@@Sagtopolus-iv6ek They messed up with Procrutes, charon, Annabeth, Kronos and Hades in one episode. And with them finding the master bolt. Almost as bad as the movie.
I feel like the problem isn't exactly the fight scenes. The fury ones I thought were okay. The problem for me is that all around it feels like there's a lack of excitement and danger. Like they dragged the talk with medusa and Eqdna so much that I lost all suspense, especially Eqdna. She literally said instead of showing what she would do. That's why it feels so underwhelming. The fights themselves aren't bad but their set-ups are. Also, Idk why the director or whoever made them just walk around like everything is fine, they should be hasty like there's danger everywhere. They should be low-key paranoid. Instead we get them just chilling and having these long conversations with lots and lots of exposure. This show is literally just telling us everything instead of showing it. They didn't even make him read Greek in the museum!! Me and my brother read the books when we were kids and now are watching the séries together. Every week we finish the episode in disappoinment, not cause is bad, but because it feels like nothing happened! It's so dragged that the almost 30min feel like 10
The direction is horrid, the acting is mediocre, the action scenes are horribly choreographed and the changes from the book butcher every cool or intricate scene either because 'no time' or 'thats too violent for kids'
IT IS TRASH!!! it’s crazy how people will say “I don’t really like it…BUT NO HATE TO ANYONE WHO DOES IT IS A LITTLE GOOD” People are so afraid to straight up call it like it and say it awful…it’s so lame
@@eleasy1976 aha ty bro every episode i just skim through to just see what they did but i find the show terrible and the acting terrible. Especially Grover, just focus on his facial expressions and you'll find they make no sense for the emotion he is trying to portray if any since his face is so still. Imagine if the people who made peaky blinders made this show. This show has the capacity to be the next generation Harry Potter/Game of Thrones if done correctly.
Yes, yes and yes. It has so much potential and it just hurts to see how bad they are ruining it. I don have that much truble with the acting, the kids are good for their age, they are actually better than HP cast in the first movie, it is the dialogue and screen play that are just awfull and makes them no favor, i have read better written fanficts i swear.
@@eleasy1976it's a lame show, I watched it with my girlfriend, who actually read all the books (I haven't) and we disliked it equaly, its as bad as it can get, reminds me of the avatar aang movie... Almost as bad
The only thing I really hated was that the characters were all changed. Annabeth wasn't blonde, ok leave that Poseidon, Hades both looked so ordinary and nothing like a greek god, and damn zeus was black. I'm not discriminating here, he's a GREEK god. Why would he be black? They're not american! They really should have represented the gods better.
The gods and demigods are like the elfs of the rings of power, they are suposed to exceed power in a way you can tell they are not human, which is why it actually makes sense that in the books they had really rare features like their eye color. However in the show they all look so ordinary and human ugh.
@@peter42466 All the people in the show talking about how she is the mvp of the demigods, whithout the writers actually showing it just makes her seem like a wattpad mary sue
THANK YOU THANK YOU THANK. YOU! All my friends love the show and think that it's SO awesome, and I feel like I'm going insane because I feel like it's so bad!!!! And I'm usually a horrible judge of movie/tv show quality (I remember actually enjoying Captain Marvel back when it came out, but now I realize just how bad it was). Don't get me wrong, I LOVED episode 1. I thought it was awesome, save for that one moment where Grover got Percy expelled, but other than that, AMAZING. Episode 2: I liked it. There were a few more moments were I was like, "Ehh, okaaay, I'll cut you guys some slack." but that was it. Episode 3: There were only a few scenes I actually enjoyed (and by that, I mean one or two). Everything else was garbage. Episodes 4-6: I WANT THOSE HOURS OF MY LIFE BACK. They were so bad. Grover's my favorite character, but not even HE could save it, in my opinion. I'll probably watch the last two episodes, just so that I can see it to the end, but I will most likely NOT be watching season 2 when it releases (unless I hear from some of the reaction channels that I follow that it's better). I never thought I'd say it, but the movies were better. Don't get me wrong, they're awful, but the show is W O R S E.
At least as much as he did in the books. Ideally that would be the LEAST we'd expect, especially considering how hands on the actual author of the books is with the show.
1. the furies were barely aggressive on the bus cuz they were looking for smth; and possibly kidnap the kids. also, they would come back to their own selves in like, a week so being vaporized is nothing to them 2. dude, the chimera is a literal BABY. doing it's FIRST hunt. and percy is barely skilled in fighting like what do u expect a traumatised 12 yr old kid w barely any experience to do😭😭
@@EnthusiasticAnt-lz8sn Lol the movies have better visuals, have much more entertaining and linear plot and the casts was more charismatic that can totally sell believable fight scenes.
@@robertbench5187 See, this is what I've been telling people. What makes a "good movie" isn't necessarily how "faithful" an adaption it is-- it's how well you SHOW not TELL and engage the audience in a simple, not complicated way.
Dude that’s basically how the fight went down in the book for chimera what was Percy supposed to do with the goddess of monsters right there as well? He’s twelve years old and still figuring it out your expecting him to preform like it’s his fourth year kicking ass as a demigod 😂
Hey, did you know about this really cool new thing called a book? Yeah, apparently this show was based on it, and did a terrible job of portraying it. Maybe you'd know that if you had ever picked one up, nonetheless read one.
@@shaymurphy4951 1. Change of Gabe's entire personality. 2. Change of Sally Jackson entire purpose and personality. 3. Book Percy can fight like a devil when he's near water, while in tv he barely shows that he can fight. 4. Change of entire Medusa entrance. 5. Change of entire Lotus Hotel. 6. Shortening entire Hades journey. Want to see more? I can do this all day.
