Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-25926288-20160425010026/@comment-25926288-20160426115552

Farerb wrote:

Eskaver wrote:

Farerb wrote:

Eskaver wrote: It's not Heaven or Hell. People misunderstand Once. YOu have regrets and then to move on to either or and we've never seen anyone with finished business go into the "Worse place".

So, I'll bold it:'''  The Better and Worse Place are not Heaven and Hell. Hades isn't the Devil. The Underworld isn't Purgatory. '''You either finish your business with an upward trajectory (basically on the path of redemption) or you don't ever finish it, or finish it with a downward trajectory.

​So, Auntie Em, Gaston, etc, weren't punished, just unfortunately pushed into the worse places. But that's your interpretation on that. They didn't bother explaining it properly and they constantly contradict themselves so people are confused on what the Underworld really is because no one really knows, even the writers don't. Well, I know how to use context clues and what they said to figure things out. They use "Hell" and the Devil because more people know of them, but their universe has mashups of Christian and Greek myth as does half of their stuff.

And guess what? That's your interpretation on that. You have no more (if anything, less) facts than I do. What interpretation? I didn't interpreted anything. All I'm saying is what I see, people going into different places because of random reasons. Sometimes the place is called hell, sometimes not. Hades is called the devil, the god of death or whatever... But the show and writers say that it's not Hell and Hades is not the Devil. And anyone that knows Greek mythology knows that as well. No fan that I've encountered thinks that the Underworld is Hell. And noone I have encountered thinks that Hades is the Devil (especially when Hades himself says he's not the Devil).

And I'm 100% sure the writers know what they have planned in the worldbuilding aspect of the Underworld system because it's more effort that I've seen from them.