How Disney Ruined Characters: Percy Jackson Series Review

[@Ahoyyy_apri]

The show also removed almost all humor in favor of having dramatic scenes and way too many dramatic one liners. The few times there was something funny said, nothing else in the scene reflected it, not the other characters reactions or the background music or anything. Like, ppl blame this on the fact that the inner monologue makes the books funny but that’s not true, it in the way the characters interact, and this is proven by the musical which DOES get the comedy and fun vibe

[@patrickkanas3874]

I did not like the changes to Sally in this show because they took away what made her a strong character in the books. There's this misconception that if a woman is going to be strong, she needs to show it and be a girl boss. The books already have plenty of those, but Sally showed a different kind of strength. Sally's strength didn't come from having an attitude or being willing to put people in their place, it came from caring so much for her son that she was willing to live a life of pain, sadness, and fear but it was worth it to know her child was safe and that's one of the most heroic things a parent can do. It also made the moments where she did stand up and fight back even more satisfying since we got to cheer for her to overcome her timidness. Here, she's not interesting to watch because we don't sympathize with her pain and struggles (at least not as much as in the books) and she doesn't have the same nurturing qualities as a mother because she's a more hard headed parent. That's just my two cents

[@moonangel97]

I totally understand your perspective and agree girl bosses have been overused. I personally feel like Rick underutilized Sally in the books and this was an overall improvement. I think too many times we see fantasy moms shoved off to the side because in order for the plot to work, they don't need to be involved in the hero's story.

[@josiahbaumgartner7643]

@@moonangel97that was actually what was so cool about Sally to me, she was constantly worried about Percy but once he started questing she never prevented him because as protective as she was, she understood that saving the world was more important than selfishly saving her loved ones (unlike Percy). I think Sally always wanted to snap back at Gabe like she does in the show and she showed extreme strength through her self control. It’s actually way easier to stand up for yourself than it is to shut up and let people push you around. But she would sacrifice herself every day and suck it up entirely for the sake of Percy

[@suezcontours6653]

@@moonangel97 35:10 Oh, I see what is happening with this version of Annabeth and Percy. Reverse Twilight... Annabeth is Edward/ Edyth Cullen and Percy is Bella/ Beau Swan.

[@DeepikaGinger]

@@josiahbaumgartner7643​​⁠​​⁠I agree with everything you said about Sally. But, I think Percy’s fatal flaw is something that he’s able to manage quite well. In the first book, he leaves his mother in the Underworld. In the third book, he doesn’t ask Nereus where Annabeth is, and instead chooses to ask a more important question. In the fourth book, he agrees to not pollute a naiad’s river, even though he needs the water to save his friends. In the fifth book, when Prometheus tries to tempt him, he’s able to keep perspective and continue fighting. It helps that the people whom he loves are good people whom he knows would want him to do the right thing. But, Percy tries not to make selfish choices, even when it’s really hard. That’s definitely something that he got from Sally.

[@whatwouldivedone9659]

​@morganlafaysolo gonna be honest Percy only tempers his fatal flaw because I think what others would want. He would have sacrificed himself if knew his mother would sad. Also he would have jumped in after Annabeth if he wasn't told she wasn't in the ocean. For the river example you are correct he did temper himself but he also didn't want to be like Hercules (an asshole). Against the titan he just wasn't going to side with him because they were the opposing faction.

[@randomusername3873]

I'd argue that not being loyal to the book becames an objective flaw the moment the marketing is based on it being loyal

[@avivastudios2311]

Yesss. Like don't lie to us. This video, amoung many others actually makes me want to read the whole series now. A few years ago when I was 15, I think, I read three of them and now I'm gonna read the rest. I'll buy them one day... probably.

[@ShiQingxuanSimp]

@@avivastudios2311 Once you read all the books there’s no going back. I highly recommend the other Riordan series as well

[@atinybruh]

Thats so true omg, i bought the books because i heard that there are movies and i always read the books, after the first five į became obssesed, and i was in Ireland atm so i lived in pain because there are no books in my country but my my aunt saved Me and Sent Me some, now im waiting for trials of apollo

[@Cardinal_claw]

That's one of my biggest gripes, I wouldn't have been half as angry if he hadn't promised and promoted it that way _over and over_ again. Constantly telling us that it would _be_ the books come to life. Not to mention seeing the same people infuriated by Annabeth having brunette hair back in the movies now defending Percy being blonde and the rest of the casting. It's so hypocritical it's mind numbing

[@CollinRezac]

Nah the rest suck​@@ShiQingxuanSimp

[@goldenphantom2259]

To be honest I didn’t like how they tried changing Medusa to make her appear sympathetic. Not only did it go nowhere, the story where she was wronged by the gods and is more sympathetic isn’t even a story from the Greek Mythology. It was written by a Roman poet.

[@dashzag]

Thank you! So many people don't know that, and think it's canon. It drives me up the wall.

[@apluscast]

I hated the Medusa change because I loved how it showed that Annabeth is human. Her hunger caused her to fall into the lair of her mother's arch nemesis. That to me is a good twist!

[@iliketea1427]

Exactly!!! Idk what I hate more: the fact that it isn't even a Greek myth it's a ROMAN myth ("She [Medusa], it's said, Was violated in Minerva's shrine by Ocean's lord [Neptune]... Jove's daughter turned away And covered with her shield her virgin's eyes, and then for fitting punishment transformed The Gorgon's lovely hair to loathsome snakes" - Ovid's Metamorphoses) and people pretend it's Greek despite Roman mythology was it's own seperate religion/culture only inspired by Greek (but with changes, similar to how Greek mythology took inspiration from other mythologies) OR that people claim it's the only Medusa myth and hate on Athena and Poseidon (despite them not doing anything, it was Minerva and Neptune). But thank the gods that at least some people know the truth!

[@silverprimus321boi9]

IF IT AINT GREEK THEN ITS FANFICTION

[@avivastudios2311]

​@@silverprimus321boi9 😅

[@-Theo-]

I think it’s so hilarious how they made all the blond characters dark haired and then they made Percy, the one character whose dark hair is made very clear, blond (no hate to the actors I just think it’s funny)

[@allapolog1es]

REAL

[@taylor33tv54]

HIS BLONDE HAIR ANNOYS ME SM like I know I’m being petty whatever but I can only see Percy with dark hair and green eyes, the Percy in the show just looks like Will

[@-Theo-]

@@taylor33tv54 The blond hair distracted me more than Annabeth’s change ngl 💀

[@taylor33tv54]

@@-Theo- fr like my brain won’t accept that 💀

[@splawshy3346]

Okay but brown haired luke. I love the actor but... brown haired luke?

[@abbynew4188]

Personally I feel like adding annabeth to the reveal scene kinda ruins her later development because in the books she could barley even look at him much less hold a blade because she still sees the person who saved her when she was 7 and her throwing her dagger and seeing everything ruins that conflict

[@moonangel97]

Oh yes, I totally agree with this! I don't necessarily think she should have stood up to Luke the way she did in the show. But it would have allowed for some really interesting character moments to see Annabeth's reaction to Luke's betrayal, instead of just having Percy tell her about it as described in the books.

[@MickeyMouse-672]

@@moonangel97I think it’s important that Percy tells Annabeth instead of her being there. The whole series, Annabeth tries to find ways to defend Luke, until the moment she witnesses his betrayal herself. I think that her having an image of Luke in her head is a very important element to her character.

[@pepsiCola-e9p]

Annabeth hates fighting or standing up to Luke..she still loves him, in titans curse when he falls off the mountain, Annabeth is absolutely sad, not believing he’s dead, (but he wasn’t) i wanna write a lot more but don’t feel like it, lol

[@ishathakor]

yeah, it also really just doesn't make sense with the fact that annabeth continually defends luke for basically the entire series. she never really comes to see him as a traitor. even at worst, she still thinks he can change his mind and redeem himself. which percy doesn't believe basically until the last second. it's a huge source of conflict for percy and annabeth AND it's really important for annabeth to constantly keep her faith in luke because she's the one who ultimately convinces percy to hand the knife over in last olympian. and like... how is annabeth going to do that when she literally saw luke betray percy with her own two eyes? she wasn't even emotional. how are we supposed to believe this is the character who could never stomach luke's betrayal when she literally has no visible emotions about it at all??

[@arstan8092]

@@MickeyMouse-672 I mean she can still make ways to defend luke. Her seeing it does not really hurt that. I do think she should not have stood up to him. Just because she saw him does not make it possible for her to be blinded by her care for him.

[@que7434]

Honestly it should’ve been animated 😭😭

[@haku8135]

I've been saying that for so many things lately. Animation is SERIOUSLY being undervalued. You can do, ANYTHING with animation! Live action is pretty inferior when you're making shows that are larger than life, primarily fantasy with magic and giant monsters and exotic locales. The amount of money that would be saved if studios invested in animation instead of making sets and appearance accurate (HAH! Accurate) actors and traveling and the COPIOUS amount of CGI. Honestly with how much CG is used in shows and movies they're almost animated already.

[@katgreer6113]

just because it's animated doesn't mean the writing will change. A show is still a show, animated or not.

[@giu941]

​@@katgreer6113 actually it would change. A lot of book scenes and characters that were cut in the the show was because of the lack of budget for CGI. If the show was animated it wouldn't be a problem...

[@kx2174]

@@haku8135 Exactly. Showing a town burning down when a character is 5 for example is as easy as showing the same character at 25 getting on a train or making coffee. For live action though they either need to build an expensive set and then set it on fire. Or use expensive CGI, not to mention find and hire a child actor who is never going to look convincing enough as the same character (if they even try and don't just use one of the producers grandchildren with a totally different eye/hair color), then there's the fact they won't be able to act well for the scene due to being a child.

[@haku8135]

@@kx2174 Really it's just this POISONOUS arrogance that live action is the TRUE medium for entertainment. Animation is the baby bitch means to portray anything, but you put REAL human bodies in front of a camera, NOW it has legitimacy. It's so fucking stupid. It's even worse when there's ALREADY a perfect animated version of the show, but they make it much worse in every facet just to make it live action anyway. Disney, Netflix's Avatar, go back into the hole. NO! BACK! GET BACK IN!! Where's my whip!?

[@micahkeiser9348]

The worst part about this series is that the author of the book series signed off on this. I'm not mad I'm disappointed.

[@aaronkluge2475]

I thousand% agree I just couldn't get interested

[@HawkGirl90]

Sigh.....money..

