The way they framed Percy's reaction to the oracle is so well done! We don't get that in the book. As far as it goes, Percy doesn't obsess over the "Betrayed by a friend" part and barely mentions it. Here, he builds all his choices around this. He doesn't pick Annaneth because she wants a quest, he chooses her because she's annoying and he doesn't think they'll ever be friends. He picks Grover cause he trusts him more than anyone and because he promised his mother he would protect him. He doesn't choose Luke cause he knows he's more loyal to Annabeth than to him. He insists on the fact that Grover is his protector, and that he will not betray him. This Percy is smart, and especially when his mother's well-being is at play.

Percy age 12: And if the mission required someone to push me down a flight of stairs for it to succeed… you’d want someone who won’t hesitate when they do it

Percy age 17:

never really noticed before how TWELVE percy’s quest companion choices are. its his best friend and that one bossy girl that seems to know whats going on. peak group project in middle school choices

Chiron and Mr D: now that you've trained at camp for one (1) week it's time for you to embark on a quest to retrieve Zeus' lightning bolt and stop all out war from breaking out amongst the Gods.

Percy: are you aware that i am twelve years old

Chiron and Mr D: this is your dad's will

Percy: is he aware that i am twelve years old

Percy Jackson but Hestia has a cabin. that is where the unclaimed go because she goddess of home and family. Demigods get claimed faster because when they show up Hestia glares at her siblings, nieces and nephews untill they claim them.

#he really said we cope through humor

claimed by the sea 🔱

Percy “I am impertinent” Jackson really looked Zeus dead in the eye and said “Your family is a mess”

luke: *is the lightening thief*

me, who’s known that for literal years:

how are they gonna adequately prepare whatever child they cast for nico di angelo. it has got to be impossible for someone that young to give informed consent about playing the saddest wettest loser in all of human history. like hey kid i know youre sprightly and all of ten, but we need you to be in all five stages of grief at all times. remember, your mother was killed in fascist italy, youre eighty years old, and now youre in love with the guy who killed your sister. say this next line like you know what it's like to be an ear of corn.

Percy Jackson proving he’s a true New Yorker by not knowing how to drive in the slightest and yet still feeling well within rights to lay on the horn and criticize the guy who cuts him off.

Have to say though, I don't like what they did with Gabe. I don't know if it's Disney softening it or if maybe they chose to change the ending, but so far it didn't display anything making him deserve the fate written for him in the book. Say what you want about the movies but Gabe was despicable and even more obviously than in the book. Sorry to say that but in the show him and Sally argue once and it sounds more like an old married couple bickering than an abusive relationship. This Gabe doesn't feel "smelly" in all senses of the word. He's just a lazy dude. And if Sally ends up doing to him what she does in the book, he better be shown as a way bigger prick than that in the following episodes. I'm waiting for the TV reports. But otherwise it'll just feel cruel and horrible from Sally and Percy. I'm not saying he doesn't display patterns of abuse. He does. But with the ending coming it is definitely not clear enough to make his fate something to rejoice about.

Percy’s New Yorker genes unlocking the moment someone cuts him off and sending him into a fit of 12yo road rage

god. hades saying, "ask me for sanctuary" after percy talks about kronos hits like a truck when you remember that he tried to do the same for maria, bianca, and nico.

“why don’t they ever suspect Luke why don’t they realize it’s Luke why are they so quick to suspect Clarisse and not a Hermes kid”

guys, Luke is the perfect child. Thats the whole point! He gave his offerings he said his prayers he went on his quest he proved his loyalty to Chiron, to the gods, to his dad. And he did it all with a smile. They have no reason to suspect luke! Luke is the best of them!

Ares could’ve come to that meeting waving a big sign that said “LUKES THE LIGHTNING THIEF” and they still wouldn’t have believed him.

Because they also don’t want it to be Luke.

They love Luke. Luke takes care of them Luke protects them Luke is everything they want in an older brother. It doesn’t matter how blaringly obvious the writers get about who the real thief is. They will ignore every sign, every red flag, every warning, until Percy is dying of poison deep in the forest and Luke is gone.

I seen a lot of people argue at Percy is too smart in the show but One, Sally Jackson used Greek myths as bedtime stories, she took him to museums, she did her best to teach him about the God's and monster's that were gonna come to hurt him, was he ment to not learn anything? And Two, Perseus Jackson isn't an idiot! The books are from HIS point of view and he's is an unreliable narrator that THINKS he's an idiot. He's not ACTUALLY an idiot.