User blog comment:Twilight Despair 5/Supernatural Failures/@comment-1509826-20130623234823

Lilith, now don't get me wrong I liked her at first, her slow introduction in season 3, where she is described as this new and powerful demon, who has conqured all the others and is Azazel's successor is great, and when we first see her it is brillaintly handled, her reducing a building in a blinding flash while holding up her hand is great. Then we finally get to see her in the last episode, and the demonstration of her sheer sadism and power, all while in the body of a seven year old girl is incredible. The ending was also pretty good, however Sam being immune to her white light and then her fleeing is the first sign of her decay.

Then in season four once again it starts off with her again being described as all powerful and now able to defeat the forces of heaven, and she now has the great Alastair under her beck and call, all of this sets her up as even better than before. Then we finally meet her towards the end of season four, and its a collossal let down, no longer an all powerful demon and master planner, she's reduced to a one trick pony who is next to helpless once that fails (rather than I don't trying something different? Or better yet just killing with her bare hands.) And now she no longer seems to be running the lead to the apocalypse, its like she's now way out of her depth and forced to try and seduce Sam? Come on, mind you getting rid of her is pretty awsome, but despite being called so powerful throughout the episode we never actually see any sign of it.

Then in her final appearance, rather than trying to maintane the illusion and (half heartedly) fighting Sam, she is reduced to simply goading the hunter into killing her? I don't care how much demon blood he was on, how did he not realise she wanted him to kill her? Plus she no longer holds the sense of any power, there is no aura of greatest or fear or anything impressive, she seems to have loss it all when she stopped wearing children. In season four all her great power and inteligence and danger is reduced to being talked about with no actual demonstrations of anything really impressive.

And thats why Lilith is not on my favourite villains list.