Well a week or less after the episode aired, maybe just a day or two, the CW renewed it's entire line-up for next season. So cancelation was almost immediately out of the picture. But they are certainly trying to encourage people to quit the show to kill the ratings. And yeah they want the show runner gone. I am not even remotely convinced that is warranted. He didn't say anything bone-headed. They are mad that he posted pics of the actress on set filming the upcoming finale. Giving them hope she would make it to the finale. (My thought is, maybe she is in the finale??? Flashback or some other reason?) Or maybe she just stopped by set to visit? Also, they are mad that he encouraged fans to watch the episode in question. Hahah. No lie. Why wouldn't he? That literally makes no sense. And then after that they were mad at him for his radio silencd when they were calling for blood after the ep. Can't exactly blame him. I think I read that he published an explanation/apology that they also took issue with, but I haven't seen or read it. And it blows my mind that such a thing would even be necessary. Apologizing as if he did something wrong. Maybe he narratively made a poor choice given the context of the history of lesbians on TV and could have killed her off in a better way? But if every TV writer that ever wrote a bad episode had to issue an apology about it, we would simply run out of space on the internet.