[@maddiedoesntkno]

I feel like the “Not everyone who looks like a monster is one,” is only half the lesson. The other half (sometimes monstrous people look completely ordinary, and we can trust them blindly because they seem so nice or so _normal)_ is left out for the most part.

[@mayahernandez5135]

“Not everyone who looks like a hero is a hero”. Luke is the other half of the lesson (this can also apply to Percy because he is ultimately not the hero the prophecy was talking about). That doesn’t have to be explicitly stated in season 1. They are setting up the overarching themes of the series in its entirety. You gotta let that shit cook slowly.

[@ishathakor]

@@mayahernandez5135 ok, but luke's character arc is very different to the monster thing. monstrous people look completely ordinary is literally baked into every confrontation with a monster they have in lightning thief, and most of the confrontations they have in the rest of the pjo books too. medusa looks like a normal woman who runs a statue store. echidna and the chimera look like a lady and her dog. the lotus casino is a place not a person, but it still just seems like a regular place until they realize time passes differently there. procrustes is literally just a mattress salesman. we can't get to luke's character until the future, but they actively took this element OUT of the story. percy annabeth and grover can't just watch out for monsters because monsters look like regular people. but in the show this isn't true and doesn't matter because they just figure out who is a monster immediately the second they meet them.

[@mayahernandez5135]

@@ishathakor The first book is slightly different from the rest of the series in its portrayal of its monsters. Except for the Minotaur and Medusa, most of the “monsters” are rather normal looking because they are “human” before transformation. In the 2nd book, it is established that this perceived transformation is just the mist at its most powerful. Demigods still struggle to see through the mist because they are somewhat a part of the mortal world. I don’t think the show took this element out it’s just less present in the 1st book. A lot of the monsters in the later books just look like monsters at first glance. Also, Luke is initially perceived as a hero and mentor. Percy starts viewing him as a “monster” (not literally) because of his actions throughout the series. However, the 5th book provides a twist: the monster (the antagonist of the story) is ultimately the hero of the prophecy. I believe the show is setting up the idea that the monster can be the hero.

[@Kai-fk9jd]

35:00 The funny thing is, in the scene where Annabethe watches Percy in the sleep with her stupid line with Lightning flash on the sky, but we know that couldn't happend because the Lightning Bolt was alway stolen which was presented in the movies much better because there was Thunder without Lightning

[@dashzag]

Omg I feel dumb for not catching that!! But I did find the storm strange, because inside camp borders the weather is regulated by the gods, and they avoid storms and the like...

[@nocturnal_nyx]

Pretty sure Zeus has more than one bolt, it'll be pretty stupid if he did. The master bolt is just his most powerful bolt

[@Kai-fk9jd]

@@nocturnal_nyx that's the hole point, his wapon and Symbol of Power was stolen, he is kinda Defenceless

[@Kai-fk9jd]

@@dashzag Pretty good point

[@nocturnal_nyx]

@@Kai-fk9jd I'm just saying because you said it didn't make sense for lightning to be in the sky but Zeus does have other lightning bolts. Even in the book, Zeus strikes down Gabe's car with lightning even after his master bolt was stolen. Also, there was lightning in the movie.

[@arkhamdemigod4508]

Guys, hate to be that guy, but as much as we would all like to blame Disney for all this, the sad truth is that Rick was deeply involved in the development of the series AND its writing, and he's already stated in repeated occasions that he personally allowed and even wrote most of these changes. The problem is most of the fandom idealizes Rick to the point they consider him some sort of flawless god and never question his choices even if they are clearly wrong. I mean of course he is a remarkable human being and we all admire him, hell he's one of the main influences in most of our lives, but that is no reason to just accept whatever he says or even worse, attack people who slightly disagree with him (which happens a lot in the fandom, trust me I know from experience). I personally found the show acceptable, and that might only be because it was at least more faithful than certain films we all know (and hate to admit it but even the films managed some of the fun and entertainment better), but it is obviously FAR from being what we were promised and, as stated in this video, it is packed with flaws from start to finish. My point with this whole thing is: I know it is easy to just blame Disney for everything, but we have to accept the truth, no matter how bitter: the show is what it is because of Rick Riordan himself.

[@jinx3980]

im new to this fandom i started buying the books at the end of 2023 thats why i dont have this way of thinking your talking about and tbh when i saw the changes in the show i was mad but when i found out that rick was involved i was just disappointed in him.

[@LittleHobbit13]

I think it's a classic example of "Perfect is the enemy of good". Rick was so concerned about going back to make adjustments to try and fix in the screenplay what he perceived as "flaws" with the original books that he eliminated a lot of what made the books so enjoyable. In his pursuit of "perfect", he wound up erasing what was "good".

[@AkwenTkmu]

​@@LittleHobbit13 no, rick is simply going woke, that's all

[@TNTbashers]

@@AkwenTkmusome of it has to be Disney fault thought the still have some power but we can only hope

[@alliswonderlain2595]

I fully agree that Rick has become far too married to the idea of what he created. I realized that in The Hidden Oracle when he undercut the stakes of the entire series twice: Apollo being ousted does not change the status quo and therefore it doesn't actually matter if the Greek pantheon is killed, and Percy choosing his homework instead of the world meaning that the threat really isn't that deep. The Chalice of the Gods also has some moments where he either forgets characters (like Juniper) or regresses characters including Percy himself.

[@Ironflame27]

I get the feeling that disney saw the reaction to Hermione and how she got all the character moments, even ones from Ron, and made a lot more perfect, in the adaptation and decided to do the exact opposite to Annabeth, taking away her moments and showing more flaws instead of character connections.

[@ross6789]

Which is especially strange when for the first couple of episodes after meeting her all anyone can say about her is how shes the strongest demigod, the most dangerous, the most powerful ect ect. Its like Disney tried to girlbossify her whilst taking away her actual good qualities and moments from the books so she’s just left as a condescending whiny teenager with little of the wisdom she had in the books. She and Percy got not moments of actually working stuff out or planning on the fly cos they knew everything they needed to know already somehow.

[@anit3976]

My main problem with her is we are told from the get go: Anabeth is this super smart character, the best fighter in all the camp (and mind you she is only 12/13) but we are shown nothing to demonstrate those abilities. She doesn’t fight once in the series, there is not one scene to demonstrate her intellect, she doesn’t stand out she is simply just there…. Ooh yes forgive she does give’s us some shipping moments with Percy to satisfy the percabeth shippers… not complaining for those but shouldn’t your first and forth most priority be to properly build the characters before doing all that?? That’s just my opinion

[@HiHi-lt1cb]

@@anit3976I'm not super picky but I do agree there was a lot of "show don't tell" when it came to her smarts AND skills

[@dashzag]

And even with all the "telling" that we get about Annabeth, we get Percy saying "You're better at this than me". I feel like that is a super ridiculous line, because at this point everyone is better at this than him. He's literally the newcomer, and has the least experience, it's not much of a comparison.

[@Lupinemancer87]

Which is wierd cuz it goes against Disney's current, "women are perfect badasses," policy. I honestly wouldn't have been surprised if Disney basically made Annabeth the main character and Percy was just there because he needed to be with Annabeth solving everything on her own. That seems to be what Disney is all about.

[@gilgameshkingofheroes5903]

Actually, book Sally seems better to me.

[@haku8135]

That's because in the book Sally is a real character with depth and TRUE strength. Where in here she's just ANOTHER generic girl boss that don't need no man, she's dominating her supposed to be super abusive husband (his NAME is Ugliano for fuck's sake) making him COMPLETELY harmless, which then makes the show ABHORRENT for brutally murdering him for literally no reason. They were at LEAST smart enough to not make Sally petrify him in this version, even THEY weren't stupid enough to realize if he's not an abusive shit heel killing him is immoral. It's MUCH more satisfying and inspiring to see a meek, gentle, loving mother throw herself in front of a charging MINOTAUR to protect her son than to see big strong girl boss i am wahmen hear me roar do the same thing. In the books you think "Oh she's staying with Gabe because she's whipped and weak and too fragile to even talk back to him." Then you realize "Oh shit, no, she's standing in fire to hold her son up and keep him safe. God damn, that's a good mother." Then when Percy is basically in the open now, and she doesn't need to take Gabe's shit anymore, she PETRIFIES him with Medusa's head, sells the statue, and moves on to a better life. THAT, is a girl boss moment, BECAUSE Gabe is such a massive abusive shit. It's almost like Rick knew how to write characters and arcs and stories and planned this all out. Then now he's changing things based on politics and the message for "Modern Audiences" when the modern audiences are the ones that liked what he wrote ORIGINALLY.

[@Vor567tez]

If I didn't read some comparison comments btw book vs show. I would have no idea Gabe had a role and not just freeloader. The show doesn't address the cause. The whole time I was confused if this is her house and she is clearly the boss why is she with him? She also seems to still love Poseidon. What forced her to be with Gabe?

[@magicmyah2291]

​@@Vor567tez Gabe smelt.

[@applejackx97]

​@@Vor567tez in the books demigods give off a distinct odor that attracts monsters. Sally tolerated Gabe's abuse because his filthy pungent odor masked Percy's smell allowing him to remain unnoticed by monsters. Once Percy was able to go to camp and learn how to protect himself, there wasn't any need for Sally to continue accepting Gabe's abuse so she turned him to stone with the Medusa head, sold the statue and used the money to jumpstart a better life for her and Percy.

[@en4833]

@@applejackx97 Gabe didn't just have a filthy, pungent odor. He basically represented all of humanities flaws. He was so disgustingly human that he completely overrode Percy's demigod nature.

[@ItBeHowItBe47]

My only regret was that a small studio like Disney who can’t always afford good writers was the one to bring the story to life.

[@Elenalamp]

Walker Scobell is a great actor, but he’s more like a lovable child of Aphrodite. Percy is more like a scruffy skater boy goofball. We didn’t get to see his bitterness and hurt that showed us just how much camp halfblood meant to him. And his frequent cluelessness in the book just made Annabeth stand out. I’m not even going to start on how they cast Nico DiAngelo as Grover.

[@Born_to-Die1989]

cast Nico Di Angelo as grover? WDYM?

[@Elenalamp]

@@Born_to-Die1989 Aryan Simhadri looked like Grover more outside of the show than in it. The way they made him look was reminiscent of a young, happy Nico Di Angelo

[@FrogsWithTies34]

After watching the Adam Project, I was excited about Walker being Percy, even if he didn’t look like the character at all…but the closest to scruffy skater boy Percy we got was literally in that different movie :/

[@shipwormx]

i think walker is a great percy! i think it comes down to the script and direction unfortunately.

