I genuinely wonder how many more times the writers think they can get away with the fake-out deaths. It's one thing to be apprehensive about killing a character off because of how fans might respond (Emet's death already proving 99% of people would be okay with it despite how much said character is loved and will still keep making tons and tons of fanart of them.), but repeatedly pretending to do it when you know you have no intention of going through with it is just blatantly disrespecting the intelligence of your audience and wasting valuable run-time on yet another slow motion of [insert character here] getting mortally wounded, someone shounting [insert character name here] "NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOES", and then they're just fine the next scene through whatever contrived justification.

Actually do it or stop pretending.