Gotta go with Caleb on this one. He's not some demon or vampire, he's an evil man. He was evil before he met up with the First, and probably would have continued to do evil if he never had. Plus all the casually mysogynistic (sp?) language and speeches creeped me out beyond words. I'm terrified of men who really hate women that much. He really did believe that women deserve nothing better than death or punishment. Eugh! The only Buffy villians to ever give me nightmares: the Gentlemen and Caleb.
The First just never scared me as much...I mean, intellectually, yeah, i know that it should be scarier, source of all evil, lives in everyone, blah blah blah, but fear isn't about what you think should scare you. It's about what makes you squirm, what you can't stand to see on the screen, what you can't listen too without getting that creepy-crawly feeling on the back of your neck or that cold feeling in your gut where you just KNOW that something bad is going to happen to your characters that you love.
Wow, that was rambling! 😉