Percy Jackson ~ Lost in Adaptation Episode 8
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ngl I did like the angle of "I fucking *know* Kronos is plotting things. it's what we do. you may as well have just told me you breathed oxygen at some point."
I can totally see the Gods angle being one of complacency rather than denial. Rather than flat out refusing to acknowledge the problem they treat it more as something that can be worried about later or that they'll totally be able to handle - effect on the mortal world be damned - when it comes to it.
Arrogance and hubris instead of willful denial is DEFINITELY in keeping with the myth.
@@templarw20 And the books. Hubris is Annabeth's fatal flaw, and the satyr council refused to believe Grover's claim that Pan had faded.
Annabeth showing up to Luke and Percy’s fight really undermines one of the key points of the series: Luke is her hero and she sees only the best in him. In every subsequent book, she’s talking about how he must have been manipulated and there’s still good in him and it’s that unshakable faith that inspires Luke to betray Kronos. Having Annabeth follow them invisibly implies that she doesn’t trust Luke and suspected he was a traitor, which just really weakens their relationship.
The firework lighting was super cool though.
"I can't believe Luke did this- no wait, I CAN believe it" Annabeth was well aware of Luke's resentment and wasn't surprised by his heel turn
@@thomasdendtler4077Yeah, Annabeth was pretty much on board with recognising Luke as a traitor in Book 1 (she even promises to help Percy find him and kick his ass), it wasn't until later books where they brought up her insistence he could be redeemed.
I hope I'm wrong but very unlikely they will make it to the last olympian
@@thomasdendtler4077 She didn’t suspect he was a traitor even though it makes sense to her in hindsight. And even though she’s angry about it and promises to help Percy stop him, she blames Kronos’ manipulation and doesn’t truly see Luke as a bad person.
“You don’t believe me about Luke,” Annabeth said, “but we’ll see him again. He’s in trouble, Percy. He’s under Kronos’s spell.”
“He wanted to pick a fight with every monster we crossed. Annabeth didn’t see that as a problem. Luke was her hero.”
“She still IS defensive [of Luke].”
@@oliviawilliams8418 that exchange (about Luke being under Kronos' spell) isn't in The Lightning Thief though, it's later books that establish that Annabeth still believed in him, so it kinda makes sense for this season not to cover it
It took me a minute to wrap my head around the fact that the pearl teleported them from the underworld, supposedly near the LA coast, right to the NY coast. That's why the plane ride wasn't necessary.
That is one change I like.
If you pay attention the cabin is the one that Percy and his mom went to...
@@IsaacBelllthe first cut to the cabin makes it seem like it’s a vision so it was weird that he went back there to find his mom for me and that’s when I worked out that they were actually in NY the whole time. If I had a nickel for every time this show tricked me into thinking something was a dream with the cinematography only for it to be completely literal I’d have two nickels
I didn’t realize that until reading your comment lol
I always felt that in the books, the Gods didn't care as much for their demigod kids until they had done something to prove themselves worthy of attention. Maybe because they had so many over the centuries. The exception to that being Hermes. It felt like because he spent so much time interacting with humans in his role of messenger and traveler that he truly started to see why humans needed the attention and affirmation they do. He just had so many kids that he couldn't spend time with all of them and still do his Olympus job. But he truly cared for his kids.
I think the rules that prevent godly parents from interfering too much in their demigod kids’ lives also are a factor. But, I think even Hermes, who genuinely cares, drops the ball sometimes. In the flashback in TLO, it feels like he can’t really relate to the struggles that a demigod has to deal with, since he’d been capable of a lot when he’d been an infant, and he could have asked Chiron to send help much sooner.
Consider how many of the moments of "show Percy out-smarted the trap that book Percy stumbled into" would have had increased the amount of CGI shots required to accomplish the original intent. Magical beds tying up Annabeth and Grover, 10-foot-tall Gods/true forms, Hades' throne room being empty with a simple lounge set rather than a massive army of skeleton warriors, having a pit scorpion inserted into the Luke scene, replacing the spiders and net scene with Percy sitting in a chair and having a simple effect transition between him and a gold statue version of him, it explains quite a few of the adaptation choices.
I hope we get Season 2, and that Disney recognizes the potential profit involved with the show enough to give them a proper budget and timescale.
Yeah, but Disney doesn't pay those artists anyway, so they probably could have managed it.
See, that was my original thought, but apparently each episode had a budget of 12 - 15 million dollars. Granted, I'm not super knowledgeable about the cost of specific special effects, but that still seems like a lot for how relatively little there was.
Percy: let's make a pact, no matter what, we'll all be here next year
Grover, the next year trapped in a cyclops lair: Sorry guys...
well the pact happens by the end of summer so grover should be able to make it
I mean, Riptide's name and backstory isn't super relevant until book 3. I'm assuming Zoe is going to be the one to tell him.
Might as well have been named Swordy McStabFace and it would've changed nothing in this season. Don't see a name drop being important here.
Ditto; the name of the sword isn't an that important right now. I think it'll be a nice little nugget for viewers down the line.
It doesn’t affect the plot but it does affect the mood of the series, it detracts from the world building in a surprisingly big way
I don’t think we really got any indication that the sword has a history in this series. Some hints about that would have been good to have.
The biggest disappointment with keeping Percy and Luke’s sword training in a flashback at the end is that we never actually get to see them become “friends.” A viewer who hadn’t read the book who probably be like, “Wait, Luke is supposed to be his friend? What a cop out!”
So, one thing in this is technically inaccurate to list as a change. Luke's sword having some kind of teleportation ability is a thing in TLT, but never comes up again after he disappears at the end of that book, so literally every review I've seen forgot that. I also forgot but I've seen it come up in other places.
I thought his sword was half iron and half Celestial Bronze, and the teleportation was a different artifact, like some kind of compass?
@lilylopnco at the end of book 1, it's unclear, but right at the end of the confrontation it says something like
"Luke swiped his sword in the air and disappeared"
implying that the sword was was did it.
Like I said, as far as I know it never happens again. But it did technically happen once
Am I the only one who's response to Backbiter's teleportation was:
"I AM THE STORM THAT IS APPROACHING!~"
@@emc246 "He slashed his sword in an arc and disappeared in a ripple of darkness." Good catch, I'd completely forgotten about that. I think at the time I assumed he'd just arranged for an easy exit from Camp Half Blood, it not being something he could repeat on a whim.
