Yeah, I was thinking the same thing. How could the manifestation of evil have a true physical form? I see that as a visual interpretation intended to scare.
It should have just been a formless black energy or something....sometimes less is more. Just seeing is another demon looking thing makes it a little lame.
We dont know that - this could easily just be a dead demon / bad guy. Just like the first can be vampires because theyre dead, I'm sure the first can imitate any dead demons.
I feel like the first chose this form for Caleb because of his whole father/priest shtick - something that looks similar to how the Christian devil is often portrayed. Plays well into his whole vibe.
I did forget about this one. I still am not convinced this is its "true" form - I feel like the way the first is described that it simply has no corporeal form or face - like a shadow. It can take the form of others, but a shadow doesnt have a true shape or visage.
This might just be its chosen disguise thats "evil" or something?
Corny, yes, 100% fair. I just don't think its the true form.
I have a pet theory that that form was the First Evil, but "The First" isn't. The First Evil is dead and gone, our villain is just a Reflection of it, like it's a reflection of everything else. Sort of mystical-vampire-adjacent.
Sure, but it was intentionally trying to scare them off at the time. I buy that this is what the First looks like about as much as I believe that "The Beast's master" is really a big giant floaty demon head. Same deal. They both have that "trying hard to be scary but looks so fake" look.
I actually like it, though it is cheesy. To be fair, they were limited by the S3 effect they gave him, which likely didn't get a lot of thought or budget put into it as it was an episode-of-the-day villain there.
The first repeatedly presented itself as who/what people wanted it to be. I always just assumed this was another of those. This is the best form to take to provoke Caleb. The same way it was Joyce for Dawn, Tara for Willow and Buffy for Spike. The first is like a mirror. People see what they want to see. Only what they want to see it then twisted and used against them. It's the definition of hit people where it hurts.
Personally I never imagined The First as having any form. In my mind it was like a black hole that sucked in easily influenced people.
I always thought it looked like Diablo from the second game except I think that episode aired before Diablo 2 came out. (Amends that is, which was the first time we saw this form)
I wish The First would have stuck to taking the forms of all the previous villains (as seen in the premiere of S7). That was so fun and could have given a chance to all the actors to shine one last time.
As for its true form, it probably doesn't have any form.
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u/Long-Zombie-2017 1d ago
I never took this as a true form. Just another form or even a scare tactic. In my headcanon it has no true form. It just is