Board Thread:Spoilers!/@comment-2153169-20180206195120/@comment-25375217-20180305171748

Eskaver wrote: DatNuttyKid wrote: There seems to be a lot of set-up for this episode, but I'm still concerned that the writers won't follow through. Fiona and Hades's inconsistencies have kind of stolen all of my hope. I don’t think they were really inconsistent. Hades had a great backstory (if you read a screenshot that lasted for two seconds onscreen). Fiona had a solid backstory, but part of what was lacking was why she was evil. We knew why she was angry and dark and powerful, but not really downright antagonistic and trying to initiate the final battle. Well, to clarify, I mean, why was she on the power-hungry quest when she was essentially already very powerful.

A little tweaks for Fiona and just giving Hades that backstory they wrote would be decent through and through.

This episode will likely also be solid. To add, she’s been around for the whole season. Hades's backstory was great, but a lot of things that were built up or hinted at didn't come to fruition. Such as him losing power when people go to Mount Olympus. Or how in the first couple of episodes of the arc, he didn't really seem to want to harm the heroes, he just wanted them to stop messing with his kingdom. Or that fake redemption arc that made every single redeemed villain on this show look bad.

Fiona's backstory was meh and didn't explain anything she did. We're expected to believe that all she ever wanted was to be reunited with her son; if that's the case, why did she refuse to answer his questions and then flee from him in 609? Why had she been antagonizing him, his wife, and his son for the entirety of her time in Storybrooke? I can accept her starting the final battle because "it's my fate, so why not?", but besides that, her backstory completely conflicted with her present-day actions. It felt like she was still missing a backstory episode and that the end of 719 was a fake memory she showed Rumple to persuade him to help her. Even Rumple questioned her true motives right before he killed her, but she never actually explained herself.