I’ve seen a lot of people complain about how Gabe isn’t as bad as in the books, which valid complaint to have, but also. They had some good reasons for changing it.
You can get away with a LOT more in books than you can with visual media, because whatever you read is limited to the reader’s imagination. That’s why some notably violent kid’s books (Warrior Cats, Watership Down, etc) are still considered kid’s books. A child can still be terrified by those books, but ultimately they can only be as afraid as they are imaginative, and as long as the child is old enough to understand that fiction can’t physically hurt them, it’s fine.
But with visual media, you are only allowed that imagination if something happens offscreen. There’s a big difference between violence in words and violence visually. This is ESPECIALLY applicable to live action media, if the show came out as a cartoon then that might be a slightly different story.
Abuse isn’t fictional, they aren’t going to be as lenient with it as they might be with fantasy violence. Reading abuse isn’t as tense as actually seeing it on screen. So while Gabe’s portrayal in the book might be touching for kids with bad home lives, to have that same portrayal in the show could be potentially very triggering and scary. Remember, this is a show intended for kids.
Also, Disney can get very pissy over violence (especially violence based in reality). Most parents don’t want their kids to see realistic abuse, and if they complained enough about it, it could be a problem. Disney doesn’t like taking risks. If the show got too real, there’s a chance Disney won’t greenlight another season.
Does sanitizing Gabe’s abuse alter Percy’s and Sally’s characters, and create a mess for the Medusa plotline? Yes. Am I happy about it? No. But ultimately, I think it was one of the better options.
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Gaston Song (dirty version)
Gosh it disturbs me to view you, Gaston,
Looking so flaccid and limp
Everyone here'd love to do you, Gaston,
For you they would happily simp
No man in town's as titillating as you,
You're everyone's favorite whore!
I think of you while masturbating, it's true
And we all can see why, that's for suuuuuuuuuure!
Nooo oooooooone... Fucks like Gaston
No one sucks like Gaston
No one whores themselves out for ten bucks like Gaston!
For there's no man in town half as sexy!
A pornographic paragon!
You can ask any Tom, Dick, or Betsy
And they'll tell you whose dick they'd prefer to be ooooon!
Noooo oooooone... bangs like Gaston!
All the gangs like Gaston!
No one's got quite a heft to his wang like Gaston!
"Yes, my genitals are quite intimidating!"
Oh, what a ho, that Gaston!
Fuck five ladies! Suck seven dudes!
Gaston is the best and the rest are all prudes!
Noooo... oooone... jerks like Gaston!
Does sex work like Gaston!
No one drops down his trousers and twerks like Gaston!
For there's none with as big of a booty!
"As you see, I've got bottom to bare!"
And his balls are so big, fat, and juicy-
"That's right! And I keep 'em smooth cuz I rub them with Nair!"
No one bums like Gaston!
All his chums like Gaston!
In a wanking match, nobody cums like Gaston!
"I'm especially good at e-jac-u-lating! UNGH!"
Ten points for Gaston!
When I was a lad, I sucked four dozen dicks
Every evening to help me pay rent
And now that I'm grown, I suck five dozen dicks
And I leave them all totally speeeeeent!
Nooooo... oooooone... faps like Gaston!
Makes them clap like Gaston!
And then gives that big booty a slap like Gaston!
"All the lasses find my ass so fascinating!"
Oh what a ho!
Gastoooooooon!
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really funny to me how the ahsoka show could’ve been a chance for disney to rewrite the sequel trilogy and they just aren’t gonna do that.
all this time that ahsoka has been elusive, she could’ve been silently and desperately on the hunt in the world between worlds, trying to go back in time to the point where it all went wrong. seeing the wrongs of the future (luke’s life and legacy crumbled and ruined, the first order, palpatine still alive, leia dying while her son is engulfed in darkness, bo-katan, a known terrorist, on the throne of mandalore)- and she, as a defender of justice and light (not a jedi - another thing dlf got wrong in the ahsoka trailer) is going through time and events trying to pinpoint where it all veers, thus making the sequel trilogy a non-canon, canon alternate timeline.
she ends up essentially “fixing” it, erasing the sequel trilogy events as we saw them, and they could start anew!! they announced a rey movie, right? why not have this be the NEW rey, the “right” timeline rey. she’s in this timeline restarting the jedi order - maybe she knows she’s a palpatine, maybe she knew all along & chose the light. maybe she’s a reformed darksider - who knows! maybe she’s older and a wise master under luke’s direction. who knows! and that would’ve been the beautiful, exciting thing about it! bc frankly, i like rey, but no one cares about another rebuild of the order set 15 years after a failed series. this rey movie could’ve been their redo!! ben could’ve been there, who knows! maybe they have a kid, maybe ben completed his training with luke too and he and rey were padawans together!! jedifinn! the tico sisters being badass! the point is the untold events would’ve been what pulled ppl in to see the new film!! to see the differences!!! all the while in the ahsoka series she’s like fixing these events, mando could’ve popped up as the now rightful leader of mandalore, luke could’ve popped up, anakin in clone wars flashbacks, the rebels, yadayada - all the same but with a different purpose.
but like… this was their ticket out. and instead they’re going to ruin heir to the empire by half-baking it into 6 other spinoffs only to make these sad remnants of sw characters (girlboss bo-katan, terrifyingly bad make-uped hera & co, randomly-calling-herself-a-jedi-again ahsoka, 1 cameo of young luke bc disney won’t pay for cgi and/or refuses to recast him, back-flipping grogu, and not-the-only-mandalorian-no-longer-the-protagonist-of-his-own-show din djarin fight the big bad thanos - i mean thrawn.
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