User blog comment:FTWinchester/Darkness as the overall Big Bad/@comment-9249716-20160126223945/@comment-9249716-20160127171442

That is exactly the same way I felt. Because much like comic book series, when you have the biggest bad compared to the bigger bad, the intensity goes all the way up. But once it's stopped, the intensity drops back down again. I think the darkness being a big bad right after the leviathan definitely would've worked better. ANd if the writers stuck to the idea of the Great Darkness like in DC comics (the First Evil in Buffy to me was basically just a cop out that was a contradictory idea witht he way Whedon wrote it) it could've worked just as well. Or at the very least take a hint from Babylonian myth where God created Tiamat meant to serve as a step in creation, and was freed to get back at God (Tiamat could act like the Leviathan in biblical lore where it says that only God could truly destroy the Leviathan). I will agree with your friend about the bigger and badder viallains gets old, because as I mentioned earlier, when you've faced the thing that was initially established as the epitome of evil, and then have villains trying to fill that gap but they aren't as bad or powerful, it's not as effective.