have been thinking about driving as a symbol of personal autonomy and agency and taking control, and it’s really interesting to me how in the first season of the silt verses faulkner is literally doing all of the driving whenever he’s w carpenter or carpenter&paige (well, other than that one time when he’s unconscious cause a giant crab fucked him up real good). which kinda goes nicely together w the whole thing of him starting to carve out his story. the boy is fucking desperate to be behind the wheel of his (and honestly others’) life!!
and then in season 3, he’s often in cars (the drive from the Katabasians’ Council to the Gulch, from the radio station to the ruins of Gulch and from there to his dad’s cabin, and once again from his family home to the Grand Aquifer) but all of these times he’s being driven around. not onceeee is he himself behind the wheel. and that, on one hand, is obviously due to the position of power/authority and thus comfort that he’s now occupying—now he has people to perform these kinds of services for him. butttttt i also think that it shows that the reins aren’t fully in his hands and in actuality he’s really not as in control as he’d like to think he is.
good job, buddy, you’ve made the narrative of your story into a self-perpetuating machine, now it can run along all on its own!:D you’re now stuck in the passenger seat of your life<3
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