[@Loki-N]

The script made Percy this completely clueless golden boy like... What? Walker honestly has that skater goofball personality but even the greatest actors can't do much when the directors want something sh.tty from them

[@blackbirddragon8045]

Also consider: Anabeth having a regret is great and all, but... hello? The musical was right there. I know Rick was too proud to listen to it at all, but it would've been so easy to have Grover have some character. But nah. And I still have special beef wtih this show for having Grover do NOTHING GOAT LIKE the ENTIRE TIME. No hoof stomping, barely any talking no animals no weird noises, no nervously eating tin can, no NOTHING. Grover isn't even a satyr besides the legs. Hell PERCY couldve talked to that zebra and busted them out of the one scene where he could talk to animals. Just saying if Grover would've just been some dude nothing of the script would've changed but they would've saved a whole lot on CGI. At least the movie tried to give him a character, even if I hated it. Case in point: The movie was actually better, because it was shorter. Both made me want to burn it. Musical will forever be superior and I NEED a professional recording. OKbye

[@eowynsisterdaughter]

Just here to say I love the musical ❤

[@smilingstingray5537]

Yessss, I LOVE the musical!!! I think my favourite thing is how it gets the vibe of the books SO right, everything from the characters, to the setting (also I love that it's pretty cheesy and completely unashamed of it!) That musical makes me feel like I'm having as much fun as I did when reading the series for the first time in school. Everything in it feels like it's so full of life!

[@NonbinarySky]

The musical is the superior adaptation. Annabeth getting stuck because of regret makes no sense because Grover has so much more regret about Thalia.

[@deanxiii1595]

It was mentioned by Aryan that the eating tin can when stressed out Grover was removed to avoid kids from trying to emulate it which is honestly lame excuse as the book came out years ago and i am quite sure there are no cases of kids trying to emulate it happened. The show takes out a lot of scenes from the book and adds unnecessary scenes to the show. That's why the show duration becomes short and doesn't even reach the 40 minute mark most of the time. Hopefully S2 would be better but i feel that most certainly it would be the same trope in S1.

[@needle1025]

The musical was what got me to buy and read Percy Jackson

[@LitereallyNobody7]

Annabeth in the show: I'm gonna hold my arms like this and pose dramatically and wait for him to wake up

[@addisonskinner1438]

My issues with what they did to the characters: Sally was strong in the books. Not by yelling at Gabe and stooping to his level. She was calm compassionate and was always trying to be a good mom and a good wife. That takes strength, people. Next we have Annabeth. Now, Annabeth was judgmental and her and Percy didn't get along too well in the books at first. The show, however, took away all of her reasoning and kinda made her a jerk. Also it took away her character development. Grover. Grover is a good friend to Percy in the books. He's loyal and also makes sure he serves the camp and does his job as a protector. He was kinda backstabbing in the show. Also, his morals felt all over the place. Gabe. Gabe in the books was clearly a jerk and a bully. He bullied his friends, Sally, and Percy. (Sally being so nice to him helped a lot to highlight all of Gabe's flaws) The show made him nicer, in a way. He wasn't very threatening (because again, Sally wasn't afraid of him which took away his power as an abuser) so he was a jerk but that was it. Chiron. His vibe was so weird in the show. He was secretive in a scary way. He was hard to read. The book one had secrets but you could always tell that he kept those secrets for Percy's own good. Medusa. Do I really need to elaborate? Hades. He wasn't intimidating at all. He looked like a chill dad. He was weirded me out. He was peppy. What? Ares should have had the fire eyes. He didn't hold any real power you know? He didn't feel powerful. Your supposed to fear his power. Instead your first thought is, "Wow, he's a jerk". I think that's all. Let me know if I missed any.

[@saiskandanat8722]

Exactly!!

[@apluscast]

Jay Duplass was definitely a miscast as Hades, dude had zero godly presence. Hades should have been played by Walton Goggins, Joseph Fiennes, or David Tennant. I know most people liked Edge as Ares, but I honestly think he played Ares too comically. Manu Bennett would have been the better casting choice for Ares, and also Ares really needed the fire eyes, that definitely would have have made him feel more godly and dangerous!

[@addisonskinner1438]

@@apluscast I couldn't agree more.

[@adarshraj2978]

The fact that they gave some of percys feats to anniebell

[@Perpetua-oh6xx]

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[@whomilloo]

this show was so unbelievably boring. the movies are honestly better in terms of entertainment 😭

[@avivastudios2311]

Percy was so mean in the film but in a funny way.

[@avivastudios2311]

And movie Percy was mean but in a funny way.

[@Veligus]

@@avivastudios2311dementia attack

[@orange_turtle3412]

As much as the oversexualized fuckfest movies shit all over the source material, they were at least kinda fun to watch. Drunk goat man isnt book-accurate, but its entertaining.

[@whomilloo]

@@orange_turtle3412 deadass

[@Lordbananathegreat]

If the show had less dialogue and the characters didn’t figure out literally everything and the episodes were longer.

[@Africa41]

The paraphrased book 1 opening and general Riordan book style structuring for a Percy Jackson review is beautiful

[@blakeherrin1315]

“I was left empty and disappointed” that’s describes me watching this show and I hate that I feel that way because I love Percy Jackson

[@friendlyneighborhoodgoth]

what made me the most mad was what they did to annabeth. once they got out into the real world suddenly annabeth knew NOTHING about the greek myths, it was all percy. she didnt come up with the plans, it was percy (or grover) she did nothing. what was up with that. her whole thing is being smart and they took that away and gave it to percy. im not saying percy is dumb because he's not, but he as our protagonist thrown into this world is supposed to be just as clueless as the audience. hence annabeth where she explains what's going on. she is supposed to serve as our secondary narrator while feeding into her characterization. the protagonist is not supposed to know everything. its bad writing

[@chandrawagner4061]

I was already put off and "You drool when you sleep." is where I gave up. I'm surprised more people don't talk about just how badly it was done.

[@whattheworldneedsiscreativ6421]

*HONESTLY* lmao... One thing that bugs me is that there are some lines that Rick and the other writers for season one of the PJO TV series took straight from the original book, but they’re said in different scenarios which changes the feel/meaning/context. Annabeth's line about Percy drooling in his sleep is *definitely* an example of this... Why did they make it *so* ominous in the TV series lmao?! Why couldn’t they have had her trying to question Percy about “What will happen at the summer solstice?" and “What’s going on? What was stolen? We’ve only got a few weeks!” in that scene and try to help nurse him back to health with some Ambrosia like she did in the original book? Why couldn’t they have had Annabeth randomly blurt out her famous “You drool when you sleep” line as a funny comedic line later when Percy wasn't *literally* fading in and out of consciousness like how it was done in the original book??? It made no sense and it was so jarring the way it was done in the TV series 😭😭😭lol... The way they did the “You drool when you sleep” line was *so* off-putting in the TV series. Annabeth was straight up watching Percy in a coma while he was literally fading in and out of consciousness and giving off mad stalker vibes throughout almost the entirety of episode two. I wonder if Percy never woke up for those few seconds if TV series Annabeth would have just kept watching him with her arms folded while he was in a literal coma lmao...

[@J0j0_Flip]

​@@whattheworldneedsiscreativ6421 It was a bit scary, honestly.

[@stroyanielson3776]

Honestly when I heard Percy’s intro on ep1 I went “oh I have to drag my bsf into this. i can’t bare this alone” because my first thought was literally why does he not sound ‘animated’? He sounds flat. Not tired, but flat. Like he’s reading a book instead of recounting this to a person. And I can’t even blame it on Walker because I know from the adam’s project he can do more than whatever that was. So right off the gate I already knew it was gonna be off. And oh boy it was _off_ lmao. So me and my friend has this thing where we watch not-so-good-media at night, and it turns out the only way for me to enjoy it was when it was almost 4AM and I’m seriously sleep deprived

[@legenieproductions5573]

Oh dude- I was literally the same way. My friend suggested that we watch it since she knew that I was a huge Percy Jackson fan, and legit by the first line, I was audibly like, "Oh God, something is wrong". The whole intro scene, how dramatic and dreary and dark it all is- it's all the wrong tone! The intro in the book was comedic and fun! Like, quite literally, I already knew that the show was gonna be different from the books in tone alone just from that line, and then I knew it was gonna be a dumpster-fire by the time they showed the first few scenes of Percy at school! Smaller, but still important, things that needed to be mentioned/established while Percy was at school just... didn't happen. Like the way he was a troubled student that kept getting kicked out of school- which is honestly a big thing because this establishes Percy's trait of being a bit wary/rebellious towards authority figures in the book. Or how he struggled in school due to his dyslexia & ADHD which was why he liked Mr.Brunner/Chiron- since Chiron actually seemed to give a damn and believed in him. They mention his dyslexia & ADHD in episode 2, but the placement of it was just too weird and thus, didn't have the same impact. It seemed out of pocket since we didn't see any of it while he was in school in episode 1. And there's just... so much more! I also knew that this shows budget was basically nothing when Percy basically air-bended Nancy into the fountain. Where was the water???? It didn't move!! He just went to shove her, stopped, and then an invisible force like air just pushed her in! I'm also not gonna even touch on how I feel about what they did to Sally and Gabe. ...I honestly feel bad for my friend- she had to listen to me rant and complain for so long after each episode. We literally couldn't go past episode 2 because my heart and brain wouldn't be able to handle more than 2 episodes at a time.

[@stroyanielson3776]

@@legenieproductions5573 Yeah I get this sm! I told him to brace it because I _will_ go on a tangent. Hence why despite us starting at past 11PM we finished the series at almost 5AM. Plus, although he’s not in this fandom, he also supplied his own opinions as an outsider, and one of my favorite reactions of him was during that ‘you drool when you sleep’ scene and he immediately fired off with “Yikes, is that a stalker? [Me: That’s Annabeth]. No way, _THATS_ Annabeth? Wasn’t she supposed to be smart? Why is she insulting a kid that’s barely conscious? If she wants to be part of a fever dream at least commit to the bit and T-pose to show dominance or something”. He also mentions multiple times that he doesn’t like that it’s too much exposition, and when I offered my opinion on how I think it should be shot with 4th wall breaks like fleabag, he immediately agreed and said “That would be good because the kid as ADHD, right? So him breaking off suddenly to talk to us would both be in character _and_ keep our attention that keeps waning since this thing is just full of exposition”. So yeah, it was nice to see two point of views for me personally and I’m glad to know I’m not the only one that noticed that even since the monologue shit already hit the fan

[@lilyblue4922]

Also the way they just set up Kronos with a random throwaway line and then percy just guessed it was him?? What angers me the most is that they had the space to do the book thing with chiron explaining the myth in the museum, but no they just had them standing awkwardly around looking at statues…WHY.

