Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-25926288-20160509005929/@comment-26532022-20160511215304

I have to say, this episode was weird. I walked into it knowing that Robin died (thanks for that, BTW guys. Nice subltey. Some people don't use cable anymore.) and was expecting this episode to be bad, but I ended up enjoying it quite a bit.

Good points:

-All of the characters had good development/IC stuff they said. Arthur being redeemed and ruling the Underworld may be a turn-around, but he was just trying to fix Camelot. He went about it in the wrong way, granted.

-Zelena seemed like she legitemately hoped Hades could change and become good. She may have had True Love with him, but it was still also Blind Love. You could tell, and Bex did an amazing job as per usual.

-Hades' desire to rule made sense. He feels jipped, since Zeus (the youngest) got Kronos' kingdom while he (presumably the oldest, it's never stated in the myths) is stuck down in not-Hell. He feels Olympus should be his, and if he can't rule that, he'll rule something else. That something else just happened to be Storybrooke.

Is Zelena on the path to being redeemed? I hope so. Bex has just UPPED her performance lately, and I don't want to say goodbye to her just yet.

And now,

The Bad:

-No actual showing of Hades being banished. This isn't as big for me, as I know the actual myths and have built my own headcannon around that, but it's still annoying. And no, a picture and two shots of the pages does not qualify.

-Zeus. Everything about him. They picked a horrible actor, and screwed up his job. Zeus doesn't control the dead, Hades and Thanatos do that. He can't just grant life to some random pirate from 200 years ago, even if Hook did help defeat Hades. Zeus controls the sky, and is king of the gods. Not Lord/God of Death and/or Spirits of the Departed.

-While I'm on that note, that's not how death even works in the myths anyways. There's a reason Orpheus went on a quest instead of just appealing to Zeus. I could go off on the use of ambrosia, and how that was incorrectly portrayed, but I'll digress. This isn't the spot.

Everything else was just eh for me. I don't really care what Rumple's doing, but I will point out that the LWM isn't exactly his kingdom either. But, again, I digress.