I have no skin in the game but people seem very upset...reminds of that one person on /a/ or /u/ who always lost his shit at people posting any unconventional ship from Madoka.
Hope the resistance, as in Kokomi, turns out to be the true villain and backstabs all of them. She's so fit to be a tyrant, it would finally twist all that romanticism behind revolution. Realistically speaking, the banner release date for Baal suggest as much.
@Diana Cavendish ''Depressing'' is one term I'd use, ''funeral march'' would be another. If you were into the Ymir x Historia/Christa pairing you're left feeling very empty, at best.