Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-3481504-20160502003842/@comment-24674051-20160503043546

Guys, this is getting nowhere, and there is a considerable amount of trolling. Esk has already warned once to stop the trolling.

If you have an opinion and can support it, great. I love a great debate. But that debate can not be a diatribe of "Well, You're wrong, and here's my opinion to prove it". Opinions are exactly that, Opinions. No one person's opinion is wrong.

Facts (which I will be the first to say are not an easy commodity to come by) are different.

Now, the next time one side accuses the other of being wrong with an opinion will cause this thread to be immediately closed and removed.

And for the record, while Thanatos is the god of death in Greek mythology, he has not (to my knowledge) been introduced in once, so saying that he is the god of death to refute the statement of Hades being the god of death is not a fact supported by the show, I would go so far as to say it is a very weak argument for an opinion.

At the same time, my opinion of hades is that he is the ruler of the underworld (fact), but not necessarily the god of death (opinion). There is nothing to support the opinion one way or the other.

As for Hades power, well, I think they've done a decent job showing his power. lets start with his punishing Cora, then trapping living souls in the underworld. Oh, and repairing a shattered crystal ball and having it show what the original owner wanted to see. Then there's his ability to touch water from the River of Lost souls without being affected (something that even Rumple is afraid of). How about turning the entire portion of the underworld that we've seen into a decayed copy of Storybrooke. All of these actions require (imo) considerable power. Also, and this is my opinion, you don't become a greatly feared god if you don't have power. and a smart god (or any smart magic user for that matter) doesn't weild his full power when less will suffice. We have not seen all of Hades power, nor even all of his guile. the pool is deep at both ends.

and as to other comments about Hades, he is the god of the UW, but he is neither omniscient nor omnipresent. Things can happen that escape Lord Hades immedaite attention.

And as to the comment about Hades being evil for evil sake, you're right. He is evil for evil sake. and there is a lot of complexity as well. some of that is hard to show in 9 episodes, and my opinion is that the writers did a reasonable (though not great) job trying to get that across.

I'm not saying anyone is wrong with their opinion, If you don't like they way the writers portrayed Hades, you are welcome to that opinion. If you think the writers have done a brilliant job portraying Hades, you're welcome to that opinion as well (I don't think anyone has actually expressed that particular opinion, but I'm sure it's out there somewhere). Let's just keep it civil and refrain from the whole "I'm right and you're wrong" type of post.