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monarchsthoughtsonmedia · 3 months

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Now that the entirety of season one is out in the world, it's time for me to finally discuss it in great detail:

Percy Jackson & the Olympians TV Series

First off, I want to make it clear that I love this show. As a fan of the books, it was great. But there are a lot of issues.

Casting: I had to start with this because if I didn't include it, idiots would get mad. I love the actors that were casted, particularly the kids. They are incredible actors and have great chemistry with one another. The lines they are given, however, are poor at times.

Script: The writing, imo, is poor because Rick Riordan is a book writer. Script writing and novel writing are two very different arts and his involvement in the script and lack of experience script writing probably didn't mesh. Rick, however, should take this in stride and simply work at it.

Pacing: The show was terribly paced because of, yet again, the writing. But also because they were not given enough episodes to work with. Hopefully, Disney will listen and give the cast & crew more flexibility in the future.

Exposition: Personally, with or without exposition this show would have been lacking because the best way to have handled a world with so much lore would have been an at least partially animated show. If I had creative control over the TV series and unlimited budget, I would have designed the show similarly to Lizzie McGuire with animated Book! Percy showing up and narrating a bit and drawing sketches of myths and other exposition-y stuff.

Immediately Knowing Everything: I have no idea how they can fix this honestly. It was a mistake that changed pacing, characterization, and the plot of every episode poorly and we all have to live with it.

CGI: Once again a victim of the budget. We lost the pink poodle, the zebra, the hell hound, and more to the poor CGI budget that Disney granted this show. I truly hope they get more budget for season two.

Grover: Rick really tried to rewrite Grover's character to be "more important" to the plot, taking away any actual scenes of his characterization, but failed to leave out the jokes. The joke about Grover eating too much not only fell flat but felt icky to me. The nereid giving Percy four pearls only for Grover to be the one to lose one? Made episode seven my least favorite. Percy sort of blaming Grover for them missing the deadline? Not only out of character but angered me.

Gabe: I really had faith that the show would do more with Gabe after the first two episodes and actually make his eventual death earned but his death had no emotional impact because 1) he's not clearly shown as abusive and 2) Sally is not the one who kills him. It not only copied the post credits scene from the movie but also takes away Sally's control of her narrative which should have been emphasized with her characterization in the show.

Crusty's Water Bed: Boring. Should have been cut. They couldn't even bother with CGI enough to make him look like a cyclops.

The Mist and May/Sally: Not everyone who sees through the mist is a seer which is what the show implies and also they never bother to mention that Sally can see through the mist! The May/Sally parallel is extremely important!

Ares's Curse: Forgive me if I'm wrong but I don't believe Ares ever curses Percy/Riptide. It's an unfortunate cut that I wish they had kept because imo it is important to the plot of the series.

Killing Alecto: This is very personal to myself and my theories but I always imagined that when Medusa turned someone to stone, their soul was trapped there. I liked that fate for Gabe in the books. Thus, her coming back was disappointing for me.

Aphrodite's Scarf: Sad this didn't make the cut. I know it's not really important but I do miss it.

All in all, I really do hope for more seasons. Hopefully, they can fix the majority of these issues with time 💕

#percy jackson #percy jackson tv series #percy jackson tv show #rick riordan

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unexaltedonewhoisnotking · 2 years

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Some speculation I made a while ago about how the episodes of the PJO adaptation might be broken down, given that we know there will be 8 of them. Have also now added some possible episode titles because I do like the idea that they would use chapter titles for them.

Episode 1: Chapters 1-4. All of the Yancy events are in this part - the field trip and attack by Mrs Dodds, Percy overhearing a bit of conversation between Mr Brunner and Chiron. Percy goes home and he and Sally go to Montauk. Percy dreams of a horse and an eagle. Grover shows up, and he, Sally and Percy start to drive to Camp Half-Blood. Percy fights the Minotaur, and the episode ends as he loses consciousness.

Introduced in this episode: Percy, Grover, Chiron (as Mr Brunner), Mrs Dodds, Sally, and Gabe.

