I think Percy stood there awkwardly… he’s never really had a friend especially a friend who’s a girl… and all his bullies have been girls. And also he was all dripping wet so I feel like he would have also felt bad about hugging her with his soggy flannel arms, especially with how he reacted to his mom hugging him after being in the rain in episode 1. Also I loved the portrayal of Ares… he was funny and scary and unhinged and angry and pathetic all at once. Loved how Grover manipulated information out of him. Also Ares’s giant leather coat was epic
I don’t think he did reciprocate the hug bc like the awkward middle school boy he is, he just stood their awkwardly. However, in the trailer there’s another percabeth hug and he does indeed hug her back this time and I think that’s really cute actually. He’s slowly developing awareness😭😭
The scene with percy on the throne was so poetic🥺 the way annabeth is crying for him to get up, the way the gold envelops him as percy slowly starts realising and the panicked tears in his eyes but he’s trying to keep himself calm, and using his ‘dying breaths’ to reassure annabeth with a smile that he was “okay…..im okay…im” before being cut off by death. I was a little disappointed that percy came back ngl lol before i realised there are four more books to his name and that he was in five more books after that 😂
I just found out the newcomers to pjo are starting to call percabeth annacy😭 Noooo! Istg if I hear anyone saying “annacy” they’re going to be sent to Tartarus by me
@@Unclaimeddemigod Exactly. No official pjo account even mentioned percabeth until annacy started and they’re like “yep, we have to show them the right path”
He didn't hug her back and that makes sense, because she was the first girl who hugged him and he was surprised by it, but he did smile a little and it was adorable!!! Also Grover senses he will be a third wheel in a 4 years situationship and I love it lol
I liked seeing Ares. The scheming reminded me of what he was like in Xena, he may have been a sentimental idiot back then but he's had thousands of years to learn from those mistakes and now he's a clever schemer.
Spoiler: The fates cutting the string signifies the death of luke. Also in the graphic novel the fates are seen carrying lukes body to afterlife or somewhere after he died.
Well in the begining unclaimed said that the video would spoil the book, but, yeah it is a big spoil and it wasn’t real nice ( i don’t say it was on purpose) to not have putten a spoiler warning before the message.
There's a lot I could say but I'll just say as a non-book reader, the show is very good and has convinced me to download the audiobooks for my drive from KC to Vancouver in February. I know some spoilers from an big screen occurance that shall not be named (the prephecy referring to Luke as the betrail from one called friend, Luke as the lightning thief, Kronos as the big bad), but it's so much better seeing how it actually develops with a scheming Ares pulling strings.
I could imagine Grover framing Clarisse as the thief, them telling it to Luke in the next episode, so giving him more time to plan, while also creating more tension between the characters for SoM and using that as a reason for Clarisse to go on her quest alone
I see your point about the actor for the big H, but I think especially after seeing how amazing Leah is we've moved past actors having to look like their book counterparts
The actor for hephestus has a disability. he also recently had a stroke that affected his speech pattern. he is first of all a well known and really great actor but i think that was also one of the reasons why he was drawn to play the character. these are "imperfections" people see in real life and they, just like hera did kinda turn away or deem ugly. its why the casting probably fit to rick
The actor talked a bit more abt it on his instagram, saying that ir's hard for an actor to get jobs if they have a disability... but he loved being called to portray Hephaestus, a god who was also ostracized due to not fitting into the standard. He also appreciated how the props and styling team made Hephaestus a cane after his own, adding golden details and whatnot. Idk I just love it a lot. PJO has always been about making people find strength where others see weaknesses.
I think the string being cut isn't LITERALLY that someone's going to die, but that someone's fate is SEALED (which usually happens when they die, hence the assumption that it means someone's going to die)
I think the reason they did the fates scene in this episode was used to foreshadow Percy’s ‘death’ later in the episode. One thing I have noticed rereading the book after quite a few years is this attribute of fate and prophecy is never, maybe as final as it seems. Like that you can choose what you do with the hand you’re dealt
I agree with your point about Hephaestus not being used that well, especially with the tunnel scene and the images on the wall, if you don't know that myth story I highly doubt it would be clear why he is the way he is. I've been wondering how useful this show is at teaching kids about greek mythology cause I feel like I would be confused as to their hierarchy, who's the god of what, the relationships among the gods, etc. Like, based on the show with no prior knowledge, my wife had NO clue who Hephaestus was and what was going on with the glowing images until she got to that point in the book the day after. The books were like a gateway to teach kids some greek mythology so they would learn more about it if they were interested, I feel like the show is moreso a gateway to the books rather than pulling its own weight to be its own thing in a way. I see the shows and books as their own things, just more of a thing/IP that i love, but they need to take advantage of the medium they're using, like the HP movies compared to the books were how they were still so popular and successful.
