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8Rob wrote: A new one

If they wanted Gothel to be from the LWM, then she could have been a Salem Witch

So, she became a villain after her family was burned at the stake during the Salem Witch Trials and escaped to the NEF.

It would have been less contrived than what we saw in 7x19 That's better than her actual backstory which was stupid on so many levels. Magic being destroyed 1000s of years ago in LWM except not really. Gothel exterminating humanity on Earth 1000s of years ago? A relatively modernly advanced human civilization on Earth 1000s of years ago? Um did the writers research the history of human civilization on Earth before writing this? Do they understand how evolution works at all? Cos it sure as hell doesn't work like that flashback said it does? Also where are the ruins/traces of this civilization in the present day or the fossil evidence of this human extinction and second evolution? Those would definitely be around somewhere. Bet the writers didn't consider that when they wrote this backstory.