Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-5679696-20160509211306/@comment-24674051-20160511174135

The souls were transformed, true. But, for the sake of argument, if a soul can emerge from the water, would it be possible, by means of magic, to restore that soul to it's former state of brokenness? It still had unfinished business.

My personal take on the fiery pit and the river is that they are both still part of the UW, and neither are part of the worse place. reasoning, you ask? Hades motivation (when we first met him, anyway) was to keep the souls from moving on. and in multiple cases, going to the worse place was still referenced as Moving On. So, by that reasoning, a soul moving on to the worse place would still have the soul leave the UW. and the clock ticks everytime a soul leaves, yet the clock did not tick when Milah, Gaston, Aunt Em, James, nor Pan went to the river. The clock did not tick for Silver or Blacktooth going to the fire pit. It did tick for all the souls we saw move on to the better place.

My opinion is that we never saw a soul move on to THE worse place. they only went to worse places in the UW, of which Acheron and the Pit are but 2 of probably many.