The lady Doctor in The Eleventh Hour was killed by Prisoner Zero.
AHA! Moffat also wrote "Silence in the Library", and quite a few people died there! HA! Oh wait, no living on in the Matrix. Hmmm ... but were they still alive? Had they been saved to the Core the way River was, or were they reconstructions? Alright, alright, let's see ... nope, no one dies.
In the introduction to "The Empty Child" in the scriptbook, Moffat says he did the "everybody lives!" thing because Davies never did. (Which is why Davies then reciprocated by not killing the plague victims in "New Earth".)I think it's interesting that everyone's assuming that Moffat has some sort of aversion to writing on-screen deaths. What if it's just that he happens to have not killed anyone yet because that's just naturally where the stories led to?
I remember waaay back when I was watching JNT at a convenion panel, he said he felt an obligation that someone had to die in every story. So we ended up with the restaurant owner gettign stabbed at the end of the Two Doctors
I too thought "EVERYBODY LIVES!" in "The Eleventh Hour" but apparently Prisoner Zero killed the female head Doctor and some people.
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