Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-3481504-20160502003842/@comment-5106672-20160502024731

I have my issues with Hades in this episode, but I think they're very different from the general ones.

For a moment there, I really, really thought that OUAT of any media had really grasped Hades. They made him sympathetic in a way they didn't with any other seasonal-only villains, including Ingrid. For a good half of this episode I thought, at last they did some justice to the source material: he's not truly a villain, he just has a very crappy job, with people coming down to mess with it, and he only acts accordingly. Once they pose no more threat to him, he turns out not to be a monster, just a person in charge of the last place people want to be. I would have loved to see him as grudgeful towars his brother, unwise and ruthless as a ruler because of that, but ultimately just neutral, not downright evil. But nope, we get a full-fledged villain instead, oh well.

I just hope his endgame is something so huge it pays off for this gratuitous betrayal and has an actual reason for needing the Nevengers out of the way, because otherwise I just don't get why he couldn't settle down with his love's extended family once all the issues were solved. Unless he's just plain evil in nature. Which would be boring. And once again wouldn't do justice to the source material.