We’ll assume for a moment that some wiseacre didn’t just put those on her face for a laugh (i.e. like that kid putting “Bad Wolf” on the side of the TARDIS in “World War III”). If they’re self-inflicted, that’s pretty disturbing. You’re right, though, they do look like tally marks. That or the BBC is really cutting back on its make-up budget!

They could be tally marks, but they also look a lot like stitch-marks. Perhaps Amy’s being transformed into a doll?

Well.. I ran the pic through Picasa, and lightened it, and the tally marks are all over her face. From what I can see, there’s forty of them.. That could be significant in some way? As far as I know though, they just look like ordinary pen marks, like someone drew on her face with a marker. I doubt some of them could have been self inflicted though.

They’re very similar to the markings of the Beast from the Impossible Planet/Satan Pit.

I reckon it’s another old form of communitcation and it’s linked to the grren-eyed ood. Like toby’s markings but a different civilisation.

@Hannah
That was my first thought too – the green-eyed Ood and then this similar idea of markings on the face is too much coincidence to be ignored…

… but that doesn’t correspond with the tally mark theme. There was no counting in TIP/TSP… no, hang on, yes there was! This is a little bit out there, and probably a load of rubbish, but at the end of TSP, they counted off all the dead Ood! “Ood Alpha 1… deceased. Ood Alpha 2… deceased.” Etc etc. Link?

People are still thinking that? They look nothing like the marks from when the Beast possessed that guy in TIP/TSP. That was the “impossibly old” language, not tally/stitch marks like these. I seriously doubt Moffat would reuse something like that, unless he had a very goo reason to do so.

ive been thinking about this , because in the doctor who magazine they all have them on the back page, also in the trailer river had them, could be some sort of countdown, if you get so many you die or something like that

@TC
That is genius. I think thats it! It would explain amys horrified reaction all right. But this would mean river is also in ep9.

@TC
Hey, I did say it was a really far-fetched and ridiculous idea. Though admittedly I then went ahead and said it.

I think the countdown theme is the strongest atm, but again with reusing ideas – Amy being made to count down in Flesh & Stone, remember? “I’m five. Five. Fine! I’m fine!” Then again, to contradict myself, they’re obviously reusing the Ood, so why not some other element?

Super creepy photo. I don’t know what the markings mean, but Amy isn’t happy about it. Looks like this series Doctor Who is returning to its hide-behind-the-sofa days (although I don’t find Classic Who as frightening as everyone says it was…)

i agree, they are similar to the beats marks that Toby Zed had in the impossible planet/the satan pit.
maby he escaped through a crack in time before he got suked into a black hole?

that’s ment to be “beast”(above)