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@ichabod  When Bill finds out what happened to his eyes she’ll be so sad…but perhaps she will be the one who heals him!

Remember the story of “Rapunzel”?  Maybe it will be like that.  😉

@janetteb  I agree, there’s more to the Doctor’s prisoner than he’s letting on.  We’ll find out soon enough!  😉

While it would be interesting to see the Doctor get sicker and sicker over the remainder of the season and the Xmas show, I think it would be too much of a downer.  The Series 10’s trailers hints don’t help.

@wolfweed  Awwww, Moffat!  😀

I just thought of this last night: The poor Doctor — he showed his true face to the universe and did the right thing…and he ended up blind for it.  Poked in the eyes if you will!  😀

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@blenkinsopthebrave  I was wondering about that myself.  Your theory seems sound.  🙂

I’m definitely going to be in a lather of nerves these next few weeks as this ball of wool starts unspooling!  My autistic brain is happy for distractions from the woes of the real world, but sometimes it’s one kind of stress traded for another.  Let me be brave…   😉

@morpho  Hmm.  If the Doctor needs to be ready when that door opens, then that suggests the Vault has been placed on Earth to open itself and release its prisoner at a certain time.  The Doctor, perhaps, is the mediator between the prisoner and humanity?…But that’s for next week!  😉

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@miapatrick: Yes, the path of good intentions may not lead to Hell, but it is easily as perilous!  Perhaps it leads to Heaven, but that might also just prove the Doctor’s theory that “Hell is just Heaven for bad people.”  😉

@miapatrick, Excellent points.  The Doctor has a bad case of “chronic hero syndrome”, as TVTropes calls it — and once again, he paid for it.  But I’d rather have someone with good intentions in their heart than indifference, someone who’d shoulder all the blame…

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@morpho, This is just online and Radio Times speculation I’ve seen.  I’ll post the article on the latter in the BBC Approved Spoilers thread, though.

@thane15  Point taken (again), lots of people have been there for the Doctor.  The eternal question is who will be there for him next!  It’s a passing of the baton!  😀

@whisht I think I understand what you’re saying — that his blindness won’t be played as something that keeps him from doing good, and/or has to be cured in order to solve a cri…[Read more]

@countscarlioni, Mathieson has already gone on record as saying he hasn’t been asked to come back for Series 11, as yet, and doubts he will be.  According to him “My understanding is that Chris is sticking with a team he’s got used to working with on Broadchurch.”  :/

@ichabod Exactly.  People with guns to their heads can’t mourn!

Twelve especially doesn’t regard himself as a good man, but rather an idiot who’s still learning.  But more than he has in a while, he is willing to accept that he can’t always be nice, that his good intentions sometimes have bad consequences he has to cope with, and that he can’t b…[Read more]

@winston  Yes indeed Twelve has had it rough and rougher.  I sense a major theme of this season, if not his tenuer, is how much he’s willing to risk (himself, those he loves, even Earth) for others, no matter how “insignificant” they may seem.  All the way back to “Deep Breath” — “They’re never small to me!”

So…who will risk it all for the Tw…[Read more]

@winston Of course it’s sad but beautiful.  That’s practically a theme of Capaldi’s tenure…  😉

Hey, wait a minute — why can’t the Doctor’s blindness be cured?  Shouldn’t his healing factor have kicked in?  And, as I mentioned at the AV Club comment’s section, he doesn’t look to be going off-world again for a few episodes, so who on Earth can help him?