Doctor’s return, had the choice of staying. Amy had none of these abilities and none of these choices, and as a result, her attitude and demeanour is completely justified.
I wish to second this (the reply to this, if you can’t see it, which I can’t)-
Amy went through something terrible, Rory went through something terrible. Sometimes Amy is dismissive of Rory, sometimes Rory is insecure about her love- they’re both flawed but amazing people. I’m going to be SO sad when they leave. :(