photo from next week's Doctor Who episode

[such_heights]

So there are a bunch of episode stills from next week's mid-season finale drifting around the internets, most of which are spoilery for things like characters/costumes rather than Major Plot Developments but still, spoilers.

I am going to post one particular one here because I found it comforting in this time of distress. If we could keep spoiler discussion limited to this and BBC-released promo stuff for the episode, that would be lovely!



AMY HAS HER RORY AND HER RIVER. IT WILL BE OKAY. After presumably much more mortal peril and angst and wtf reveals and so on, but still. Hi, guys, look at you being all in the same shot and vaguely okay. That works for me.

Comments

[such_heights]

You were right! Yays!

See, okay, my immediate assumption on seeing River's outfit was that it's going to disprove the strict reverse order theory, so I really hope that's the case. But then, given that River presumably already knows about how the Doctor finds out who she is... oh I don't know, there are too many variables. This may pick River up in multiple points in her time stream, for instance, as my guess is that one of the first things the Doctor's going to do in the episode is go and get her, because you would, wouldn't you.

And yes, the crib! Which looks super Gallifreyan to me - the symbols, the headboard etc. Plus the mobile from 6x02. What does it meeeeean?

Yeah, River being Amy and Rory's kid continues to be my guess, even though it kind of breaks my brain, not to mention puts an inconvenient dent in my OT4. But I am prepared to be persuaded around to the idea!

[zahrawithaz.livejournal.com]

You're right--the fact that River already knows that the Doctor learns her identity points to this being a younger version than we've met before.

And multiple Rivers = MORE RIVER GOODNESS. Maybe one of them won't wear any clothes! *dreams*

Since I'm now convinced that Amy was already in scary alien custody when she found the mobile in the orphanage and dreamed the whole sequence in the little girl's room, I'm wondering if the mobile she saw (which was considerably more human) was her confused dreaming mind's take on the 3D one we see here. And I wonder if it's not just a mobile--if the knobs and planets actually have an effect on the child. Which would be just how I'd expect Time Lords to design nursery gear, frankly.

Also, what is Amy holding in her hand? A piece of the mobile, or something that she's holding out to River? Some type of proof of the baby's identity? Has anyone speculated?