User blog comment:Neetaku/A Think Piece on the Characters of Sasha Blouse and Connie Springer (AKA: Neetaku Rants: Part 1)/@comment-1327106-20170715060805

I remember I was disappointed when I found out that the editor saved Sasha. She's a fun character, but she's not a critical one, and I really liked how in the Battle of Trost people actually felt expendable. But the series hasn't recaptured that anyone can die feeling since then and I generally pinpoint it to when Sasha should have died.

Since then, character deaths have been of a certain type, and ridiculously, nobody else in the main group of the 104th has fallen since. Even in the Battle of Shiganshina, when heroic sacrifices could have happened all over the place, none of them died. (I really wanted Armin to die.  Not because I hate him, but I think it would have been a gutsy sacrifice and I like those.  It's something Eren and Mikasa would have carried with them the rest of the story.)

And it would be fine if, as you said, Sasha and Connie actually did anything relevent to the plot. I don't mind comic relief characters, but it's better if they're integrated and Sasha and Connie are just there "because reasons." I was really disappointed that Season 2 took out Connie's post-invasion visit to see his mother and replaced it with Moblit(!) doing a variation of the same. Connie gets so little character development as is and they took away one of his most meaningful moments.

The only thing is, if they die at this point it's going to be weird/lame. You can't make a heroic sacrifice out of a character you don't (or no longer) care about. They'd have to just get blown up in a mass attack like poor Moblit (who I liked a lot for the amount of attention he got).