– Why did Hades want Gaston to go overboard? He obviously knew Rumple would defeat Gaston, so then why offer Belle the choice to void the deal for her baby? This just didn’t make sense to me. I get he wants things to continue to decay, but was he really that confident that it would be Belle that tossed Gaston into the river and not Rumple?
If Belle had sacrificed her innocence in that regard, by agreeing to Gaston’s eternal torment, it might have been enough to power Hades’ spell.