Question of the week #41

[treonb]

The Church and Pastor Tim seem to serve as additional parental figures for Paige--parental figures that provide a more unambiguously black-and-white, worldview than her real parents can. We also know that Philip and Elizabeth will soon be asked to tell Paige the truth about their jobs and their lives in the U.S.

Do you think Paige might confide in her pastor if her parents try to bring her in?  What do you think she would tell him?

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Comments

[treonb]

It's like Elizabeth said--this is about her parents fulfilling the thing she feels she lacks in her life that she's now trying to fill with the church. It changes the whole dynamic.

That's true. But I'm wondering also about the personal aspects. That is, I can see Paige ignoring the ideological aspects and just focusing on the fact that her parents lied to her. It's a serious breach of trust.

[sistermagpie]

Oh, absolutely. There's no way this won't be a huge blow psychologically. On the one hand she already knows they lie and she just wants to know the truth, but the truth is so much worse than she could imagine. And this kind of blow to what one knows about their life can be seriously damaging. See also: Jared Connors!

[quantumreality]

Oh god, it would be the most freakishly nightmarish thing if she shot her parents and Henry, but in her case, not because she wanted to be a KGB spy, but because she didn't want to be one :O