Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-3481504-20160502003842/@comment-24674051-20160502032139

First, not only do we know what the show does to trolls, we also know what the forum mods do to trolls.

Obviously, imperiex and fararb feel that the writers have butchered hades. Whether we agree or disagree with them, that does not give anyone the right to put the other side down.

Any more trolling, and the troll axe comes out. 'nuf said.

Now, I will say that I disagree with the opinion that the writers butchered Hades. They wrote him to be an even greater manipulative S*B than Rumple. And in his defense, Killian died of relatively natural causes, and Emma and company barged in unwelcome to try and take him. I can't blame Hades for wanting to defend his turf in this instance.

And if you look at the end of the episode (prior to everyone leaving except Killian), Hades had manipulated Emma, Regina, and even Zelena. His whole purpose with the contract on Rumples baby was to manipulate Rumple, and he tore it up only because he had no more need to manipulate Rumple. I think had he needed more manipulation of Rumple he would have found a different and more direct way of dealing with the situation. And it is interesting that he made no move to block Rumple (or Pan) from escaping or even blocking them from coming back to SB. I think he's still manipulating Rumple, and it might be interesting to see who is holding Pandora's box (or it's UW twin) before the end of the next Episode.

Hades has power, but his biggest power is that of manipulation. And that may very well be what got him kicked out of Olympus to begin with. We shall hopefully see.

My only disappointment is that TLK did actually work, and yet somehow I feel that he may have even manipulated that.