Yes, they did show Paige spying on Tim. Tim was her 'assignment' from her parents but Paige did seem to enjoy spying on him.
I have to suspect that the show skipped over Paige's ideological education on purpose. Actual Soviet ideology bears only lip service to Marx, IMO. All we've ever seen is the Jennings talking about doing good on behalf of the poor and downtrodden, blah blah, and protecting their homeland from the evil Americans. Had they jumped from the more appealing aspects of Marxist theory about income imbalance to actual Soviet ideology in practice (revolution is only possible through violence; the state must use violence, terror, and murder against its own people in order to destroy any vestige of of resistance, etc.) Paige would have run to the hills no matter how much she loved her parents.
I guess it was far easier for the show to gloss over all of that and just show Paige hanging out at Claudia's apartment drinking vodka, eating peasant stew, and watching Russian movies.
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Re: Paige's conversion
Date: 2018-05-12 06:45 pm (UTC)I have to suspect that the show skipped over Paige's ideological education on purpose. Actual Soviet ideology bears only lip service to Marx, IMO. All we've ever seen is the Jennings talking about doing good on behalf of the poor and downtrodden, blah blah, and protecting their homeland from the evil Americans. Had they jumped from the more appealing aspects of Marxist theory about income imbalance to actual Soviet ideology in practice (revolution is only possible through violence; the state must use violence, terror, and murder against its own people in order to destroy any vestige of of resistance, etc.) Paige would have run to the hills no matter how much she loved her parents.
I guess it was far easier for the show to gloss over all of that and just show Paige hanging out at Claudia's apartment drinking vodka, eating peasant stew, and watching Russian movies.