@@lilylopnco The compass-medallion thing was made specifically for the movies and wasn't in the book
One thing I really wish they did in this episode was Ares' curse which plays a part down the line in the series. I mean the whole 'enemy for life' thing was okay but I think the actual curse hit different.
Oh and also the whole 'we become fugitives' plothole that was cleared in the books
For anyone who's curious this was the curse in the books
'You have sealed your fate. Every time you raise your blade in battle, every time you hope for success, you will feel my curse. Beware, Perseus Jackson. Beware.’
honestly I could see season 2 starting with "oh btw when you battled ares it cleared your name lol"
@@sirdogegd9567 And this is why I believe the show isn't good. It literally created a situation where either it has to ignore something completely, or look stupid trying to explain why they ignored it in the previous season. They set up a no win scenario for themselves.
@@jomi2612i thought the curse was that his sword would fail him when he needed it the most. That’s why he fails to protect annebeth i think in the last olympian
Nope, Titan's Curse is where it fails him. @@mccaylawhite8900
I took some issue with the gods being portrayed as caring about but unable to help their kids, then I remembered Percy's exchange with Hermes in the Last Olympian.
Spoilers for anyone who hasn't read it.
Throughout the book we do see some flashbacks showing that Hermes really did love Luke but couldn't be there for him because of the prophecy Luke's mother had received. He knew that if he tried to save Luke from his fate, he would only make things worse.
After Luke's sacrifice and the defeat of the Titans, Hermes ask Percy to look out for his kids who hadn't been brought camp yet.
Also, Athena was a bit overprotective of Annabeth. She tried to scare Percy off when he was getting close to her.
It was a plot point that the gods were bad parents, but not because they didn't love their kids.
While you do leave out the assholery the gods do subjects their kids to (during this series and mentions of them doing it in universe before the series begins), I kinda agree. They are not human. They are gods. They do have equally shitty and good sides about them that they carry out evenly. The book does a way better job in describing their inhumanity as a given: they are just different from us. (I dont mean that negatively, they are just not human). What this series has done is make them so very human and relating to everyday human struggle that you tend to forget there is even something different about them. The tragedy is that they DO love their kid but are incompentent parents, because they dont know what its like to be human. (Apollo only learns this after he becomes mortal). This series makes them relate to humans and involved and as a result considerate to human lives that they just become poor UWU God-parents that want but cant because of laws. And thats not what they are.
I had to grin when you used James Somerton as a verb
As his legacy should be
Where in the video did he do that? In what context?
@@Markunatorat the end when he cited another person whose works he referenced in his points. Which, given Dom did give a citation, makes him leagues better than Somerton already. BD
@@Caterfree10 Was that at the end of the video?
@@Markunator at 13:59
RIP Commander Zavala. Loved Lance Reddick's turn as Zeus.
Best part of the episode bar none (aside from the climax between Percy and Luke).
@@DieHardAlien I actually really liked that bit. My daughter hadn't read the books so she had no idea.
best performance of the whole show, whoever has to take over the part of zeus has big shoes to fill
I feel like they could of done more to make him look like Zeus. Give him a beard and long hair, ect. Still a good choice
RIP Phillip Broyles
To be fair... Backbiter opening portals was kind of in the books! It was just never important after the first book.
So its not just an attempt to copy Yamato from DmC/DMC?
@@repulser93 nah, I think it was retconned later to be luke escaping vía the labyrinth but in book one he swipes his sword and enters a portal with it.
@@HMAmeriI think that’s why Rick wrote the scene to hang on the portal thing because people didn’t know it had that ability and to be fair, Luke has super speed so “swiped his sword and disappeared into the darkness” is a loaded text that could mean anything.
One sad thing about this series, is that it assumes you have read the book and almost want to present it in a new way to keep fans on their toes. They seemed to forget that new fans don't know everything.
The show feels like the book with all its sharp edges sanded down to get past Disney Standards and Practices
Wow perfect analogy
@@mojo.s4669no, horrible analogy. It’s not just that sharp edges were sanded down, things that had no reason to change were changed lol.
I thought that the fact Percy sailed through every challenge so smoothly really killed the tension but, overall, it wasn’t a bad watch. I did look forward to the weekly release.
It’s just weird that Percy seemed to have more trouble finding a school than saving the actual world and Olympus.
hyperfixations do be like that when on the demigod scale
I really like the way they revealed Luke here. Percy would have really looked a little foolish if he did not suspect Luke after seeing Clarisse was still there, not arrested and Luke has done nothing about it. Also, that of the shoes he gifted dragging Grover almost to Tartarus. Also, I loved how Luke did not just have an instant shift from kind and brotherly to cold and murderous: instead it felt more natural, when he tried explaining Percy that what he is doing is for the best. It shows Luke more like disturbed, traumatized and delusional teenager who is convinced that he is doing the right thing instead of deranged, manipulative, & coldblooded killer. And Luke's feelings of betrayal and hurt is emphasized even more when he attacked Percy after hearing him mentions Hermes. It was a little action packed and well acted.
I mean, it would have really looked silly if Percy was sitting still to avoid Pit scorpion and Luke was villain monologue
According to Tv Tropes (the Trivia page for The Lightning Thief film), Riordan did admit to liking the movie version of Gabe's fate.
The ares fight happens on Montauk instead of California like the book. No reason for Percy to take a plane. He's right there
Yeah but i’d like an explanation for how Percy beat NYC traffic to get to the Empire State Building so fast.
@@benwasserman8223 Long Island Railroad + subway transit?
@@repulser93 Wouldn’t it just be LI Rail Road to Penn Station? Olympus is a few blocks away outside.
Was this stated in the show or is it producer talk? Cos I watched it when it unlocked at 2 am in the UK so my memory isn't fully clear but I definitely thought it was the same beach where he got given the pearls
@@sonicsean34 it wasn't specified in the show itself, just implied. The little beach house they enter to meet Alecto seems to be the same that Percy and Sally went to in episode 1.
There was a post or comment on Reddit I seen talking about the Gabe - Sally dynamic. It made a great point. "Stay in an abusive marriage while exposing your child to abuse for the 'sake' of the the kid" is a bad message, even if that wasn't the intent and has an in universe explanation that works.
Despite this, I think they watered Gabe down too much. His character was completly irrelevant and was only kept just because it was expected.
Wow you're right, if his character was removed from the show - nothing would have changed! Did they even mention that Sally stayed with him because his stench covered Percy's smell?