In the book, the fight went on for awhile, at least a minute, from him dodging several claw attacks and fire breath, until Percy made a mistake and bounced his sword off the collar, giving the Chimera a chance to poison him.
He defeated the god of war, so yeah i expect him to put an actual fight. If not that, i at least expect actual tension on the scene, there is a whole genere of media about a hurt hero trying to defeat an unstopable villian with whom he is trapped, how in the world they manage to make that scene so boring is beyond me.
That movie was trash The show is not a remake of the movie It is a more faithful adaptation of the books The freaking author of the books is working on the show
AND HE SOME HOW SCREWED UP HIS OWN CHARACTERS! it's genuinely impressive that the author of the books wrote his characters completely different from how they were supposed to be.
bro he's a 12 year old boy written to be a 12 year old boy. and not only that, written to have literally no prior knowledge to his identity, and if you're ripping on fight scenes so much, no knowledge of combat. just because he was given a sword doesn't mean he knows how to do it. let the show play out.
In the books, he is a naturally good fighter, (you know, on account of him being a HALF-BLOOD) and the sow did nothing to show that. You've clearly never read the books.
@@nicklausrichardson5927 right first of all, i have, and i still see nothing wrong with how he’s being shown in the show, you’d be surprised how only being in like 2 fights and being a naturally can coexist in tandem, nerd.
The first Harry Potter movie has like no action scenes . lol you put the poster from the second movie . The last fight is just Harry touching Voldemorts face .
I think the show is great tbh, the only things I wanna criticize is that the the cast doesn’t fit in with the book descriptions and that grover’s actor is too monotone, he needs to add more emphasis and emotion into his words, both just say the lines but feel the lines too.
i mean i agree with grover, but i whole heartedly think annabeth and percy fit their characters quite well. them and including alot of the less important characters
The kids who loved and read these books when they came out are all now in our 20s. So if this show isn't for us... who is it for? I feel like the whole time I'm watching, the showrunners are treating me like I'm 12 again.
Mate, people are acting as if 12 year old wouldnt be able to stand some action. The amount of tension in that show is for like 5 years old, who would brobably get bored if they watched it lol.
To all the people in this comment section saying things like "oooh but he is only 12 years old and his training started just days ago, how would he be able to give like a huge fight scene": First, that doesn't explain why they just fugging let him kill them. Second, did you even see the Capture the Flag Scene? He beats the asses of multiple skilled campers with seemingly no problem, and yes, I doubt that the water could boost him so much because this kid literally didn't know shit about fighting before. I actually didn't watch the whole episodes cause I don't want to pay money to Disney, but I saw clips of some fight scenes here on UA-cam. That's why I cannot say if it's a bad show overall or if it's a good one, but I absolutely see why someone is disappointed in some aspects of the show.
Bruh Harry doesn’t even cast a spell in the first Harry Potter movie . Have you watched the movie at all recently, If you want action wait till Percy’s more experienced.
Well, the difference here is that Percy Jackson is on a QUEST and monsters are literally chasing after them, so it SHOULD be tense and action packed. Harry Potter's first year was literally him at school until the end. The first book is more like a mystery than anything else. Different plots require different types of tension. The troll fight, for example, was longer and more intense than a lot of things in this show.
Sooo he can't be disappointed in the show because he didn't read the books? And you think that it's a great show because you did read them? You're not making sense, the book and the show are two different things.
@@jusuf161 Right, but if you haven't read the books you lose a lot of respect from people in this fandom. He's also making very basic and shallow complaints. The show and movie are indeed separate things, but neither of them are action based and shouldn't be treated as such.
@@CoolScratcher I know that these are probably not the deepest of thoughts from him, but still just deniyng someones opinion because he didn't read a book when it's all about a series is kinda stupid
Yeah, maybe the problem here is that the source material wasn't too great in the first place, hence why the movie had to change the plot to make it more interesting and easier to follow in and hour and 40 mins.
@@lulubelle196the thing with pjo books is that they have really good/epic and iconic moment and at the same time it has also moments that i cannot even comprehend how in the world they made it throughout edition. The concept of the books is pretty interesting and the characters are also pretty solid so as a whole the series has a lot of potential, i was really hoping that Rick would get the help of actually good writters and directors for the show that would help him to fix those details from the book, instead he got the dora the explorer director lol. Book 1 and 2 are by far the weakest of the series and in my opinion it would have been better if they had just adapted both into one season of 10 episodes so that we could get quicker into the best part of the series.
