People that say he won’t kill characters he cares about: He has written two shows that have been wedged up against main film continuity. He has used characters from the main film continuity and is unable to kill them.
So, basically, the only characters he is free to kill is the ones he creates as the main characters of his stories. That’s depressing.
Yes, and the worst part of it is that he doesn’t have the balls to kill his characters when the story demands it, letting them hang around past the point of logic. If his characters were part of stories unrelated to the main saga then fine, but no, they will keep popping up throughout the expanded material playing illogical pivotal roles despite there being absolutely no trace of them in the main saga.