SO RELIEVED AND HAPPY! So relieved I almost cried. I was SO afraid they'd make Stan into a traitor. I mean...I suppose it would have been hard to keep him on the show if they had, now that I think about it, but STILL. So relieved.
Looks like Nina might have to go. It's too bad, she wasn't a bad character and she was useful too. (I do wonder if we'll get a Stan-and-Sandra-get-back-together thing going on next season. I think I'd actually like that.)
Of course Elizabeth would think it might not be a bad idea to make Paige into an agent.
I DO feel like this needs to be addressed though. This whole second-generation-ops thing is… Well, I mean, we don’t know enough about Jared. We don’t know what kind of person he really was etc and obviously there are people willing to betray their country: Phillip and Elizabeth and other ops use them all the time. BUT I really hope they don’t go this way with Paige. Mainly because I feel like this show underestimates patriotism. It took forever for Stan, an FBI agent of all people, to finally make the right choice. I don’t think it should have. But even if it should, I’m still bothered how the Soviets come out looking like far more devoted to their country on average that the Americans. I honestly don’t believe this is actually the case. But either way, I feel like if they go this way with Paige it will make no sense character wise. Yes, Paige wants to do good/make the world a better place but better place =/= communism (aka socialism Soviet-style). It doesn’t mean betraying your country. Finding out your parents are spies for an enemy country (which is what the USSR was to people during the cold war) would FAR MORE LIKELY destroy your relationship with them than make you want to join “the cause.” (Especially, since realistically, the Soviet Union wasn’t a better place; at the very least it really wouldn’t come off like that to most people, who didn’t grow up there anyway.) I don’t know where they will take this, maybe nowhere really, but I don’t think Paige is the sort of person who would go for this sort of thing. No, she is no overtly patriotic, but how many people would REALLY be up for betraying their country? And Paige doesn’t come off as even a generally socialist-minded person either.
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Date: 2014-05-22 07:11 am (UTC)Looks like Nina might have to go. It's too bad, she wasn't a bad character and she was useful too. (I do wonder if we'll get a Stan-and-Sandra-get-back-together thing going on next season. I think I'd actually like that.)
Of course Elizabeth would think it might not be a bad idea to make Paige into an agent.
I DO feel like this needs to be addressed though. This whole second-generation-ops thing is… Well, I mean, we don’t know enough about Jared. We don’t know what kind of person he really was etc and obviously there are people willing to betray their country: Phillip and Elizabeth and other ops use them all the time. BUT I really hope they don’t go this way with Paige. Mainly because I feel like this show underestimates patriotism. It took forever for Stan, an FBI agent of all people, to finally make the right choice. I don’t think it should have. But even if it should, I’m still bothered how the Soviets come out looking like far more devoted to their country on average that the Americans. I honestly don’t believe this is actually the case. But either way, I feel like if they go this way with Paige it will make no sense character wise. Yes, Paige wants to do good/make the world a better place but better place =/= communism (aka socialism Soviet-style). It doesn’t mean betraying your country. Finding out your parents are spies for an enemy country (which is what the USSR was to people during the cold war) would FAR MORE LIKELY destroy your relationship with them than make you want to join “the cause.” (Especially, since realistically, the Soviet Union wasn’t a better place; at the very least it really wouldn’t come off like that to most people, who didn’t grow up there anyway.) I don’t know where they will take this, maybe nowhere really, but I don’t think Paige is the sort of person who would go for this sort of thing. No, she is no overtly patriotic, but how many people would REALLY be up for betraying their country? And Paige doesn’t come off as even a generally socialist-minded person either.