User:SOTO/Forum Archive/The Panopticon/@comment-26845762-20170222025243/@comment-5918438-20170307193926

User:SOTO/Forum Archive/The Panopticon/@comment-26845762-20170222025243/@comment-5918438-20170307193926 I renamed that file and changed links to avoid confusion. In the end, though, what's the difference between this and Matt Smith's promo pics from when he was first announced? I can appreciate that it's not framed as a picture of..whoever modelled for that photo (?), but it's also very much not tied to a narrative. It's attached to a real world article, with an out-of-universe perspective.

Wait, wait, SOTO. You should always read the text first.
 * "Since we announced she'd be coming in, a couple of people have asked if she's based on Milly in This Life [pictured]. I've never watched This Life - well, not more than 10 minutes at a time. I asked Colin and he said, 'I've never seen it. I haven't got a clue!' However you build them, companions have to be an archetype to some degree - so it wouldn't be a surprise if there was some contemporary resonance . . ."

Justin Richards is literally telling us that's not Anji, but Milly from This Life with the TARDIS behind her. (I won't upload a photo, as it's very much outside the scope of the DWU, but looking online, that's definitely her.) He's using that photo to illustrate that some have seen this other character, played by Amita Dhiri, as a potential inspiration, while also making it perfectly clear that neither he nor Colin Brake even really know who she is. This is not a picture of Anji, and it was never meant to be. You have to be super careful when you take photos out of context from an OOU source.