[@tiamystic]

This show was boring as shit. It was like if you take a drama show starring children. Thats how boring it was. But I gave it a 6/10 because it was okay. Hell, even thinking about this show makes me sad. Like I don’t care about either one of these characters. If I don’t care about the characters, then I feel nothing in the end. Like, something feels empty.

[@JjjjjjVvvvv-ny6od]

The annoying thing is is that Walker Scobell has talent! He CAN be a good Percy. He was so good in The Adam Project (if you haven’t seen it, I highly recommend it). His character that movie was a lot more like Percy. And if you see videos of Walker in real life, he gives off a lot of Percy vibes. He has the ability to act like Percy, but the way this show has written and directed his character has completely held him back.

[@Chironofolympus]

Percy Jackson should be a anime honestly it could do more in the medium and it would be cheaper and way better let’s be honest Percy Jackson read like a manga which is why all anime fans usually like Percy Jackson

[@Brook_55]

I never thought of it like that but like, a pjo anime would be crazy 😂😂

[@joypink5599]

A Percy Jackson anime would be so good 😭😭😭😭😭😭

[@titanium_heart]

I'm so glad that finally there are people talking about what went wrong with the show. I'm tired of seeing how biased everyone is towards the show and of them acting like it's incapable of having any flaws just because Rick is involved in the production.

[@ladylynx9891]

One thing I noticed is how every single person who has negative criticism over this show actually has nothing against the actors and collectively agree they did a great job at both giving the characters life and also dealing with the crappy sprit they were given

[@katgreer6113]

there's literally a comment below yours explaining why annabeth and grover are bad because they are "black"

[@samstromberg5593]

@@katgreer6113 The amount of people who don't like Annabeth and Grover because they're racist is so small it's hardly even worth talking about The amount of people who don't like Annabeth and Grover (and Percy) because they're race swapped/not accurate is HUGE And also right Just saying that it's because they're black doesn't specify

[@katgreer6113]

@samstromberg5593 Hm, well I've found that people mind very much when heroes are race swapped...but when it's an unlovable character/villain like let's say...Zeus...suddenly no one cares. No one talks about it. Even with Luke, an ANTAGONIST that was race swapped...again...nobody cared. The heroes should remain white, but the villains can become black.. Asian...etc..? Odd coincidence, huh?

[@samstromberg5593]

@@katgreer6113 okay first of all I cared. Anyone that's race swapped for something that I care about - I'm gonna care. It's not accurate Secondly, try applying your correlation to "how much do people care" vs "how main character are they" and see if your correlation changes (it won't). It's not whether they're a hero, it's that they're the main character and we see a lot of them. Lots of people (again, I'm not, but I think the general public is) are willing to look past someone like Clarisse because she's not such a big part of the show Third, you'll notice that Disney has never ever tried to race swap TO white (well, not the Disney of our time which is the one we're talking about). Can you imagine the uproar if Emma Watson had played Mulan or Moana instead of Belle? So if you want to talk about coincidences Disney race swaps all the time black ... asian ... etc, but never to white? Odd coincidence, huh?

[@katgreer6113]

​@omberg5593 no, not nowadays. Before, whitewashed characters were pretty normal and barely anyone would bat an eye. For example, in Doctor Strange when they changed the Ancient One from an Asian man to a White woman...barely anyone cared. Now, that wouldn't fly by as easily. My preferred choice for diversity in book-to-movie adaptations is definitely NOT by race swapping. But I've pretty much accepted that it's going to be like that for a while. Why? Because I've found that people in general are less likely to even want a movie adaptation with a non-white main character. I still don't prefer it, but what can I do? And no, it's not a coincidence at all. I don't know why you would think it is. I'm pretty sure you know why they usually don't race swap TO white....right? That wouldn't fly with a lot of people. Obviously, a lot of people would be very happy with it (to sort of "get back" at the recent race swaps) but some people would protest. It actually looks like we're agreeing with ourselves here. All I said at first is that people are bashing Grover and Annabeth's character because they are not white..? It doesn't make too much sense because their personalities barely changed. Wanting an accurate depiction of a character isn't racist, but pretending like the character is no longer themselves is weird and definitely prejudiced. Looks don't make a characters personality unless it's specifically tied in with their traits. In Annabeth's case, the whole dumb blonde thing still works here because she's a black girl (who are stereotyped for being stupid) so in fact, it's even better. Grover...neutral. He didn't change. If Black Panther for example was race swapped to white...it couldn't work. On the same note, i didn't care when catherine zeta jones played a colombian drug lord. If you didn't read all that my point is, it depends.

[@jackpackage4278]

People can have their opinions, but mine is they ruined Sally. They turned her into a generic boring girl boss, far less memorable than the book version of her character. I don’t understand why modern adaptations change stuff that doesn’t need to be changed. I realize a one-for-one adaptation in either Movies or TV is basically impossible because of the differences in medium but they just change stuff they don’t have to these days and it’s frustrating. Rick Riordan being involved makes the show even worse because he’s supposed to be the guy who keeps everything in check and imo he failed on multiple levels. And don’t even get me started on the casting.

[@Markus2E5I6]

They ruined Sally and gave her more power which basically waters down her sacrifice and Gabe wasn't even that bad yet they still killed him.

[@jackpackage4278]

@@Markus2E5I6 totally agree. Sally in the books being with Gabe was making a huge sacrifice for Percy and they just made her boring in the show.

[@LittleHobbit13]

@@Markus2E5I6 Not only that but (potentially controversially) I'll argue it was a decent ending in the book that she killed Gabe? Because it showed it really was _all a sacrifice for Percy,_ and that Sally was able to stand up for herself the entire time and chose not to for the sake of keeping her son safe. She wasn't just "in an abusive relationship", she was doing whatever it took to protect her kid, and it also builds up her loss even further for Percy. This whole time he couldn't understand why she was with Gabe, and when he finally understands it, Sally protecting him one final time from the minotaur hits home even harder. His mom was legit _always_ doing whatever it took to keep him safe out of love. Why is that not viewed as a strength all of a sudden that they felt the need to eliminate it from the tv series? Do they think there are kids out there who don't experience real life examples of this with their own mothers, like moms who deal with shitty bosses to put food on the table? Making Sally able to put Gabe in his place whenever she wanted defeats the whole point of her even putting up with him at all, and undermines the lengths to which she's willing to go for Percy.

[@Markus2E5I6]

@@LittleHobbit13 Also she was desperate to keep him because his scent masked Percy's. Thats why she didn't fight back and tried to please him because the minute he has had enough he can go then Percy's in danger. So her being able to playfully put Gabe in place doesn't show the fear she was living in and how she had to please Gabe so he doesn't leave. It doesn't make sense for her to combat Gabe, she needs him to be around Percy for Percy's safety. She wouldn't risk Percy's safety just to get a please.

[@LittleHobbit13]

@@Markus2E5I6 Exactly.

[@Zenikai_]

as someone who saw the original movie and never read the first book i always thought the beginning was the same. after watching the first ep of the series i thought it confirmed it. well, i decided to listen to the first books audio book before watching ep 2. WHY did they leave out SO MUCH context in both the movie and tv series??? i'd also like to know why they have grover be the "hero" that helps percy enter camp half-blood, while in the book grover is passed out not helping anyone. The thing that annoys me the most tho, PERCY DOESNT KNOW HIS DAD IS A GOD infact he completely denies it until he see's the trident symbol over his head after the ctf game. another small detail i don't understand why they left out is, the tree on the hill is where they entered not a flat area with an invisible border that the mom can't cross. was it really that hard to find a tall tree on a hill to film under? i'mma go watch ep 2 and update this post about the weird stuff they left out for no reason. they better have the bathroom part and percy disarming luke while Luke's trying to disarm him. or im not watching the rest of the series. ep 2 edit: im so disappointed with this series after ep 2. not only did they mess up the bathroom scene, but they made annabeth a weird stalker who needs a noobie to help me win in ctf??? they didn't ad the best part of the "welcome to camp" chapters where luke is demonstrating how to disarm an enemy and percy disarms him outta pure instinct. after that they have percy go with annabeth? why? to talk? not only was the talk pointless but they made it seem like she planned for clairece and gang to pull up on percy, which ALSO doesn't make sense because percy wasn't just waiting around. he and luke got ambushed by them while fighting. lastly, they made annabeth randomly push percy into water to "prove he was poseidon sons" like she already knew from the second they met. the reason she pushed him in was because he already was using his healing powers while fighting and she had a suspicion so she tested it, she didn't just KNOW. and to top it all off, they made GROVER the one to have the idea percy's mom is still alive and chiron the one telling percy to go to hades to get her. can they not understand those are the most important moments of the beginning of the story to show percy isn't just some stupid kid? not to even mention, annabeth was showing him around the camp and why she knew he was in the bathrooms to begin with. uuhhhgg i waited for this series to finish to start and now i dont even want to watch it, it's so bad. idk what they had Mr. Riordan doing, but it clearly was fact checking ANYTHING. if you guys care about my opinions on the show comment and i'll watch ep 3 and update for you lol. (sorry i really needed to rant about how bad it is.)

[@moonangel97]

...who's gonna tell him? 😂

[@samstromberg5593]

Small correction - Percy disarms Luke by doing what he said but it was only when he was supercharged by the water he'd just doused himself with. This was before he knew he was Poseidon's son so he didn't really connect the two but it wasn't JUST because Percy's really talented with a sword - which he is - but also because he's extremely overpowered as a demigod

[@dashzag]

Yes omg Percy + water = OP as all hell

[@Brook_55]

I. Would love to hear the rest of the critiques 😂 the moment no one mentioned the camp beads or showcased that yhese are kids in a camp. Its not all strict strict. We had cabins pranking each other in the books. I wanna see em bond as well!

