The pool scene looked like a great concept on paper, but in execution, I agree--it was a bit too "on the nose" for me, as well. When I watched it after the bathtub scene, I was like, 'Okay, Okay, you're trying to be symbolic, I get it.'
Another thing that struck me is the look on E's face as she threw Paige in the pool. I am still on the fence about it. I like to call E the "socially awkward" mother. She sometimes has trouble emotionally expressing and bonding with Paige, which makes her come off as cold and unfeeling. I think cold and feelingless looks different from angry/evil. To me, the look on E's face, in the very moment that she threw Paige, did not communicate cold and feelingless. Rather, E looked angry, almost as if she wanted to PUNISH Paige by throwing her into the pool. When I saw E dump Paige into the pool, I immediately had flashbacks to S1 when Paige acted snippy with E and E said something like, 'Stand up. Stand up, young lady' and voiced an angry diatribe before P entered the kitchen and saved the day.
I know I'm nit-picking but I'm trying to rationalize the angry look on E's face. At first, I thought E looked angry because it is hard to grab & hold onto little kids while they are squirming around like little Paige. But if E can take out 2 FBI guys with guns, then little Paige should not have been too much of a hassle ;-P KR explained in an interview that E threw Paige into the water, because that was typical of Soviet moms and she didn't know any other way to teach Paige. Based on KR's premise, I didn't expect E to look like she wanted to punish Paige out of anger. At the same time, I didn't expect E to look warm and fuzzy either. I just expected E to look nonchalant--kind of like, "Oh, no big deal--I'm just dipping Paige's toes into the water."
On the other hand, who knows--were Soviet teachers angry when they taught? I suppose Soviet pedagogy was based on concept of punishment. We pick up on traits from our teachers and subconsciously adopt them when we teach others, so maybe E picked up anger when she was taught to swim?
Ok, I'm rambling...but I don't know...there's something about that scene that just seemed off. It was like that scene showcased "big, bad, evil Russian" dumping innocent child into the pool, but I don't see E in such stereotypical terms.
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Re: Throwing Baby!Paige into the pool
Date: 2015-02-01 07:10 pm (UTC)Another thing that struck me is the look on E's face as she threw Paige in the pool. I am still on the fence about it. I like to call E the "socially awkward" mother. She sometimes has trouble emotionally expressing and bonding with Paige, which makes her come off as cold and unfeeling. I think cold and feelingless looks different from angry/evil. To me, the look on E's face, in the very moment that she threw Paige, did not communicate cold and feelingless. Rather, E looked angry, almost as if she wanted to PUNISH Paige by throwing her into the pool. When I saw E dump Paige into the pool, I immediately had flashbacks to S1 when Paige acted snippy with E and E said something like, 'Stand up. Stand up, young lady' and voiced an angry diatribe before P entered the kitchen and saved the day.
I know I'm nit-picking but I'm trying to rationalize the angry look on E's face.
At first, I thought E looked angry because it is hard to grab & hold onto little kids while they are squirming around like little Paige. But if E can take out 2 FBI guys with guns, then little Paige should not have been too much of a hassle ;-P
KR explained in an interview that E threw Paige into the water, because that was typical of Soviet moms and she didn't know any other way to teach Paige. Based on KR's premise, I didn't expect E to look like she wanted to punish Paige out of anger. At the same time, I didn't expect E to look warm and fuzzy either. I just expected E to look nonchalant--kind of like, "Oh, no big deal--I'm just dipping Paige's toes into the water."
On the other hand, who knows--were Soviet teachers angry when they taught? I suppose Soviet pedagogy was based on concept of punishment. We pick up on traits from our teachers and subconsciously adopt them when we teach others, so maybe E picked up anger when she was taught to swim?
Ok, I'm rambling...but I don't know...there's something about that scene that just seemed off. It was like that scene showcased "big, bad, evil Russian" dumping innocent child into the pool, but I don't see E in such stereotypical terms.