It's not just Caleb, though he's part of it. It's the whole of s7. Just compare it to s4 of Angel. The entire season we get told that this big apocalypse is coming, yet there's few or no actual threats.
Sure you get the occasional demon, the hellmouth working up a bit, the First releasing some of it's Supervamps. But the majority of them aren't released, until Buffy gives them an opening to get out.
To me the only way to have The First's plan make sense in s7, is that it killed a few potentials and most of their watchers, their guidance, just so that those potentials that survived would go running straight towards Buffy. Just notice how many potentials were still alive at the start of Chosen.
To me it's clear that the First caused just enough trouble to let Buffy believe that the big Apocalypse was coming. Hell it practically led Buffy towards the Scythe, it almost pointed the thing out to her. And once Buffy had the scythe in her hands, it told Caleb to let her go. In fact, they only put up a token resistance to keep her from getting it.
It also has several chances to kill Buffy, and yet doesn't, why? Because it still needs her to activate all the slayers and open the Hellmouth.
Another proof is what it does to Spike and Angel. It could easily have them killed, but that's not the intention. Spike is Buffy's greatest victory against The First and she doesn't even get it. Because a being from the darkness chose the light, no matter what it's reason was. So it wants to corrupt that being, that vampire.
It doesn't want to kill Spike, it'll do that, if it has to, but killing Spike is never the intention, the intention is to corrupt him, to get him to come back to the dark side as it were.
The First also appeared to Buffy in Chosen, why? to plant the idea of activating all the Slayers. Just look at the words it uses to remind Buffy that she's alone.
In fact, I'm pretty sure the First wouldn't have succeeded in completely opening the seal and letting out its army, if Buffy and her girls hadn't opened the door. And once the Slayers were all activated the First no longer cared about keeping them alive, cause well... there were dozens, hundreds, possibly even thousands more out there to take the place of the girls that got to Sunnydale.
Once the First had that, Sunnydale no longer mattered. The First never cared about winning after all, it just wants to play the game, the never ending game.
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Sure you get the occasional demon, the hellmouth working up a bit, the First releasing some of it's Supervamps. But the majority of them aren't released, until Buffy gives them an opening to get out.
To me the only way to have The First's plan make sense in s7, is that it killed a few potentials and most of their watchers, their guidance, just so that those potentials that survived would go running straight towards Buffy. Just notice how many potentials were still alive at the start of Chosen.
To me it's clear that the First caused just enough trouble to let Buffy believe that the big Apocalypse was coming. Hell it practically led Buffy towards the Scythe, it almost pointed the thing out to her.
And once Buffy had the scythe in her hands, it told Caleb to let her go. In fact, they only put up a token resistance to keep her from getting it.
It also has several chances to kill Buffy, and yet doesn't, why? Because it still needs her to activate all the slayers and open the Hellmouth.
Another proof is what it does to Spike and Angel. It could easily have them killed, but that's not the intention. Spike is Buffy's greatest victory against The First and she doesn't even get it. Because a being from the darkness chose the light, no matter what it's reason was. So it wants to corrupt that being, that vampire.
It doesn't want to kill Spike, it'll do that, if it has to, but killing Spike is never the intention, the intention is to corrupt him, to get him to come back to the dark side as it were.
The First also appeared to Buffy in Chosen, why? to plant the idea of activating all the Slayers. Just look at the words it uses to remind Buffy that she's alone.
In fact, I'm pretty sure the First wouldn't have succeeded in completely opening the seal and letting out its army, if Buffy and her girls hadn't opened the door. And once the Slayers were all activated the First no longer cared about keeping them alive, cause well... there were dozens, hundreds, possibly even thousands more out there to take the place of the girls that got to Sunnydale.
Once the First had that, Sunnydale no longer mattered. The First never cared about winning after all, it just wants to play the game, the never ending game.