Uncle Crowley, Amara, and the universe
One: It is indeed empty space. Even our selves are mostly empty space, no? Or at least so far as we understand the concept. So in a way, Amara feeling the emptiness is...true.
Two: Amara is precocious, and I love that. She's been getting a steady diet of fascism (videos of Hitler speeches, Nazism), but when her appetite grows bigger, Crowley pivots to trying to get her to read softer things. He know he's been playing with fire, and the fire's getting too hot.
He tries to give her Uncle Hoppity (Cute, because he's Uncle Crowley, ha!) But she prefers the other, more complicated book: Dante's Inferno.
She's like Jack in this way, really precocious, tapping into unseen energies, even reading Dante's Inferno, "in the original Italian."
There's also something so interesting about Amara immediately resisting Crowley's cartoonishly villainous worldview in this episode. This foreshadow her rejecting him early and nearly completely.
In response to his lecture on how he sees their future, she immediate pushes back against his evil plan with a quirk or an eyebrow and a wry: Would you? You'd really be happy if everyone... was evil?
And there's something so interesting about characters like Crowley, like Lucifer, like Dumah who want to kidnap primordial powers and mold their arguably untamable natures.
But Amara instantly overpowers him not just in power but in intellect. She's smarter than him, and she knows it.
Young Amara: How when God created mankind, he really screwed it up. Every time I take in a soul, I feel how much emptiness there is.
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Young Amara: God made a world where people have to suffer, and then they die.
Crowley: Unfortunately.
Young Amara: But frankly, why would they want to live in such a world?
Crowley: I salute your insight, cupcake. Yes, God's plan is hideously flawed. But you and I together? Well, we can shape things to our own world view. A place where, like the dinosaur, virtue is extinct, where the very air that we breathe is pure evil. Would you like that?
Young Amara (nonplussed): Would you? You'd really be happy if everyone was evil?
Crowley: Well...Actually, now I come to think of it, if everyone was dark and damned, wouldn't be much of a challenge. Watching a human reject the light and embrace depravity... Yes, well, that's where the gratification really is. Never gets old. This bemuses you?
Young Amara: Good, evil, heaven, hell, people… It all seems so unimportant.
Crowley: Well, I don't know that I'd say that.
Young Amara: I don't think you're seeing the big picture.
Crowley: Meaning what exactly?
Young Amara (angry): Guess what, Uncle Crowley? I'm hungry.
11x03
Lastly, here's an interesting shot of Amara at the end of the episode. Make me think a little bit of 10x17 where Rowena is preparing a spell.
There's something about the cunning power of them...it won't be controlled.
