Board Thread:Spoilers!/@comment-2153169-20180206195120/@comment-25926288-20180401002346

TheRose123 wrote: I also hope that this episode fleshes out Gothel’s motives cause they don’t really make sense. She’s a good villain, but also a really ineffective one. Actually, I think she was a very witty villain along the lines of Zelena (3B, as she was a lot more serious there).

And two things:

1. 7A did set her up as a cult leader and she's being portrayed greatly (if you ignore blatant "Kill her!", I'll just headcanon that Gothel knew that it was a far cry from happening.).

2. They apparently have cut some number of scenes.

They just need to move her back to the forefront soon before her centric. Since we don't know what was suppose to happen in 7x14, I guess it was to clue us in that she wants Ana's magic to empower herself (I guess for power's sake or maybe because she's in the LWM) and the Dagger and I guess something happens.

Let's hope we get more on her plan because 7B really has her pretty casual (though very creepy).