I believe the credits give "Young Will" and a boys name (which really confused me until I saw the extra scene), and unless they called the child on the gallows Will, I think that Elizabeth went along with the tradition of naming Turner boys William.
How about the fact that the child's dressed as a boy and has a distinctly boyish voice? (Devil's advocate, mostly. I'm a fan of the judicious canon hand-wave, and there are all kinds of great possibilities with the child being a girl — although there are all kinds of great possibilities with it being a boy, too.)
On a different note — I also saw it again today, and also listened specifically for the terms of the curse, and just as you say, it sounds more than ever like it's an every-ten-years deal, not a one-time stint. All the ambiguities and conflicting statements with the curse were frustrating me a bit at first, but now I think I kind of like it. I mean, we effectively have two different versions of canon to work with (with maybe a little handwaving in either case), which means... twice the story possibilities? At least, that's how I'm trying to think of it.
Yeah, I'm pretty happy that a case can be made for curse-enduring or curse-breaking. Good times for me either way! :)
I wouldn't call the kid's voice particularly boyish, and the dressed-as-a-boy is very easy to get around - we're obviously meant to come to the conclusion that it's a boy, but the kid's features are ambiguous enough to please me.
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On a different note — I also saw it again today, and also listened specifically for the terms of the curse, and just as you say, it sounds more than ever like it's an every-ten-years deal, not a one-time stint. All the ambiguities and conflicting statements with the curse were frustrating me a bit at first, but now I think I kind of like it. I mean, we effectively have two different versions of canon to work with (with maybe a little handwaving in either case), which means... twice the story possibilities? At least, that's how I'm trying to think of it.
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I wouldn't call the kid's voice particularly boyish, and the dressed-as-a-boy is very easy to get around - we're obviously meant to come to the conclusion that it's a boy, but the kid's features are ambiguous enough to please me.