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It's when people starting going so far as to say the dark Overlord was "the" God, the Unknowns his angels, and Shouichi and the Agitos are actually the bad guys, that they lost me.
I think opinions like this are the result of trying to interpret Agito's religious motifs through the lens of traditional Christianity. I don't think the show is really intended to be viewed that way, since Agito's premise is heretical from the start (i.e., it presumes two creator gods of equal power). Of course, people have no obligation to view shows the way their creators intended them... but interpreting Agito with the protagonists as the "villains" renders a lot of the narrative incoherent, so I don't think it works.
But I love how Fourze is playing OOO with the 40s just being the holy **** part of the series.
That's less an OOO thing so much as it's... a bit of a Toei thing. A lot of Toei's writers like to wait until after all of the merchandise introductions are done to kick a show's plot into high gear. That way, the writers can do as they please telling the story without having to compromise for any commercial considerations.
There is no need at all for any of the KRC to become a Horoscope.
Given Fourze's large ensemble cast, and the large number of Horoscopes, I would've been very surprised if not even one KRC member turned out to be a Horoscope. I would've expected Nozama, following up on her initial plot concerning the Altar constellation, but Yuuki is not a completely random choice.
Using her for Gemini obeys one of dramatic writing's basic rules of thumb, which I feel is best expressed in Roger Ebert's Law of Economy of Characters. That is, every character in a story must have a basic function, so in a well-told story, characters who seem pointless are actually going to turn out to be significant at some point. To phrase this law negatively, you could say it means don't introduce new characters to do something a pre-existing character can do. In TV and movies, this has the happy benefit of letting you hire fewer actors.
If the only real idea to Gemini is "everyone can have a dark side, no matter how unlikely it seems"... well, Yuuki's the only KRC member besides Gentaro whose dark side hasn't been explored in a prior set of episodes. JK's had two arcs about how he's kind of a dick, Shun and Miu began as bullies, Ohsugi is antagonistic for the first half of the show, Nozama's dark side is the subject of the Altar arc, Kengo has had multiple arcs about how he's a bit taciturn and jealous, and Ryusei's already lied to everybody and killed Gentaro once. I imagine the Gemini arc with Yuuki is going to build to an arc of some sort where Gentaro has to face his "dark side," and will probably explain his obsession with making friends in terms of that.
Had Yuuki's "dark side" arc happened earlier in the show, it probably would've involved a lesser constellation's gimmick. Since it's happening in the show's last third, it concerns one of the Horoscopes since they're the Monsters of the Fortnight now. It's pretty reasonable to do this arc with Gemini, since Yuuki's portrayal to date makes it kind of hard to imagine her having any sort of dark side at all otherwise.
I mean, yeah, I guess the show could've introduced a guest character to be Gemini? But I think would've just come off like the lackluster Aquarius and Taurus arcs. The single-arc Horoscopes have a tendency to feel extremely lame when compared to characters like Libra and Virgo that have had a lot more screen time, and whose identities carry a lot more weight. So I think letting Yuuki be Gemini also is just a more interesting way to go about things at this point.