Board Thread:Spoilers/@comment-96.228.137.74-20160311185338/@comment-26247132-20160311185915

This has already been hashed out a ton on other places throughout the wikia, but I'm just going to leave this here for you:

"However. Regardless of the overall death toll of a show, the death of a gay character nevertheless has different cultural context & emotional weight, as there are unlikely to be many other gay characters in the piece of media. Gay audience members are generally left with no one else to relate to, or only the grieving partner of the dead gay."[1]

Miller and Bryan do not make up for it remotely. They're tertiary characters who, up until this week, no one would have known they were a couple if it weren't for JR tellng us over social media.