Okay, that's funny!

Yeah, I really thought it was going in that direction myself, especially since he knows that babies don't die with honor ("Girl Who Died") and he doesn't want another Moment moment on his hands. Instead, Bill sells out humanity because she'd miss the Doctor and trusts the Monks not to do anything funny to him that…

I get more of a "Wedding of River Song" vibe — world goes mad because a woman wouldn't let the Doctor die, just a few characters remember how it all used to be, the companions join La Resistance, an imprisoned Time Lord/Lady is consulted, villains can mess with what you see, and said woman shoots Doctor dead to save…

Yep, this was a very clumsy episode. I'm really hoping that "Lie of the Land" turns this storyline around because "Extremis" was such a great start, but the Next Time trailer ending with our "heroine" Bill shooting the apparently-brainwashed Doctor in cold blood to save the world, *completely upending the biggest…

Alternatively for 5) The Doctor's quasi-regeneration in the next episode — the clips, stills, etc. give it away as being the one teased in the Series 10 trailer — restores his sight as a side effect. This was what the Radio Times and other fans like me were predicting until this episode aired!

Hmm, I wouldn't say Clara was a terrible person for becoming more like the Doctor. I think the problem was that the show focused too much on the flaws that come with emulating him (hubris, detachment, etc.) and not enough on the virtues (selflessness, compassion, courage). This could be said to also apply to how the…

Getting trapped in explosions seems to be one of the situations regenerations don't cover all too well. Worst case he's blown to bits, best case he's flayed alive and his vital organs — lungs and the like — are burnt/poisoned to a crackly crunch. Indeed, no prior Doctor has regenerated due to an explosion, and a…

Right, and I think most new!Who companions come to this point at, well, some point. Their absolute faith in the Doctor's ability to save the day is broken by terrible events that prove even HE has his limits — in this storyline, Bill learns that the Doctor can be controlled by a sufficiently powerful force.

There are some things that can render a Time Lord too dead to regenerate. Most recently, the Veil's touch in "Heaven Sent" was not only able to kill a Time Lord but stop him from regenerating. The Judas Poison of "Let's Kill Hitler" was fatal enough to do this too — River Song had to give up her remaining 10…

That makes sense, but I don't see exactly how she's going to save the world next week. The Next Time trailer suggests she has to kill crazy!Doctor to do it, and while this is probably where the regneration-fake-out in the Series 10 trailers comes from, well, if she pulls the trigger to save her own skin and the…

Yeah, there better be a really good motivation for the aliens here. They're too generic as is — conquer the world, exploit the people…

I am really hoping that poor Twelve gets thrown a juicy bone at the end of this season given what he's gone up against. He makes his mistakes, he has his pride and his fear, but whenever it gets down to "Without hope, without witness, without reward" he's ready to make the sacrifices he must. So who's going to give…

I've really been enjoying this season; I just love Capaldi's Doctor that much that weaknesses of individual stories doesn't matter so much to me. But yes, the Doctor's plight in the end of this episode is too contrived to be completely chalked up to hubris (i.e., neither sonic working), and his preoccupation with…

And he has TWO sonics between the sunglasses and screwdriver. Also, this would have been a great time to psychically call on other lives (ala "Day of the Doctor") for help.

I knew that this was a three-part storyline from official materials (they call it the "Monks Trilogy"), so I expected a tragic outcome for a cliffhanger here. I agree with your other points though.

Great theorizing!!!

Yeah, I was surprised by that too. AND surprised he apparently got it repaired since it was destroyed in "Oxygen", instead of getting a new model. In "Extremis", the detail that Sim-Doctor had a working sonic I chalked up to a flaw in the simulation, a clever bit of foreshadowing in hindsight. But apparently the…

Yeah, I'm always frustrated by the premise of an altered world where almost everybody's under the impression that what the villains want them to believe is the truth, which looks to be the case next week. (Didn't "Once Upon a Time" just do that for its season finale a few weeks back?) It's an easy excuse to see…

What's really heartbreaking is that again, upon realizing his mistake in not letting others know he was blind he accepts the consequences of his hubris, as he did in "Hell Bent" and "Oxygen". After all, he still managed to save the world and that's more important. But then Bill can't bear to let him go and has…

This will make next week's episode interesting, given the premise and trailer — what will she do when she finds the Monks have rendered him useless, again proving he's more vulnerable than she thought? Will she be willing to let him die — even kill him — for the greater good then? And where does Missy fit into all…