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Post by theotherjosh on May 31, 2017 2:45:56 GMT
My problem with the blindness is that all he has to do is go to a far-future super-hospital and get them replaced or get some kind of fancy technology. Wait a minute, what do I say? Per "Journey to the Centre of the TARDIS", the TARDIS contains a machine that is beyond calculable value because that machine can build any other machine. So, apart from the need for a plot device, why can the TARDIS not build him mechanical eyes or contacts/glasses/something that gives him normal vision? There didn't seem to be anything particularly traumatic about the damage to his eyes, so I certainly would have assumed that it was within the TARDIS's ability to repair. (Specifically, I was thinking of Ace's ruptured eardrums in an early Main Range story.) My next thought was, "If you really can't live without your eyes, commit suicide and regenerate." He killed the General out of mere convenience, after all.
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Post by number13 on May 31, 2017 14:09:29 GMT
My problem with the blindness is that all he has to do is go to a far-future super-hospital and get them replaced or get some kind of fancy technology. Wait a minute, what do I say? Per "Journey to the Centre of the TARDIS", the TARDIS contains a machine that is beyond calculable value because that machine can build any other machine. So, apart from the need for a plot device, why can the TARDIS not build him mechanical eyes or contacts/glasses/something that gives him normal vision? There didn't seem to be anything particularly traumatic about the damage to his eyes, so I certainly would have assumed that it was within the TARDIS's ability to repair. (Specifically, I was thinking of Ace's ruptured eardrums in an early Main Range story.) My next thought was, "If you really can't live without your eyes, commit suicide and regenerate." He killed the General out of mere convenience, after all. {Spoiler}I'd hoped they would be daring enough for the Doctor to live with and explore issues around his sudden disability for the rest of the season - we know he is going to regenerate soon (even if he doesn't). But I thought it would probably be solved (too easily) as a plot point. Which, disappointingly, it was. The monks apparently using magic to repair him didn't make me like it any more either.
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Post by mrperson on Jun 1, 2017 19:24:27 GMT
Oh a terrific episode, the literary spirit of Robert Holmes was walking there I think as well as the suits! Jamie Mathieson has now written three of my favourite Peter Capaldi stories. Dark, scary and gripping, I was literally curling my toes with tension as Bill was left behind for the zombie suits to take... Bill, the Doctor and Nardole make a great team and I'm so surprised about that last part - I couldn't stand Nardole after the last Christmas story (sorry Mr. Nardole) but the character seems to have been transformed. (However, although I loved the episode, did we have to have the 'Capitalism is Exploitation' message again?
That's two exploitative capitalists, one exploitative colony and one exploitative landlord in the last four weeks. I get it, capitalism is bad!) I agree with everything. Especially getting tired of the "capitalism is bad" message. Indeed. Sure, it's very far from perfect, but I don't understand acting like it's simply awful when every other system we've tried out has produced worse results overall.
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Post by mrperson on Jun 1, 2017 19:30:09 GMT
There didn't seem to be anything particularly traumatic about the damage to his eyes, so I certainly would have assumed that it was within the TARDIS's ability to repair. (Specifically, I was thinking of Ace's ruptured eardrums in an early Main Range story.) My next thought was, "If you really can't live without your eyes, commit suicide and regenerate." He killed the General out of mere convenience, after all. {Spoiler}I'd hoped they would be daring enough for the Doctor to live with and explore issues around his sudden disability for the rest of the season - we know he is going to regenerate soon (even if he doesn't). But I thought it would probably be solved (too easily) as a plot point. Which, disappointingly, it was. The monks apparently using magic to repair him didn't make me like it any more either. Personally, I think it would simply annoy me given the sticking point I noted. I just cannot accept that neither the TARDIS machine-making machine nor any species at any point in time could give him new eyes, whether transplants or mechanical, or a device. I mean, we're working on this stuff right now - figuring out how to make electrode arrays to generate very basic images and partially cure blindness. We're not to the image stage yet, but we'll get there eventually. They won't be identical to what normal eyes can do, not unless we ever develop a way of determining whether my perception of red is equal to your perception of red, but there is no reason to think we won't be able to produce some basic form of vision. So, "blind doctor" would simply strike me as a silly plot device, even if interesting issues could be explored. I'd be thinking "yeah, ok, but he doesn't have to be blind!" at every turn.
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Post by Ela on Jun 6, 2017 1:16:26 GMT
Moderation Note:
Please be careful of spoilers for future episodes in this thread. Spoilers for Oxygen and previous episodes are okay. Spoilers for episodes that come after Oxygen should not be in this thread. Take them to the appropriate threads for those episodes, please.
I just edited two posts above to add spoiler tags because the comments had spoilers from The Pyramid at the End of the World, two episodes after Oxygen.
If I hadn't seen those episodes already, I would have been unhappy to have seen those posts before I had a chance to find out myself from the episode.
Thanks for your cooperation.
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