Doctor Who: Did Bill’s tear help the change in his regeneration?

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Disclaimer: this is a purely speculative post about regeneration. The BBC has confirmed none of this. 

Rather than us talking about the thirteenth Doctor, and how controversial it is, and how some of us hate it — let’s put a spin on things. With BBC celebrating the season 10 companion, there have been some things, yes, about the regeneration, which have me questioning it.

Bare with me on this. Forget all the press releases, forget all the hate, forget all the comments, just for a moment. Let me explain it as a story, rather than a reason for PC content. Because as a story, you might just find yourself interested.

And if you’re not, that’s okay. I’m not asking you to change your opinion. Just make it about the show, rather than about all the grating real life parts.

Earlier, we talked about how Bill could be in the Christmas special without the effects of not being human anymore. As I was doing research for this article, things continued to pop up at me.

Part One:

In The Pilot, Bill meets Heather. A girl who constantly seems to be running away from her and is obsessed with her reflection in a puddle. She also has a star on her iris. Throughout the episode, she keeps popping up, and the Doctor, Nardole, and Bill keep flying further and further away. Finally, Bill and Heather connect, and even though Bill lets go, she realizes that the tears she’s crying aren’t her own.

"NARDOLE: That’s The Doctor for you, never notices the tears.BILL: I don’t think they’re my tears."

Part Two:

You know this bit. Bill gets turned into a Cyberman at the hands of the Master. When the Doctor collapses after fighting off his regeneration, and it seems lost, Heather shows up. It turns out that Heather had left Bill her tears, and invites Bill to join her in her alternate-state of living.

"The Pilot: She’s not human!The Doctor Falls: You’re like me now, it’s just a different kind of living."

Part Three:

As Bill returns The Doctor to his TARDIS, she cries a tear that lands on his forehead. She feels hope, because throughout the episode the Doctor says, “where there are tears, there’s hope.” She goes along with Heather, and the Doctor wakes up from a montage of people yelling his name.

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Now, let’s go above and beyond that.

So as you can see, the tears and the eyes are essential in this arc. Heather’s star on her iris made her a pilot. She gave her tears to Bill. Bill never got a star, but she did somehow help the Doctor with her tears.

Part Four

Now, Bill’s going to be at the Christmas special. We don’t know if she’ll be there when the Doctor regenerates, but we know that, at the very least, the Doctor will be with the person who saved him in the final hours of his life. Tears and all.

Part Five

Speculation now gets a little out there. After an entire arc of tears and eyes, when BBC announced the Doctor, as they walked up to their TARDIS, what did we see?

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Before you call me crazy, I know this looks crazy.  But. Think about it. The Doctor got Capaldi’s face because it showed him that he was a good man by saving that family in Pompeii.

Maybe the Doctor got this face, this body, because Clara, Bill, Missy, all the women in he came to know during his time, were incredible people. Maybe the tear that Bill left had some kind ability to help him jumpstart his regeneration to a woman.

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This is something that’s been creeping around the edges of my mind. It all seems to go together so well. Especially having Bill back at Christmas. The tears save people, the tears help people. Doesn’t the Doctor do the same thing? The tear of a woman saved him. Rejuvenated him. Why wouldn’t he want to appreciate that by becoming the very gender that has saved him time and time again?