User blog comment:FTWinchester/Darkness as the overall Big Bad/@comment-9249716-20160126223945/@comment-9249716-20160127180342

Here's what I mean. When you look at the concept behind the First Evil, it's very contradictory. It's supposed to be all the collective evil in the universe since the beginning, but then would would be evil at the very beginning unless something else caused evil? Said to not be physically harmed, yet it's trapped between dimensions and even shows something of a true form from time-to-time. Not to mention, it's a behind the scenes evil that didn't really commit any actions. Sure it interacted with characters to push them in certain ways towards their doom, but never did any real dirty work. It's basically a villain that's meant to be relevant but isn't truly active. It just gave the characters a reason to keep fighting the big fight. At least with Lucifer, even though he was behind the scenes, once he was loose, he actually did get his hands dirty.