I agree. I will continue to watch it but its really disappointing Edit: I've rewatched the original PJ< movie and immediately I realised what I would have preferred in this series. I will preface this by saying that yes ultimately I think the older movie did a better job than this series but naturally with every book to movie adaptation the book is better. I want to first list of the things I liked about the series: - Appropriate Cast age - I actually really like the casting - Loved the Camp Halfblood set and the scenery, looks amazing - Actually see the demigods wearing their orange CHB shirts - The claiming sequence revealing who they are the spawn of with the floaty icon What I think the Movie did better: - M: Percy actually feels comfortable in water (makes perfect sense) S: He's afraid to swim. - M: Grover using a clutch to mask the way he walks. S: He's like any normal kid (which is fine, i just liked the extra detail of the crutches). - M: Showcasing his Dyslexia. S: Pretty sure they never showed it, if they did it wasn't memorable. - M: Gabe was actually an asshole and abusive. S: Gabe is just a loser, thats it. - M: Percy's mom when it came to Gabe didn't feel strong (because she's doing her best to keep percy safe). S: The mom actually talked back to gabe which made gabe feel less dangerous. - M: The monsters actually felt dangerous. S: Fighting sequences were too short, makes the monsters feel less dangerous too. - M: Furies were actually scary. S: Furies transformation was cool but thats it. - M: I liked that Percy's sword Riptide is a click pen ( I think its a click pen ) S: Having to take the cap off the pen to activate the sword - M: I liked that Annabeth was on the other team during the Capture the flag game. S: It's nice that they were on the same team but I'd like to see percy get beat up by annabeth first. - M: You can see the water was flowing up to his wounds to heal him. S: You don't see that at all. - M: Also liked that he was the one to discover the healing himself. S: He had to be pushed by annabeth to realise he could heal. - M: The medusa scene was actually great. Stakes were high, you can actually see medusa turn someone to stone. Really liked that they used the reflection to see her. Also they brought her chopped off head with them S: Medusa scene was way too slow and nothing much happened. - M: Fighting the Hydra at the Parthenon was pretty epic, especially because they used Dusa's head to kill the hydra. S: Fighting the Chimera at the St. Louis Gateway is neat I guess.
I think the show is way better than you portray it. The only thing I can criticize is that i think it should have more than 8 episodes. We need more time to go even deeper into the books. But they made an awesome show in my opinion. I don’t get your critique.
The fight scenes are really bad I admit. But it's really a love letter to book fans in the calmer more dialogue and exposition heavy scenes. It fleshes out the world so much
Okay I love Harry Potter but no adult who's never seen them before as a child isn't sitting through the first few movies. Which is basically what the equivalent is. We're still in year one. It is for the kids
@@BobMarley-ok5cu I'm saying the number of people who watched the movie without reading the books before or without kids was pretty low. The first 2 atleast. I grew up with Harry Potter but I wouldn't watch them now except for nostalgic reasons. They are for kids and you were supposed to grow up with them.
@@namayra299 a thing that's "for kids" can also be something an adult enjoys. there are plenty of examples of things like that, the first few harry potter movies being some of them. let's not be revisionist and pretend that there wasn't something special about those movies, as they were both critically and financially successful, enough to be the foundation of a franchise that's still going strong (ish) today.
@@BobMarley-ok5cu no one's being a revisionist here. No where did I say that they weren't special. Like I said, I did grow up with them. I'm saying you can't compare it with Harry Potter because as the movies progress, it stopped being for kids only. The movies 'grew' with you, that was the entire concept and part of what made them special. And with that comes the consequence that the first couple movies are more kid centric and less enjoyable and that's okay because they were aimed at setting up the world and the characters. I'm saying the same argument can be offered to Percy Jackson where the first series is basically the introduction and don't have to be all action and 'so enjoyable' by adults. Also given that this is a series and not a movie, it doesn't have to appeal to parents accompanying the kids to the theatres. If at gunpoint I had to choose I ll still pick Harry Potter over Percy Jackson but hey, call a spade a spade.
@@namayra299 when you say "who's never seen them (the first harry potter movies) before as a child isn't sitting through the first few movies" then, are you not trying to suggest that it's okay that this first season of percy jackson is received poorly by adults because it's meant for kids? i'm not arguing that the harry potter movies didn't "grow" with the audience because they did, and that's a big reason why they were able to stay successful throughout their entire run. i'd love for this percy jackson series to do the same and be successful, but at the same time i understand where a lot of the criticism for this show is coming from. you saying "We're still in year one. It is for the kids" makes it look like you're coming from an angle where you can dismiss the criticism the show is receiving by saying it's for kids, therefore it can't be critiqued until it actually gets good when the kids it's being made for grow up. and what i'm trying to say is that harry potter didn't need to do that, as it was good when it was being made for kids, and stayed good as those kids grew up.
Agreed, trash adaptation. Boring acting, horrible choice for cast (they don’t even fit their character description), and bad pacing. I think i prefer the first movie over this even
If you prefer the first movie over this, you either haven't seen any other movie or show, or you haven't read the books and are basing everything on mindless action sequences
This series is a lot better than the movies. We also gotta remember these are kids. Which is more accurate to the books. Kids aren't gonna be these epic fighters with little training. 😅😅😅
@@nicklausrichardson5927which is an episode we haven’t reached yet the battle with the chimera is basically just a more drawn out version of what was in the books
@@valohe2957 these episodes have included most of the information that is in the book and riordan himself is working on this project. Yea it sucks that they race swapped most of the characters and ruined Grover’s character, but this is as close as the film industry is going to get to a faithful adaptation
The show is dog Water absolute garbage adaption, and as a standalone it's so incompressible and cringe, I have so many questions, tell not show taken to another level, like the way they are always spouting off really important stuff about the lore of the series in such monotone format that it easily escapes your attention and is so unexciting, who has the memory to remember every little thing that's said by some character , show me or at least say each lore stuff in the right context in a very clear manner, not vaguely mentioning important stuff while your on a bus to god knows where
the show is about the story it’s not about the action. you’re not gonna be super excited to relive the story if you already know it back to front. the writing is good, the acting is pretty good (except for annabeth imo) and the mythos that riordan built is interesting. not to mention the sets and visual effects oh my god. if you wanted to watch an action show you shouldn’t have picked the one where twelve year olds run for their lives for a whole book
@@peter42466 In his notes to the studio that made the movies, Rick Riordan did call the fight at the book's climax(not saying between who for spoiler reasons) the most epic and cinematic scene in the book. I'm sure it'll be the highlight of the series when we get to it.