I really love that the show is treating the gods as a family. In the books, its always easy to forget theyre all closely related. But the show is showing a much more dynamic relationship between them....and its really quite toxic. Im not saying that toxic families are good, just that it humanizes the gods. And i think the relatability of greek mythology is part of its appeal. Sometimes it seems like everyone i talk to comes from an effed up family. The gods arent high and mighty, theyre just as bad as the worst people. And it makes lukes arc and the other demogods that joined him that much more believable.
Agreed, Percy is going to have a harder time hating Luke now that Annabeth doesn't have a crush on him (for now) and that he kind of agrees with him already haha
Percabeth in this episode had me squealing and laughing the whole time. The meaning for the fates cutting the string appears in the last book and the string was apparently Luke's lifeline.
I understand your perspective on Hephaestus, but I disagree! I really loved Annabeth’s speech and how it all tied up. 34:32 I believe they are setting up a Red Herring! I believe he is either going to say Clarisse or some child of Athena! Definitely won’t be Luke, because Luke you said, we don’t even suspect him until the reveal! I have faith in this show. 💙
Especially when he (Ares) said he hates his kids. (It was a direct nod to ,,the sea of monsters"), but it could also be that Grover thoufh that one of his kids is the thief. Maybe.
I see other people explained the three Fates cutting the thread already so I'm just gonna point out that Annabeth being the one to see it here instead of Percy... great change but a painful one
This episode probably diverged the furthest from the source, but it still managed to do it in ways that came off as fitting into the universe and the plot in ways that were source-appropriate.
I love your review as always, but it got me thinking about a theory. If Annabeth had never seen a movie before, why did she have all those memories of watching old films with her dad in Mark of Athena? I think she and her dad started watching movies together as a way for him to make it up to her for being a terrible dad when she was little. Idk if it will come up later but it's something I remembered from MoA
Percy realize in book 5 that the string was Luke’s. He realizes that everything was planned before he even got to camp. The string was cut when Percy ditched Grover on the bus to New York City.
hey, 4th comment yay btw in the last book its mentioned that percy thinks/realises the fates cutting the thread signified the death of luke, if im not wrong
Hi, disney has released a bunch of stills from the episode and one of them was a wider shot of the percabeth hug and percy has one hand on annabeth’s back as reciprocation if that helps
It was incredible I watched as soon as it came out on Disney. 9:00 I was already on the couch, remote in hand. The next episode is coming on my moms birthday. And on of them comes out three day before my B day
I also don’t like the way they made Hephesteaus look like a victim. Especially if you considered the way him and Aphrodite got together in the first place, she was forced into marrying him? He’s very bitter and he did try to humiliate Aphrodite and Ares at every chance he got.
Tbh tho, in th books it wasn't hephaestus' idea but it was in fact an order frm zeus n hera to have aphrodite marry him. N rightly so. If she hadn't married or married another god none of th other male gods would have ever stopped arguing feeling offended, risking destroying th world in th process, but it's virtually impossible to be envious of hephaestus. I mean, it was either aphrodite's freedom to choose who to love or th safety of olympus n th whole world, soo..
@@Gradestar10 no see mythology’s have many versions of the story and that’s not the one the show was going with. The show followed the one in which Hephaestus tricked Zeus into letting him marry Aphrodite saying that’s he only way he would free Hera. Zeus didn’t know however that Dionysus had already convinced him to set Hera free.
So I just watched all 5 episodes of the series so far and something felt off. So then I reread the first book. And now I’m kinda annoyed. So here’s my thing I, do like the casting, the fighting, monsters and the acting. But the only two things I don’t like is how less tense it is in the show then the book. Like gabbe in the show is a bumb. In the book, he was a bum, abusive, and a bully. Like there’s a quote from the book “I don’t know when but gabbe had hit my mom”. Or like when Percy mentions Zeus name a few times, the camp is over run with rain and thunder clouds. Like you really can’t mention a gods or a monsters name. And no matter what you can’t use phones and stuff like that. It just everything that’s supposed to be mentioned with such intensity in the book it just introduce so causally. Like in the show they don’t really explain what each god does when they introduce a new god. In the book when they showed Mr. D they had Percy figure it out. And no matter what god it was, they created an aura, glowing eyes, a growl, or the environment around them rumbled to show they should be feared. Same with the 3 fates. No intensity, just mentioning them casually. They teased more with who Thalia grace is, who was on the quest with her, how much alike her and Percy are, and her being a part of the big 3. They teased about it through out the book. It was like one of those things you don’t talk about like Jason Todd’s death from Batman. But they just mentioned her name and who she was just so casually. The second thing I don’t like is how fast moving. Because there are things they do skip over, like Chiron as Percy’s teacher wasn’t just his teacher. He was his father figure. Like Alaric saltzman and hope from legacies. In the first few chapters we focused on that. It’s emotional because he has very little in his life that makes him happy. They stretched out Percy meeting Annabeth in the book when she was showing around camp. It just it feels really rushed and casual . Like the vibe I got from just reading the book again was the same kinda vibe in between watching Harry Potter and sorcerers stone through watching Harry Potter prisoner of Azkaban. Not too creepy, but magical, crappy life, adventurous, and so much focus on emotional bonds. Just instead of wizards you have Demi gods. So I kinda like the show but I also want them to put more depth into certain relationships. And more mystery with intensity.