Title: “I Accidentally Vaporize My Pre-Algebra Teacher” or “My Mother Teaches Me Bullfighting”

Episode 2: Chapters 5-8. Percy wakes up, has nectar, and has the conversation with Chiron and Mr D. He gets a tour of Camp Half-Blood. We see some of the camp activities and then it focuses on capture-the-flag, ending with Percy’s claiming.

Introduced in this episode: Mr D, Argus Annabeth, Luke, and Clarisse (+ other minor campers).

Title: “I Become Supreme Lord of the Bathroom” or “We Capture a Flag”

Episode 3: Chapters 9-11. Percy’s moved into the Poseidon cabin and has another conversation with Chiron and Mr D before being sent to the Oracle. Percy gets Riptide and the flying shoes and the main trio begin their quest. They encounter their first obstacle in the Furies on the bus, and then they wind up at Aunty Em's. It ends with Percy sending Medusa's head to Olympus, and then the trio leave to continue their journey, uncertain what will come next.

Introduced in this episode: Other Furies, Medusa.

Title: “I Am Offered a Quest” or “We Visit the Garden Gnome Emporium”

Episode 4: Chapters 12-14 or partway into 15. Grover and Percy discuss Pan. They find Gladiola the pink poodle and catch a train to St Louis. They visit the Gateway Arch and encounter Echidna, and the trio meet back up after Percy geronimos into the river. Possibly the episode ends there, or possibly it extends to include the IM with Luke and maybe the conversation with Ares.

Introduced in this episode: the Nereid, Ares (possibly).

Title: ”I Plunge to My Death” or “I Become a Known Fugitive”

Episode 5: Chapters 15-partway through 16. If it wasn’t done in Episode 4, we now get the IM with Luke and the conversation with Ares. Either way, the bulk of the episode focuses on the events in Waterland. It ends with the trio in the zoo truck, either on the conversation about Thalia or the dream of Luke talking to Kronos.

Introduced in this episode: Ares (possibly), Kronos (possibly, indirectly).

Title: “A God Buys Us Cheeseburgers”

Episode 6: Remainder of Chapter 16. Opens either with the dream of Luke talking to Kronos, or just with Grover waking Percy up. They free the animals and find the Lotus Hotel and Casino. The remainder of the episode focuses on the events within the Hotel, extending that sequence a bit. At the end of the episode they get out and it ends with a wham lime about the time left to complete the quest.

Introduced in this episode: Kronos (possibly, indirectly), Disco Darrin.

Title: “We Take a Zebra to Vegas”

Episode 7: Chapters 17-19. They catch a taxi to Santa Monica. Percy meets the Nereid and gets the pearls. They take a bus to Hollywood, encounter Procrustes, escape and then get to DOA Recording Studios. They bribe Charon. Annabeth gets them past Cerberus and the trio officially enters the Underworld. The shoes drag Grover towards Tartarus and they see the pit before going to Hades' castle. They confront Hades before realising the mistake and escape using the pearls.

Introduced in this episode: Procrustes, Charon, Hades.

Title: “We Find Out the Truth, Sort Of”

Episode 8: Chapters 20-22. The trio appear in the sea and are picked up by the Coast Guard. Percy confronts and fights Ares. They fly to New York, and Percy goes up to Olympus to return the master bolt. After that he goes home to see Sally. He finds Medusa's head and leaves it with her when he goes back to Camp Half-Blood. Luke reveals that he was a traitor. Goodbyes are said and Percy prepares to leave Camp as the summer, the episode and the season have all reached an end.

Introduced in this episode: Zeus, Poseidon (+ others gods).

Title: “The Prophecy Comes True”

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elliot-elliot · 4 years

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Things i forgot about in PJO/HOO

TLT:

Percy accidentally fired a war cannon into a school bus

He also accidentally made his entire class fall into an aquarium tank thing

Grover cries when he’s frustrated

Grover has a note excusing him from PE “for the rest of his life”

Halfway though the school year their old math teacher had a nervous breakdown

Once, Percy told Grover that he didn’t think mrs Dodds was human and Grover was deadass just like “yes. You’re right” completely seriously

