I mean…Paige is mostly young and sheltered and manipulated by her mother (a professional manipulator) until she doesn’t know what way is up and which way is down. I never liked this storyline much because I didn’t really understand how Paige really…got here. But, as some people here have said, I think it makes sense, that Paige has never felt close to her mother. Elizabeth could be pretty awful to her and their relationship sucked until…well, this. And suddenly they’re connecting and doing important things and she has a direct, clear way of making her mother proud. And Elizabeth is taking full advantage in all of that. It’s Elizabeth who’s extremely reprehensible and blind in this situation, imo. As for the bae scene…I don’t actually think it was supposed to be empowering, especially not in a Me Too sort of way. More like…Paige loosing control and instinctively falling back on what protective mechanism she has as opposed to thinking of the big picture. And I thought it was pretty ironic that she gets told off for using the self-defense skills she initially started learning for the very reasons she used them for – to stave off rapey creepers.
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I mean…Paige is mostly young and sheltered and manipulated by her mother (a professional manipulator) until she doesn’t know what way is up and which way is down. I never liked this storyline much because I didn’t really understand how Paige really…got here. But, as some people here have said, I think it makes sense, that Paige has never felt close to her mother. Elizabeth could be pretty awful to her and their relationship sucked until…well, this. And suddenly they’re connecting and doing important things and she has a direct, clear way of making her mother proud. And Elizabeth is taking full advantage in all of that. It’s Elizabeth who’s extremely reprehensible and blind in this situation, imo.
As for the bae scene…I don’t actually think it was supposed to be empowering, especially not in a Me Too sort of way. More like…Paige loosing control and instinctively falling back on what protective mechanism she has as opposed to thinking of the big picture. And I thought it was pretty ironic that she gets told off for using the self-defense skills she initially started learning for the very reasons she used them for – to stave off rapey creepers.