Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-25926288-20180516203306/@comment-25733960-20180518081820

For me the problem with the coven is that they made them look so powerful in 7x10. Like a real threat.

And then in 7B..... nothing.

So, we didn't get to know who the witches are. So, that's why can't understand why they were so powerful, and that's the part where it feels odd. If they had shown one of the coven witches was Morgana LeFay, and another one was Maleficent 2.0 and another was Madam Mim and Gothel being Mother Nature herself, then we could have accepted this is one hell of a coven with really powerful witches. But nope, they were just a group of random hooded figures and we had to believe they were THAT powerful. And don't let me get started with coven having like 15 witches. It was said to be a very restricted group for very powerful people, and at the end it was like everyone got in.

And why would these superpowerful witches want to become trees? From Gothel, I understand it, but for the rest of it? wtf?

By the way, I don't think the time travel was a "byproduct". After all, they wanted Zelena to join them. So, they probably wanted her time travel spell, which means going to the past was always part of the plan

But why would Gothel want to send them back on time? They just needed to open a portal to the NEF2 (like they did in 7x15) and avoid everything from happening. Like, really? Is that the plan Gothel spent 350000 years preparing for?