@@UnclaimeddemigodI’m going to. And I’m hopping for the same thing because they might look for heroes Olympus to adapt to in the future. And I defiantly need for that to be good😊😊😊😊 plus I also want to see a very good romantic love hate relationship develop with Percy and annabeth. Kinda like Harry Potter and heromine granger if they weren’t just friends
It looked like he was just standing there awkwardly xD i wanted Percy and Grover to hug as well, in the book they do! I enjoyed this episode as well, but i also have a few points of criticism. I feel like Grover was a bit off-character this episode. Book 1 and 2 Grover is really anxious and I couldn’t imagine him being this confident and brave around the god of war (like he is in this ep). I like the trap in the tunnel of love in the show way better than the one in the books. In the books it was kind of on a childish level. I agree, it feels off that Percy is explaining the myths to Annabeth. I really appreciate your criticism on how they didn’t even try to get the shield on an other way. Sometimes the writing is a bit weird and fast paced and the dialogue’s seem kinda stiff (or stiffy? Idk how to say that).
SPOILER ALERT: 🚨 LAST OLYMPIAN The yarn cut is Luke, in the Last Olympian, Annabeth helped luke get kronos’s soul out of Luke’s body by reminding him of their friendship, and the only way to defeat Kronos was to use the cursed scyth (I think it spelled like that) that will take the soul of whoever gets stabbed by it, and Luke stabbed himself in his weak spot from the curse of Achilles to save everyone. So in the end, Luke was a hero. (Also random thing when I write Luke my next suggestion is immediately Castellan which is funny)
Just thinking out loud here, i heard someone on tik tok say, who is also a big fan of the show + books, that the string the Faiths cut, is Luke's lifeline, but i don't know for sure if that is true
I think Disney and Rick Riordan will use "The Gods" more times than they appear in the Books, for example Hephaestus and Hermes don't even appear in the first book, "The Lightning Thief", but they appear in the show, I'm very excited to see the what they can do in the second season, I think this second season has the potential to be even better than the first season😁
this is so random but when I was watching episode 5 I realized the fates were wearing Crocs 💀 I love this show but its fs not gonna be as timeless as I thought. But definitely no hate to the show bc ik a lot of media is modernizing stuff now ( the Mean Girls musical etc.)
You are the Unofficial club president of all the percabeth shippers Oh btw The fates were cutting the string for luke , they knit a funeral veil or something for luke, it's at the very end of The last Olympian we find this out
This is a out of topic question. Should I read TOA series although I got spoiled about Jason's fate ? Aside from that I have no other idea about the plot.
@@Unclaimeddemigod Mira, lo he encontrado. Esto es sobre el hilo que cortan las Moras en el libro uno. Al final del libro cinco, cuando Luke muere, llegan las Moiras para llevarse el cuerpo y pone esto: "[..] La Moira tomó el recorte de hilo azul - y supe que era el mismo que vi hacía cuatro años, la linea de vida que las vi cortar. Había pensado que era mi vida. Ahora entendía que era la de Luke. Ellas me habían mostrado la vida que debía ser sacrificada para arreglar las cosas. Se acercaron al cuerpo de Luke [..]"
Pretty wild how I keep seeing people wonder if there was a current, does everyone just think boats move by themselves in still water? There had to be a current pulling the boats
@@Unclaimeddemigod also we see white foam in the water which generally means the water is moving too fast for you to swim, you pretty much sink and drown in that type of water
This episode was our favorite so far but we have mixed feelings on Hephaestus, we see what the show is trying to do in making the gods more unlikable and more like the original Greek myths and it's cool and interesting but Hephaestus was always the one with a little more perspective because he's been an outcast, it's why he looked after Calypso, and it was solely because of his appearance. Hephaestus was cruel to the other gods but he was mostly pretty aloof to humans and demigods, even having a soft spot for them (though he didn't particularly *like* anyone that wasn't one of his creations lol). Making him traditionally good looking and only slightly nicer than the other gods really takes away his entire character, if he's not ugly then why was he rejected by Aphrodite? Why do the other gods treat him so poorly? It all just kinda falls apart. All that said we did really enjoy the performance and like him for what he is in the show.
We can also see Grover not wanting to say it's Luke because of how Percy and Annabeth respectively would react and he could still think Luke gave it to Hades
@@nerds-nonsense in th books it's said that he uses magic to make himself look better when he feels like it. Hephaestus is actually a resentful god towards ares n aphrodite's children, most notably, their daughter harmonia. Hephaestus would give her a golden necklace for her wedding, which would get passed down her family for generations inducing horrible tragedy many times to innocent people. Harmonia n his husband, for instance, got transformed into snakes for th rest of their lives
I think what's supposed to make him "ugly" in the eyes of the gods is just the fact that he's disabled at all (and the actor DOES actually have a disability, he's not simply using a cane for the show). Like, you look at the man and he's objectively not unattractive, but that's not what the gods see. They just see the fact that he's not perfect. Which I think is quite an interesting take on the myth, honestly, even if it's not strictly faithful.
