#Anti pjo show

[anotherlibrocubicularist]

Pjo movies: exist

Pjo fans: the movies are shit for inaccuracies like the actors' ages, Percy and Annabeth's romantic chemistry too early on, Annabeth's hair colour and many changes in scenes and plots from the books

Rick Riordan: hates on the movies (despite him never having seen them in the first place) and promises an adaptation more faithful to the original source material

Pjo fans: thrilled

Pjo series: exists

Some pjo fans: the actors look nothing like the characters we grew up with (and with the pace things are going, will be way older than the movie actors should the series continue beyond s2), there are Percabeth romantic scenes added in the first season that weren't there or weren't romantically charged in the books, Annabeth isn't blond (and with the way the fans treated the movie actress I am side-eying that not more people were upset Leah didn't go blonde), and many things were changed from the books

Rick Riordan: I'm the author, these are my decisions, deal with it.

Other pjo fans: the changes are great, just stop watching if you don't like it.

Some pjo fans: stop watching show

Pjo show: ratings go down, won't make it past s3 or 4 (my prediction, but still)

This is a more or less humorous take on what I've witnessed in the pjo fandom when the series ws announced to when it aired. Personally, I think Rick shot himself in the foot when he hated on the movies for not being faithful to his work and got the fans' hopes up for a more book accurate adaptation that he ultimately failed to deliver. He would've probably received less backlash and the fans would've been more open to changes if he hadn't hated on the movies for exactly that, changes to his source material.

[autism-alley]

ik it’s been forever in internet time but i’m gonna die mad abt the way the live action atla show got a good amount of backlash and criticism from the fanbase meanwhile the pjo show was THAT horrendous and the fanbase treats critics like they’re out to kill their mother. as someone in both fandoms am i crazy bc i keep fucking seeing people say yes 💀 like!! these shows, whose original series were both about a 12 year old boy born with godlike powers going on quests with his friends to save the world, released in the 2000s, and had a shitty movie adaptation, now reboots released within weeks of each other, both committed nearly identical crimes of character assassination, exposition dumping, dumbing down their source material, sanitizing “problematic” elements (that the characters originally had to overcome), and wasting actor potential (also at least live action atla had good action scenes CANNOT say the same for the pjo show)—and i’m seeing like mainstream(ish) social media coverage of new atla show critique by people with millions of followers all across different sites, but nothing even close to that for the pjo show?? if that coverage exists for the pjo show somebody fucken send it to me bc like!! the pjo series is Not an unpopular series, i get it’s a book series and not a tv series so i didn’t expect the popularity to be exactly the same, but Damn! i feel like i need an hours long video essay comparing the two audience reactions to these series’ first season releases bc they were WIDLY different

[justaneedle]

“How Disney+ changed Luke for the better”

Me: spat

[ladydeath-vanserra]

love that I made a video complaining about PJO incorporating the MMC model into the Grey Sisters and some Wiccan told on themselves

jsyk Wicca is full of racism and cultural appropriation at its core foundations and was created in the 1950s by a white British man where he shoved a bunch of celtic traditions and other traditions from around the world into one new age religion where there is also rampant compulsory heterosexuality

the MMC model is ripped off from celtic traditions and Mythos regarding triplicity goddesses such as The Morrigan and Brighid and has absolutely nothing to do with greco-roman mythology

[the-oddest-inkling]

The best sentences i've read all day:

"The Percy Jackson show is not like the books, but who the fk cares."

My brother in christ. Y'all have been giving anyone who even uttered that they liked the movies absolute HELL the last couple of years and now y'all can't accept that the show is absolutely inaccurate and the casting sucks?

Y'all have bullied Alexandra Daddario into dying her hair blonde for the second movie. But now it's all fine and dandy that not a SINGLE character looks like their book counterpart?

GIVE ME A BREAK!

[thesebloodydays]

So, I’ve watched the first three episodes of the pjo show and I’m really not feeling it. They just gave me confirmation that I’m over these books/the franchise. Oh well.

[erenfox]

hades is a fucking joke in the show. like, excuse me, richard? what happened to hades being an intimidating, creepy god who has probably been the first ever olympian to ever scare percy? no hate to the actor, but the way they made him say oKeY dOkEy made me cringe SO HARD because there's no way - NO FUCKING WAY - hades would be the one to say okey-dokey. hermes and apollo are literally the only gods i can think of who would say okey dokey.

tldr: they ruined hades as a character in riordanverse with literally his first appearance. smh.

making myself ill trying to figure out how Nico's supposed to play off of show!hades

[bluecrocss]

Adult PJO fans: "I can't relate to her if she doesn't look like me" "this is disrespectful to book!Annabeth" "I can't see her as the same character if she's black" "blonde, white women are soooo underrepresented in media. No one else can understand 😫"

Meanwhile, the actual demographic the show and books are for:

(@/walkersriptide_ on TikTok)

-

Caveats in the tags.

