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My personal list of criticisms for the series because if I don't put these somewhere I will actually go crazy in my room within the panopticon. I thankfully saw some other people share their lists and here comes mine.
Here I'm looking back at the episodes with the perspective of the viewer who knows what has and has not been properly used.
I rewatched the whole thing so this is EP1 through EP8.
🔱 Episode 1:
The ADHD & dyslexia rep stops episode one like it was forgotten about. It will become a pattern.
I am very, very bitter about the introduction of the "not everyone who looks like a monster/hero is actually one" through Perseus' story because in the context of Percy's life, he is - at least in PJO - a hero. Don't make the boy doubt himself more.
If they did introduce the "looks are deceptive" idea, I fail to see why this was not alluded to later with Luke.
I feel like neither Nancy nor Mrs. Dodds are really given screen time enough to actually showcase how much of an impact both have on Percy's life.
I still hate everything they did to Gabe's character. RIP Sally's Jackson empowerment story.
Blue food. They never really explain why it's significant.
They had budget to showcase Percy's dreams but instead of obvious enough dreams with animals it's Exposition.
Sally knows too much. They messed up her role as a character by taking away her book archetype. She's going from The Guardian to The Knowledge Keeper to The Victim back and forth.
Percy figures out too much too quickly. It has been discussed back and forth, so just putting it down here.
They mention the Minotaur smelling Percy but they never use it to explain Sally's unnecessary marriage? Potential lost.
Looking back at the Big Bull fight, they really don't let Percy act. The luring trick is his thinking, not Sally's. RIP the horn getting stuck and torn away. I can't exactly believe a young teenager had the power to break off a giant horn, in the rain, in the dark. Bad execution, the tree trick is a way to showcase Percy's wits.
🏺 Episode 2:
I wish they let Percy be dark-haired desperately. Hair color swap is bad design-wise because there's already one recognizable curly-haired blond in the series (Will). It's just a disservice to the actor.
RIP blonde 'Beth. Annabeth being wrongly seen as a "dumb blonde" is half of her character's thing. If they thought it no longer worked for her, they needed to play off another "perceived stupidity" stereotype.
Ugh I wish they let Percy be alarmed around Dionysus because in the book his gambling & "familiarity with alcohol" trigger Percy's PTSD.
Percy's PTSD is not a thing.
So, after the entire season: They had no reason to hide Sally's survival from Percy. Them doing it never got mentioned again. Traumatize the boy some more why don't you.
Luke's speech about the importance of glory doesn't work because his failed quest is never mentioned.
I think Clarisse is a miscast. She's pretty whereas in the books it's sort of the whole thing that she's "big, ugly, and mean-looking". She's one of the examples of deceiving looks as we learn in SoM and later on. Making her pretty just makes her lose purpose.
RIP showing friendly interactions or any true bonding with Luke.
All of that talk about Annabeth's wits and strategies in EP2 only to have it never play a major role in the rest of the season. Told you it's a pattern.
🐍 Episode 3:
Annabeth's story keeps getting decimated. There's so much talk about her closeness to Luke, but there's no showing it.
Ugh, I dislike how they keep making Mrs. Dodds so neutral - enough to just tell Annabeth everything? This is a whole new character.
The Medusa reveal still sucks so much, the tension & suspense are just non-existent.
Upon rewatching, I'd say Medusa overall was a decent monster because she barely did anything but it felt like the entire story was offered up on a silver platter and got resolved too quickly.
"You can't ship the head off" makes no sense, none of Athena's arc makes sense in this show. They established that heroes earn glory through mighty deeds (such as killing monsters) and established that Athena cursed Medusa. Percy is for once right.
Overall, this is the episode where Percy's starting to take up the Exposition Character role and I really don't like that.
🌊 Episode 4:
RIP book Sally Jackson I loved you. Sally's starting to go down the "showing visual frustration towards her neurodivergent child" which is a) utterly out of character b) breaks down her arc even more.
The Furies, the Minotaur, and Medusa are not children of Echidna. The monster's great despite looking extremely boring, but her motivation being personal doesn't work in their specific case; they didn't kill any of her kids.
Small complaint but "a temple is a temple" isn't exactly making much sense. We just established Athena-Poseidon rivalry, we just announced that Athena's place is safe for everyone and protected from Poseidon's earthquakes. The idea to call upon a rival God sounds stupid.
Athena's portrayal is just horrible. She was written badly in the books, like most women, but the show's literally saying: Yeah she would gravely endanger her kid for the "mistake" that wasn't even hers. And... it is never brought up again.