Maybe you didn’t read the books? Those were fully accurate to the books. And yes, there will be a long end fight. The biggest weakness of the show is that episodes are 30-45 minutes. Add 15 minutes and fill it with world building and it would be really good.
-pink poodle - socks of death were supposed to happen before Percy even got home to his apartment. -annabeths actor cannot act for the life of her. -annabeth and Percy have about as much chemistry as Drain cleaner and my intestines
@@nicklausrichardson59271.pink poodle is overrated as hell 2. That scene is so forgettable that I forgot it’s existence completely could and should’ve been cut 3. Annabeths actress can act that’s just the case can’t really argue with something that’s wrong 4. Percy and annabeth have chemistry you just didn’t watch the show
so this is supposed to be good because it's accurate to the book? the show is already massively deviating from the main story, but you're gonna defend this by saying it's good because it's accurate to the book?
@@peter42466 man why r yall so thick in the head . I CAN LITERALLY NAME A DOZEN THINGS IN A SINGLE EP OF THIS SHOW THAT IS ALL WRONG . for starters the acting is quite bad
@@valohe2957 so acting is bad is interesting because it really isn’t like compare this to early Harry Potter these kids deserve Oscars second name a dozen things
Ah yes. There will be a awsome fight scene when its a 12 year old thats poisioned against the strongest monster, You ever get punched when you got covid and then get smacked? It's like that. But the smack is like a sta.
Then how come percy was able to defeat the literal god of war in less than a minute. Stop making excuses for bad action sequences. Even if the fughts are supposed to be short, at least make them interesting. And dont even try to say its like the books because almost NONE of the encounters they had resembled the book in any way
@@brownperson7474 The reason is that percy gets stronger with water. Guess what? HES ON A BEACH. NEAR WATER. HE EVEN SUMMONS A MASSIVE WAVE. As well, he didn't defeat the war god, he retreated. But again, I don't like the adaptation of the fight, and makes it even less senseble because he origionally FOUGHT IN WATER so... yeah. I think the end was rushed way to far, including the fight because they spent too long on random stuff like medusa :/
the acting is bad, the jokes are bad, the action is bad, and they keep making weird changes from the books that often devalue the characters
They just keep getting worse number seven hurt to watch. 😢
@@vidicisthegoat5444 exactly why couldnt they keep hades accurate
@@Sagtopolus-iv6ek They messed up with Procrutes, charon, Annabeth, Kronos and Hades in one episode. And with them finding the master bolt. Almost as bad as the movie.
Bro i was so bored@@vidicisthegoat5444
Acting is the worst part of the show lol
I feel like the problem isn't exactly the fight scenes. The fury ones I thought were okay. The problem for me is that all around it feels like there's a lack of excitement and danger. Like they dragged the talk with medusa and Eqdna so much that I lost all suspense, especially Eqdna. She literally said instead of showing what she would do. That's why it feels so underwhelming. The fights themselves aren't bad but their set-ups are. Also, Idk why the director or whoever made them just walk around like everything is fine, they should be hasty like there's danger everywhere. They should be low-key paranoid. Instead we get them just chilling and having these long conversations with lots and lots of exposure. This show is literally just telling us everything instead of showing it. They didn't even make him read Greek in the museum!!
Me and my brother read the books when we were kids and now are watching the séries together. Every week we finish the episode in disappoinment, not cause is bad, but because it feels like nothing happened! It's so dragged that the almost 30min feel like 10
You said what needed to be said. Me personally, the fight scenes should have been better, but the monsters are pretty much friendly at this point.
The direction is horrid, the acting is mediocre, the action scenes are horribly choreographed and the changes from the book butcher every cool or intricate scene either because 'no time' or 'thats too violent for kids'
My honest opinion. Casting a mess..Writing a mess..Acting a mess..
this show is so trash and every dialogue sounds so strange
IT IS TRASH!!! it’s crazy how people will say “I don’t really like it…BUT NO HATE TO ANYONE WHO DOES IT IS A LITTLE GOOD”
People are so afraid to straight up call it like it and say it awful…it’s so lame
@@eleasy1976 aha ty bro every episode i just skim through to just see what they did but i find the show terrible and the acting terrible.
Especially Grover, just focus on his facial expressions and you'll find they make no sense for the emotion he is trying to portray if any since his face is so still.
Imagine if the people who made peaky blinders made this show. This show has the capacity to be the next generation Harry Potter/Game of Thrones if done correctly.
Yes, yes and yes. It has so much potential and it just hurts to see how bad they are ruining it. I don have that much truble with the acting, the kids are good for their age, they are actually better than HP cast in the first movie, it is the dialogue and screen play that are just awfull and makes them no favor, i have read better written fanficts i swear.
@@eleasy1976it's a lame show, I watched it with my girlfriend, who actually read all the books (I haven't) and we disliked it equaly, its as bad as it can get, reminds me of the avatar aang movie... Almost as bad
@@eleasy1976I agree, but people are allowed to like what they like. Myself, hardcore fan of the books, hard pass on the show.
The only thing I really hated was that the characters were all changed. Annabeth wasn't blonde, ok leave that Poseidon, Hades both looked so ordinary and nothing like a greek god, and damn zeus was black. I'm not discriminating here, he's a GREEK god. Why would he be black? They're not american! They really should have represented the gods better.
