No, but like seriously in 11x09 when there's that whole Dean and Amara confrontation each moment is a new "ah this is why it will never work" and I need to break it down for a sec because holy shit.
Okay so first, obviously there's the knife thing, but as we all know it doesn't work without the penetration
"I know you're a warrior and your instinct is to resist." she says this as someone who is not a warrior themselves. Castiel was always able to understand Dean as a fighter.
after the kiss Dean fully draws back and then goes to wipe his lips with his hand. I know small petty details, but important! He didn't want that kiss and didn't like it! He's just kinda been numb and scared through all their interactions!
I think it's very neat that a lot of what Amara says in this episode is very much from her own perspective, but we initially trust it anyway. Like there's more nuance about what happened with God that we discover later (but she was still right to be angry with him imo). Part of this is how she tells Dean they're bonded that the kiss was a result of what they both first felt pulling them towards each other from their first meeting. I think for the main part she's projecting, she likes him and she can have this influence on him, but she's never actually asked how he feels about her, just kind of tells him how he feels.
"You're the one who set me free." "No, that was an accident." "It was destiny." Is another example of how she's kinda projecting and how she knows very little about Dean. Because one, of course he just wanted to get rid of the thing that makes you kill people, and two, he's literally the anti-destiny guy. And that's all I'll say on that one.
This is kinda a side note: The part where Amara says "You bore the mark, I am the original mark, you and I will be together." is such an interesting point that they could've expanded on?!? Like I almost feel like they should've added an "again" to that "together" because I feel they didn't connect the mark and Amara story lines enough. It would've been really interesting if the reason the mark made you so murderous is because of all the wrath Amara felt towards God and His creations. Anywhooo
Dean outright tells her "No" and her response? "It's so simple, Dean. We will become one, why wouldn't you want that?" which to me mirrors the scene in Lucifer Rising where Castiel tells Dean about Paradise and about being happy with Heaven and saying that it's his--
"--Destiny? Don't give me that Holy Crap. Destiny, God's plan-- it's all a bunch of lies, you poor, stupid son of a bitch! Just a way for your bosses to keep me and keep you in line! You know what's real? People. Families. That's what's real, and you're gonna watch 'em all burn?"
"What is so worth saving? I see nothing but pain here. I see inside you. I see your guilt... your anger and confusion. In Paradise, all is forgiven, you'll be at Peace. Even with Sam."
"You can take your peace and shove it up your lily-white ass. Cause I'll take the pain, and the guilt-- I'll even take Sam as is. It's a lot better than being some Stepford Bitch in Paradise!" Dean's words have an effect on Castiel. "This is simple, Cas! No more crap about being a good soldier. There's a right and there is a wrong here and you know it! Look at me!" He turns Cas back towards him, Cas lets him. "You know it!"
All of that is such a mirror to the Amara story line. She says that she's going to stop the pain that they can all be one, just like Heaven. She says it's simple, just give in but before Dean told Cas it was simple that you have to fight for what you know is right. She tells Dean that the people who have died have all been for a greater cause while years before Castiel had told him that it would be to take their pain away, to give them peace. Amara wants to give everyone bliss. Dean never gets to explain himself.
So now when we get to the angels appearance they tell her to surrender and her response is, "why ever would I submit to anything of God's creation?" to which Dean just gives this indescribable look that's probably mostly fear but it also seems like this moment of clicking together of, 'we'd never be equals.' Because you see, he is one of God's creations, and if she would never submit herself to him in anyway, that means she's just taking and taking and taking from him like everyone else (*cough cough*..... Castiel submitted himself to Dean Winchester AHEM I got something stuck in my throat and I bet Cas has something stuck in his throat WHO SAID THAT?)
Dean's, of course, always the one to make sure the people will be okay. And so of course he tells the angels to stop and they tell him sacrifices must be made and when he looks to Amara she doesn't even try to get them to stop it. No, she goads them into smiting her, tells them to bring it on. Because she doesn't care, not like Cas would. Cas would negotiate, give himself up, almost anything to avoid something that would kill people like that.
Dean also tells Amara to stop. He yells for her not to kill them, and honestly she doesn't even need to kill them. But she doesn't listen, once again-- and I know you're tired of hearing it-- like Cas would have listened, if even for a second.
Another crucial part is the saviour complexes! Dean was pulled out of hell by Castiel, but the angel doesn't necessarily expect Dean to swoon, he's just kinda done with his attitude and Dean knows the only reason he was brought back was because of his usefulness to Heaven. There's not a lot of power imbalance here as each expectation that the other has is thoroughly smashed to pieces. But then you get Amara, who Dean freed, and she tells him that it's their Destiny to be together and she relies on him in a way to be something that he just isn't and cannot live up to because he doesn't want it, yet is still forced into it.
Anyway my last and final point is that Amara would have been so amused with Godstiel. I think she would have pitied him in a way, but like look at him go! They're very similar to me as they've both lost this faith that they had and are now wrathfully having their epic manic pixie dream girl moments.
