Board Thread:Spoilers!/@comment-2153169-20180206195120/@comment-2153169-20180208173503

JennaMae wrote: They're giving Gothel a sympathetic backstory?

I don't know what to say. But if the writers felt defensive after 707... yikes. Because she can't have one? I don't get why? Because she did horrible stuff, like in 707, she can't be a character who herself had trouble?

Her backstory is here to help us to understand why she did these things; not to forgive her recent actions. Look at Fiona or Cora. They had sympathic backstories, which helped us to understand their motives and their plans... Does not mean they are forgiven, or that they had the rights to do what they did.