User blog comment:Fusedtwilight/The Darkness/@comment-25529791-20150530201253

While it would be pretty cool to see the Darkness portrayed as something intangible and malicious and all that evil-villainy goodness that comes with the whole thing, I think it would get boring after the first fifteen episode or so. I mean, wouldn't it get tiring to look at this ginormous cloud of smoke-and-maliciousness all the time? How would it speak? Everything evil (or every big bad, if you want to go about it that way) has minions, how would the Darkness give orders to it's underlings? Would it be like Meg in season 1 (episode 11 "Scarecrow") cutting out some poor guy's throat so she can use his blood to make a call, or would it be something like telepathy? And how exactly do you beat a cloud of smoke anyway? Smoke is intangible, anything you throw at it, is just gonna end up on the ground on the other side. Shining a light in the middle? I doubt that God and his archangels beat it that way or that it would keep the primordial Darkness down for long.

But the Darkness taking a person as it's host would be clichéd now because every villain so far has needed a host. It's getting kinda overused.

So what form would suit it? Human cloud smoke shapes? A cloud of smoke with a large, booming, deep voice?