Chiron has tournament days where he would dress up in Roman armor

Percy assumed all the weird weather was because of global warming

Percy called his English teacher an old sot

Grover is a terrible liar

MASSIVE BLUE SOCK

Grover’s bladder acts up when he gets upset

Sally’s parents died in a plane crash when she was 5, and was raised by her uncle who didn’t really care about her

Sally wanted to be a novelist

She had to quit school her senior year to take care of said uncle, who got cancer

Gabe made Percy provide his gambling funds, and Percy said that if he didn’t, Gabe would “punch his lights out”

Percy has nightmares about Mrs Dodds

Percy genuinely liked Yancy Academy

Percy did the warding off evil gesture towards Gabe, and the screen door shut so hard “it whacked him in the butt and sent him flying up the stairs as if he’d been shot from a cannon”

Percy was stalked by a cyclops in 3rd grade

In preschool, he strangled a snake with his bare hands, and his mom found him playing with it like a rope

At the cabin, grover cursed in Ancient Greek, and Percy understood it perfectly

Percy thought Grover was a donkey from the waist down

Percy tried to get the Minotaurs attention by waving his red rain coat

Percy said he would rather live on the streets or pretend he was 17 and join the army if it meant not living with Gabe

Percy said that Mr D looked like a Cherub

They have satyrs at most schools

There was a different Latin teacher for the first week of the school, but Chiron convinced him to take a leave of absence

Mr D plays pinochle with the satyrs

There’s an orientation film

Grover eats mr D’s Diet Coke cans

Probation in the 1900s was Zeus’s punishment to Mr D

Percy likes basketball

Percy tripped when coming into the Hermes cabin for the first time

Most teachers are literally monsters

For a mortal, nectar and ambrosia turns their blood to fire and their skin to sand

Clarisse calls Annabeth “wise girl”

Percy accidentally sprayed Annabeth with toilet water

Chiron told Percy that he might be considered a myth in 2000 years

Luke pulled a switchblade out of his pocket and Percy thought Luke was gonna gut him

Percy is really good at canoeing

Luke’s the best swordsman they’d had in 300 years

Percy was able to disarm Luke on his first try after he poured water on his head

Hitler was a son of hades, since WW11 was the sons of Zeus and Poseidon on one side, and the sons of hades on the other

Houdini went on a quest to the underworld

In capture the flag, clarisse tried to cut Percy’s hair

Percy apologized for the water healing his Injuries

Someone left a newspaper about Percy and his mom going missing inside his doorway

Mr D wanted to Spontaneous Combust Percy

It’s illegal to make copies of Zeus’s lightning bolt

CHB has a hydra head from Woodstock

The oracle told Percy the prophecy through the image of Gabe and his friends

Grover eats pinochle cards “like potato chips”

Luke made Percy blush almost as much as Annabeth blushes when she’s around Luke

Chiron told Percy only to use his sword in emergencies

Mortals aren’t important enough to be killed by celestial bronze

Percy was famous for loosing pens at school

Annabeth was explaining the Athens rivalry thing to Percy, and he was like “they must have really liked olives” and Annabeth got mad and then he was like “Now, if she’d invited pizza—*that* i could understand” which made her even more mad, and Argus then winked at Percy

Annabeth gave Percy her hat so he could escape off the bus

Grover was gonna defend himself from the furies with a tin can

Grover ties Mrs Dodds’s legs up with her own whip

Percy told Mrs Dodds to eat his pants in Latin

Medusa turned Grover’s uncle to stone

Medusa is/sounds middle eastern

Percy told Medusa that they were from a traveling circus, and when they were alone Annabeth told Percy “your head is full of kelp”

Grover told Medusa that he takes vitamins for his ears

Satyrs can’t get migraines

Percy fucking mailed Medusa’s head to mount Olympus, and he signed the package “with best wishes”

GLADIOLA THE FUCKING PINK POODLE

Annabeth appeared on her dads doorstep in a golden cradle

Annabeth calls Grover “goat boy”

Percy hates confined spaces

I JUST REALIZED THIS HIS FIRST OUT OF 2 (i think 2?? Maybe there’s more??) TRAUMATIC ELEVATOR EXPERIENCES