@@dashzag They did not, I haven't read the books and only learned that just now from this video. All through the show I was absolutely baffled at why she was even with that loser.
Poseidon not having his trident is also weird because the entire plot is about Zeus losing his lightning bolt envy previous episode was about Hades's helm of invisibility so clearly these iconic items are a big deal
Yeah it bugs me that the show didn't go into the importance of the Master Bolt and the Helm and how they tie with the Trident. Especially since it really only needed to be a line or two of dialogue
My assumption when I watched was that he was coming to surrender and bend a knee so having his weapon brandished might have diminished the believability of his act.
@@jericho5953 he could have blocked the attack with the trident and then laid it down and then it would actually be even more indicative of a surrender 🙄
My biggest issue with the Finale and the show as a whole is their portrayal, or lack thereof, Annabeth and Luke. Their relationship is essential to the series and especially to book 3 and book 5 with the prophecy.
I just feel like there wasn't enough Annabeth in general. She weirdly felt like a background character. And if it weren't for me reading the books, I doubt I would have known her personality.
Agreed, it's been a lot of 'tell don't show' with Annabeth and having Percy always know everything the plot needed him to made the problem worse.
Omg, “James Somerton” is a verb now 🤣
James Somerton: v. The act of plagiarizing and outright lying about histories on marginalize groups.
To have that as your legacy.
What's funny is that there are so many little changes and omissions that you failed to mention them all. Like Annabeth giving Percy her necklace after the Ares fight instead of before and why that was so significant.
Specifically, Percy and Annabeth are 1st cousins 1x removed. Cronus is Percy’s grandfather, Zeus is Percy’s uncle, and Athena is Percy’s 1st cousin.
Luke is also Percy’s 1st cousin 1x removed. Annabeth and Luke are half-1st cousins (same grandfather, Zeus, different grandmothers)
I’ve been doing a lot of family tree research lately, so I find this kind of thing fascinating.
i'm so happy i'm not the only obsessing over the family tree in Percy Jackson lol
Also, I know the Gods don't have DNA so even though they have these "labels" they're not really related by blood, but my gods, it's still fascinating because this family is indeed a mess.
Trying to get my head around the full family tree of the greek gods always causes me to get a headache.
Incest really was one of their favorite things, those silly Gods. @@TarisLuna
@@BrokensoulRider yea, no wonder they have some funky family members.
I appreciate the book dancing around the subject by basically saying gods don’t have dna like mortals do so incest isn’t really an issue
TBH the whole season and show completely forgot the - greek mythos existing in fun and quirky way in modern day USA, and the mist always makes it fun-
I kinda got the feeling that Zeus was in denial and was more like so what I kicked his ass once I can do it again
The king of the gods being arrogant? Color me shocked!
"I don't know about anyone else but I thought the main appeal of the boy was how relatable his extreme fallibility was! He made mistakes! He made a lot of mistakes and even when he was showing competence on the outside, he was panicking in his head and that was - as the kids say - a big mood. And that made it all the more satisfying when he still came through due to his refusal to give up. It was the kind of heroics an average youth could imagine themselves achieving and I just- I don't get that same vibe from the show" this line just made me realize that "oh my god! They've turned Percy into a live action remake Disney princess!"
3:55 "A chair! Oh, it's perfectly sized for my little body"
i do find it interesting that while they glossed over the worse aspects of hermes’ and poseidon’s parenting, they doubled down on athena. despite not actually meeting her, she seemed to be drawn almost entirely from her mark of athena characterization. given riordan’s previous issues with writing female characters, i can’t help but wonder if that was intentional
I really thought the first half of the show was building up the callousness of Gods and was leading up to Percy resenting them, only to turn around and go all in on Poseidon being a loving father who's always there for him. It makes their portrayal of Athena so much worse, especially given that they deliberately switched up the plot around the Arch to fit that storyline in.
@@aishmaraghu4014also maybe a teeny sexist…
The dude bro gods who are famous for banging an entire countries worth of people are loving caring fathers
But the virgin goddess of war and wisdom is callous and cold and willing to let her daughter die and world be destroyed just because of an insult that she SHOULDNT EVEN SEE AS AN INSULT!!!
I think they used the term “western civilization“, because they want to leave the door open to introduce the other gods from the Riordanverse (the egyptian and north gods). Then Disney could have another interconnected universe, the Riordan Cinematic Universe. The end credit song even reminded me of the Avengers theme.
I am hoping that is what happens.
A few corrections:
In the show, the pearls teleport Percy, Annabeth, and Grover to a Montauk beach instead of Santa Monica. That's why they skip over the flight to Manhattan, because it wasn't needed.
The books actually do acknowledge that Percy and Annabeth are technically related, and sidestep this by saying that the Gods don't actually have DNA.
Overall, I enjoyed this season. It's definitely got flaws that I hope get ironed out in future seasons, but I felt the positives outweighed the negatives.
I liked this show, but if we ever get a Sea of Monsters adaptation, I hope we have Percy be a little dumber and fall into traps more. Like, not all, just some.
Also, I liked that Luke tried to make Percy join his side instead of going full murderhobo on him; it's a great addiction to the betrayal.
I think what they could do with circes island is have annabeth and percy be seperated right away, so annabeth can figure it out whilst we see percy being brought to circe
I like Luke trying to recruit him, but it doesn’t make sense because he tried to throw him into Tartarus with his magic shoes
@@gtdc4685 yes. Throw him into Tartarus where kronos would've been able to speak to and influence percy directly
@@sirdogegd9567 Percy would die from the height, and even then the toxic air would kill him. He and Annabeth barely survived Tartarus in HOH, I doubt he would survive by himself back in TLT.
@@gtdc4685 you have to apply fantasy book logic. they literally fall into tartarus and survive. it would just happen again. kronos would make it work. doesnt nico fall into tartarus around percys age as well? have you read TSATS?
6:21 that isn't a show change. Backbiter being able to open portals, & Luke using this to leave camp after revealing himself, was in the book too.
i think this is something they should have changed. for one, nobody seems to remember that it happened in the book and two, it kind of felt cheap. i loved the fact that we got rid of the scorpion, that always felt like a random choice in the first place. what i really wanted was utilizing the rope bridge we see for a second in episode two. there is so much potential to have luke leading percy to the bridge and then cutting it down and if you really want annabeth to be there she can rescue him. it allows luke to distance himself from ares, you can still introduce backbiter, it shows that luke is still son of the trickster god, whether he likes it or not and you get to keep the promise of rope bridges getting cut down when the time is right. you can even dig a little and find a way to make a connection to the arch.
