Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-28173513-20160410061049/@comment-27213286-20160410100325

Once Discussion wrote: Frulna wrote: 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. I rewatched the last few mins of season 5A and Hook's body didn't disappear after he died, he was carried out by paramedics.

Also, I only said his Hobby because he seems to enjoy it. I know it's his job to ferry souls and as such, he isn't evil but necessary as a part of the grand scheme of things. Just rewatched the last few minutes, must have remembered it wrong. My new theory is that the heart split thing can only be done to a body that is unharmed (killed by crushing heart), if a hear would be put into Hook's old body he would just bleed out and die from blood loss.

Hades is suppose to help souls move on to either the pit of fire "hell" or to paradise in the sky "heaven". He is not doing that though, he is doing everything he can to keep souls in Underbrooke "limbo". Also he is trapping live souls in Underbrooke via the headstones he created for them and is using Rumple's unborn child to help him try to kidnap a baby. That is why he is evil, he wouldn't be evil if he actually did the job he was suppose to do and let the living gang leave (including Zelena and her baby).