Making Athena such a bad mother while Poseidon goes out of his way to save his child from death seems a bit eh.
I. Am. Tired. Of others. Telling Percy. How and what to feel! Please let the guy discover things on his own.
🏛️ Episode 5:
I will die on the hill of "Annabeth is not supposed to be the one to see the Fates and no, her closeness to Luke does not matter" especially when her and Luke's connection has been buried!
It's Percy's quest, it's his prophecy to handle, it's for him to witness the yarn being cut. It's for him to put things together. I do not get why they keep switching Annabeth and Percy's places in the plot.
So, the fugitive twist is abandoned and never handled again. This is a pattern.
It makes absolutely no sense for Annabeth to be talking back to Ares when she knows who he is and how powerful he is. They keep making her play Percy's part and him - play hers.
I mourn Annabeth's geekiness over architecture. The sole time she seems entranced by something that distracts her is Hephaestus' mechanical wonders which is engineering but not exactly book Annabeth's focus.
I am pretty sure Ares doesn't hate his children in the book, he's just a hard-to-impress dad that lets his children fight their own fights. Making him "hate his kids" added zero weight to his character.
Why is Percy mansplaining mythology to Annabeth.
"Seaweed brain" doesn't work when he just explained a myth to her while she stood there listening as if she has never heard it before.
Ares doesn't really have an impact on the three that he had in the books. This was supposed to be the moment Percy first learns his mom's alive. Since Ares was messed up later on too, I call it lost potential.
🎲 Episode 6:
There's no real reason to suspect Ares or Clarisse in the theft, that scene/realization are lazy cop-outs. They do not begin to suspect Ares unless they literally find the bolt.
Lotus Casino my detested. Worst case of "they already know it" that I've seen in this show. The Casino is meant to be a trap, they are not supposed to know where they are going.
Suspense is nonexistent. They literally figure out the lotus-eaters the moment they step into the place, this is boring!
"Wise Girl" doesn't work when they spent less time letting Annabeth talk the smart talk than Percy.
It has been said a multitude of times but the Casino is boring.
"If you don't know what chances do I have" pretty high ones because they've been writing you off as the wise boy, Percy.
Personal pet peeve: I heavily dislike Hermes' casting.
Hermes' scene is far, far too early in.
Arcades are not too old to put into a 2023 series, VR is lame.
Why is the "is it because of me?" scene so awkward, why are they making Grover feel guilty/implying he's guilty. It was literally not his fault.
Hermes' involvement is so messy, there's absolutely no reason for him to hold them back in any way.
THE SOLSTICE PASSING MAKES NO SENSE, IT DIMINISHES ALL STAKES, AND IT DOESN'T EVEN CHANGE ANYTHING
💀 Episode 7:
It has been discussed deeply but everything about Procrustes' scene was done with utmost laziness and letting him live when he was just proclaimed a murderer makes absolutely zero sense.
RIP Sally Jackson's entire character. Show Sally is not above stressing her 9 year old out, getting visibly annoyed by his "outbursts" (they are really tame), putting the blame on him instead of explaining things to him in a calm manner, and raising her voice at him. Not only is this directly polar to her book self, but it also finalizes the show's destruction of her character.
The Underworld: ugly, incomparable with the book's version, boring. All that CGI and they could only pull up a LOTR movie Isengard.
RIP court of Kings, RIP Fields of Punishment, RIP actual Asphodel Meadows, RIP Elysium. The Underworld is done lazily.
Sally Jackson would never let her child think she's getting rid of him. It baffles me that she's not explaining anything to Percy.
This is not Hades and you cannot at a gunpoint make me accept that this is the terrifying, glorious, intimidating God of the Dead that puts awe into Percy Jackson and terrifies his own child. This goofy mf is not Hades, this is clownery. Another utterly decimated character, entirely off-point.
"These grudges go on forever" is hilarious (/neg) to hear from a God whose children are canonically stated to hold grudges as a fatal flaw. They really can't get the single clearly depicted person right.
Percy single-handedly figuring out it's Kronos with no clues is undoubtedly the worst part of the whole season. Go home kids, there's no tension anymore.
I hate how little Annabeth matters in this show. Her tie to Luke is severed, Percy does her job retelling the myths, she's not obsessive about her interests, and she's not even there with them when the biggest revelations are made. Her sole function is carrying the invisibility cap around (and apparently her friends can't even explain that to Hades). The show has killed Annabeth as a character and it's sad.
