Doctor Who: 10 Things Fans Want From Series 9 (But Won't Get)

7. The Irreversible Death Of A Companion

Steven Moffat likes those stories where "everybody lives" (The Doctor Dances) and yet the shadow of death has hung heavy over many of his episodes and arcs. River Song, Rory Williams, Strax and Danny Pink are all characters that have lived on beyond their deaths. Both the Doctor and Sherlock have also been "killed off" with a deliberate emphasis on finality in order to set up the mystery of how they cheated death. The reaction to this has been a strange desire among some to call for blood, specifically that of poor Clara Oswald. Already the longest serving new series companion, Steven Moffat has written the character out twice (Death In Heaven and Last Christmas) only for Jenna-Louise Coleman to change her mind about leaving. Series Nine will see the return of Osgood who was apparently killed by Missy in Death In Heaven. And with the episode titles of The Girl Who Died and The Woman Who Lived it looks like this preoccupation will continue. But as for Danny Pink; though he could have taken the opportunity to come back from the Nethersphere, he sacrificed himself in order that the boy he killed in war be saved. Dream sequences and flashbacks not withstanding, this surely is the end of the character. With Clara still grieving for her loss it's unlikely that we will see another major death in Series Nine. Instead the Doctor and Clara will be escaping into their new adventures and the word is they'll be having a whale of a time.