The gods and demigods are like the elfs of the rings of power, they are suposed to exceed power in a way you can tell they are not human, which is why it actually makes sense that in the books they had really rare features like their eye color. However in the show they all look so ordinary and human ugh.
There is never a sense of danger. If you read the book you are scared as shit
I will never forgive them for destroying my girl Anabeth
She’s literally almost the exact same what are you talking about
Destroying? That's harsh. Does it matter about race? Would you rather a girl who looks like Annabeth and acts really bad? Think about it.
@@peter42466 All the people in the show talking about how she is the mvp of the demigods, whithout the writers actually showing it just makes her seem like a wattpad mary sue
@@Yopjo I agree my opinion has kinda changed on her
@jacquelinedavis9948 frfr that’s what I’m taking bout
The kids don't know how to act.
I just read the books so i have fresh memory the show is awful nobody is how they were written
HarryPotters is not for Kids , its for kids, young adults, and adults. Thats why they were so successful . HP is YA.
PJ is middle grade .
THANK YOU THANK YOU THANK. YOU!
All my friends love the show and think that it's SO awesome, and I feel like I'm going insane because I feel like it's so bad!!!! And I'm usually a horrible judge of movie/tv show quality (I remember actually enjoying Captain Marvel back when it came out, but now I realize just how bad it was).
Don't get me wrong, I LOVED episode 1. I thought it was awesome, save for that one moment where Grover got Percy expelled, but other than that, AMAZING.
Episode 2: I liked it. There were a few more moments were I was like, "Ehh, okaaay, I'll cut you guys some slack." but that was it.
Episode 3: There were only a few scenes I actually enjoyed (and by that, I mean one or two). Everything else was garbage.
Episodes 4-6: I WANT THOSE HOURS OF MY LIFE BACK. They were so bad. Grover's my favorite character, but not even HE could save it, in my opinion.
I'll probably watch the last two episodes, just so that I can see it to the end, but I will most likely NOT be watching season 2 when it releases (unless I hear from some of the reaction channels that I follow that it's better).
I never thought I'd say it, but the movies were better. Don't get me wrong, they're awful, but the show is W O R S E.
100 percent 👍
The tv series is anticlimactic, dull and is filled with verbatim dialogues
Exactly what were you expecting a poisoned 12 year old to do against the chimera and mother of monsters?
At least as much as he did in the books. Ideally that would be the LEAST we'd expect, especially considering how hands on the actual author of the books is with the show.
In the books, he puts up enough of a fight to last a whole page. That lasted WAY shorter than it should have.
@@alphathegreat9458 he also wins in a fight against the literal god of war about five days after the chimera incident
@@nicklausrichardson5927 he injured Ares. That's not winning the fight, especially if Kronos had to talk Ares down afterwards.
@@alphathegreat9458 ares stopped fighting. He won. The terms were draw first blood, and he drew first blood. Yes, that is winning a fight.
1. the furies were barely aggressive on the bus cuz they were looking for smth; and possibly kidnap the kids. also, they would come back to their own selves in like, a week so being vaporized is nothing to them
2. dude, the chimera is a literal BABY. doing it's FIRST hunt. and percy is barely skilled in fighting like what do u expect a traumatised 12 yr old kid w barely any experience to do😭😭
There is only one Chimera in greek mythology, so that thing is actually a few thousand years old
@@jusuf161not in the Percy Jackson universe
@@jusuf161 the book is jus based off of greek mythology so yeah the writer can take liberties
Do we remember how the Chimera scene went down in the book 😅 so much cooler!
@somerandomguy51 In the book it was
bro this book is amazing but i’ve never watched the series
The show just showed how the movie is a much better adaptation of a bland book written by an egotistical writer.
how the movies are bad to bad acting bad casting
@@EnthusiasticAnt-lz8sn Lol the movies have better visuals, have much more entertaining and linear plot and the casts was more charismatic that can totally sell believable fight scenes.
@@robertbench5187 yeah you right
@@robertbench5187 See, this is what I've been telling people. What makes a "good movie" isn't necessarily how "faithful" an adaption it is-- it's how well you SHOW not TELL and engage the audience in a simple, not complicated way.
Dude that’s basically how the fight went down in the book for chimera what was Percy supposed to do with the goddess of monsters right there as well?
He’s twelve years old and still figuring it out your expecting him to preform like it’s his fourth year kicking ass as a demigod 😂
Hey, did you know about this really cool new thing called a book? Yeah, apparently this show was based on it, and did a terrible job of portraying it. Maybe you'd know that if you had ever picked one up, nonetheless read one.
@@nicklausrichardson5927 alright since you know so much what’s the major differences other than appearances that upset you so much
@@shaymurphy4951
1. Change of Gabe's entire personality.
2. Change of Sally Jackson entire purpose and personality.
3. Book Percy can fight like a devil when he's near water, while in tv he barely shows that he can fight.
4. Change of entire Medusa entrance.
5. Change of entire Lotus Hotel.
6. Shortening entire Hades journey.
Want to see more? I can do this all day.
In the book, the fight went on for awhile, at least a minute, from him dodging several claw attacks and fire breath, until Percy made a mistake and bounced his sword off the collar, giving the Chimera a chance to poison him.
He defeated the god of war, so yeah i expect him to put an actual fight. If not that, i at least expect actual tension on the scene, there is a whole genere of media about a hurt hero trying to defeat an unstopable villian with whom he is trapped, how in the world they manage to make that scene so boring is beyond me.