The chimera has a rhinestone collar that says “Chimera— rabid, fire-breathing, poisonous— if found, please call Tartarus—ext. 954”

Echidna told Percy what she is— the mother of all monsters, and Percy was like “isn’t that a type of anteater”

The chimera poisoned Percy

Percy jumped from the arch assuming that it would kill him, in order to protect the mortals that were on the arch

Percy fucking lit a lighter at the bottom of the Mississippi

The campers were taking sides— Zeus or Poseidon

Gods can’t steal each other’s items directly

Percy said the leather on ares’s motercycle looked like “Caucasian human skin”

Percy said that ares’s was handsome

Percy said he broke clarisse’s spear and ares was like “oh dope”

Ares threatened to turn Percy into a prairie dog

Ares gave them a bag of double stuffed Oreos

Percy thought that the reason he could talk to zebras but not lions was because of another learning disability

They released a zebra into Las Vegas

Percy snapped Annabeth out of the lotus haze by looking her in the eyes and saying “spiders. Large, hairy spiders”

Percy threw away ares’s backpack, but once they left the lotus hotel, it reappeared on his shoulders

THE WATER BEDS

The lotus card had infinite money, and the cab driver referred to her as “your highness”, which Annabeth likes

They let the cab driver keep the (infinite) change

When at santa monica, percy looked out at the ocean, thought about how 2/3rds of the world is covered in water, and wondered how he could be the son of someone so powerful

Percy just. Fucking walks into the water and annabeth is like “percy what the fuck are you doing” and headass just keeps walking until he’s fully submerged

A mako shark nuzzled him like a dog

Percy used to see sea spirits smiling at him in the waves at Montauk beach

Houdini could “escape even the depths of tartarus… damn, talk about foreshadowing

Percy told the bus driver he was a stunt double for a bunch of child actors

Percy said L.A. reminded him of Ares

They got attacked by a gang

CRUSTY

Percy tricked crusty into getting into his own beds, and percy then cut his head off

Grover told Charon that all 3 of them drowned in a bathtub, and Charon looked mildly impressed

Percy bribed Charon into letting them in

Percy’s Traumatic Elevator Experience count so far: 2

The river Styx is polluted

Annabeth held percy’s hand on the boat

Thomas Jefferson is a judge of the underworld

Grover compared Asphodel to standing in a wheat field in Kansas forever

Cerberus is a purebred Rottweiler

Annabeth played fetch with Cerberus

Annabeth promised Cerberus that she would come back and play fetch with him again

Cerberus considers Annabeth a friend

Percy saw things in the Fields Of Punishment that he “didnt want to describe”

Percy said he wanted to go to the Isles of The Blest when he dies

THEY ALMOST FALL INTO TARTARUS.

Percy said that Hades’s eyes reminded him of Hitler’s

Percy wondered if Hades’s underwear was made of trapped souls like his robe was

Percy interrupted Hades to tell him that Charon wanted a raise

Hades threatened to “stop death”

PERCY TOLD HADES TO PLAY WITH CERBERUS MORE

Annabeth gave percy her necklace to wear for good luck (with fighting ares)

Percy jumped over ares on a 6-foot wave

Percy fucking told the entire city of LA that they could get a free appliance, and he gave them Gabe’s phone number. Fucking love this kid.

Finally, a non-traumatic elevator experience

Zeus went to purify his bolt in the waters of Lemnos

Podeiden told percy that his rebelliousness was because “the sea does not like to be restrained”

Poseidon said that sally is a goddess among women

Gabe fucking made Sally go to work when she got back

Percy didnt know that Gabe had been hitting sally, until he saw her flinch when Gabe raised his hand

Poseiden sent him Medusa’s head back to use against gabe

The ares cabin made Percy’s laurel and painted “loser” on it

Sally sold her “sculpture” to an art collector in Soho, got a new apartment, and started going to college

The Soho gallery called the sculpture “a huge step forward in super-ugly neorealism”

Percy told luke he misses being on the quest

Ares caught luke with the bolt and helm

Grover “confused the (flying shoe) curse”

#pjo #percy jackson #percy jackon and the olympians #things i forgot #the lightning thief #heros of olympus #rick riordan #uncle rick

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