Anyway, my point is that I think these people who are making these pseudo-intellectual arguments are thinking that b/c TW kills their characters, it is edgy and more real simply b/c of that, rather than taking a look at the whole product and realizing that just b/c a character is killed doesn't necessarily make it good tv, or even edgy.

THIS. There is a right way and a wrong way to kill off main or even psuedo-main characters. Whedon has done it. Others have done it. And yes, a lot of backlash right after CoE was not thought out and visceral. But we're not all like that; we aren't necessarily rabid morons just because we're angry.