That movie was trash
The show is not a remake of the movie
It is a more faithful adaptation of the books
The freaking author of the books is working on the show
AND HE SOME HOW SCREWED UP HIS OWN CHARACTERS! it's genuinely impressive that the author of the books wrote his characters completely different from how they were supposed to be.
It does deviate from the books in terms of events, but it still sticks to the heart and soul of the books, which the movies did not.
@@Bahr-im7pn looks like heart and soul isn't enough to make a good show
the author of the books working on this show is proof that he should stick to authoring books
“Faithful” oh please.
The show is slightly better than the movies
Na the movie was funny bad
@@calen4092 true
Terrible show so far. Hope it’s gets better
It doesn't
bro he's a 12 year old boy written to be a 12 year old boy. and not only that, written to have literally no prior knowledge to his identity, and if you're ripping on fight scenes so much, no knowledge of combat. just because he was given a sword doesn't mean he knows how to do it. let the show play out.
He's actually 15 but I agree
walker scobell is 15, percys 12 in the lightning thief. I am saying percys 12 as he's written to be.@@averimurphy1836
In the books, he is a naturally good fighter, (you know, on account of him being a HALF-BLOOD) and the sow did nothing to show that. You've clearly never read the books.
@@nicklausrichardson5927 right first of all, i have, and i still see nothing wrong with how he’s being shown in the show, you’d be surprised how only being in like 2 fights and being a naturally can coexist in tandem, nerd.
@@averimurphy1836 Percy starts off as twelve in the first book.
Alright I decided that I won't watch the show and just stick to the books
Finally an honest review!! The show is so boring
The first Harry Potter movie has like no action scenes . lol you put the poster from the second movie . The last fight is just Harry touching Voldemorts face .
He maybe meant the second movie, which does admittedly have really good action scenes
yeah, yet still that scene had more tension than any on PJO TV
I agree , the shows good and all , but very mideocre, and yeh the actions very underwhelming for the most part, the praise isnt really called for
I think the show is great tbh, the only things I wanna criticize is that the the cast doesn’t fit in with the book descriptions and that grover’s actor is too monotone, he needs to add more emphasis and emotion into his words, both just say the lines but feel the lines too.
i mean i agree with grover, but i whole heartedly think annabeth and percy fit their characters quite well. them and including alot of the less important characters
The kids who loved and read these books when they came out are all now in our 20s. So if this show isn't for us... who is it for? I feel like the whole time I'm watching, the showrunners are treating me like I'm 12 again.
Mate, people are acting as if 12 year old wouldnt be able to stand some action. The amount of tension in that show is for like 5 years old, who would brobably get bored if they watched it lol.
To all the people in this comment section saying things like "oooh but he is only 12 years old and his training started just days ago, how would he be able to give like a huge fight scene":
First, that doesn't explain why they just fugging let him kill them.
Second, did you even see the Capture the Flag Scene? He beats the asses of multiple skilled campers with seemingly no problem, and yes, I doubt that the water could boost him so much because this kid literally didn't know shit about fighting before.
I actually didn't watch the whole episodes cause I don't want to pay money to Disney, but I saw clips of some fight scenes here on UA-cam. That's why I cannot say if it's a bad show overall or if it's a good one, but I absolutely see why someone is disappointed in some aspects of the show.
You‘re joking, right?
Ya people are just kinda stupid
Bruh Harry doesn’t even cast a spell in the first Harry Potter movie . Have you watched the movie at all recently, If you want action wait till Percy’s more experienced.
sir this isnt harry potter. percy jackson show if at all it becomes famous it should be because its percy jackson
Well, the difference here is that Percy Jackson is on a QUEST and monsters are literally chasing after them, so it SHOULD be tense and action packed. Harry Potter's first year was literally him at school until the end. The first book is more like a mystery than anything else. Different plots require different types of tension. The troll fight, for example, was longer and more intense than a lot of things in this show.
I recommend you don’t keep watching. It clearly isn’t for you, just let the people who actually enjoy it do so in peace.
Agreed. Stick to those videos that claim this mess of an adaptation is “faithful” to the books.
Or y’all could leave and never watch the show again😊
when you know he never read the books
Yup
Have you read the books? The scenes in the book do last longer than the ones in the show.
Sooo he can't be disappointed in the show because he didn't read the books? And you think that it's a great show because you did read them?
You're not making sense, the book and the show are two different things.
@@jusuf161 Right, but if you haven't read the books you lose a lot of respect from people in this fandom. He's also making very basic and shallow complaints. The show and movie are indeed separate things, but neither of them are action based and shouldn't be treated as such.
@@CoolScratcher I know that these are probably not the deepest of thoughts from him, but still just deniyng someones opinion because he didn't read a book when it's all about a series is kinda stupid
The show is trash.
Its garbage. Never expected much but hot damn it was boring af
We can tell who has read the books
Not you💀
@@nicklausrichardson5927clearly not you from your 200 shitty ass comments that are all just wrong
the books were like this too, setting up forever and not much payoff. So yeah they're true to the source material 😂
"Funny every word you just said was wrong" - bad luke skywalker
Yeah, maybe the problem here is that the source material wasn't too great in the first place, hence why the movie had to change the plot to make it more interesting and easier to follow in and hour and 40 mins.
@@lulubelle196the thing with pjo books is that they have really good/epic and iconic moment and at the same time it has also moments that i cannot even comprehend how in the world they made it throughout edition. The concept of the books is pretty interesting and the characters are also pretty solid so as a whole the series has a lot of potential, i was really hoping that Rick would get the help of actually good writters and directors for the show that would help him to fix those details from the book, instead he got the dora the explorer director lol. Book 1 and 2 are by far the weakest of the series and in my opinion it would have been better if they had just adapted both into one season of 10 episodes so that we could get quicker into the best part of the series.