[@haileymack8367]

I am so sorry but I found your comment so funny😂 I’m literally reading this 5 months later and your like “okay I’m gonna go watch ep 2”…..(later) “OMG EP 2 WAS ABSOLUTELY TRASHHH!” btw I completely agree with your statement, I just found this funny❤

[@TheCatsLibrary_1]

Rick Riordan (from what I've heard) didn't decide to do the show because he wanted to it was more an issue that after the movies he didn't feel he had a choice. He seems pretty burnt out and wanting to try to challenge himself with different genres and themes. (If you've read Trials of Apollo and to a lesser extent Magnus Chase you'd understand.) Watching through this video I realized that they left out Hestia who if I remember correctly was important for the final book.

[@elizabethlevesque6978]

I tried reading both Magnus Chase and trials of Apollo and didn't like either of them 🥲

[@elizabethlevesque6978]

@CipherRage-tp5ql no, he's annabeth's younger cousin

[@username_creates6991]

I don’t know. The writting is bad in some places and some places its fine. I feel like they were checking off a list to make us happy, so book readers go “Oh yeah thats in the book!” My boyfriend who hasn’t seen anything was super confused when watching. He didn’t understand why kids that have no training can go on dangerous quests, he didn’t understand why the Greek Gods were in the USA, he didn’t understand why Percy specifically has to go. He didn’t understand the Oracle and what the purpose was. And all that was explained in the books. Gods can’t intervine and their children have to do things on their behalf. Gods are in the US cus they move to the most powerful countries. Percy has to be the one to go because Zeus thinks Percy stole the lighting bolt on behalf of Posidon and he has to go to prove Zeus wrong and clear his fathers name. The oracle is there to give you guidence for the quest. My bf also had no idea who Cronos was, so he turned to me like: “who is Cronos?” And I had to explain. In the books they were so oblivious because they were tired and hungry. These kids had no money for food, aren’t eating properly and are sleeping on the streets, it should feel like this but these kids are squicky clean. They’re dependant on the kindness of strangers which leads them into traps. Okay Medusa was obvious but how’s the matress guy obvious? How could Percy possibly know who the monster is and what he does. Grover being someone who can smell monsters and navigate with his senses isn’t even mentioned. They can maybe know theres a trap but they can’t possibly figure out what monster and what trap as they are people who haven’t been out of camp or in Percy’s case, don’t know anything yet. To me both Annabeth and Grover are useless. Grover is there cus he’s Percy’s guardian. They never explain how he’s an actual useful map and monster detector. He needs this quest because he wants to get a searchers licence to find Pan and also is trying to redeem himself after he failed Thalia. They did mention that arc but explained it with a line instead of maybe showing us a flashback or something that explains about Pan and the story about Luke, Annabeth and Thalia. Annabeth should be the brains but Percy seems to figure out everything without her even if he didn’t study greek mythology. Annabeth is suppose to be a skilled fighter with 5 years of training. And she has NO FIGHT SCENES! NONE. WHERES HER DAGGER? Annabeth’s personality is: chatty, she mutters and thinks out loud, she has an intent stare that looks like she’s calculating. She’s basically an athletic Hermione Granger. I think they should have had an episode in camp where they’re trying to figure out what the quest is, before they announce a quest at all and we get Annabeth and Percy trying to work out what happens. Annabeth also hates Percy because her mother is Posidon’s rival. Which is a good character arc because as the quest continues she decides she should maybe form her own opinions. I was mad at the casting of Annabeth because they removed the important representation that defied the dumb blonde sterotype we still see in film and media. As a blonde girl I looked up to Annabeth and thought it was so cool that Rick wrote her like that. I always hated how every smart girl had to be brunette and if a blonde girl was smart she had to be weird or extra feminine. I’ve been hearing dumb blonde jokes forever and they probably will never stop cus thats just the representation we have. If they do make a smart blonde girl then she’s usually smart for make up and showing us how beauty knowladge and understanding people comes in handy. Annabeth was a different representative. She doesn’t care about her looks, she’s a fighter and she’s focused on nurturing her mind. I thought this was a pretty good character just for them to decide that looks don’t matter. Even if the identity politics in the US has been preaching otherwsie. I don’t like how ideology in the US affects films and adaptations because this means that suddenly ethnicities and identities can be deemed “trendy” or are written as superficial parts of ones character instead of considering the fact that each identity affects the character. At first I was like fine, they’re trying to give representation to black people since they don’t get to be one of the main characters in a fantasy trio since Disney refuses to write something new. But I reread the later series and realised Annabeth was the only blonde female character in the series, the rest of the characters have different ethnicities and cultural haritage and are very diverse. I just know they’ll toss the rule of not needing to look the part out the window for those characters and acknowladge how these identities are important for the character. As it should be. I also don’t understand why they changed the person thats the most described character in the series. She also has a very clear arc and motivation behind her character and I think thats also the part of why they don’t understand what to do with her. In Mark of Athena we find out Annabeth has been bullied for being a dumb blonde and says that she always felt the need to prove herself because of that. Now I guess you can take away that arc and replace it with something else like her being bullied for being… a dumb black girl? People are claiming that that is a sterotype black women face but so far that sterotype has never been portrayed in film and tv the way the dumb blonde sterotype has been and still is. In fact the bullying, the assumtions and the jokes came about because of the sterotypical portrayal of blonde women in tv and media. And people are casually just shoving off an important topic like that by saying its an outdated issue, and most people talking aren’t even blonde… the few films we do have about us, they’re not exactly better representation. I mean okay with good writting you can replace that arc, you can say she’s been bullied because she’s dyslexic and since she knows she’s Athena’s kid she wants to prove everyone wrong and works harder. Fine. This also means that they’ll change her family haritage and have to do some changes to why Annabeth’s father is interested in war history and Magnus Chase will not be of Scandanavian decent. It already changed her personality so much, because Annabeth’s character is just soo… white. I mean the girl in the book cared about weather or not someone will see her with Percy on the love ride… its so white. I feel like a lot of Annabeth’s characteristics had to be tonned down so she doesn’t fall into the sterotype of being an angry black girl. Cus Annabeth is quite angry at the two, all the time. She’s almost a Keren. She’s contantly annoyed with them. I don’t understand why they didn’t show us her main characteristic, she overexplains everything to like the extent of being Sheldon Cooper at times. Generally Annabeth in the first book isn’t written well. I mean no side characters are when everything is narrated by Percy. When Rick started writting in other perspectives then he started doing more with Annabeth. So I guess fir the purpose of the first book the character being a blonde girl doesn’t matter. They can race swap her, despite me thinking its unethical and leads to bigger problems (like race swaping historical figures instead of searching for other ones that aren’t portrayed as much, like claiming a social issue as your identities struggle and thinking its okay to take away representation because of the years you had none. Its causing double standards that we can’t even call out because we’re automatically deemed as racists) but at least they should give her better writting. I was okay with all of it when I heard Rick say that the actress is the embodiment of the character. But throughout the show, I didn’t see it. I just saw all her traits being replaced with different ones as well as her heritage and identity. Little mermaid despite being race swapped and having her culture rewritten still felt like Arial when watching even though they changed the character to fit the identity of the actress, because they kept most of her personality and also included some of her characteristic features in a different way (she still had red hair despite having dreadlocks, she still had a round face and the same type of smile, she had her green taail, she had her voice, she still had childlike curiousity, most of her traits and characteristics were there) I feel like they failed Annabeth and Percy characterwise the most. Percy comes off as rude to me rather then sassy and angry. I started to see Percy when I watched the interviews with the actors but for most of the season I didn’t see Percy at all. And I think its partly due to them messing up the trios dinamic. Like by making Percy too smart he took away from Annabeth and so their interactions didn’t feel like Percy and Annabeth. Sadly Annabeth just felt like she was there to be the love interest for the character. Thats how badly they wrote her. I felt like they could have given us a glimpse into the past of Annabeth and Grover even if this comes up in the later books. But it would give us more feelings for the characters. Cus for now I’m only sympathetic towords Percy cus I saw his childhoos but Annabeth andGrover were just useless the entire show. I think them cuttig out the fight scenes affected the trio a lot. We don’t see how well they work together and also don’t see how they could even be friends after this quest. The emotion in the show is just none existant. I don’t udnerstand how they can screw with this book series two times? This world building is on the level of the Harry Potter series. Why is this not as big as Harry Potter and why are the film and tv show not as huge or well written

[@heidiemay2006]

I absolutely love this comment. I feel like we aren’t allowed to be upset at casting choices and the second someone does say something like “ohhhh personally for me, the casting choice for the trio isn’t my favorite” because, as the author stated, this was going to me the most book accurate representation we will have ever seen. This has been proven to be a lie. I’m also a blonde girl and I have curly hair too, just like annabeth. She was always my favorite character because I could heavily relate to her. The angry blonde stereotype, the “having to prove herself just to be heard”, and having to fight to be known as smart and strong and recognized for it, as she’s a woman, not a man. I think the actress for annabeth, Leah Jeffries, is a super cool person and she is super funny in all of the interviews I’ve seen of her. The show does a horrendous job of showing off her talent. She reminds me more of annabeth in her interviews than in the actual show itself. While I do wish Rick Riordan stayed true to his word when he said it’ll be the most book accurate show we will ever see, by not only following the plot of the book properly (which didn’t happen either, might I add), but he also cast three kids (all super talented kids btw) who don’t even resemble the physical descriptions of the kids. And their descriptions, especially annabeth and Percy’s, are vital to their story and their character. While I think the actors all have great chemistry outside of the show, the writers do a horrible job at letting the kids have natural chemistry and just make them see bland, boring, and more like kids forced to work together on a quest than actual best friends. I really liked your take on this, because I felt like I was the only one who felt that way about show annabeth. My boyfriend and I watched to show together as well, and even he who had never read the books before, was confused by the glaring plot holes. It was all tell and no show. All they did was have the characters narrate what’s going on and right when we were about to get some kind of cool action scene, it cut to a black screen. I understand the show is “made for kids” but I don’t think they understand the majority of the audience are older teens to young adults, from what I have seen. It’s mainly our demographic watching the show since we have grown up with Percy and annabeth. It feels almost insulting to our intelligence with the show. It feels as if they think we’re stupid kids who won’t understand anything, so all they do is tell us what’s going on bc they think we are too dumb to figure it out with the characters. I agree with the whole “they changed the characters personalities” thing too. Annabeth is really only seen as a cranky teen girl who hates Percy and Percy is seen as a know it all jerk. Grover doesn’t even seem to have much of a personality at all. I know in the books he’s pretty shy and whatnot but it just feels like he’s not even important to the story, when he in fact, is super important. The show is also so bland for no reason. I wish the had used more bright colors and more eye catching scenes because the set design and the scenes feel so beige and bland and quite frankly boring. Sorry if this was confusing to read, but I really enjoyed your take and agree with all of it. I respect everyone’s opinions and I’m happy to see all of the different opinions here. There have been good things about the show, such as the scene with Poseidon and sally. I think the actors had amazing chemistry and the acting was so well done for their scene. Unfortunately, in my opinion, there were more flaws than good things about this show, so I hope they take everyone’s opinions into consideration and work to make the show better for season two. :)

[@gilgameshkingofheroes5903]

@@heidiemay2006 I never understood the "It's for kids" excuse anyways. Since when do kids shows need to be badly written? Since when do they need to be dumbed down? Here is something a lot of writers need to be reminded of: There are no kids shows. If it's a kids show, it's a bad show. There are FAMILY shows. Storys which both adults and kids can enjoy to some degree. It's both insulting and dumbing-down to feed bad story to children. Funniest part is, the books WERE ALSO FOR KIDS.