@@Unclaimeddemigod you included a line saying he was descised but in the book i think it’s explained because there far away but who knows but think a really ugly person in a kids show not the best look
okay so I might be very delusional but in the preview we can see percy knocking down a guy with black hair and i thought that may be nico??? I mean it could obvi be grover or someone else since he hasn't been cast yet but yeahhh
How did Percy get unpoisoned? Is it because the water in the river is different or?? And i have an other stupid question: Back in episode 3 the body of Medusa didn’t dissolve like the other bodies of monsters do, why is that? I heard that Medusa technically is a (cursed) human. Celestial bronze wouldn’t kill a human. It’s not the first time, she got killed. In the myths she gets beheaded by Perseus as well..
it wasn't really explained in the show, but the water in the river healed percy. as to medusa, a cut off part of any monster becomes a trophy, so it doesn't disintegrate like the rest of the body. the same happened with minotaur's horn.
Medusa's spoils of war are her head tho, not her body. Most likely at that moment her body was still invisible cause of th cap. Btw, in th books not all monsters disintegrate into dust after death, for example th corpses of medea's solar dragons remain intact
@@legi1233 in th books medusa is th daughter of 2 divine sea monsters, but she was born w/ a human appearance n her monstrous appearance is th result of athena's curse. Riordan mixed ovid's version of th myth w/ th original greek ones in his works
I think Percy stood there awkwardly… he’s never really had a friend especially a friend who’s a girl… and all his bullies have been girls. And also he was all dripping wet so I feel like he would have also felt bad about hugging her with his soggy flannel arms, especially with how he reacted to his mom hugging him after being in the rain in episode 1.
Also I loved the portrayal of Ares… he was funny and scary and unhinged and angry and pathetic all at once. Loved how Grover manipulated information out of him. Also Ares’s giant leather coat was epic
The coat YES! Incredible 🙏🏻
I don’t think he did reciprocate the hug bc like the awkward middle school boy he is, he just stood their awkwardly. However, in the trailer there’s another percabeth hug and he does indeed hug her back this time and I think that’s really cute actually. He’s slowly developing awareness😭😭
Yess I totally agree w this
Yeah I saw his arms were down at his sides towards the end of the hug scene
Full on Percy ADHD brain something is happening what do I do with it?
If it’s in the name of character development I love him not hugging her back
I don’t think a girl has ever hugged him before, he was probably in shock!
The cut yarn is for Luke, in last Olympian, Luke's body is wrapped in the cut yarn
I know that I’ve read the books but uh not everyone has. That’s a pretty big spoiler dude
The scene with percy on the throne was so poetic🥺 the way annabeth is crying for him to get up, the way the gold envelops him as percy slowly starts realising and the panicked tears in his eyes but he’s trying to keep himself calm, and using his ‘dying breaths’ to reassure annabeth with a smile that he was “okay…..im okay…im” before being cut off by death. I was a little disappointed that percy came back ngl lol before i realised there are four more books to his name and that he was in five more books after that 😂
disappointed that he came back?!?!?! LOL
Nooo cause i do love percy but that scene was so heavy it felt anticlimactic when he came back lol (im just kidding im not a pyschopath)
I just found out the newcomers to pjo are starting to call percabeth annacy😭 Noooo! Istg if I hear anyone saying “annacy” they’re going to be sent to Tartarus by me
Annacy is actually cursed, thank god the actors are spreading Percabeth around
@@Unclaimeddemigod Exactly. No official pjo account even mentioned percabeth until annacy started and they’re like “yep, we have to show them the right path”
He didn't hug her back and that makes sense, because she was the first girl who hugged him and he was surprised by it, but he did smile a little and it was adorable!!! Also Grover senses he will be a third wheel in a 4 years situationship and I love it lol
I’ll take Percy being too shook to hug her back, it’s cute and he’ll probably hug her back in the last ep of the season !
Guys I think Dionysus dared Hermes to make a musical which is why we got Hamilton
That sounds about right
I mean........ Dead Son-
I cant control myself, Ares was so gooddddd. GROVER WAS PERFECT AND OMG THEY NAILED PERCABETH, i am not gonna lie i had my doubts but they nailed it.
FR SAME HERE Walker and Leah r the best Percabeth and Aryan is an amazing Grover
I liked seeing Ares. The scheming reminded me of what he was like in Xena, he may have been a sentimental idiot back then but he's had thousands of years to learn from those mistakes and now he's a clever schemer.