I don't watch a show just for the fight scenes.
I agree. I will continue to watch it but its really disappointing
Edit:
I've rewatched the original PJ< movie and immediately I realised what I would have preferred in this series.
I will preface this by saying that yes ultimately I think the older movie did a better job than this series but naturally with every book to movie adaptation the book is better.
I want to first list of the things I liked about the series:
- Appropriate Cast age
- I actually really like the casting
- Loved the Camp Halfblood set and the scenery, looks amazing
- Actually see the demigods wearing their orange CHB shirts
- The claiming sequence revealing who they are the spawn of with the floaty icon
What I think the Movie did better:
- M: Percy actually feels comfortable in water (makes perfect sense)
S: He's afraid to swim.
- M: Grover using a clutch to mask the way he walks.
S: He's like any normal kid (which is fine, i just liked the extra detail of the crutches).
- M: Showcasing his Dyslexia.
S: Pretty sure they never showed it, if they did it wasn't memorable.
- M: Gabe was actually an asshole and abusive.
S: Gabe is just a loser, thats it.
- M: Percy's mom when it came to Gabe didn't feel strong (because she's doing her best to keep percy safe).
S: The mom actually talked back to gabe which made gabe feel less dangerous.
- M: The monsters actually felt dangerous.
S: Fighting sequences were too short, makes the monsters feel less dangerous too.
- M: Furies were actually scary.
S: Furies transformation was cool but thats it.
- M: I liked that Percy's sword Riptide is a click pen ( I think its a click pen )
S: Having to take the cap off the pen to activate the sword
- M: I liked that Annabeth was on the other team during the Capture the flag game.
S: It's nice that they were on the same team but I'd like to see percy get beat up by annabeth first.
- M: You can see the water was flowing up to his wounds to heal him.
S: You don't see that at all.
- M: Also liked that he was the one to discover the healing himself.
S: He had to be pushed by annabeth to realise he could heal.
- M: The medusa scene was actually great. Stakes were high, you can actually see medusa turn someone to stone. Really liked that they used the reflection to see her. Also they brought her chopped off head with them
S: Medusa scene was way too slow and nothing much happened.
- M: Fighting the Hydra at the Parthenon was pretty epic, especially because they used Dusa's head to kill the hydra.
S: Fighting the Chimera at the St. Louis Gateway is neat I guess.
I think the show is way better than you portray it. The only thing I can criticize is that i think it should have more than 8 episodes. We need more time to go even deeper into the books. But they made an awesome show in my opinion. I don’t get your critique.
The fight scenes are really bad I admit. But it's really a love letter to book fans in the calmer more dialogue and exposition heavy scenes. It fleshes out the world so much
Less of a love letter, more of a hate crime.
@@nicklausrichardson5927 lmfao agreed
Honestly forget the adaptation, the story itself is just cringe garbage.
the books are good :/
Okay I love Harry Potter but no adult who's never seen them before as a child isn't sitting through the first few movies. Which is basically what the equivalent is. We're still in year one. It is for the kids
so you're saying no adult sat through the first few movies? all of their initial success was purely because of kids?
@@BobMarley-ok5cu I'm saying the number of people who watched the movie without reading the books before or without kids was pretty low. The first 2 atleast. I grew up with Harry Potter but I wouldn't watch them now except for nostalgic reasons. They are for kids and you were supposed to grow up with them.
@@namayra299 a thing that's "for kids" can also be something an adult enjoys. there are plenty of examples of things like that, the first few harry potter movies being some of them. let's not be revisionist and pretend that there wasn't something special about those movies, as they were both critically and financially successful, enough to be the foundation of a franchise that's still going strong (ish) today.
@@BobMarley-ok5cu no one's being a revisionist here. No where did I say that they weren't special. Like I said, I did grow up with them. I'm saying you can't compare it with Harry Potter because as the movies progress, it stopped being for kids only. The movies 'grew' with you, that was the entire concept and part of what made them special. And with that comes the consequence that the first couple movies are more kid centric and less enjoyable and that's okay because they were aimed at setting up the world and the characters. I'm saying the same argument can be offered to Percy Jackson where the first series is basically the introduction and don't have to be all action and 'so enjoyable' by adults. Also given that this is a series and not a movie, it doesn't have to appeal to parents accompanying the kids to the theatres. If at gunpoint I had to choose I ll still pick Harry Potter over Percy Jackson but hey, call a spade a spade.
@@namayra299 when you say "who's never seen them (the first harry potter movies) before as a child isn't sitting through the first few movies" then, are you not trying to suggest that it's okay that this first season of percy jackson is received poorly by adults because it's meant for kids? i'm not arguing that the harry potter movies didn't "grow" with the audience because they did, and that's a big reason why they were able to stay successful throughout their entire run. i'd love for this percy jackson series to do the same and be successful, but at the same time i understand where a lot of the criticism for this show is coming from. you saying "We're still in year one. It is for the kids" makes it look like you're coming from an angle where you can dismiss the criticism the show is receiving by saying it's for kids, therefore it can't be critiqued until it actually gets good when the kids it's being made for grow up. and what i'm trying to say is that harry potter didn't need to do that, as it was good when it was being made for kids, and stayed good as those kids grew up.