[@Ella-px1xw]

an entire rant about being blonde...womp womp. cry about it.

[@gilgameshkingofheroes5903]

@@Ella-px1xw Here's a guy crying about a comment he doesn't like, accusing the commenter of crying about their life.

[@diffaaulia]

i agree with every word you wrote, especially the dumb blonde stereotype, even before the mark of athena book annabeth alr got stereotyped by regular human. tbh i just don’t get it what’s the point of describing characters to the tiniest detail only then to change them entirely. i finished the olympian books series few times and sadly i can’t see the trio in the main lead actors (maybe a little, here and there)

[@lunaitor-uq9hz]

Literally the first thing i thought when you removed the cap was "holy shit, real life Annabeth Chase"

[@lidiadiasdecastro4530]

I'm so glad you mentioned Annabeth's "I. Heard. EVeRyThiNg" moment. I cringed so hard like: WE KNOW you don't need to tell ussss!

[@ishathakor]

saying sally never stood up for herself in the books is straight up slander. edit: i want to emphasize that i am not exaggerating. she LITERALLY killed her abuser. literally. those are the events of the book. it's literally slander to say she never stood up for herself when she literally killed her abuser and then sold him and used the money to get a better apartment and enroll in a writing program.

[@erincarter1469]

Disney: how to f up a story. Netflix- yeah let's join them. Me: :throws up hands: I'm writing my own stories. I can write them better.

[@flameofdestruction271]

Fanfic is a thing ngl

[@xenostar6482]

this series motivated me to reread the books. Reading the books as an adult has motivated me to redo the whole franchise

[@mossie7625]

No hate on any of the actors or anything, but I wanted to see black scruffy haired Percy with his sea green eyes and grey eyes on Annabeth. That's just how they are in my head, and Percy didn't feel as sarcastic and goofy as he did in the book. I just feel let down all over again with adaptations, I think I'm about to give up my hopes

[@Rainforestdelight]

Also kept Annabeth a blonde white girl.

[@mossie7625]

I know it sounds like I'm being racist but Annabeth is tanned skinned and blonde with gray eyes. Just like if they did a real life Hazel I obviously wouldn't want her to be white. So I wanted to see book accurate Annabeth.

[@violentdelights3195]

What they did with Medusa made me so disappointed because it felt like they wanted to have their cake and eat it too. It felt like they both wanted to make this a more nuanced portrayal of her and were also too lazy to actually commit to the change and plan out a more meaningful route the main characters’ interactions with her could have gone down. So she suddenly is like “hey Percy how about I kill these two kids who are your friends” and they still have to cut off her head. So much wasted potential.

[@potteryporker2110]

Finally im tired of pretending this half assed, low quality, Soul less, and hollow excuse for an adaption is good

[@KingIVth]

I never thought I'd see Annabeth make a video about how Percy Jackson messed up, but I'm all for it 👌

[@chelseabaker1994]

It’s official, that musical adaptation of the first book was the best adaptation. And I haven’t even seen it, but the soundtrack is great. Too bad stage musicals can’t be made into full series, imagine if the people who made the lightning thief musical made musical adaptations of the other four book.

[@kuorin9190]

You know, after rereding the book in the past week I can't disagree more with you in regards to the show improving several scene, of course that's just my opinion not any form of truth. For exemple: The scene of Medusa's was realy weird for me, in the books Rick went to great lenghts to expecify that her origins was not the same from the mythos, so the show using the term "survivor", something heavily related to victims of rape, looks like, to me, that they were trying to bait the public into feel sory for her by using such heavy term. They coould've used "victim", "a exemple of the Gods mercy" or however other term they wanted, but they choose that one. The other thing that makes the scene not work for me and just kinda of a waste of time, is that imediatly after they show a entire werehouse filled with the petrified corpses of her victims. And it didn't feel like "while she is a victim she is also a monster", but more like "Do you see people she is the poor victim, look how evil the gods are! Don't you feel sorry for her? Aren't she a... FRICKING MONSTER KILL HER AND PISS ON HER GRAVE! PUT HER HEAD IN A BOX AND REJOICE FOR FREEING THE WORLD OF SUCH EVIL!"... I don't think I can explain it in a manner that will make sence. The scene with Equidina, while the character herself was indeed a improvemnt, stolle from Annabeth one of the first character development moments she had. In the books I didn't feel as it being a pointless detour, it showed that despise everithing she was still a 12 years old kid, it showed how much archtecture ment to her and it showed how both Percy and Groover where willing to to make such detour just to make her happy. The tunnel of love was actualy one of the worst points in the show to me, not only that sad backstory for Hephestus made no sence it also came with some of the more head scrachting desecions of the series. Percy using his powers for the first time, cut to black, Annabeth and Groover each given scenes that don't fit their characters, but her scene fittes his and vice versa. The shield being easy to find was the whole point of Hephestus trap, he wanted to humiliated them in front of the entire Olimpus and them let them go so he could do it again latter. Ares was TERRIFIED of him in the books, but the series made Hephestus his bitch. The final duel could have being much better if Annabeth was not there, it felt as if they realise too late that they took all of her character development scenes and needed to make somenthing up. Also I don't like this anoying trope of having the protagonist fighting the end boss and don't be imediatly killed, sure Luke won (thank the gods), but the book gave the impression that if they fought at that point Luke would wipe the floor with Percy, at the very least they could've show that Luke was barely trying while Percy was giving his all.

[@moonangel97]

I really like all of your points and I agree with a lot of them. The Medusa scene was horribly written in the show, and I love your description of how it made you feel. But I loved the actresses portrayal of the character. I loved how they made her sympathetic, only because I thought she was going to end up being good instead of evil, and I still believe had they stuck with that it would’ve been more interesting than the Medusa in the books. All the hints were there, and yet the show was just like "nope. She's just an evil monster."

[@kuorin9190]

@@moonangel97 Oh yeah the actress was good. Good actors having to work with bad scripts sumirises a lot of this series for me, and yet I can't say I thought it was bad, just wasted potential. Hope for a better season 2. Also glad that I manage to make some sence in regards to the Medusa scene, wasn't sure about it. And yes, if they had gone with a good Medusa it would have been a much better scene, while also fixing the post credit scene.

[@eleemaeli1830]

The medusa version of the book Is tecnically the oldest version of the myth were She was punished for her hubris a really common way to punish mortal but medusa have many version and the One were she is a victim is really really recent just to add to the evolution of the character

[@eleemaeli1830]

And tò add originally She's a gorgon a Monster from birth likes her two sister She wasn't human She was a Monster that kill people

[@slashbash1347]

Of course, they'll claim the only change people hate is Annabeth's. Even Rick Riordan. "How DARE you dislike the changes made to a pre-established character I created? Y'all are racists!" Though, it did seem like they were allergic to casting white people (except for Percy). And Gabe was way too good-looking! His name's Ugliano, and he was just kinda overweight.

[@jinx3980]

i think the cast was a insult to the real caracters and i know what you mean i and other are called racist all the time just bc we want annabeth to be white thats why i always say ,,i want annabeth to be white as much i want hazel to be black,,

[@nezumixp6744]

Yeah it’s definitely DEI influence

[@SharpAsRavenClaws]

39:00 I think the screenwriters want Annabeth to be stoic like guys usually are, I wish I understood why, can’t female characters have emotions nowadays?

[@Scalesthelizardwizard]

Cuz emotions make them weak in the eyes of modern screenwriters which is stupid and unhealthy

[@SharpAsRavenClaws]

@@Scalesthelizardwizard why do they think that?

[@Scalesthelizardwizard]

@@SharpAsRavenClaws Cuz they're stupid

[@tommyl.dayandtherunaways820]

⁠​⁠​⁠​⁠​⁠​⁠@@SharpAsRavenClawsmodern day screenwriters seem to think that feminine traits equal weakness. God forbid a female character be soft, caring, emotionally vulnerable etc.

[@SharpAsRavenClaws]

@@tommyl.dayandtherunaways820 True, I wonder what will happen if people go back to writing female characters like the one you described, I would like to see the crazies freak out that there are people who dare to write such characters again.

[@aprilshower22]

with anabeth's visuals, no hate to the actor ofc, but the irony was that she looked like she could be a dumb blond California girl "with princess curls", but infact she's a genius. the show took away that irony

[@SwiftNimblefoot]

Dave not being a horrible, abusive husband undermines the sacrifice Percy's mom made for his son. If she easily dominates Dave then what was lost by marrying him?

[@TurquoiseStar17]

Yeah, Grover seemed like little more than a walking exposition machine. But assuming they stick faithfully to the second book, at least one of his golden moments is coming in season 2 - the wedding dress. I've noticed fans referencing it all over Aryan's Instagram 😂

[@michaelbrown3729]

All the bad dialogue and unnecessary changes and the no suspense was all written by Rick himself

[@ijj2286]

The movies actually have more personalities in them than the show. It sucks.

[@Mrs_Jackson_Riddle]

This show made me appreciate the movies more cause I’m sry the show was so boring and at least the movies had good action

[@lcdexofi]

okay but rick’s the EXECUTIVE producer though, doesn’t that count that he does have a final say?? i mean i know that disney now has a rep for putting out very mid content, but personally the recent works rick has put out is not all that either. i mean i know you mentioned it in the vid that rick is not perfect but yeah.

[@dashzag]

What many people fail to understand is that writing a screenplay and writing a novel are fundamentally different. And unfortunately one can be a great author, but a bad screenplay writer. We see this firsthand with this show. Because narration is no longer an option, the audience is bombarded with exposition from the characters, and we are missing key pieces of world building. Translating descriptions into visuals, and showing us pieces of this world without explicitly saying anything can be difficult - especially if all you've ever done before is tell us, because that's all a book requires. I also personally find the show is severely undercut by time constraints. The characters aren't given enough time to grow and develop relationships in a genuine way.