Ares was INCREDIBLE
Spoiler:
The fates cutting the string signifies the death of luke. Also in the graphic novel the fates are seen carrying lukes body to afterlife or somewhere after he died.
why are you spoiling it for people who havent read the books 😭😭
Well in the begining unclaimed said that the video would spoil the book, but, yeah it is a big spoil and it wasn’t real nice ( i don’t say it was on purpose) to not have putten a spoiler warning before the message.
A bit premature but love to see it (put spoiler warning on comment please 🙏🏻)
@@joshmallowwshe asked in the video if someone knew… besides Luke doesn’t die anytime soon
@@UnclaimeddemigodAgreed, someone who hasn't read the books is gonna be very disappointed if they see this without a warning
I look forward to these videos each week almost as much as the actual episodes! Thanks for making them and I hope you enjoyed your holiday 😊
this means a lot to me, thank you so much! I really enjoyed my holiday but it's back to business as usual now haha
There's a lot I could say but I'll just say as a non-book reader, the show is very good and has convinced me to download the audiobooks for my drive from KC to Vancouver in February. I know some spoilers from an big screen occurance that shall not be named (the prephecy referring to Luke as the betrail from one called friend, Luke as the lightning thief, Kronos as the big bad), but it's so much better seeing how it actually develops with a scheming Ares pulling strings.
I’m glad you liked it! Clearly people are loving it cause you can barely find the book in bookstores right now 😂
I could imagine Grover framing Clarisse as the thief, them telling it to Luke in the next episode, so giving him more time to plan, while also creating more tension between the characters for SoM and using that as a reason for Clarisse to go on her quest alone
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I see your point about the actor for the big H, but I think especially after seeing how amazing Leah is we've moved past actors having to look like their book counterparts
That’s true, but I think it adds to his story arc
The actor for hephestus has a disability. he also recently had a stroke that affected his speech pattern. he is first of all a well known and really great actor but i think that was also one of the reasons why he was drawn to play the character. these are "imperfections" people see in real life and they, just like hera did kinda turn away or deem ugly. its why the casting probably fit to rick
The actor talked a bit more abt it on his instagram, saying that ir's hard for an actor to get jobs if they have a disability... but he loved being called to portray Hephaestus, a god who was also ostracized due to not fitting into the standard. He also appreciated how the props and styling team made Hephaestus a cane after his own, adding golden details and whatnot. Idk I just love it a lot. PJO has always been about making people find strength where others see weaknesses.
I definitly think, that Grover suspects Clarisse
That’d be so funny
I think the string being cut isn't LITERALLY that someone's going to die, but that someone's fate is SEALED (which usually happens when they die, hence the assumption that it means someone's going to die)
YAY that Bellarke hug is my Roman Empire!!!!! We better get one of those types of hugs for Percabeth in this series, I can’t wait!! 😊
I think the reason they did the fates scene in this episode was used to foreshadow Percy’s ‘death’ later in the episode. One thing I have noticed rereading the book after quite a few years is this attribute of fate and prophecy is never, maybe as final as it seems. Like that you can choose what you do with the hand you’re dealt
I agree with your point about Hephaestus not being used that well, especially with the tunnel scene and the images on the wall, if you don't know that myth story I highly doubt it would be clear why he is the way he is. I've been wondering how useful this show is at teaching kids about greek mythology cause I feel like I would be confused as to their hierarchy, who's the god of what, the relationships among the gods, etc. Like, based on the show with no prior knowledge, my wife had NO clue who Hephaestus was and what was going on with the glowing images until she got to that point in the book the day after. The books were like a gateway to teach kids some greek mythology so they would learn more about it if they were interested, I feel like the show is moreso a gateway to the books rather than pulling its own weight to be its own thing in a way. I see the shows and books as their own things, just more of a thing/IP that i love, but they need to take advantage of the medium they're using, like the HP movies compared to the books were how they were still so popular and successful.
I agree, the mythology is less explained in the shows and I can see how a non reader would be confused
I really love that the show is treating the gods as a family. In the books, its always easy to forget theyre all closely related. But the show is showing a much more dynamic relationship between them....and its really quite toxic.
Im not saying that toxic families are good, just that it humanizes the gods. And i think the relatability of greek mythology is part of its appeal. Sometimes it seems like everyone i talk to comes from an effed up family.
The gods arent high and mighty, theyre just as bad as the worst people. And it makes lukes arc and the other demogods that joined him that much more believable.
Agreed, Percy is going to have a harder time hating Luke now that Annabeth doesn't have a crush on him (for now) and that he kind of agrees with him already haha
Percabeth in this episode had me squealing and laughing the whole time.
The meaning for the fates cutting the string appears in the last book and the string was apparently Luke's lifeline.
percabeth is only going to get stronger after this and my heart isn't ready
@@Unclaimeddemigod Same I hope I can handle it
I understand your perspective on Hephaestus, but I disagree! I really loved Annabeth’s speech and how it all tied up. 34:32 I believe they are setting up a Red Herring! I believe he is either going to say Clarisse or some child of Athena! Definitely won’t be Luke, because Luke you said, we don’t even suspect him until the reveal! I have faith in this show. 💙
Especially when he (Ares) said he hates his kids. (It was a direct nod to ,,the sea of monsters"), but it could also be that Grover thoufh that one of his kids is the thief. Maybe.