Agreed, trash adaptation. Boring acting, horrible choice for cast (they don’t even fit their character description), and bad pacing. I think i prefer the first movie over this even
dawg, WHAT?? its not a 10/10 but it actually feels like pjo
If you prefer the first movie over this, you either haven't seen any other movie or show, or you haven't read the books and are basing everything on mindless action sequences
Nah, this dead feel like Perry Johansson
If you think the first movie is better you either have nostalgia for it or are racist
@@peter42466 Bro, that has nothing to do with anything. Why can't anyone have an opinion nowadays??
OMG this is why People just need to shut up
I'll start when you do.
@@nicklausrichardson5927 B1TCH pls I’ve been grown You first
@@nicklausrichardson5927but you really won’t and no hate I’m doing the same replying shit as you but seriously don’t claim you’ll shut up
This series is a lot better than the movies.
We also gotta remember these are kids. Which is more accurate to the books.
Kids aren't gonna be these epic fighters with little training. 😅😅😅
Percy beats the literal god of war 5 days after the encounter with echidna.
@@nicklausrichardson5927which is an episode we haven’t reached yet the battle with the chimera is basically just a more drawn out version of what was in the books
Definitely not
@@peter42466 Percy in the books fights the chimera, than gets poisoned. If the show had been like that, the fight wouldn’t have felt so wimpy.
Somebody is having a pissy fit.
Bro says as he is having a pissy fit.
@@nicklausrichardson5927 this video is just a discord mod having a temper tantrum over a series.
@@JackShredzz its supposed to be a faithful adaptation to the books and yeh more than just a series
@@valohe2957 these episodes have included most of the information that is in the book and riordan himself is working on this project. Yea it sucks that they race swapped most of the characters and ruined Grover’s character, but this is as close as the film industry is going to get to a faithful adaptation
The show is dog Water absolute garbage adaption, and as a standalone it's so incompressible and cringe, I have so many questions, tell not show taken to another level, like the way they are always spouting off really important stuff about the lore of the series in such monotone format that it easily escapes your attention and is so unexciting, who has the memory to remember every little thing that's said by some character , show me or at least say each lore stuff in the right context in a very clear manner, not vaguely mentioning important stuff while your on a bus to god knows where
Ignorance is bliss. You don't know what you're talking about
Put down the phone, pick up the book, and realize you're wrong.
@@nicklausrichardson5927 read them quicker
do you?
@@valohe2957 💀
Crazy how y’all like the book but when the show comes yall don’t like it no more stfu
No, the books are better than the movies, the movies miss so many scenes so it doesn't really make sense.
the show is about the story it’s not about the action. you’re not gonna be super excited to relive the story if you already know it back to front. the writing is good, the acting is pretty good (except for annabeth imo) and the mythos that riordan built is interesting. not to mention the sets and visual effects oh my god. if you wanted to watch an action show you shouldn’t have picked the one where twelve year olds run for their lives for a whole book
The book is about the story,and action. You missed half the point 🤦♂️
Gonna have to disagree on Anna Beth but other than that you’re kinda right
@@nicklausrichardson5927well there are only like 5 action scenes in the first book doesn’t seem that actions that important to it tbh
@@peter42466 In his notes to the studio that made the movies, Rick Riordan did call the fight at the book's climax(not saying between who for spoiler reasons) the most epic and cinematic scene in the book. I'm sure it'll be the highlight of the series when we get to it.
In order for a story to be interesting, there also has to be tense parts. Those are non-existent in this show, so yes, it' not that great.
Maybe you didn’t read the books? Those were fully accurate to the books. And yes, there will be a long end fight.
The biggest weakness of the show is that episodes are 30-45 minutes. Add 15 minutes and fill it with world building and it would be really good.
-pink poodle
- socks of death were supposed to happen before Percy even got home to his apartment.
-annabeths actor cannot act for the life of her.
-annabeth and Percy have about as much chemistry as Drain cleaner and my intestines
@@nicklausrichardson59271.pink poodle is overrated as hell 2. That scene is so forgettable that I forgot it’s existence completely could and should’ve been cut 3. Annabeths actress can act that’s just the case can’t really argue with something that’s wrong 4. Percy and annabeth have chemistry you just didn’t watch the show
so this is supposed to be good because it's accurate to the book? the show is already massively deviating from the main story, but you're gonna defend this by saying it's good because it's accurate to the book?
@@peter42466 man why r yall so thick in the head . I CAN LITERALLY NAME A DOZEN THINGS IN A SINGLE EP OF THIS SHOW THAT IS ALL WRONG . for starters the acting is quite bad
@@valohe2957 so acting is bad is interesting because it really isn’t like compare this to early Harry Potter these kids deserve Oscars second name a dozen things
Ah yes. There will be a awsome fight scene when its a 12 year old thats poisioned against the strongest monster, You ever get punched when you got covid and then get smacked? It's like that. But the smack is like a sta.
Then how come percy was able to defeat the literal god of war in less than a minute. Stop making excuses for bad action sequences. Even if the fughts are supposed to be short, at least make them interesting. And dont even try to say its like the books because almost NONE of the encounters they had resembled the book in any way
@@brownperson7474 The reason is that percy gets stronger with water. Guess what? HES ON A BEACH. NEAR WATER. HE EVEN SUMMONS A MASSIVE WAVE. As well, he didn't defeat the war god, he retreated. But again, I don't like the adaptation of the fight, and makes it even less senseble because he origionally FOUGHT IN WATER so... yeah. I think the end was rushed way to far, including the fight because they spent too long on random stuff like medusa :/