[@Markus2E5I6]

Yeah I don't like a lot of Rick's books recently. Its like after heroes of olympus he got worse. But thats just me

[@Frostfern94]

@@Markus2E5I6 I got part way through HOO and I had to stop. It was boring as all Hell. I couldn't drag myself through Annabeths POV, who I usually like, even after I managed to drag myself through the first book.

[@nitzeart]

My poor Annabeth, look at how the tv show ruined you 😭💔 (you’re so on point with all the criticisms, I honestly just stopped watching it after episode 5, skimmed the last episode only for the scenes with Toby stephens)

[@YoSora1313]

Rick promised a faithful adaptation but look what we got. As soon as they announced the cast it was pretty clear they were not going for a faithful adaptation. They changed the story to fit mordern day trends and beliefs. Disney always does this now. There was nothing to be surprised about. These days most people think Adaptation are supposed to be different than the original work. Look how some news outlets gave bad reviews to Shows like One Piece because it was "Too faithful to the original work".

[@Frostfern94]

No because I'm a Gen Z (Well... kinda? Just barely, nearly a Millenial though) and this show was genuinely so bad.

[@Vor567tez]

The show never properly shows what makes the gods so fearsome and what's their impact. Just read a comment that since lighting bolt was stolen there won't be no lighting only thuder. THIS!! WHY THEY NEVER SHOW THIS? They literally had a scene where Annabeth says to Percy "he drools" and you see lightning! 😩 They totally missed out the detail! The whole time I was like what does it changes? Why anyone will want to steal the bolt? There's zero weight in the show.

[@sortacoolmaybe]

They forgot to show the extreme weather as a result of growing tensions between the gods. And nothing happened when they failed to meet the deadline. This show makes the gods look so weak and powerless. Percy had next to no good action scenes that showed he was a skilled sword fighter and they still had him beat ares. Joke of a show

[@samstromberg5593]

@@sortacoolmaybe I'm pretty sure the bad lighting is their idea of extreme weather due to growing tensions Like it's worse than them just not including it. I think they feel like they nailed it

[@izachi-chan2432]

The books will forever be iconic in a way that this series will never be Book Percy, Annabeth and Grover are GOATED

[@ShiQingxuanSimp]

I want near accuracy to the books, the show sucks literal ass and I have OFFICIALLY lost hope that we’ll ever get a good representation of the books with no huge changes. The show is lazy in my opinion and Disney could’ve done a whole lot better. They’ve also watered down the TRAUMA that was expressed in the books because it’s “problematic”. Hi, traumatized person here, I don’t give a shit. Percy was abused by Gabe and that deserves to be shown.

[@RedKing12000]

Is anyone else big mad about Hades? He was a really effective formula break in the books, being the first god Percy meets that he feels lives up to the description, and obviously far more than our heroes could deal with. In the show, he’s a well-meaning hipster uncle. I’m not a fan. Lance Reddick absolutely CRUSHED IT as Zeus, though. I hope Elysium’s treating him well…

[@kelseybaloney4984]

I hated how they solved their problems right away. I also don’t like Annabeth’s attitude. She would’ve never sassed Ares like that and it took away a huge moment for Percy. Percy and Ares’s rivalry started because Percy didn’t respect him and the show didn’t show that very much. My last complaint is they hardly showcased Percy’s powers at all. One thing the movie actually did well was providing good scenes showing him using his powers. The amusement park scene was supposed to do that and it failed spectacularly

[@madhatterexe]

THIS!!! I don't understand why nobody mentions this. Annabeth should be a wise girl, but being rude to the literal god of war? Not wise at all. In fact, in the books she always tries to please him and calm him down whenever Percy gets him angry, because THAT'S wise.

[@Charlie-qi1xn]

you think the series is decent until you realize they dont even mention the great prophecy ... like the backbone of the books... not even mentioned.

[@moonangel97]

Absolutely! I didn't even realize that! 😧

[@Charlie-qi1xn]

​@@moonangel97 At least the movies with how shitty they were had that aspect , the big threes reasoning for not having kids is so vague in the show without it , like whyd they keep in the weird ww2 plot but not the bug prophecy. So many things in this story and down the line won't make sense without it .

[@samstromberg5593]

@@Charlie-qi1xn Plus (I haven't watched the series but from reviews, I've heard, if I'm understanding correctly) they say that the last time the gods had a war it was WWII. Like no actually. WWII was caused by children of Hades against children of Zeus and Poseidon (I could be getting the teams wrong but it was caused by children). The Big Three decided that their children were too powerful and had too much influence on the world. It has nothing to do with a godly war

[@Charlie-qi1xn]

@@samstromberg5593 That was originally in the books , they made it cannon in the books that the Nazis were children of Hades . The fact they included that and not the great prophecy is mind boggling

[@Charlie-qi1xn]

@@samstromberg5593 The main reason in the books was the prophecy that a child of the three eldest gods would either save or destroy Olympus

[@SwiftNimblefoot]

So, if Zeus, Hades and Poseidon are brothers.... how is Zeus african? For a GREEK god??? Also, Medusa being a rape victim, that's fine and mythologically accurate. But then maybe do NOT have her turn on them and end the scene with her being beheaded?

[@komaedakun]

i know it's an unpopular opinion but honestly 😭i liked the movies better i was excited a couple years ago when i heard that disney was collaborating with rick to make a "better" percy jackson adaptation but honestly im just so so disappointed i really hated the casting for the series, i feel like that's my main ick i just cannot see those actors as my beloved characters, whereas the casting for the movies was actually really really good

[@Crusader-Ramos45]

I feel like the Percy Jackson movies were better than the Disney+ series.

[@JadeDunkerley-z6i]

Am I seriously the only one who is mad that Luke wasn't in the first season more ??? Like, his betrayal reveal meant nothing at the end of the season because they didn't even build up their friendship/mentorship

[@orange_turtle3412]

Can we please just have ONE good adaption of this series? Please!

[@VeelouC]

Intro 100/10

[@mh6617]

in my opinion the reason they didn't know who aunty em was because they were tired in the books when they find her cafe its in the middle of the night after being attacked on their bus by the furies, the bus exploded they lost almost all of the things they had and they were running through the forest before they saw the sign which they couldn't red properly because of the dyslexia, they were hungry and starving so they took her offer for food because they didn't have any real options left, and medusa wanted to kill Annabeth because Athena turned her into a monster and wanted to collect grover. Also the problem with Sally was that it wasn't that she couldn't fight back against Gabe but she wouldn't to protect Percy from monsters

[@PashShan]

I'm glad I found this video. The whole show felt like expensive fan fiction.

[@kagisoselekisho229]

😢yes of percabeth basically

[@GrouchyC794]

To be fair medusa was using magic and she spiked food

[@WHIKKEDDDD]

the biggest thing for me was show not tell. it felt like every episode even the great ones did more telling. They gotta learn from that or else the show will stay stagnant imo

[@melissaanthonyxb2730]

Words can't describe how fricking entertaining the percy jackson books were. At the same time words also can't describe how Fricking boring the show was 😭

[@marvalo1249]

THANK YOU!!!!!! I felt like I was the only Percy Jackson fan that felt this way

[@Frostfern94]

SAME

[@dhruvgeorge]

I think season 2 should continue the flashbacks, but this time they should focus on Annabeth and her relationship with Luke, Thalia and Grover and their journey to camp

[@MrHoll87]

Thank you for making this video, I was beginning to think I was literally the only person on the planet who saw this show as a the disaster it is. Like of the comments and hate I got a social media for calling this show out was wild. Even from the first episode I could tell this show was in trouble and like you mentioned in this video, it completely failed to capture the heart and soul of the books, which speaks to Disney's obsession and passion of MONEY over ART. I watched the making of after the series and it was very clear that the actors were very passionate about the project and gave it everything they had. The problem truly comes from the adult writers and directors who either don't understand the deeper undertones of the story, or simply don't know how to write and direct content for younger audiences and actors. Another issue I had was one also mentioned in this video, SO MANY meaningless self sacrificing moments. There were so many melodramatic scenes in this show that felt like CW stuff, and how many 12 year olds would actually willingly die for a bratty girl they just met? Absolute disaster of a show and an utter failure, and as a long time fan of the books, I was very disappointed. It's amazing to me that after watching this show, I like the first film BETTER. That's absurd.

[@allapolog1es]

i honestly don’t like that they made annabeth black. her whole character development IN THE BOOK was because of the stereotypical "stupid white blonde girl" approach. disney needs to stop CHANGING races to create more diversity if we already have diversity in the pjo book series?? isn’t this supposed to be EQUAL?? plus, this was clearly shown in the Ariel movie. the movies already f’d up with annabeth, why does the series have to f her up EVEN MOOOOREEEEEE??? AND WHAT ABOUT THE FACT SHE HAS NO PERSONALITY!? she literally seems like a sidecharacter and has no development at all. plus, the percabeth moments in this series is so goddamn bad. PUSHING PERCY INTO THE WATER?? the book CLEARLY described it as PUTTING him into the water *btw: i like blonde percy, but once more, i hate how they butchered up the appearances. smh.*

[@ThePreciseClimber]

You know, it's funny. Usually, when a character's race is changed in an adaptation, the common excuse is "Well, the character's appearance is not plot-relevant so it's okay!" But here, Annabeth's blonde hair IS plot-relevant. And they still changed her. Because they just don't care. They just want to be seen as progressive, no matter what. I wonder if Riordan is actually ashamed he wrote a story where the main trio is all white. Which is silly. He shouldn't be more ashamed of that than someone else writing a story where the main trio is all black or all Asian.

[@funkmasterfunk1221]

Plus they have characters of diversity in the books! They just won’t use them. Look at Hazel, Piper, Frank, Nico, what’s her name from the Roman camp, etc. I say if they can race swamp annabeth and more then it should be okay race swap all the characters I listed as well

[@funkmasterfunk1221]

Exactly!! Plus there already tons on diverse characters in the books! Look at Piper, Leo, Frank, Nico, what’s her name from the Roman camp, and more!! If if it’s okay to race swap annabeth and more, then it’s okay to do the same to the characters I listed. Fair is fair. Idk why but KZbin keeps deleting my comments.