@@likecat7886 yes, I see that now!
I think he’s going to accuse someone that we’ve already met, so maybe not a child of Athena?
When the Fates were there when they cut the string it was Luke's life support in the last book where he died
I see other people explained the three Fates cutting the thread already so I'm just gonna point out that Annabeth being the one to see it here instead of Percy... great change but a painful one
VERY TRUE
This episode probably diverged the furthest from the source, but it still managed to do it in ways that came off as fitting into the universe and the plot in ways that were source-appropriate.
I would agree, it fit with the rest of the episodes and the characters were still accurate
I love your review as always, but it got me thinking about a theory. If Annabeth had never seen a movie before, why did she have all those memories of watching old films with her dad in Mark of Athena? I think she and her dad started watching movies together as a way for him to make it up to her for being a terrible dad when she was little. Idk if it will come up later but it's something I remembered from MoA
The movie thing was just an excuse for Percy to ask Annabeth out hahahaha (yes, I am delusional)
I love your theory though!
Percy realize in book 5 that the string was Luke’s. He realizes that everything was planned before he even got to camp. The string was cut when Percy ditched Grover on the bus to New York City.
hey, 4th comment yay
btw in the last book its mentioned that percy thinks/realises the fates cutting the thread signified the death of luke, if im not wrong
Or Silena idk it’s been a while
Or it could be Gabe, tho I don't think he's that much of an important character to show the Fates cutting the string
Rick planning ahead for once? I cannot believe it XD
also this is the best episode till now, i watched it twice
I don’t know if it’s my favorite yet but I loved it
Hi, disney has released a bunch of stills from the episode and one of them was a wider shot of the percabeth hug and percy has one hand on annabeth’s back as reciprocation if that helps
I love confirmation that I was right
I kid you not this episode made me happy cry and scream sm, my tiny little Percabeth shipper brain couldn’t take it 😭😭
Yup yup yup
i look forward to these reviews as much as the episodes themselves
thank you so much
Looking forward to your reaction of Ep 6.
ITS COMING SOON
It was incredible I watched as soon as it came out on Disney. 9:00 I was already on the couch, remote in hand. The next episode is coming on my moms birthday. And on of them comes out three day before my B day
Your mom is one lucky gal
The BTS pics show that Percy did hug her back!
I love being right so much
The hi moment reminds me of when Percy walks in on his own funeral and is just kinda like so ya I’m not dead
what an icon
I also don’t like the way they made Hephesteaus look like a victim. Especially if you considered the way him and Aphrodite got together in the first place, she was forced into marrying him? He’s very bitter and he did try to humiliate Aphrodite and Ares at every chance he got.
My thoughts exactly
Tbh tho, in th books it wasn't hephaestus' idea but it was in fact an order frm zeus n hera to have aphrodite marry him. N rightly so. If she hadn't married or married another god none of th other male gods would have ever stopped arguing feeling offended, risking destroying th world in th process, but it's virtually impossible to be envious of hephaestus. I mean, it was either aphrodite's freedom to choose who to love or th safety of olympus n th whole world, soo..
@@Gradestar10 no see mythology’s have many versions of the story and that’s not the one the show was going with. The show followed the one in which Hephaestus tricked Zeus into letting him marry Aphrodite saying that’s he only way he would free Hera. Zeus didn’t know however that Dionysus had already convinced him to set Hera free.
@@deleteduser-lv1yg i know, but we're talking hb th world of pj here, n th canonical version is this 1. Th show changed things
So I just watched all 5 episodes of the series so far and something felt off. So then I reread the first book. And now I’m kinda annoyed.
So here’s my thing I, do like the casting, the fighting, monsters and the acting. But the only two things I don’t like is how less tense it is in the show then the book. Like gabbe in the show is a bumb. In the book, he was a bum, abusive, and a bully. Like there’s a quote from the book “I don’t know when but gabbe had hit my mom”. Or like when Percy mentions Zeus name a few times, the camp is over run with rain and thunder clouds. Like you really can’t mention a gods or a monsters name. And no matter what you can’t use phones and stuff like that. It just everything that’s supposed to be mentioned with such intensity in the book it just introduce so causally. Like in the show they don’t really explain what each god does when they introduce a new god. In the book when they showed Mr. D they had Percy figure it out. And no matter what god it was, they created an aura, glowing eyes, a growl, or the environment around them rumbled to show they should be feared. Same with the 3 fates. No intensity, just mentioning them casually. They teased more with who Thalia grace is, who was on the quest with her, how much alike her and Percy are, and her being a part of the big 3. They teased about it through out the book. It was like one of those things you don’t talk about like Jason Todd’s death from Batman. But they just mentioned her name and who she was just so casually.