[helpallthenamesaretaken]

me, when someone doesn't like percabeth: okay no problem 😁 we all have our own different ideas of what makes a good ship, I respect you don't like mine 🤝 uh huh? perachel? cool i love rachel ✨ good day to you, my friend

me, when they start talking about how percy's suicidal tendencies were increased because of annabeth and hate annabeth for not knowing about the BOO drowning incident when percy never even told her about it: ok 🫵 get out 🤬 eww eww eww 😭 do not come within a mile radius of me please 🙏 bye 👋 bye 👋 bye 👋

[greencarnation]

[erenfox]

holy shit so true. these are absolutely true facts that the majority of the pjo fandom + dear old richard willingly ignore. the movies were INACCURATE adaptations, NOT bad

1. the casting was chef's kiss (not age wise),

2. the CGI was light years superior than the show's cgi,

3. the character arcs felt like they were established for the movie only but at least they were fulfilled,

4. the plot actually made sense both writing and story-wise

(almost none of this was in the show btw)

literally the only thing carrying the show is the actors' visible attempts to overcome the absolutely horrendous writing and directing of the show 😭

but wait annabeth's actor changing??? it was just alexandra daddario throughout, wasn't it?

i hate to say it but lowkey the pjo movies were better than the show. idec

movies were:

way funnier

more entertaining

honestly had better looking cgi

unintentional but i thought annabeth switching actors mid series was so funny

for some reason they beat kronos in BOOK TWO. so we can all agree movie percy is more powerful than book percy /j

honestly had like wayyy better acting throughout most of it. maybe its because the actors actually seemed like they had fun filming the movies and delivered every line with actual fucking personality instead of the show doing. whatever that was

movie luke was kinda funny like wtf is even happening. what are you saying

all in all movies were peak (in like a funny bad way, not necessarily a great adaptation way) fuck rick riordan for shitting on the movies AND the actors (????? wtf), go watch the movies instead of the show because the show is dogshit

[once-upon-an-animation]

I find it absolutely hilarious that after the Lotus Casino episode, we all complained that the trio having every trap and trick figured out on arrival was sucking the fun and suspense out of every scene…

…only for Episode 7 to literally begin with Percy explaining to everyone that he knows who Procrustes is and knows what his trick is in the first 30 seconds.

I literally bust out laughing.

Richard Riordan, I don’t know what you have against letting your 12 yr. old characters get deceived by something once in a while, but man, you need to let that hurt go and allow your 12 yr. old characters to get deceived by something once in a while. I don’t care how smart you want them to look; them literally knowing everything ahead of time is not nearly as much fun!

[justaneedle]

Okay, I don't like learning about shit that Rick, or his editors, or his wife, or fucking Disney, or whoever but Haley doing. Haley is the best thing that ever happened with pjo.

Fuck their don't need bible, using fanwiki, trying fit new books to a fucking TV series or whatever this bitches doing.

Cause I don't even want anymore giving HOO the second chance. The potential of this universe died for me with the Titan Army and Luke.

[im-probably-playing-genshin]

still reading botl but like.. its so infuriating

SOMEONE LET PERCY KNOW THAT HE IS A VICTIMMMMM

“calypso would stare at me with her pretty eyes and then get all sad again 😔😔” WOMP WOMP. COPE. CRY ABOUT IT. WE DO NOT CARE.

I wanna read calypso saying “i have made a severe and continuous lapse in my judgment” so badly.

HONEYYY YOU ARE A GROOMER. AND A LOSER.

[muiltifandomnerd]

It really should be animated so it will be easier to find the voice actors and doing the action sequences.

How will you change the pjo show?

First of all,I'd wipe out all the official stuff and make it animated;

The animation style would be a mix of Gargoyles (it's a pretty cool Urban Fantasy cartoon TV show set and made in the 90's,most of it happens in NYC - therefore there are strong "concrete jungle meets the supernatural" that PJO also shows often) and AtLA(colourful,whimsical,fluid). And make it a mix of the 2D and 3D styles - Nimona did it,the second Puss in Boots did it,Into the Spiderverse did it,Klaus did it. Of course,Disney would be able to replicate the success;

Be mostly faithful to the books(especially when it comes to keeping the weirdness),but do away with the "Internet and telephones attract monsters". I've always found that stupid,high-speed comunication is part of the 21st century,no need to do away with it. "But such means of communication would make things easier for the demigods!" Not much,IMO. A big point of those books is the fact that half-bloods are mostly isolated and/or outcasts. Not to mention how most mortals can't be counted on to deal with the divine;

Speaking of the 21st century,make the TV show "modern but timeless" - Rick had many bad ideas,but this is a good one. Technology and culture can be a melting pot between the 2000's,2010's and 2020's. Flip phones,Blackberries and all sorts of smartphones can be seen on-screen,there are some vague pop culture references,the kids will wear outfits from all that time... You get my drip;

Easter eggs. When the TLT trio is at the casino,show a couple of Italian siblings,have a Tristan McLean post somewhere;

Also,there will be no "All the Athena kids are grey-eyed blonds that look serious". There's no reason why they would look like that. In fact,I'd make them diverse in terms of gender,race,personalities. However,they'd still all have "resting scheming/overthinking faces".

[the-oddest-inkling]

For all those people who still defend this hot garbage of an adaptation. Even the movies didn't change that much!