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bvckbiter · 6 days ago

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that being said though... given that they've announced the casting for an original character (with possibly another one on the way) as well as the PJO Villains of the Week aka circe, polyphemus, tantalus, im really wondering if the background campers are going to be featured in this season since no casting has been announced for them. chris in season 1 was announced and had publicity despite having pretty much fuck-all contribution to the story; so if no casting is announced for the campers we meet in sea of monsters (stolls, silena, beckendorf), it probably means that theyre not in the story or are just literally passing, no-lines cameos/easter eggs. that would be ABSOLUTE bullshit because som spends more time in chb than tlt, and having known/named camper characters is essential to the whole logic of how camp fucking runs in the first place, which would tie into the whole cabin inequality thing that is the seed of luke's wrath in the first place. luke's anger at his father and at the gods is incomplete without the backdrop of camp half blood.

the small screen is a very good medium for expanding on chb and background demigods; unfortunately the first season just pretty much treats it like a checkpoint for percy to pass through. adaptations will always have changes, but those changes should be made for the better and in the spirit of the original source, so if the writers' room is ignoring the untapped potential that the background campers could have while creating entirely new characters, thats... troubling. to say the least

on one hand i really am not confident in the show's writing but on the other im just happy to have another canon rogue/ta member :3 and anyway i have way too much experience just using canon as a springboard and completely ignoring everything else lmfao

#the one casting they shouldve kept under wraps shouldve been thalia lol but thats just my opinion #ik theyre going to shoehorn a lot of thalia flashbacks for hype factor but half of thalia's impact on the story is that shes a ghost #so in flashbacks they couldve shrouded her face and just gave us brief glimpses and her voice... hashtag cinematographer #that way you could keep the shock element from the books but also still have the deeper broken trio emotional angle theyre going for #(even if the setup and foundation in season 1 wasnt that good ksksksk)#but also its absolute bullshit idek what else to say #this was prompted by becky saying that will might not appear on pjotv because theyd want to 'save' him for a bigger part later on #rather than have him appear in a small part in the first series adaptation #which is so funny to me because they. literally recast chris for this season???? girl recasts happen all the fucking time in tv shows #thats so funny. if they cut will out from the show theyd have to make so many tweaks (though minor) to the cabin 7 events during manhattan #charlena need to be in this season because they have roles to play in book 5 #which tbh couldve used a little more buildup in the book. and that is something that the adaptation can change for the better!#but if they choose not to do it... well...#as for the stolls they dont have plot importance but theyre there to keep things running after luke leaves #continuity matters. u need to address things going on in the background or it just feels like the character is ticking boxes. jesus #one way they could play this is giving chris an expanded role in that hes still at camp in som but is wrangling with his decision to leave #WHICH AGAIN the stolls could be an excellent emotional device for #i do not believe for one second that runtime is the reason they could not fucking fit character arcs AND plot AND worldbuilding #the writing in fact wasted so much time because characters kept fucking stopping and talking even when monsters were on their heels #look at arcane s1. sure they had a longer runtime of 45-ish minutes for 9 episodes whereas pjotv had 30-ish minutes for 8 eps #but arcane has a disproportionately bigger ensemble cast than pjotv. and they all had complex fleshed out arcs. IT IS POSSIBLE.#anyway. my side character enthusiast biases are very much shining through here #idgaf about people calling background characters randos or khias or nugus (god twitter is so irritating)#side characters and little details MATTER #they matter to the heart and spirit of the source material #THEY MATTER TO THE VIBES. THEY MATTER TO THE FANS.#procrustes may have been a relatively inconsequential monster of the week but it showed how cunning percy was. and the show just gave us bs #pjotv crit

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