Chuck/God and Amara/The Darkness, according to each other.
Whilst I’m sure tonight’s episode will provide a lot more flesh to the relationship between Chuck and Amara I’ve been wanting to put this together for a few days now, because when Chuck said he was lonely in 11x20 I thought of how Amara may have felt the same way. Right at the beginning, two utterly opposing forces with no one but each other for company, who couldn’t understand one another.
God tried to show
the Darkness something other than the two of them, a creation that could
be better than them. Amara says that she only felt the ‘emptiness’ of
the souls God created, despite her own apparent state of ‘nothingness’, and wonders why anyone would want to live in a
world where mankind has been made to suffer and then die. Amara says that whilst she is fascinated by God’s creation (or at least, Dean) in 11x06, she can feel how
empty they are. She thinks that God screwed up when he created mankind.
God is light, being, chaos. The Darkness is peaceful bliss and nothingness. This is what she promises
to Dean, that with her he won’t have to suffer any longer. No rules or prayer, just bliss.
I
really like this sort of contrast between them, and it’s developing in a
way that places them neither as the hero or the villain of the story. Neither of them are strictly right or wrong in this and both have committed terrible acts against humanity. What’s funny is that they are both strikingly similar, and they both argue a case against the other that is also similar. Amara is ultimate destruction who wants to unmake the world, God is the ‘it’s my way or the highway’ ego-maniac etc. What’s interesting though is that we’re (as of yet) not really being led to side with either of them - it’s not a matter of who is right or wrong, only that their argument threatens humanity’s existence. The light isn’t good, and the dark isn’t evil.
As Metatron said, and Rowena before him, the key is not in detail, but balance.
