and i’m probably going to write something at some point about how part of the problem with paige, on top of the audrey sacrificing her identity thing, ISN’T that she’s “the scared of guns single mom” thing, because there’s nothing inherently wrong with being a scared of guns single mom, but how a) that’s such the antithesis of audrey’s personality i’m kind of insulted, b) i know that theoretically there’s probably a lot more to paige than that but THAT’S THE POINT, that’s all they chose to show us of paige in those four minutes we got of her, those were the characteristics they thought were most important, and c) the whole thing just reeked of her being gift-wrapped up for nathan, as if his happy ending was more important than hers, and they get to ride off into the sunset together at the expense of audrey’s identity, when, hello, on top of that just being gross, that is not who nathan is at all, that is not what nathan wants, we literally just established that, come on.
and what even was that, i mean, is nathan going to tell paige? “by the way that’s my baby back there and you’re the woman i love even though you have no idea who i am”? what kind of memories does paige have? does nathan just lie to her and, what, wait for her to fall in love with him? ewwwwwwwwwww. ew ew ew. does he expect the whole town to lie to her? i don’t think so. but then what? where do they go from here? and what about james? does he dream of his former life? his family who raised him and loved him the first go around, all of the life experiences who shaped who he was? and is paige immortal? does she have the longevity of mara and the other worlders? are the memories of her previous lives lurking under the surface? is mara lurking under the surface? and these are all honestly interesting questions but part of the problem is i don’t think the show writers actually considered them, at all.
and i mean there were a lot of implications there about the extent of paige’s personality and being and how much she was audrey and if audrey could come back and what not, but that’s all they were. implications. we can write fix-it fic til the day is done about who paige is really and how audrey could emerge and the balance between the two but that’s fix-it. that’s not what they gave us. which is just… such a disappointing note to end on.