And here I was always assuming he left through the secret labyrinth entrance.
I have mixed feelings about this series. On the whole I enjoyed myself watching it, and I could tell that everyone involved has a lot of love and respect for the source material. But I just found myself missing the lighthearted tone of the books. The silly, sometimes a bit juvenile humor. The carefree nature of the plot, where you could just have these fun action sequences and other shenanigans without always tying them in to some grander thematic purpose or character motivation. The general vibe of “Yeah, we’re on a super dangerous quest, but that doesn’t mean we can’t have a good time while we’re at it.”
All that said, I can’t say I really fault the creators for toning these elements down, because they don’t always work in a live-action medium. When this adaptation was first announced, I saw quite a few people saying they wished it were animated. And having seen the finished product, I have to say I agree. I think an animated series - perhaps something similar to ATLA in plot structure, animation style, and tone - would be a perfect fit for Percy Jackson. But we are in the age of remakes galore, so perhaps we’ll see one someday. In the meantime, I think the live-action folks did an impressive job of filtering the story through a more “serious” lens, and I’ll be interested to see where it goes from here.
the tone was def my main qualm, i wanted it to be silly and fun at times, every time there were any one liners, it felt off, not funny the way it should be
Exactly, ATLA is the framework that I've always wanted to see applied to a Percy Jackson series. The animation, the humor, the action, and the heart, they all fit Percy Jackson perfectly.
this is interesting, because i've seen a lot of people argue the show wasn't mature enough or serious enough and they toned down a lot of things for child audiences. Meanwhile, I do think they should have made Percy a little bit funnier (there's a interview somewhere with one of the exec producers that says they're gonna focus on developing Percy's humor a bit more in future seasons, so thank God) I know we don't have access to his internal monologue like in the books, but Walker could've done something else with his expressions and eyes whenever something weird happened, it would've added a lot to the humor of the show.
agreed and i also want(ed) an animated series for HP. time to do the book(s) justice and could adapt things like physical apperance & locations accuratly without them looking goofy
I agree on the tone being more serious, and missed it at points. I work at a bookstore and the Percy Jackson books are a go to recommendation for kiddos. Obviously, my co-workers and I have been asked about the TV series; in addition to the faithfulness to the story I always mention in my response to customers that the books are more lighthearted than the series.
Percy does refer to Kronos as his grandfather, but its an internal monologue in book 4
i think that‘s also an intersting seed that they planted there and i‘m curious to see where that is going. because it kind of implies that percy sees the gods as his family right now, which makes sense with the emphasis on family they had this season. just because he is reffering to chronos as his grandfather right now, doesn‘t mean it has to stay that way. you can definetly get into a thing about family by blood vs chosen family about it. you can also kind of use it as a tool to explore how much of a blood relation there even is, since the gods chanonically don‘t have blood or dna. that line wasn‘t there on accident and i am sure they will be building on this when given the chance.
And it's a throwaway line too. He says something like "I kinda realised he was my grandfather, but it was such a weird thought I put it away". He doesn't like the thought of being related to Kronos
To be fair, if they're going to namedrop Anaklusmos for drama, literally the only place that makes sense is during book 3, seeing as it's related very closely to Zoe.
The blue food thing wasn't just Percy's mom being quirky. Gabe mocked the idea of blue food, so Percy and Sally's thing was to make all their food blue in a small measure of retaliation, making it being at the end a little bit weird.
Also Backbiter is super relevant because it's actually Kronos's scythe. It's basically the first hint at Luke being intended as his vessel.
And regarding the whole spirit of the west thing? It makes more sense when you realize that the Greeks aren't the only pantheon in the world. Egyptian and Norse gods exist in Riordan's universe, so presumably eastern gods exist too.
Re: Spirit of the west, it's weird because philhellenism (Western Europe, especially Britain's, obsession with ancient Greece) has led to a devaluing of modern Greeks' connection to their past, including artifact theft (the Elgin Marbles are a huge sore spot for Greece). Which admittedly, is a problem the series comes from. Plus, given TLT had one of its antagonists be described as basically an Arab Niqabi woman, and his other major portrayal of an outwardly Muslim Arab woman (Samira) is iffy, I can see why RR would decide not to reference it. He does okay with Zoe (who is described as Persian) and is mostly okay with Zia (who is Egyptian), but neither state or show that they are Muslim (Zia probably isn't IMO, though her parents probably were).
@@idrisa7909 What did you think was iffy about Samirah?
It's ok, I'm sure they'll remember that Annabeth idolizes Luke. There'll be a series of flashbacks in the last episode of series 5 to establish it.
This cracked me up
The biggest problem of this show to me at least was that it was well... dull. Almost boring at times.
I felt as though a lot of the life was sucked out of it - many of the scenes were the three are just being kids (Lotus Casino for ex.) or the cool battle scenes. Or, as you mentioned, the bits where you learn about mythology (like Crusty) were nowhere near as memorable as they were in the books.
It does feel like while the book was really a way to make Greek mythology cool and explain syncretism and cultures evolve, the show just treats it like a plot device. It also seemed to lack the humor of the books (RIP Italian-suit-wearing Charon, champion for labor rights).
5:21 - in fairness, book Percy still found backbiter suspicious
0:02 I can not believe they name dropped Backbiter and NOT Riptide!
I think "flat" is a good word for the first season. I was disappointed that they did to Olympus the same as Tartarus. It was totally empty except for one dude. It feels like about halfway through filming, their budget got cut or something.
Personally i had a lot of fun with this show. But I am frustrated Disney hasn’t announced season 2 right away… or announced plans to convert part of Animal Kingdom into a Camp Half-Blood park. You just know Mickey’s salivating at all the drachmas he can make off those orange t-shirts.
tbf even with popular shows theres often hurdles to an immediate renewal, good omens s2 was super popular but it took until november (iirc) for an official renewal
@@iwakeupandboomimarat Don't think Good Omens is a good example given that it was just supposed to adapt the book alone initially, rather than building off ideas Gaiman and Pratchett never fully realized.
with the amount of press and promotion they put these kids through (i mean seriously as an adult i cannot imagine seating inside a little room, going through dozen of interviews answering the same questions over and over) I'm sure we're gonna get a renewal announcement. They're probably gonna do it as soon as they have the scripts for S2 finalized, which may take another couple of months.
