Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-5679696-20160509211307

Hello everyone! This thread will contain spoilers from the most recent arc of the show (5B).

We are currently treating the River of Lost Souls and the Worse Place as one same thing, and we should really stop doing that. This is what Cruella said:


 * Cruella: If it's cracked... Well, that's bad.
 * Regina: Bad? They got pulled under to... wherever is worse than this place?
 * Cruella: Yes. But no one who's anyone goes there anymore.

That, and the fact that Auntie Em's gravestone cracked when she was sent into the River of Lost Souls, gave place to the logical assumption that the River of Lost Souls sends the souls to the world that lies beneath the Underworld.

However, the aspects of the portrayal of the Worse Place and River of Lost Souls seems to indicate differently. Every time we see the river, the souls are still there. They're trapped in it, swimming forever. We even learnt that they can rise from the river with Hades gone. I think the idea that both places are connected is not far-fetched... But still speculative and I think it's even proven wrong by the very fact that we see the souls, they're still in the Underworld, just trapped underwater.

Besides, Cruella and Regina's discussion wasn't very conclusive either... Because being trapped in the river definitely counts as "being pulled under to wherever is worse than this place". So, if we follow what we hear AND what we see, we can conclude that going to the river of lost souls also cracks the gravestone, but we know for a fact that the souls ARE NOT in a different world.

So we can not list, for example, Auntie Em in the same list as Captain Silver as inhabitants/prisoners of the Worse Place, because that implies they're all in there, while Auntie Em is definitely not.

What do you all thin? Share your opinion, whether you agree or disagree! And thank you for your time :) 