The second thing I don’t like is how fast moving. Because there are things they do skip over, like Chiron as Percy’s teacher wasn’t just his teacher. He was his father figure. Like Alaric saltzman and hope from legacies. In the first few chapters we focused on that. It’s emotional because he has very little in his life that makes him happy. They stretched out Percy meeting Annabeth in the book when she was showing around camp.
It just it feels really rushed and casual . Like the vibe I got from just reading the book again was the same kinda vibe in between watching Harry Potter and sorcerers stone through watching Harry Potter prisoner of Azkaban. Not too creepy, but magical, crappy life, adventurous, and so much focus on emotional bonds. Just instead of wizards you have Demi gods.
So I kinda like the show but I also want them to put more depth into certain relationships. And more mystery with intensity.
I think they might change some things around if we get a second season, so maybe stick around until then?
@@UnclaimeddemigodI’m going to. And I’m hopping for the same thing because they might look for heroes Olympus to adapt to in the future. And I defiantly need for that to be good😊😊😊😊 plus I also want to see a very good romantic love hate relationship develop with Percy and annabeth. Kinda like Harry Potter and heromine granger if they weren’t just friends
It looked like he was just standing there awkwardly xD i wanted Percy and Grover to hug as well, in the book they do! I enjoyed this episode as well, but i also have a few points of criticism. I feel like Grover was a bit off-character this episode. Book 1 and 2 Grover is really anxious and I couldn’t imagine him being this confident and brave around the god of war (like he is in this ep). I like the trap in the tunnel of love in the show way better than the one in the books. In the books it was kind of on a childish level. I agree, it feels off that Percy is explaining the myths to Annabeth. I really appreciate your criticism on how they didn’t even try to get the shield on an other way. Sometimes the writing is a bit weird and fast paced and the dialogue’s seem kinda stiff (or stiffy? Idk how to say that).
I agree about the dialogue and the pace, I like to think it's the show finding its footing
SPOILER ALERT: 🚨 LAST OLYMPIAN
The yarn cut is Luke, in the Last Olympian, Annabeth helped luke get kronos’s soul out of Luke’s body by reminding him of their friendship, and the only way to defeat Kronos was to use the cursed scyth (I think it spelled like that) that will take the soul of whoever gets stabbed by it, and Luke stabbed himself in his weak spot from the curse of Achilles to save everyone. So in the end, Luke was a hero. (Also random thing when I write Luke my next suggestion is immediately Castellan which is funny)
the fates cutting the string that meant that luke was going to die, but not in the first book, but the 5th one
Just thinking out loud here, i heard someone on tik tok say, who is also a big fan of the show + books, that the string the Faiths cut, is Luke's lifeline, but i don't know for sure if that is true
THIS EPISODE IS A PERCABETTH SHIPPER HAVEN
FRRR
that it is
I think the string is lukes, I think. Hope they play poker face in the casino
I don't think poker face will make an appearance, but a girl can dream
spoiler warning
i know the string was cut for luke, but i always thought due to the whole “dying soon” thing that it was for gabe.
Ohhh I really like this theory
thanks for putting a spoiler warning on your comment!
I think Disney and Rick Riordan will use "The Gods" more times than they appear in the Books, for example Hephaestus and Hermes don't even appear in the first book, "The Lightning Thief", but they appear in the show, I'm very excited to see the what they can do in the second season, I think this second season has the potential to be even better than the first season😁
I need Charon to start singing D.O.A
I would pay actual money for this to happen
this is so random but when I was watching episode 5 I realized the fates were wearing Crocs 💀 I love this show but its fs not gonna be as timeless as I thought. But definitely no hate to the show bc ik a lot of media is modernizing stuff now ( the Mean Girls musical etc.)
The show has an Olivia Rodrigo song twenty minutes into the first episode, it missed timeless by a looooooong shot
bro, I can't believe that Grover would like war
he's just a very good detective
I am not joking this ep. Convinced me to read the books lol
You are the Unofficial club president of all the percabeth shippers
Oh btw The fates were cutting the string for luke , they knit a funeral veil or something for luke, it's at the very end of The last Olympian we find this out
Unofficial club president of Percabeth shippers is the best tittle anyone has ever bestowed upon me
@@Unclaimeddemigod you deserve it!
This is a out of topic question. Should I read TOA series although I got spoiled about Jason's fate ? Aside from that I have no other idea about the plot.
Yeah, you should read it, especially if you like the seven as separate characters and / or Sollangelo
Ellas cortaron la cuerda azul prediciendo la muerte de Luke en el quinto. En el libro lo pone, que Percy se acuerda y se da cuenta...
En el primer libro?!?! Brutal la verdad, bien hecho Rick
@@Unclaimeddemigod Mira, lo he encontrado. Esto es sobre el hilo que cortan las Moras en el libro uno. Al final del libro cinco, cuando Luke muere, llegan las Moiras para llevarse el cuerpo y pone esto:
"[..] La Moira tomó el recorte de hilo azul - y supe que era el mismo que vi hacía
cuatro años, la linea de vida que las vi cortar. Había pensado que era mi vida.