@@chelisey13 Well they better. I was one of the guys interviewing the cast lol (it was mainly over Zoom calls, but still counts). According to Riordan, early Sea of Monsters episode scripts have been written - they're just waiting on the greenlight to make the rest.
@@benwasserman8223 you did? that's so cool! I think i've seen most interviews, which one was yours? and btw I didn't mean to imply the interviews were boring or anything, just that those days probably felt like an eternity for those kids. And wow I thought they were waiting to get those s2 scripts finalized. Now I'm more angry at the mouse! They need to announce the renewal soon
I really do hate that we never get Riptide's name in the show. Percy's relationship with his sword is important to at least 2 overarching subplots (one in the titan's curse and the other in the last olympian) so him not even getting to know its name yet is disheartening. Even past the original series, Riptide constantly gets updates to its lore so brushing it to the side at its introduction feels like they are getting rid of what's essentially an important side-character.
The fact that Riptide doesn't get her name dropped kind of makes it strange that Riordan went to the trouble of telling us that she is "she" in Magnus Chase. :/
I believe many of the problems of the series could've been avoided if this was an animated series. Child actors are just... well, they're kids. It would've make monster fights a lot easier and cheaper. You could do things like Hades Cloak of eternal damnation, but maybe we're just doomed to never get a book accurate Hades. I've said it back in 2020 and I feel reassured in my opinion, Percy Jackson should've been an animated series, and Yes, I'm ready to die on this hill
I 110% agree with you. Fantasy novels by nature lend themselves to being animated far more than live action, with more grounded stories like The Lord of the Rings and Game of Thrones being the exception.
But no. Animation is still looked down upon as a medium, which is a real shame.
@@CrazyHand7894 Even Lord of the Rings had the way paved for it by animated adaptations. Peter Jackson was clearly inspired by the visuals, pacing, and streamlined storytelling of Ralph Bakshi's Lord of the Rings and Rankin Bass's Return of the King.
I agree because if they take too long to do The Heroes Of Olympus and Magnus Chase And The Gods Of Asgard some of the actors and actresses will become too old for their roles.
I know it would be incredibly expensive but I would have liked the Disney + show to have every character be computer generated like how Philip Seymour Hoffman was in The Hunger Games : Mockingjay Parts 1 and 2. That way the people's ages would never be a problem.
I still would prefer that if the reboot was 5 live action movies.
I was disappointed by the design of Olympus. It looked a little... dirty and even partly rundown, for something that's meant to be the home of the gods.
To be fair, given the lack of worship that the Greek gods experience in the modern day, its not that surprising.
@@repulser93 see, that would've been a really awesome angle to go from. But, since they didn't mention anything about the gods depending on being remembered and worshiped, it just looks grungy for no apparent reason.
Plus the fact that both Zeus and Poseidon were having a squabble could explain a couple things
Or they could be laying the ground for when Annabeth redesigns the whole thing
I gotta agree, it just looks so... empty?
Problem is: they want to have perfect protagonists with no flaws that are just unbelievable. But protagonists with flaws make them relatable.
I think Riordan changed how the gods show their love for their kid's was either studio mandate.Or Riordan getting more uncomfortable with it as he got older.
I liked it
I think it's because it is how he wrote the gods after the first series.
I did enjoy the final episode. The small memory snippets of Luke and Percy were great.
And the confrontation between them I think personally was better then in the books. Luke trying to recruite Percy was a great move. If I think back on the books all I can remember is them looking for monster, drinking coke and Luke suddenly laying his plot out (maybe I remember things wrong, but I can't think of a moment in the book where he tried to logically argue with Percy).
In the trend of things Percy realised a bit quicker I think, but I think they pulled off Percys realisation perfectly. And the close to tears Luke... damn!
I also actually like that they gave Backbiter some magical properties. Percy got Riptide on like day one. And considering what Backbiter will become later on I fully support the idea it being imbued with some Powers.
By the way I loved Percys _Yeah, but I am very stubborn_ answer to being told Kronos being pursuasive.
Though I am disappointed for not seing Luke using a scorpion, forcing Percy to not attack. It was a cool moment in the book, but considering the whole CGI budget thing, I think I can manage.
Also, while I completely understand why they didn't do it... I'm kinda disappointed to not have seen Sally kill a bunch of guys and selling their bodies to an arts museum.
Having Gabe being the idiot is fun and all, but the line delivery of Sally when talking about it was in the books so great. Considering how they portrayed Gabe the whole season I understand it, but still...
Decent swan song for Lance Riddick, being a god.
Funnily enough, the forest scene is one of my least favourite ones in the show. Book Luke explicitly says he's not Ares and won't fall for provocation and fight him. Why would he fight when he already has the upper hand after all? He doesn't see the need, it makes him much more scary and calculating than here where he just... well, acts exactly like Ares.
i mean he's still a teenager with anger issues, and when Percy mentions his father in the context of him being (or trying to be) a good guy that cares for him, Luke totally loses it and attacks him. I thought it made sense and definitely prefer that scene over the scorpion one in the book. Plus, Luke trying to recruit him instead of actively trying to kill him makes a lot more sense for the plot if we consider the Great Prophecy and how instrumental Percy is to all of this.
I understand why, all that talking in a kids adventure show wouldn't have hit as well. Also he's a teenager siding with a guy who hate his children out of paranoia because he thinks the gods have unhealthy relationships with their kids. He's not an evil mastermind thinking on pure logic, he's a very smart teenager seeking emotional catharsis and revenge for his trauma and abandonment.
@chelisey13 He tried to throw him into Tatrerus using magic shoes
@@gtdc4685 yes 😂 and then he tried to recruit him
@@MrDrewwillsyou have GOT to be kidding me? All that talking in a kid's show wouldn't have hit as well? Are you joking? MOST of the stuff changed from the original is replaced with characters just talking.
Enjoyed this season! But hope the other adaptations of the remaining books would be a tad more loyal
Percy just walking into every trap was a hallmark of his ADHD though he was so oblivious 😭
They didn't bring up the dyslexia
@@oncer95 in the first episode we do see Percy trying to read a school paper and struggling through dyslexia. I would have liked to see it brought up again later but it very much is present in the show
For me it was such a great experience finally seing one of my favorite books translated to audiovisual format, even though this series has a lot of flaws, still made my heart glow
As someone who didn’t read the books, this was an OK show with incredibly unsatisfying storytelling. The main culprits responsible for the entire mystery are : a Titan that we’ve barely heard about before it’s revealed ( if you’re not familiar with Greek mythology, Kronos doesn’t mean anything to you, so the show should have told us more about him beforehand) and Luke, a character we’re told has a deep friendship with Percy but it’s only shown in the last episode minutes before he’s revealed to be a traitor as he basically hasn’t been featured in the rest of the show (same with the red herring that is Clarisse : when Grover says she’s the one who stole the bolt I had no recollection of who she was, because we hadn’t seen her for several episodes, and I certainly did not remember she was Aries’ daughter).
