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Aaaand another quality episode by the lean green acting machine Rebecca Mader (not sarcasm). I liked the story between her and Hades, and thought it was funny how it kind of reflected Belle and Rumple when she kissed him the first time. Similarly to how Rumple behaved, it frustrated me how Zelena thought that Hades was trying to trick her even though he needed true love's kiss. When Belle kissed Rumple it almost worked, proving that she really did love him, yet he insisted that she was trying to take his power away for Regina. Similarly, Zelena thought Hades was just trying to trick her into true love's kiss to free him, even though he would need to love her for it to work. We all know why both of these characters delivered this "no one can love me" denial speech but it still made me sad.

And speaking of Belle and Rumple, I loved the scene in the library/not-library. I was worried we'd have to wait AGES for Belle to learn the truth, but at least now she has time to figure out how exactly to dump him. I hope that's how she'll deal with it when all this is over, because I'm getting real tired of Rumple screwing up and Belle forgiving him. Except now he had the cheek to tell Belle how she felt and say that she actually loves the Beast in him. I really hope he stays in the Underworld when the others leave.

I also wonder how Zelena knew she was in the Underworld. My first thought was that Hades had shown her it or described it to her before, but they only spent 5 minutes together and this was before Zelena had visited Storybrooke, and possibly before Storybrooke was created, so I doubt the UW even looked like that when Hades and Zelena met. My theory for why UW looks like Storybrooke is down the drain, but then of course it'd be for a very simple reason like "I made it for you <3". I'm not bitter, I promise.

I like how Henry creates the stories in his sleep, but only as long as I can hope there's going to be an explanation for this in future. I'd hate for there to be no explanation and it turns out the rule is, "he writes in his sleep, deal with it".

Also I hate Hades even more now. I hate his fire hair, I hate his ridiculous over-acting, I hate how he seems incapable of closing his mouth when he's not talking, I hate those little tiny gasps he makes every time someone speaks, I hate how he's trying too hard to talk like a villain. If Zelena and Hades do get together I suggest she gives him some acting lessons.

As for the Greek mythology in this episode, I like how Zeus is mentioned. I don't see why they needed to say that Zeus is Hades' older brother even though Hades is the eldest in the myth, but I'll get over that. I like how Hades FINALLY tells us he's not the devil, and Snow tells us they're technically not in hell, because I was getting sick of the characters confusing themselves between Greek mythology and the Bible. It was funny at first, but there's only so many jokes mentioning hell that one person can take.

To be honest, for a season that's centred itself around Greek mythology (5B I mean, not 5 overall), I don't think they've used very much from the myths, especially in comparison with the other series' in which Greek figures appeared almost every episode. Hell, even 5A used the flame of Prometheus and said the Holy Grail was from the gods (not God, gods), and showed us Charon no less than 3 times. I feel like for 5B, they've crammed in Hercules and Cerberus and Olympus in the first couple of episodes to give us our Greek, and then given the focus entirely to the characters, and by this point Hades is the only remotely Greek thing we see.And next week we'll be seeing more Hades drama and another victim of death from several seasons ago, so I'm guessing there won't be any Satyrs or olive trees coming up soon.