Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-28173513-20160410061049/@comment-27213286-20160410083127

Once Discussion wrote: Strictly speaking he's just doing what he's been doing for, what is likely thousands/millions of years.

I mean, all he's doing is trying to keep balance between life and death likely. Yes he wants to keep souls in the underworld, but strictly speaking he can't stop people from moving on. He may like collecting souls (I mean, if you're stuck in the underworld forever, you need a hobby, right?) but still.

I don't quite understand why they couldn't do the heart split above ground like they did with Snowing. I know Hook was the DO but that vanished AFTER he died and so, don't see why not?... Hook's body disappeared when he died so there wasn't a body to put a heart into. Now that they are in the Underworld nobody who has their name on a tombstone can leave the Underworld, therefore they must defeat Hades in order to leave the Underworld. They are going to defeat Hades for selfish reasons not because of his hobby as you put it of collecting souls.