Those problems could have been resolved so easily with a longer runtime, adding scenes taking place at Camp Half-Blood to remind us of the characters that are there, and scenes illustrating Greek legends so we’re familiar with the relationships between the gods before they become important narratively. As it stands, the show is, again, fun, but the mystery aspect was truly mishandled and that’s really too bad because it definitely would have improved the show overall.
Unfortunately this show falls into the trap of relying on its audience to have read the books.
I like seeing perspectives from non book readers because as someone who has read the series, it's hard to stop your brain from filling in all the info needed. It shows just how bare-bones this adaptation was. Hopefully they'll add more runtime to expand on characters and their relationships.
@@dashzagThat is the very reason why I at times refuse to read the book until after seeing the movie or show.
I assumed the dryad earlier was meant to be Grover's mother, and was just to show his actual familial relations supporting his desire to become a searcher. Less about the dryads existing just that his mother happens to be a dryad.
I very much enjoyed the season and I do want to see it continue. I did read somewhere that Gabe was toned down because watching physical abuse can be more triggering than just reading implications about it.
make sence, especially since the show may have a bigger audience than the books, considering multiple people can watch TV at wonce. Kids may want to watch with their parents and, you know...
like with garp destroying luffys boat instead of hitting luffy on the head - funny in anime, distasteful in live action
I’m really starting to understand old people and their complaints about everybody.
You can still portray implications of it, without straight up showing the abuse. Like Sally flinching away from Gabe, that was in the books, and could've been done easily.
@@dashzag but why wou all want so much for him to be abusive? just accept that they decided to change so people in the audience wouldn't be triggered...
9:07 it’s actually even more extreme since she also turns all of his awful poker friends to stone and sell them as a set.
In Harry Potter movies Hermione got all of Ron’s best lines and heroics
In this they made Percy smarter to the detriment of Annabeth’s best lines and made her seem less super intelligent then in the books.
Shh, don't u know that series has become he who must not be named for dominic?
I don't know why but the fact that the throne's did not have the individual flare like they did in the books. Example Poseidon's fisher mans chair and Hephaestus's mechanical La-Z-Boy type chair covered with bronze and silver gears.
Maybe Rick will say more down the line but he's made it clear he did want to redo some things that he wanted to do better now that he has the chance. He's responded to a few people about this.
I don’t like the mindset of an adaptation needing to be too the letter as it just needs to be true enough to the outline and spirit. At least it's still fairly loyal and mostly done in good faith. Some fans just get too picky with adaptations in some places.
I think maybe the tv episode format isn't ideal for this story, as some stuff happens due to that.
I feel if Disney wanted to meddle they would have done it way more lol
Viewership and critical reception has been strong so i am hoping for more so we get to see certain things going forward
100% Agree
After watching the Wheel of Time adaptation, anything of this level is golden to me.
The Wheel of Time can certainly be considered a bad adaptation of the books due to the creative liberties taken by the screenwriters but at least the show is interesting to look at in terms of costumes/world and plot, it have very good actors and in the 2nd season the pacing enhances and episodes are definitely more entertaining. PJO is (sadly) just plain, boring and insipid in worldbuilding, dialogues and photography. I genuinely think that PJO fans insist they like it so much because they hate any kind of criticisms (part of this fandom is very immature and cult-like) and they have to convince themselves they liked the show, they are too scarred that Disney will shut down the adaptations so they are willing to accept everything in this show, no matter how mediocre. On the other hand fans of The Wheel of Time books (a generally older and more critical audience) openly hate the show because they were hoping in a faithful adaptation and they didn't get it (and yes, I understand them, I had to put up with HP's horrible adaptations for years)... but if you think of it as a standalone fantasy tv show (or as an AU of the books, if you want) I think you might enjoy it to the fullest because it's not a bad show to watch, especially when in 2nd season they start fixing most of the pacing issues
Up to my knowledge every famous warrior's sword had a name in Ancient Greece. Seems like a little thing, but it grounds the story in the reality of the time of the gods.
Not in the Iliad. There’s a whole book about Hephaestus building Achilles an amazing new set of armor down to the decorations, and after he dies, there’s a contest over who wins it, Odysseus or Ajax. Ajax goes mad, with tragic results, when he loses it. And despite this, no part of the armor ever has a name. I think that’s a later thing from a different culture. Arthur and Siegfried have named swords.
You know, I think they might still be saving naming Riptide to a big moment.
But now I'm thinking it will only happen on the flashback where [spoiler] first gifts it to [spoiler].
Yeah, but I think no one will feel anything by the time it's name dropped
@@gtdc4685 The only feeling "Percy's sword has a name" evokes is "oh, that's pretty cool" regardless of when it happens.
I love how the opening frames are showing Dom in deeper and deeper discontent over this series.
correction 2:07 , he was bothered by the line "fail to save what matters most in the end." it was only while retelling the prophecy and making the connections between each line and what happened that he realized that the betrayal line had no clear answer... (haven't finished the video tho, so if you correct it, sorry)
I get what you’re saying. Percy is the reader/audience, insert character in a way that he knows some stuff but this world is new to him, and it is being explained to him and us at the same time while we can experience the wonder through his eyes. I also remember seen in the labyrinth book where Percy had to clean the stables and remembering how Hercules had done it. He goes to the river. The river expects Percy to throw his weight around. He is the son of Poseidon she expects him to act entitled, but he understands, he says no, I won’t bully you I have been bullied and I’m not gonna do that to people even to save my friends. so he sits down and thinks well how do I save my friends now? then the river, surprised that the sun of the God that tangentially rules her is also just a person, and not a monster, helps him person to another person, there is such empathy there. But according to me is not stupid, but not studious in the way Annabeth is. He is a lot like his father in the way that he is a chill suffer dude. He doesn’t seem to have strong goals in life. He just wants to survive. He loves his mum and his friends and though he can be a bit of an idiot he would defend a stranger.
Hopefully, Riordan will do like Alex Hirsch and share some of the more outrageous and story changing messages he got from Disney to let everyone see what he had to put up with.