[@mossie7625]

I totally agree with you, that's what I thought! She felt so bland in the series, I don't want to hate on the actor because of course she's great, but the whole POINT is she's trying to prove the stupid blond girl person. Like seriously!!!! The show is already diverse and I wanted to see Percy with black hair and sea green eyes, that's the whole Percy thing!!!

[@allapolog1es]

@@mossie7625 real! when i think of percy jackson i think of a dude that looks like rick riordan’s version of poseidon. black hair, sea green eyes. thats what makes percy percy, because u see someone that looks like that and BOOM theres trouble. blonde percy just seems way too stereotypical for some reason. (no hate to walker, i luv him.)

[@KidJV]

i just force myself to watched the series.. why was the scenes so dark i had to squint my eyes for some scenes

[@Stardipped_Paws]

Right!

[@izachi-chan2432]

I definetly had to squint my eyes everytime "Annabeth" was on screen

[@lololol707]

ive never read the books, i wanted to but when they announced that thre was going to be a show i was like “yk what? ill just watch the showinstead” ame idk if i had high hopes or what, but i found the show kinda boring, like it wasn’t bad, just borning and nothing special, then everyone on social media were talking about how good the adaptation was so i just assumed that this saga wasn’t for me, but watching this video made me wanna read the books

[@moonangel97]

You should definitely give the book series a try! It is written for kids, like Harry Potter, but it's a lot of fun, Percy is hilarious, and the relationships are really cute and mostly well-written. At least that's my opinion. If you like the series you should read Heroes of Olympus next. It's the sequel series to Percy Jackson and the Olympians. Honestly I think it might be better than Percy Jackson in a lot of ways.

[@Frostfern94]

No, I think they just thought "WOW! It's nothing like the movies, which were WORSE (apparently? I never watched em), and RICK RIORDAN HELPED! So CLEARLY it's AMAZING!" It's not. The show sucks, the books are actually bearable.

[@umbreons_mom]

Every time you show a scene and its incredibly dark, it makes me so upset. Why did they film the show this way? I remember watching and having to turn up the brightness on my TV because it was so bad.

[@en4833]

In the book, the reason Percy and Annabeth don't realise they are in Medusa's lair until it's too late is because they are sleep deprived, starving, exhausted, and most importantly, being manipulated by the Mist. Medusa is using magic to confuse Percy and Annabeth, making them hyper focus on the cheeseburgers to the point that they don't notice the obvious hints of danger. Grover is the only one who's clocking any of the signs, and that's only because he can smell Medusa's monster scent. Also, I greatly dislike what they did to Gabe. They toned him down way too much and turned him into basically a comic relief, loveable asshole. That's not what he was in the books, and it complete destroys Sally's character. Gabe was supposed to be basically a representation of humanity's flaws. Sally married him because he was so disgustingly human that he overrode Percy's demigod nature. And if you make Gabe not the complete piece of shit that he was, you completely take away why Sally was with him in the first place. In the book, Sally endured pain, suffering, and even physical abuse from Gabe just to protect Percy. It showed her strength of character and bravery. The fact that she was able to remain such a kind and gentle person throughout all that earned so much respect from me. And that's completley taken away in the show. It's never explained why Sally is with him, he is nowhere near as bad, and Sally is able to control him very easily. There is no characterization there. There's no bravery or strength there.

[@izachi-chan2432]

HARDCORE AGREE ON EVERYTHING especially on Gabe Sally coming out of her abusive relationship and very abusive, good for nothing partner, was a very important part of her character. She had nothing to fear anymore, her son was safe, was learning to fight, and both could get Gabe out of their lives in a good rejuvenating breath The way the series just waters down how abusive he was... Feels like a punch to the stomach. Many people loved Sally because they saw in her a mother who did everything for her kid and a lot of young kids had similar experiences. Lots of kids grew up having their own version of Gabe in their houses

[@elizabethlevesque6978]

2:53 right off the bat I have to disagree with some of the things you enjoyed. One, Medusa was not well handled at all. Someone else in the comments pointed out the new version of the myth isn’t even originally Greek, it was written by a Roman poet so not even canon to the Greek’s mythos. But in doing that version, FINE, but I don’t feel bad for her. The gods used and abused her, sure that’s horrible, but she goes around murdering innocent people because she’s pissy?? Really? I felt not a lick of sympathy for her. The more egregious part of that segment was the laughably short “fight” As for Gabe, he ab*user shouldn’t feel relatable guys this isn’t a good thing 😭😭😭😭 and I will say, watching episode one HE GOT THE FIRST CHUCKLE OUT OF ME. My sister and I were horrified that we were having more fun watching Gabe than Percy. THATS NOT GOOD I shouldn’t feel like your antagonistic character is more fun that your lead 9:24 wait no no no, Medusa didn’t fall in love the new version of the myth they’re using is the one where Poseidon r*pes Medusa and because she’s no longer a virgin (despite it not being of her own volition) Athena curses her, right? Because Medusa was one of Athena’s Virgin followers or something and to lose your virginity meant being cast out from her temple.

[@Your_L0cal-Editor]

My theory is that the fandom has such low expectations for an adaptation ever since the Peter Johnson movies released, so most of us will take literally anything.

[@RodrickMarsMoon]

A lot of fandoms are like this now: any glimpse of a thing would make them cum in their pants just because it remembers them of something they read. Like with Harry Potter, for example. People be like "Harry Potter should have a new adaptation because... *Peeves!!!* I want to see Peeves in live-action!" I mean... Star Wars showed that put a digital Peeves appearing in the background in a extended cut of the eight movies would fix this. And don't let me start with the whole "I want a full hour episode about the night James and Lily died" argument, that was just- Aaand now there's a unnecessary stretched series adaptation of a short book series I loved when I was a teenager, where the director just kept the names and changed even the whole premise of the story because "I want to make the series be better than the books". Serious. As a published author and film director, I'm drained by all this 😓...!

[@izachi-chan2432]

Alexandra Daddario was harrassed through hell and back for not being a blonde Annabeth, and now the fandom just accepts that girl as Annabeth despite her being a LOT different from the true Annabeth I don't understand this fandom at times

[@Iana420]

GROVER DIDNT EAT A SINGLE CAN OR FURNITURE THE WHOLE SEASON

[@andrewlim9345]

Thanks for your analysis of the first season. Liked how you discussed both the good and bad points in the show. Hopefully Disney and Rick Riordan address the issues you identified in the next season.

[@Skatt3r3d]

i love the intro 😭😭😭😭

[@Jack_Winters_Wintercold55]

I mean they pretty much just made anabeth a Mary sue witch is so disappointing because she was a genuinely good character and probably my second favorite but they butchered everyone and also they kind of just let Percy win with no experience at any fighting like no way he was able to win against ares cabin without the water helping just sad how one of my favorite books got messed up by Disney 😢

[@Maxwell-vw1br]

I think there decision to make Luke care about Percy in the beginning was just awful. It will make it so that Luke starting to care at the end of the series is less impactful because it will mean he grew less and his suicide will be less impactful.

[@carolineb.11.17]

Ultimately I think I'll just stick with the books, thanks.

[@austinrogers4132]

why did the little grover exposition dump montage make me laugh more than anything in the actual show lmao

[@ParentlFigure]

If I try to be optimistic most of the plot holes will be covered in later seasons. But that's most not all. Some just can't be covered because they're so deep

[@tartarus31]

Everything was wrong with this show

[@hellfire4you]

To be honest, the casting was bad and the show was overall boring. I gave it a 4 out of 10 because as I was watching the show I was rereading the first book and the difference between the two was mind-boggling. I can’t believe Rick was active in the creation of the show.

[@kirruas]

its been three months or something but i still can’t get over how they ruined my favorite books… like i always appreciated pjo even more than hp bc pjo focus on a various characters and not only selected protagonists (ofc don’t get me wrong hp it’s still good in a way) . but fucking disney ruined every single character. grover who betrayed percy???????? GROVER?? the one who would never do that not even for greatest good, percy who now is like harry potter but blonde, i mean he lost his sagacity THAT great trait that differentiates percy from harry, he in this adaption seem alway on verge to cry, always too introspective and also TOO INTELLIGENT. no, percy isn’t stupid but why he knows everything? why it’s not only annabeth the expert on this first season like she was in the first book because of course she’s athena’s daughter but mostly she is at the camp longer than percy. i don’t like also how they managed lotus casino scene… disney has problems with scenes like this, so they decided to make say percy that he knows what it this and so to not get distracted but getting distracted would be natural for three teenagers (i count grover too as a teen ok) . but mostly i don’t like how rick say this adaption is good and better , where? i’ll wait until everyone get that pjo would be really perfect if it gets animated series or movie

[@vreyza]

The problem is in the production team, not in the medium. Even if it's animated, it will still bad if it's produced by disney's production team.

[@kirruas]

@@vreyza oh you right, in fact if one day we’ll get an animated series it should be dreamworks working on it . disney is good at family friendly things, kids things, that pjo may seems at first but the more you go deep the more it gets more for young adults. anyway i bring an animated series even bc for me pjo it’s better animated, i really didn’t like walker performance but it’s not his fault it’s disney’s who wanted to create a harry-potter-percy-jackson-blonde-version and it still piss me like one thing fans appreciated of percy is, again, it’s difference with harry that’s also why pjo became famous because for once we got a protagonist that wasn’t like harry. also i’ve read they made the change to be closer to the new gen and i’m ??? do you mean gen alpha, a gen that is quicker than gen z and millennials, appreciate this slow and boring things are u kidding

[@dudacampos6841]

The show, to me, lost so much by telling and not showing. In the books, you can feel so much from the characters and their personalities from their interactions... it felt, like you said, souless and rushed and just exposition, just reprising the scenes and not building on the characters and the universe

[@michelcomenta]

the opening of this video was hilarious, congratulations on your creativity! 👏🏻👏🏻

[@rinxmacaroni2085]

good adaptations can have changes as long as it gives you the same feelings you get from the original, thats what i learned whenever i see adaptations from today. theyre doing their best to make it as accurate as possible but not improve or do the adaptation with love.

[@mossie7625]

I honestly just hated it. I wanted to see Percy with black hair and Annabeth with blonde hair, and there were many episodes where I just got bored and I don't think I'll ever be watching that shit again. Just gonna stick to the books.

[@skellysart_]

My first thought with Annabeth’s regret plot line that wasn’t finished was that the writers were setting things up for future seasons. Like they were planting seeds for the story to come back up in later seasons/episodes when it’s more important to the overarching story.