Sadly, I think the show meant for the bar scene to be some sort of empowering, Me Too type girl power moment for Paige, but that entire scene made me cringe. Paige isn’t a badass just because she’s been taught how to fight. She’s an incredibly messed up young woman who doesn’t know how to function in a normal life.
And again she reacted to Elizabeth's actually very important advice by rolling her eyes and saying it wasn't a big deal. She just doesn't go back to that bar again.
She also turned Elizabeth telling her not to try to get information from that intern into Elizabeth telling her not to sleep with him. How does she still seem incapable of following this very simple line of thought? She couldn't do it with Matthew either.
It's a shame that after Elizabeth actually said the words that Paige wasn't cut out for this she backtracked again and rewarded Paige with that drinking afternoon. It was implying that the real problem was Paige "learning from her mistakes" by teaching her to hang out in bars like a spy by drinking olive oil.
Except the real problem isn't that she drank too much, it's that she doesn't understand the danger she and her family are in and thinks this is all about her being cool. Even the next day when she was sober she was defending her actions, lying about events to pretend she had no choice and brushing off the danger. It's just one bar she can't go to anymore!
By making it about teaching her to drink I think Elizabeth rewarded her for her actions, frankly.
Random thought: I loved that when “Jim” called Kimmy to tell her that it was all over, Philip wasn’t wearing the Jim wig and disguise. It reminded me a lot of when he took off the Clark wig and showed Martha his true (Soviet spy) face. Of course, with Martha he did that in order to bind her to him even more tightly than before. This time, he unmasked himself to set Kimmy free, just as he set himself free.
Someone else said that too--they also said they thought the camera angles changed at the end when Philip was really speaking to her as himself, warning her not to go to a Communist country.
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Date: 2018-04-26 05:56 pm (UTC)And again she reacted to Elizabeth's actually very important advice by rolling her eyes and saying it wasn't a big deal. She just doesn't go back to that bar again.
She also turned Elizabeth telling her not to try to get information from that intern into Elizabeth telling her not to sleep with him. How does she still seem incapable of following this very simple line of thought? She couldn't do it with Matthew either.
It's a shame that after Elizabeth actually said the words that Paige wasn't cut out for this she backtracked again and rewarded Paige with that drinking afternoon. It was implying that the real problem was Paige "learning from her mistakes" by teaching her to hang out in bars like a spy by drinking olive oil.
Except the real problem isn't that she drank too much, it's that she doesn't understand the danger she and her family are in and thinks this is all about her being cool. Even the next day when she was sober she was defending her actions, lying about events to pretend she had no choice and brushing off the danger. It's just one bar she can't go to anymore!
By making it about teaching her to drink I think Elizabeth rewarded her for her actions, frankly.
Someone else said that too--they also said they thought the camera angles changed at the end when Philip was really speaking to her as himself, warning her not to go to a Communist country.