I just watched the Making of Percy Jackson, and boy, am I emotional. No joke, it brought tears to my eyes.
The love and dedication that went into making this show is just so apparent, from the directors to the actors to the set designers to the acting coaches. I love that they had Rick invovled in every aspect. I love that so many people involved seemed to be geniune fans of the books and care a great deal about creating this show. Say what you will about the adaption, I know some people have various feelings about it. But it is overtly clear that every decision in the show came from a place of utmost respect to the original books.
Percy is still the same brave, sassy, clever kid who tends to leap before he looks (or looks and then leaps anyways) and who has a distain for the gods and will be loyal to his friends and his family no matter the cost and is just looking for a place to belong.
Annabeth is still the same intelligent, caring, skilled kid who is always thinking ten steps ahead of everyone else and who's struggles to form connections and feel accepted and who can either think or just punch her way out of any situation.
Grover is the same kind, empathetic, strong kid (young man) who wants harmony above all else (both with nature and between people he cares about), and who does things even when he's terrified to help those he loves and whose sense of right and wrong is like a compass to everyone around him.
And what really got me emotional when watching this was the way they all talked about Rick's books. About how he wrote them for his son, who was struggling to fit in so he could have a hero who looked like him. I think that's what drew us all to these books. The complex, beautiful characters who'd all seen so many hardships but were able to push past them and become heroes. I think we all related to these characters in some way and were thrilled to see them succeed in the fascinating setting of Greek mythology.
I read this book when it first came out 18 years ago. I was the same age as Percy. I can tell you exactly where I was when I read the first book and how it pulled me in instantly. I've reread all of these books on a regular basis ever since. It's truly a core part of my personality at this point.
Were there parts of the show that I had envisioned differently? Yes. Are there some moments I feel sad that they left out or changed? Yes.
But there's also things I'm glad they added and changes that make total sense to me. It's been so long since those books came out, and I'm sure Rick had some changes he's always thought about making (any author would, I think).
In the end, I think the most important thing is that I felt the same feelings watching the show as I did reading the book all those years ago. I saw a character who'd been told he didn't fit in and felt like a burden for his entire life come into his own and blossom into a hero on our screens. And honestly, that's all I could have hoped for.
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time flies messy as the mud on your truck tires now I’m missing your smile hear me out we could just ride around and the road not taken looks real good now and it always leads to you in my hometown sleep in half the day just for old times sake I won’t ask you to wait if you don’t ask me to stay so I’ll go back to LA and those so called friends who’ll write books about me if I ever make it and wonder about the only soul who can tell which smiles I’m fakin and the heart I know I’m breaking is my own to leave the warmest bed I’ve ever known
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