"[...] I think the thing that was most interesting to me about [Annabeth] was that she was just as lonely as Percy was, without a mom who loved her in the same way. And so, what does it mean to grow up like Percy did, feeling like there's no one like you, and you can't really connect to anybody, and not have Sally telling you it's okay? And so, from there, it felt a little bit like, that's probably a kid who maybe struggles to make friends in a meaningful way, or a kid who doesn't know what it's like to have a friend who's a real peer who can understand where they're coming from. That story's in the book, and to kind of bring it out in the mix and let that be the way we approach the launch of Percy and Annabeth, so that what you're watching in the first half of the season is them realizing, "You're the first person I've ever felt this way about." [...] If you feel that while you're watching it, then we're on the fairway, at least, I think, in terms of where we should be and, hopefully, we're pretty close to the bullseye of where we want that story to go, eventually."

-- jon steinberg, co-creator of disney+ pjo, monster donut nycc interviews & recap

Watching the PJO show as a book fan, like:

ok but like…the fact that percy and annabeth…percy and annabeth…ie one of the best and healthiest fictional couples that basically invented romance (the slowburn, the nicknames, the first kiss, the realizing feelings, sharing the weight of the world, percy giving up literal immortality for annabeth, the amnesia storyline in son of neptune where annabeth’s name was the only thing percy remembered, just all of house of hades, etc.)…the fact that that couple is going to be portrayed as an interracial couple is just so great, i’m literally going to cry.

Disney+ PJO is best adaptation for the sole fact that they included Percy's desire to pop off at Ares on sight, that beef is eternal and I'm glad to see it unfold on the screen

I've let a lot of changes slide in the Percy Jackson TV show, but I cannot abide this one.

Annabeth does not squish spiders. She runs. That's canon. I know they're making a point, but still. Annabeth runs from spiders we know this.

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I haven't watched it yet but everyone saying the show is doing such a great job of showing Percy's anger, more so than the books, is really making me chuckle. Maybe it's because I ditched the PJO-verse after HOO, and never got into any of Riordan's other books (just outgrew it, I guess) while still re-reading the original series but. I actually feel like it's the fandom who seems to have forgotten Percy's characterization.

He's either a silly idiot or "persassy" or "dark percy" in the fandom with almost zero inbetween, but at least from what I've seen in the gifs floating around, Percy matches his book counterpart pretty well. He was a silly little guy, but he was also always doing this for his mom, he was always mad at the gods for abandoning him. He faces up against Ares, he complains about doing stuff for the Olympians from the start. He was SO bitter that Poseidon claimed him just so Percy would clear his name, he always only said yes to the quest bc Chiron said he had to go to the Underworld - which meant a shot at saving Sally. Ofc, it's paradoxical with his desire to win his dad's approval (... in the books at least, I know they changed the sacrifice scene, so I dunno if this will remain), bc he's an abandoned kid who wants to understand why Dad would leave and wonders if it's because of him, but -- "I'm impertinent", it was a complaint just as much as a desire to be seen.

Basically from what I've seen, Percy seems to have the exact vibe of his book self, I think it's people who have forgotten it since his characterization has been continuously dilluted ever since the second series came out to the point where he's almost like a wholly different person in the current stories.

PULLED OUT THE CONSENSUS SONG AND IT ACTUALLY WORKED LMAO

I can't be the only one who fully expected Grover to try to teach the consensus song to the god of war, right?

Omg Sally is praying to Poseidon and he’s being so good about listening to her and ahhhh! They both love him so much and you can tell

“His mother raised him well” and her offering to let him talk to Percy awwwwdjfjfkkdkd

And Poseidon’s speech about waiting until Percy is ready ahhhrhdjjdkdjd

Listen if Lin Manuel Miranda is Hermes then I want Hermes to be Lin Manuel Miranda. Like in the Percy Jackson universe, the writer of Hamilton is the god Hermes, and everyone is really confused when they see him for the first time cause they knew him as Lin Manuel Miranda first. Also it could be revealed that he wrote Hamilton because of a dare he made with Apollo to see who could write a better musical and Apollo really hates how successful Hamilton is and Hermes never lest him live it down.

feeling ROBBED by rick rn of the brotherly relationship we could have had between percy and nico, if Percy hadn’t of treated nico the way he did in hoo 😭 (yk, i understand him because was in his second prophecy arc, lost his memory and life for 6months etc ect. still doesn’t sit right with me considering percy’s caring character). VIRIA ART AGAIN are we surprised

anyway seeing this art has made me realise how much i wanted a younger-older brother relationship between nico and percy. i want to see nico learn that finally admitting his feelings for percy, to percy, lifted such a weight off his chest- that it wasnt as bad as he had built up in his head. i want to see nico slowly learning to re-appreciate percy’s presence, like he used to before bianca died (even if he wont have his 10yo energy for a while) after confronting percy in hoo. for nico to finally open up and begin to talk to percy about his draining emotional journey for the past 4/5 years, how his internal processing of his emotions was so unhealthy for him and that he so desperately needed help from a loved one, and for percy to realise and admit where he could have done better for nico, and to apologise. overall i just want them to slowly find closure from each other, learning to love (platonic) each other again (does that even make sense i am just #rambling rn), because after so many years of grief and pain thats what they deserve!!!

Percabeth <3

it'll be so sad when circe comments on annabeth's hair in the pjo show. and if she comes out after her makeover with her hair straight.. just another example of white women being jealous of the beauty of black women

When the big three kids eyes tent/glow their book eye color in the show when they use their powers or are in their parents domain like sally’s did>>>>>>>>

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