User blog comment:Touchinos/“Raising Hell” Discussion/@comment-25589722-20191019193228/@comment-34461065-20191021225205

Yes, I understand they could have used the Shadow, and they probaly meant to early in the previous seasons given how they were setting them up as powerful and such, but the last season kicked in, and between Shadow and God, they most likely chose God due to him thematically being supposed to be the most powerful.

But I agree, the Shadow could have been a more interesting villain to explore, if we had been given more seasons, for a last season, introducing completely new beings and developing them can be a bit of a distracting descicion. Think about it, they would not be able to answer every question that would arise about it. God was just the safe option. Easy to 'set up' as an antagonist in the sense everybody already knew him, he has been in the series for a long time, his power are more properly explored, and he works perfectly as an excuse for the storyline descicions of previous seasons(The bad writting and massive retcons or plotholes could technically be attributed to 'being God's plan' and all that mess).

Plus, as I said before, the Shadow is very similar physically and thematically to Amara, the storylines would essentially be compared at any point in their seasons if it were to have been made. They are both powerful entities older or as old as God. Both take the form of a dark expansive Fluid. They are both careless and apathetic to God's creation. They have no real personal quarrel with the brothers other than them being probably related to their 'release'. The big differences between the two come with the Shadow owning his own realm and having a more ownership with God rather than a "let me play in the playground" kind of deal.

I understand and prefer God to have stayed in his Neutral stance with tiny hints of him being impetious or selfish at times rather than full on villain before becoming an antagonist, to him to have more pro´perly been set up as such by his own actions rather than word of mouth from an Alternate Universe archangel. Bnut I also understand why the writers muight have prefered him as an antagonist for the very last season