Puppeteer 2 - The Car Scene
I hope you guys are ready for a ride! But first, letâs put ourselves into context.Â
Adrien is scheduled to go at the GrĂ©vin Museum for a molding session. Since it will be long and boring, he invites Nino over. After some discussions, Adrien is finally accompanied by Nino, Alya, Marinette and Manon. On their way to the museum, Marinette discovers what Alya was plotting: leaving Adrien and Marinette alone so Marinette could confess to him. Marinette becomes a nervous wreck from that point. Thanks to a misunderstanding and to Marinetteâs behavior as she keeps avoiding him, Adrien reaches the conclusion he has done something to upset her, so he tries to cheer her up by pulling a little prank. Of course, everything went awry. Both ends up hurting the other. Marinette by not being honest with her feelings and thus confusing Adrien and Adrien by upsetting Marinette even more.Â
Later, after the Akuma is defeating, Adrien is driving everyone home. They first drop Alya and Nino, then Manon. Leaving Marinette alone with Adrien on her way home.Â
Leaving Marinette facing the conflict she kept avoiding through the entire episode. We can draw a parallel to another episode back in Season 2, where at the end of it, Adrien offers Marinette to drive her home about the same manner.
The difference is, in Gigantitan, Marinette declines the offer. Too afraid. While in Puppeteer 2, she resigns to it and takes place in the vehicle.Â
Nobody was forcing her to enter the car. She could have pretexted something at this point to avoid being alone with Adrien like she did through the entire episode. She could have pretexted she can walk the rest. But she didnât. If she had made up an excuse there, things would have been even more awkward between them and she would have hurt Adrien and herself even more. And she might also have been led by what Chat Noir told her earlier:Â âItâs precisely when you care about someone that you tell them how you feelâ.Â
So, she takes place. Adrien too doesnât avoid Marinette. He could have sat in the passenger front row like he did at the beginning of the episode. But instead, he takes place at the back next to Marinette.
Although both stand in their corner and are framed alone, how the shots follow each other suggests a discussion will occur as they are facing each other. Discussion which occurs on the next following shots where they are framed together:Â