User blog comment:Lambda1/"We Happy Few" - Discussion/@comment-27460953-20160524210618

I had the same opinion of the episode that you guys did when I watched it the first time. I was thinking about not watching the show anymore, but since I thought about it more it makes more sense. Here are the issues most of us have a problem with, and my theories that hopefully resolve them.


 * God said that he couldn't rebuild the Archangels in time to beat Amara. At first I thought this was total BS, but then I looked at it from another angle. Archangels are complicated beigs, much more complicated than humans or other Angels. Think of God as an artist. Humans are just a small dot on the canvas; he can create, erase, and recreate them instantaneously. Think of Angels as stick figures. While more complex than the dot, God can still create, erase, and recreate them whenever he wants. Now think of Archangels as Starry night, The Mona Lisa, The Scream, and The Last Supper. God put time and work into making the Archangel's, he didn't just create them with the snap of his fingers. Sure, he could erase them any time he wanted, but "repainting" them would take time and energy.


 * Amara was so easily weakened by those attacks, it was pathetic. That is what I originally felt when I watched, but let us take a look at what we know about Amara's power.

-The combined strength of four Archangel's and God was able to virtually erase her. -In her weakened state, a combined smite of thousands of wingless Angels was able to knock her unconscious and weaken her vessel. -Rowena used powerful magic to heal her to her former state "and more". -Lucifer (a fallen Archangel) with a hand of God was not able to make her flinch. -Five powerful witches were able to break her defenses and weaken her vessel. -Thousands of wingless Angels were able to combine their smite again and cause severe damage. -Around a dozen demons were able to knock her vessel around and weaken her. -Lucifer was able to penetrate her vessel with a spear and weaken her. -She was in a state where God could lock her away again, but she managed to expel Lucifer and almost kill God.

That seems like a pile of contridictions, doesn't it? Well, besides just blaming it on the writers I tried to piece it together so it makes sense in-verse.

-Four Archangel's have the combined strength to weaken Amara so that she is below God, allowing him to essentially erase her from existence. -At the time of the mass angel smiting, Amara was around the power level of an Archangel (she was able to kill lower Angels with relative ease). The combined power of all the Angels in heaven severely damaged her vessel, and therefore exposed her to harm. -Rowena used a powerful spell to heal the vessel, which made her less vulnerable and more powerful. After a few treatments with this spell she was closer to full-ish power. Rowena said that this process would bring her back to her former state "and more". I theorize that this spell added a "shield of defense" of sorts, that her vessel would be stronger. -Lucifer used a hand of God and attacked her, but it was not effective because he attacked The Darkness, not Amara. In other words, he went about it the same way he did last time, but that didn't work because we are in a physical world now. Because he didn't direct his fire at the vessel, she was protected and unharmed by his attack. -Rowena knew the protective charm on Amaras vessel, having created it, and so with the power of four other powerful witches, she was able to break apart the spell, and damage her vessel, leaving her vulnerable again. -Now the Angels gathered their power again and smote her together. This weakened her vessel and her true darkness. -Being both physically and spiritually weak, the group of demons were able to toss her around and damage her vessel even further. -Lucifer used some sort of spear to penetrate her vessel. God was able to implement his power into physical objects (hands of God), and so I believe Lucifer did the same. I think he used to spear as a tool, which channeled his own power. -At this point God was able to emit a final blast and lock her away; only he didn't want to lock her away. We know that God was previously planning on giving in to Amara, and we can see in this scene that he is struggling. With the mix of Amara's motivation of not wanting to go back, and God's holding back, she was able to over power him. -Her dark form surrounded and penetrated God, which healed her vessel. It also gave her the strength to expel Lucifer from Castiel.

That is my view anyway, wether it is true or not is up to the individual veiwer.