⚔️ Episode 8:
Sword lessons are far too late in the season, they would do much more impact building Percy and Luke up if they happened earlier.
I know that in the book Ares' curse is largely forgotten about, but they could have easily included it into the fight.
I feel like Percy has never been explained that monsters don't exactly "die" because not once does he seem surprised that Dodds is back.
Olympus is ugly!
The whole Luke reveal is a mess. Percy jumps to the conclusion far too fast, his sole direct argument it is Luke is the shoes, but he realistically has no other reason to assume Luke's the traitor. He has just given Percy the reason why he kept quiet about Clarisse. Percy and his Super Knowledge I guess.
Luke having a portal-opening tool at hand ruins the whole purpose of Thalia as a character and narrative function.
RIP Annabeth's arc.
Oh, Gabe's story line is horrible. We know they purposefully made him non-abusive (c), meaning turning him into stone doesn't really do anything. Like, you just killed a guy; an annoying but non-threatening guy. Lame.
My overall impression was more negative than positive.
My main complaints regard Richard himself for his shameless misleading promotion and poor writing, the casting directors for missing the "vibe" with too many characters (actors have certain types of charisma and this show is hit or miss with them), the producers for slacking off with prioritizing CGI where it doesn't need to be, and for costume designers. Whoever worked on the Camp sets did a decent job, but the Underworld and Olympus suck so much it's unbelievable.
Doesn't work as an adaptation for me. I wouldn't give it more than 2/10 - only for some set designs.
#🏛️#pjo show crit#pjo tv crit#rr crit#percy jackson#pjo#percy jackon and the olympians#pjo hoo toa#percabeth#rick riordan
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i think it’s reductive to take “its not like the books” in it’s most literal face value interpretation. it’s not bad bc it’s “not like the books” it’s bad because it discards the books for something worse
#spilled#pjotv crit#rr crit#i feel like we lose a lot of the 'mortal world problems' in hoo too#percy jackson#pjo#percy jackon and the olympians#pjo hoo toa#percabeth#rick riordan
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I'm kinda fed up with people saying that adhd and autism are "superpowers".
I can't do my homework because of executive disfunction and you tell me to be glad because I'm "special"? fuck you.
Both disorders can have their upsides. But as a person who can barely manage to get up and go to school every day it hurts to see people spread shit like that.
I'm sure that they don't mean harm but still.
#adhd#actually autistic#autism#neurodivergent#late night rambles#actually adhd#percy jackson#pjo#percy jackon and the olympians#pjo hoo toa
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So I finished watching the PJO show last night, and God am I disappointed.
I was expecting to watch a show which is accurate to the book. It was not.
I don't have any issues with them cutting scenes. But they lost the essence of Percy as a person. Everything felt rushed. The fight scenes were barely there. The fight with ares is an important part where it's shown how Percy has grown. The fight lasted all of 5 minutes on the screen. Half of which was given to Luke and Percy sword fighting. It's supposed to show that Percy is a good sword fighter. Apart from that, where was the tension? They knew everything. There was no suspense.
Also the beloved nicknames seaweed brain and wise girl felt forced. Funny scenes were cut. Annabeth explaining why Poseidon and Athena are rivals, why she has a bad relationship with her father. Why grover wants to search for Pan?
Also am I misremembering or there was this thing that they were not supposed to say the names of the gods?
I think if they wanted to make a different story line, then they should not have adapted the dam books.
Also anyone who was a fan of the books, who says be happy that you atleast got the adaptation, I would rather they hadn't adapted it AT ALL.
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I want to be a writer
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Normalize bad TV series erasure. 👍🏼
#🏛️#pjo show#pjo show crit#pjo tv crit#i called it first episode in it was bad.#anyways movies are available for pirating and you can still do the funniest thing in the world:#(make tlt movie have a higher rating than the show).#percy jackson#pjo#percy jackon and the olympians
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This is the stuff that irritates me so much… like we’re allowed to be upset
ik people have spoken about it before but this specific genre of fans that defend the show like rick is personally holding their families hostage is sooo...
#'the author approved a change so it must be a good one!!' who told you that#i'd rather they just admit that they can't handle seeing criticism of the show and go#instead of making arguments like these#god forbid you say one negative thing about the series or you get jumped by half of pjotwt#pjo show#pjo show crit#not really but whatever#percy jackson#pjo#percy jackon and the olympians
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no boar charging percy. no percy telling people to get appliances from gabe’s store. no fishing chair throne for poseidon. no pit scorpion. no sally taking control of her own life and turning gabe into stone. it’s so dark in here. can anyone hear me.