Ahora entendía que era la de Luke. Ellas me habían mostrado la vida que debía
ser sacrificada para arreglar las cosas. Se acercaron al cuerpo de Luke [..]"
💙💙💙
fates cutting the string is Gabe dying 😢
Pretty wild how I keep seeing people wonder if there was a current, does everyone just think boats move by themselves in still water? There had to be a current pulling the boats
I believe the boat was probably on a track? but there's always a current (even if just slightly) in water rides
@@Unclaimeddemigod well we don’t see a track when they’re under water and there’s enough of a pull that the boat in front shatters against the wall
@@Unclaimeddemigod also we see white foam in the water which generally means the water is moving too fast for you to swim, you pretty much sink and drown in that type of water
Are you only going to do episode reviews or will you return to your regular content eventually?
There’s only going to be 8 eps so I’ll eventually have to go back to regular content 😂
This episode was our favorite so far but we have mixed feelings on Hephaestus, we see what the show is trying to do in making the gods more unlikable and more like the original Greek myths and it's cool and interesting but Hephaestus was always the one with a little more perspective because he's been an outcast, it's why he looked after Calypso, and it was solely because of his appearance. Hephaestus was cruel to the other gods but he was mostly pretty aloof to humans and demigods, even having a soft spot for them (though he didn't particularly *like* anyone that wasn't one of his creations lol). Making him traditionally good looking and only slightly nicer than the other gods really takes away his entire character, if he's not ugly then why was he rejected by Aphrodite? Why do the other gods treat him so poorly? It all just kinda falls apart. All that said we did really enjoy the performance and like him for what he is in the show.
We can also see Grover not wanting to say it's Luke because of how Percy and Annabeth respectively would react and he could still think Luke gave it to Hades
@@nerds-nonsense in th books it's said that he uses magic to make himself look better when he feels like it. Hephaestus is actually a resentful god towards ares n aphrodite's children, most notably, their daughter harmonia. Hephaestus would give her a golden necklace for her wedding, which would get passed down her family for generations inducing horrible tragedy many times to innocent people. Harmonia n his husband, for instance, got transformed into snakes for th rest of their lives
I think what's supposed to make him "ugly" in the eyes of the gods is just the fact that he's disabled at all (and the actor DOES actually have a disability, he's not simply using a cane for the show). Like, you look at the man and he's objectively not unattractive, but that's not what the gods see. They just see the fact that he's not perfect. Which I think is quite an interesting take on the myth, honestly, even if it's not strictly faithful.
@@Gradestar10 oh we missed that, it must have been in the supplemental books, we didn’t read too many of those.
@@puck4274 that’s a really interesting take, we really like that interpretation.
Annabeth mentioned in a book thTbhe looked normal and hephestace replied i can chnage my appereance
that'd make sense actually, wish they had included that here somehow
@@Unclaimeddemigod you included a line saying he was descised but in the book i think it’s explained because there far away but who knows but think a really ugly person in a kids show not the best look
I feel that hephaestus is much better because he was the only god as far as i remember who came to meet calypso and actually cared.
that is a point in his favor
okay so I might be very delusional but in the preview we can see percy knocking down a guy with black hair and i thought that may be nico??? I mean it could obvi be grover or someone else since he hasn't been cast yet but yeahhh
you're right, you might be delusional XD
@@Unclaimeddemigod oop (Im a marauders fan so I kinda knew that)
Is it my headphones or is the audio a bit weird? :( i`ll try to unplug and plug them
It’s a bit weird sorry! Don’t know what happened at the beginning of the vid 🙏🏻
The books are for sure way better
that they are
How did Percy get unpoisoned? Is it because the water in the river is different or?? And i have an other stupid question: Back in episode 3 the body of Medusa didn’t dissolve like the other bodies of monsters do, why is that? I heard that Medusa technically is a (cursed) human. Celestial bronze wouldn’t kill a human. It’s not the first time, she got killed. In the myths she gets beheaded by Perseus as well..
it wasn't really explained in the show, but the water in the river healed percy.
as to medusa, a cut off part of any monster becomes a trophy, so it doesn't disintegrate like the rest of the body. the same happened with minotaur's horn.
great explanation! I also think that the running water from the river works much better for healing purposes than the water from the fountain
@@Fluffy_Wolverine @Unclaimeddemigod great! Thanks for the explanations :)
Medusa's spoils of war are her head tho, not her body. Most likely at that moment her body was still invisible cause of th cap. Btw, in th books not all monsters disintegrate into dust after death, for example th corpses of medea's solar dragons remain intact
@@legi1233 in th books medusa is th daughter of 2 divine sea monsters, but she was born w/ a human appearance n her monstrous appearance is th result of athena's curse. Riordan mixed ovid's version of th myth w/ th original greek ones in his works
this show sucks