If he does (which he just might) it will be after the show is done. No way will he jeopardize his position right now, that would be incredibly foolish.
I too guessed that the show would use the bit from the film to prevent Sally from being a murderer. And I just realized that might have been what happened to Gabe in the book. I could see Gabe seeing the box and opening it, thinking it was valuable, and stoning himself. Remember Sally's letter was vague enough to go either way. But still, if you were to ask my opinion, I think she still murdered him.
I think it's similar to House of the Dragon in that it would have benefitted from a little more time. HotD suffered somewhat with the ungodly long timeline for a 10 ep series, and as much as PJ hit the major plot beats, another episode or 2 or longer episodes than we got, adding more time in between monster encounters to get to know the characters more and explore more of the lore, a few more flashbacks to camp etc. and more discussion (and maybe even depiction) of Greek myths would have done wonders for it. I have high hopes for Sea of Monsters, if for no other reason that it's just a little less 1-monster-per-chapter style layout and has a lot of good character moments. Clarisse's prominence in the plot in particular.
You know, my problems with House of the Dragon are not that pacing, because I really think that more time would have been useful for the plot but was not so essential, they made a good job anyway. My real problems with HoD are: a) the screewriters gave more depth to all the characters to make them more interesting and nuanced, I admite that, but in the end they still resorted to a narrative that manipulates the audience into separating characters into basically a good/right team (the feminist one, with their "new Dany" female Targ) and a bad/wrong team (the religious fanatic, mysoginistic one), which is NOT the case in the books. I would say that's just the opposite of Martin's point of the story (there is no good, feminist side in this war of power-hungry, terrible and spoiled people) and they didn't do a good work in portraying this imo; b) the series show me that media literacy in the average audience is sadly dead. When everyone, from actors to screenwriters, says that in a random scene A-character is doing a bad thing, or B-character is suffering SA, the general audience's obstinacy in denying these facts (or the dozen of yt video-reactions with people laughing at the SA scenes because they don't even realize it's SA) makes it clear that most of the audiences can't handle shows like HoD, they have kindergartens level of media literacy and should watch only good vs bad fairytale-like movies (edited for typos)
Backbiter has the portal ability in the books too, its used a couple of times before Rick forgot...
The last episode was so good I immediately forgave all the changes they made previously... mostly.
Honestly, I feel the show is trying to approach pjo from a different angle, which is why all the changes were made. I love how the gods are shown to be both well intentioned (Poseidon and Hermes) and terrible parents (Athena and Hermes again) as it adds to the final theme of "are the gods good?" I love how the main trio are simultaneously fighting for the gods (their quests) and rebelling against them ("I won't be like you" and other mentions that the gods have a messed up family that they don't want to feed into) also this kind of leads to percy's "You'll find out who I am" which was an awesome moment.
I feel like these themes are coming through stronger in the series than they did in the book, which is why I don't mind small stuff like them not mentioning riptide or toning down gabe.
I'm okay with them being more aware than in the books, I just wish there had been some moments where they were caught off guard. Idk if they were saving Percy's sword fighting skills for the finale, but I would have liked more action.
“A child sitting in daddy’s arm chair” is killing me
I forget if I mentioned this in a previous video's comments section, but the reason I'm not too bothered by this adaptation despite the changes is I didn't find any of the changes get in the way. This is something I've learned from watching the Scott Pilgrim movie and the Takes Off anime that an adaptation doesn't need to be super loyal if it gets the vibes across. I'm pretty easy to please, and as such I saw that while there were deviations, the story did still feel loyal to the books in some capacity and, above all else, was a fun ride from start to finish.
7:43 while watching with my kids that’s what they thought as well, that it was Chiron not Kronos.
I was also super surprised how easily they all said Kronos’ name throughout this whole episode.
From a score out of ten I would give this show a six since well it does follow the book for the most part, but it does miss quite a bit or change things with somethings not being nearly as awesome as they could have been. Apparently Rick actually liked the way Gabe died in the movie.
You’ve really helped me reclaim what I enjoyed while considering what worked less for me. Thanks for this series.
9:58 - The western civilization stuff might be because of the other series like the Egyptian one. Those books specifies that their pathion are responsible for different areas.
8:15 She's his 1st cousin once removed, I think. This is based off Zeus being HER grandpa and Percy's Uncle.
Writing aside, the issue of money-saving seems a sad continuance of many Disney projects (not just Disney+) being bizarrely budgeted; where did all that money go? Do people not know how it to overspend or underspend.
It is really sad that they made percy see through all the villains. Especially the Luke one. Even if you as the audience could see through Luke or knew the twist, he had gained so much of Percy’s trust that the heel turn still felt blindsiding.
Thank you for these videos; I ran a podcast the other night about this first season, so I binged your previous episodes on it. Not only was it a great recap of the differences from the book (and first film) but you brought up some great talking points that I incorporated into my show (ex. Why Hermes was running the Lotus Casino). Thanks again!
Thank you for the reviews, and a special thank you for the showmanship with the sword. It just brings the whole thing together!
Imagine if they mention the name of the sword, it’ll be in season/book 3, when they talk about it being Heracles’ sword
Using “James Somerton” as a verb like that is amazing.
14:01 Unexpected Hbomberguy reference is...not entirely unexpected, to be honest.
Honestly, it's really nice. It's not the came as the book, but it's super chill series to watch😊
Backbiter could open portals in the book to, it came up once and was never mentioned again
You know Terrence, the show may have missed its opportunity to name drop rip tide, but you missed your last opportunity to name drop your godly parent!
Obviously his father has to be Eros, as Terrence being the lover and sexmachine he is , lol
My greatest grimance is the lack diccusion of their bead necklaces and the great meaning about Annabeth's
Love your content. Thanks For all your hardwork 😊😊❤❤❤
I appreciate the "Old man yells at cloud" reference. :)
The series as a whole is good. Not terrible or boring. Not the most amazing thing I've ever seen. Just good. It has its faults and I still wish it was animated, but it stuck pretty close to the book and the actors nailed their parts. It actual improved the source material in some places. Grover seems to be more well rounded at this point instead of getting to shine later on and it scrapped parts that didn't age well like Luke's possible romantic feelings for Annabeth. I think some people are just that "Old Man Yells at Cloud" meme where they are just complaining about it not sticking to the books to a tee, seeing the weaknesses in the source material that they never noticed as kids being in the show and not wanting to admit to themselves that they are "old" now and aged out of the target audience.
