I actually think Elizabeth was being far less paranoid than she should have been. Sure this once incident might not be a dealbreaker, but it was very very egregious and basic. Plus it's part of a pattern of all Paige's mistakes, that she's not approaching this with any real understanding of the danger of the job, not putting whatever mission she thinks she's on first. It's all about her asserting her identity and her mother.
Here again in this ep Elizabeth and Philip (who recently threw away stew because it came from a Russian recipe!) were horrified at her announcing to a lot of people, including those who know her, that she has secret self-defense skills she shouldn't have and make her memorable. Paige is still completely blase about the whole thing--she'll just not go back to that bar and it's solved. Then she's back to arguing with her mother about trying to be the boss of her and mad that her mom criticized her for wanting to do amateur spying with an intern.
When it comes down to it Paige always does what she wants to do as Paige Jennings, not as someone with a cover to protect.
Then Elizabeth basically rewarded her for it with that drunken afternoon at Claudia's. She turned it into a fun spy trick lesson about not being drunk and let the real issue--Paige's entire attitude and the danger it poses--fall by the wayside. She keeps reinforcing Paige's impression that this is all about Paige's relationship with her mom and little else. Even Philip's darker warnings got dismissed. He's just "not like her."
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Re: Bar scene
Date: 2018-04-29 06:30 pm (UTC)Here again in this ep Elizabeth and Philip (who recently threw away stew because it came from a Russian recipe!) were horrified at her announcing to a lot of people, including those who know her, that she has secret self-defense skills she shouldn't have and make her memorable. Paige is still completely blase about the whole thing--she'll just not go back to that bar and it's solved. Then she's back to arguing with her mother about trying to be the boss of her and mad that her mom criticized her for wanting to do amateur spying with an intern.
When it comes down to it Paige always does what she wants to do as Paige Jennings, not as someone with a cover to protect.
Then Elizabeth basically rewarded her for it with that drunken afternoon at Claudia's. She turned it into a fun spy trick lesson about not being drunk and let the real issue--Paige's entire attitude and the danger it poses--fall by the wayside. She keeps reinforcing Paige's impression that this is all about Paige's relationship with her mom and little else. Even Philip's darker warnings got dismissed. He's just "not like her."