#this is a cry for help#it’s never been so over#can’t believe they did sally dirty like that#percy jackson#pjo#pjo show crit#percy jackon and the olympians#pjo hoo toa#percabeth#rick riordan
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if i had a nickel for every time i got emotionally invested in a percy jackson adaptation for it to inevitable fuck itself through plot deviations and unecessary additions, i'd have two nickels
which isn't a lot, but it's weird that it happened twice.
#the more i think about it the more it makes me want to jump into tartarus myself#its a shame they've been given shitty writing and direction to compete with#pjo tv crit#pjo crit#pjo show crit
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If you’re a good fanfiction author, I love you so does my AO3 account
Can we just take a minute to acknowledge and appreciate fanfiction writers who are just so unbelievably on point with characterization.. and how they paint into reality beautiful and breathtaking moments that would put many published authors to shame! They do this for free because they love it and are passionate about the stories they wish to tell… and if that isn’t art at its finest and purest then I don’t know what is..
#ao3 fanfic#fanfic#fanfiction#ao3fic#ao3feed#ao3 writer#ao3 author#fandom culture#percy jackson x annabeth chase#pjo fanfic#this is specifically targeted at a very niche group of people
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Agreed
@ the PJO Fandom: People have the right to be angry about the butchered tv-show. Stop acting like you have the high ground just because you love the show and others don't.
We have wanted a book accurate adaptation for years and what did we get? A flawed piece of media with weird pacing, stupid dialogue, too many changes to important scenes to count.
A Book-accurate adaptation was the reason why we annoyed the crap out of Uncle Rick in the first place! So please stop being arrogant pieces of shit to people who have legitimate beef with the show!
We are both angry and disappointed. We were promised better. That's why this hurt even more.
#pjo#percy jackson#pjo show crit#percy jackon and the olympians#pjo hoo toa#percabeth#rick riordan#annabeth chase#pjo fandom#I don’t think I would be this angry and yelling at people#They’re not wrong#There’s no need to call people names#But you are allowed to criticize things that you’re passionate about
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Scrolling through #pjo show crit and reblogging everything in sight is saving my sanity. Thank you guys fr
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I know I’m a hater but man, my instincts were right from day one. All the changes are either meaningless or they actively strip drama and character from everything around them
#pjo show#pjo show crit#pjo show criticism#percy jackson#pjo#percy jackon and the olympians#pjo hoo toa#percabeth#rick riordan#annabeth chase
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the finale! overall, not as bad as i was expecting :) however
i maintain that making them miss the deadline was a stupid writing choice. sucking out all of the tension just to end up in the same place
revealing that luke and percy had one on one swordfighting sessions for the first time now :/ i'm glad it's there at least but it really cheapens the writing to toss it in last minute as a flashback scene instead of setting it up earlier imo
the gods are way too pathetic like why is percy able to talk so much shit to zeus and not die. that entire scene i was like zeus why are you not killing his ass rn
THEY DIDN'T TIE OFF THE FUGITIVE PLOT??
luke just outright telling percy annabeth is afraid of spiders like come ON the telling not showing is fucking comical at this point
backbiter can create portals now? why? that simply wasn't necessary
they never explained the blue food :(
gabe just happening upon the box with medusa's head instead of sally intentionally using it on him misses the entire point!! SHAME!!
THEY NEVER TOLD PERCY HIS SWORD'S NAME IS RIPTIDE
#there were plenty of things i did like about this episode#but the things that piss me off take precedent#pjo show crit#pjo tv crit#percy jackson#pjo#percy jackon and the olympians#pjo show#pjo tv show#pjo series
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You either die a hero or see yourself, live long enough to become a villain- Harvey Dent
*cough Rick Riordan cough*
You know, I feel grossed out by the misleading advertising of that show because of how shamelessly it preys on people who either wanted a true-to-the-story adaptation or those who have never read the books but wanted to feel connected to the genuinely fun world of PJO. It sort of betrays and ignores both groups of audience.
It doesn't work as an adaptation created for book fans because it butchers the book plot in its most important, tender moments, and fails to tell the story highlighting the right narrative aspects.
It doesn't work as an adaptation meant for new fans who want to get into the books because it's plain, boring, anticlimactic and utterly depressing. It doesn't give the books due credit, rather saying "join in, it's going to be miserable and just like every other marvel show you watched!"
It's just so uncaring it's sad.
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