As a side note, the amount of people in the fandom are now saying the movies are amazing ever since the series came out is mind-boggling and ridiculous. The movies were always mediocre and terrible adaptations of the books. Sure, I love the Poker Face scene as much as everyone else, but that's one scene in a dull and cliche movie. Hell, there are loads of videos of people bashing them and saying how inaccurate they are, even when it comes to mythology. People who are now turning around and saying that they are amazing when they never had that stance before this series are hypocrites. Plain and simple. Sadly, I wouldn't be surprised if similar historical revisionism happens to the Netflixs Avatar series if the series is ok or good where people start insisting the Shyamalan film was amazing, despite the fandom despising it before.
istg people saying they prefer the movies over S1 of the show now is... unbelievable to say the least. I mean sure, if we ignore the fact that the movie was supposed to be an adaptation of the books, it wasn't that bad. I'd even say it's an ok movie. But that's not Percy Jackson at all. Also, the fixation people have on the lady gaga scene is ridiculous.
People may be praising the movie because they found it more interesting than the books, even if it was less accurate.
@uanime1 In a few cases, possibly? But I've seen more often than not it's Percy Jackson fans saying that to dunk on the show when they said they hated them before.
@@chelisey13Even as a story about the Greek Gods, I found it not good, especially anything to do with Persephone. Persephone is a MESS.
I don't mind the roundabout ask re: dreaming about Sally. The gods are notoriously prone to being offended and quick to anger. I assumed Percy was leaving some plausible deniability for his dad to answer "yes" (with the subtext of "but it's not like we can control our dreams or anything so no one should read too much into that") to not paint a target on his mom's back from anyone who might feel they have cause to be pissed off if he were to answer "yes" to a direct "do you still care about my mom?"
In the books they actually mentioned that everyone was related. The gods don't actually have DNA so it wasn't that big of a deal as long as you didn't date one of your half-siblings.
It's a cop out to be sure but one that I feel at least needed to be addressed at some point because....well they mention the gods are related and we know they are so they can't just ignore it.
I think the "west" bit is left out because Riordan realized it was a bit of a mistep he made though he'd intended to have another pantheon (based on his Egyptian pantheon works) handling issues of the "east". I may be giving him too much credit but given his theme of ancient pantheons I could see that being the intention. Different directions different relatively well known mythologies, Norse for the "North" Egyptian for the "East" Mayan for the "South" sort of thing.
I suspect they might be saving the Riptide name reveal for Zoe Nightshade to do.
My thoughts right after finishing the series:
1. Characters should be allowed to be sillier, I like the occasional quips and Percy flossing bored and Grover’s friendship song. More of silly kids being silly kids, please.
2. Characters should be allowed to have big reactions if it makes sense. Moments of massive fear, sadness, anger, instead of just a blase casual attitude they mostly stick to.
3. I like the change for Medusa but they didn’t change enough. Make her misunderstood, have Percy spare her, and in turn Medusa spares them because she sees they’re not like their parents. This would help Annabeth’s character too. After this, she would start doubting the gods more and what her mother taught her. At the arches she can still be unprotected because Athena is upset her daughter didn’t punish Medusa. Maybe she sends a clue to clarify her pettiness, lol.
4. Let Annabeth geek out about architecture. It can be one of the first times she breaks from her seriousness and Percy is like “what? You can smile??”
5. Grover, man. He needs more. Show the unique qualities of his friendships with Percy and Annabeth. Really express his guilt about failing Thalia. Maybe this manifests by the lie of omission going on a little longer, and Percy not getting why he didn’t tell him until Grover just snaps and admits he doesn’t want Percy to think of him as the failure he already sees himself as. Also, let him talk more to animals. Animals are cute. He should immediately have known what’s up with the chimera dog.
6. I would have liked Luke and Percy to interact more early on. Luke immediately takes Percy under his wing, sympathizes with him when Percy is probably still too mad to talk to Grover. Show that they begin sword training so it doesn’t just come up in the last episode. This is the only time you get to see Luke as a friend, he’s a villain the rest of the show, so make it count.
7. Echidna is cool and I like her slow walking towards them like their death is inevitable and she can take her time. No notes there, it’s chilling that she would’ve succeeded if not for the Deus Ex Machina.
8. Waterworld could be improved pretty much by everything you touched on. Keep in Annabeth’s spider encounter. It could be a contrast to how fearless she is guiding Percy through the death traps. Make them kinda embarrassed on the love boat. As for the chair, I kind of like it and kind of don’t. Percy’s self-sacrifice isn’t wrong, character-wise, but I feel like he has to build up to such a deliberate self-sacrifice move like that. The arch seemed more spur of the moment, but this twelve year old was really accepting his imminent demise here and that’s alarming. I like Annabeth and Hephaestus’s convo, tho. Annabeth really worked up to the point where she could call out the gods like that. I would like the chair-paralyzing bit to look a bit more mechanical and less magical. Golden nano-bots? Sure.
9. I’m not sure if there’s a way to make the gods big and tall without it looking too silly, but I think Zeus did pretty well at looking opposing. Hades should take notes, though I didn’t hate his performance.
10. Ares is best character, 10/10. Fire eyes are cool, but some of the actor’s facial expressions make me laugh so hard that I’m worried it would make the performance worse. Maybe when he’s changing to his true form, his eyes change first, and that’s how you implement it.
11. I like the gods being ambiguous with their love in the books and just generally being crappy parents. But, idk, I don’t mind there being exceptions. Maybe some gods, like Zeus and Athena, are too prideful to be good parents, and others, like Hermes, are a bit more openly loving. But it doesn’t make much sense in the show… Hermes blames his bad relationship with Luke on issues and resentment regarding Luke’s mother, and… yeah, while that could definitely be part of it, the other part is that you’re an absentee parent?? And Poseidon, ooh, I feel so weird about how sympathetically they portray him when they implied some heavy stuff with Medusa… I can’t get it out of my head that he.. well.. yeah. And let’s say we rework Medusa’s bit. Maybe she clarifies that Poseidon didn’t do THAT, but he did play with her heart and didn’t help her when Athena got mad. Then, sympathetic Poseidon might work. But I like new Medusa’s backstory, and how complicated it makes everything. And Percy should get to have complicated feelings about his father.
I’ll add more if I think of it, but that’s that. I liked the series, and I like thinking of how I would improve it.
Season 2 of Percy Jackson I believe was announced this week