The funny thing is, if Paige had been anyone but Paige, we'd be writing it off to her reacting in the heat of the moment and not really being overly concerned with her emotional maturity. She's 19 and she's just been creeped on and been grabbed in an unwelcome way. Then the boy who likes her tries grabbing her in a similar way, unintentionally retriggering her fight reflex.
So all said, people would buzz a bit about the badass quiet college chick who laid a couple of guys out flat, and then it would die down.
But Paige the spy is supposed to act in ways that maximize her forgettability, not her memorability, and while I think Elizabeth was being a bit excessively paranoid, she does have a point in that if Paige goes back round to that bar, people will remember her face, and if, later, she does get an FBI/State/whatever internship, the last thing she'd want is for her background check to flag up anything unusual, and a bar fight where she showed unusually crisp fighting tactics would maaaaaybe ping on the radar.
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Re: Bar scene
Date: 2018-04-29 06:07 pm (UTC)So all said, people would buzz a bit about the badass quiet college chick who laid a couple of guys out flat, and then it would die down.
But Paige the spy is supposed to act in ways that maximize her forgettability, not her memorability, and while I think Elizabeth was being a bit excessively paranoid, she does have a point in that if Paige goes back round to that bar, people will remember her face, and if, later, she does get an FBI/State/whatever internship, the last thing she'd want is for her background check to flag up anything unusual, and a bar fight where she showed unusually crisp fighting tactics would maaaaaybe ping on the radar.