#Percy Jackson book spoilers

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At the start of season 4 of the PJO series, when Annabeth and Percy plan to go see a movie together, either one of them or Percy's mom should casually refer to it as "that new Tristan McLean movie," which would add to the continuity of the series as a whole, act as a teaser for a Heroes of Olympus spinoff, and make the fans go absolutely wild.

[feelingtheaster99]

Grover was so clever in this episode, buttering Ares up, baiting him into talking with praise—an absolute king

[fallingforfictionalmen]

no you don’t understand bc if annabeth could see the bottom of tartarus as they fell then that means percy flipped them so that he would hit the ground first

[oveliagirlhaditright]

One thing I kind of miss from the PJO adaptation (though this isn't a complaint that they cut it, because this is a thought of Percy's and I understand why that would have been hard to translate into live-action) is when he's first claimed by Poseidon and moves into Poseidon's cabin, and there are some lines that are something like, "The cabin was massive and I had all this room to put my stuff where I wanted to, and there was no one to bother me... so naturally, I hated it." Percy is an extrovert, so of course he was lonely in this situation. But he also hated how ostracized he was as soon as he was claimed, in being a forbidden kid of the Big Three.

This whole part was also just humorous, and a good example of the way that Rick Riordan often writes his humor: which is defying your expectations. The lines set you up to make you think Percy's going to like staying in Poseidon's cabin, but pull the rug out from under you--in an amusing way--when it turns out he actually hates it.

It would be cool if season two could do something with this--when Percy is finally completely cool with Tyson by the end of it--with him saying something like, "I'm so glad that you're here, Tyson. Now it's not so quiet that I can hear a pen drop in here," or something like that. I don't know.

[feral-and-chaotic]

Percy Jackson Episode 4 Thoughts!!

Right. Slightly more coherent than before.

Plot:

- Very close to the book, tho I like the lean towards making the Echidna fight more suspenseful than it is in the musical or the book.

(Even if it is a shame to cut the Chimera/Chihuahua joke I think this is a great move away from undermining the tension with comedy in the way that Marvel does.

- Love the stuff with Annabeth and the cops. Her standing up to them is both poignant with current politics and does a great job to show her bravery and how out of touch with the mortal world she is, forgetting she's 12 because she's been in camp for so long.

- I'm really interested in the fact they are taking so long to set up the Grover backstory and Pan stuff. I like how much weight they are giving it.

- also congrats kids. You blew up a bus AND a train AND the gateway arch. I couldn't be prouder.

-also, (I may be wrong and correct me if I am) but I believe they changed Echidna's motivation from trying to push Percy to test his powers, to avenging some super pissed off gods. And I think that it tightens the story by doing so. It makes the gods unlikable and you can really stand and empathize with [Book spoiler] Luke's motivations.

Characterisations:

Grover:

Man are they going off with Grover. Similarly to being, cutting some of his comedy for meaningful moments is fantastic.

You really feel a depth to him which was maybe lacked in the musical and books. I adore how they are weaving in his bravery and levelhead too, it feels a tad more mature than with Percy and Annabeth and that makes absolute sense. He's done this before and boy can you feel how scared of messing up he is.

Also also. I adore how the writers have established a relationship between Grover and Annabeth as well as Grover and Percy. The books could never really elaborate on that because we have Percy's POV and so he'd miss that in places. But the show is doing great with my boi Grover!

Additionally, as an environmentalist myself, I'm happy they are weaving that in a way that feels organic. Great writing and acting choices all around especially with Aryan Simhadri who is killing it.

Annabeth:

Man does this episode sink it's teeth into her characterisation. I love how we are getting a thorough elaboration on her feelings to the Gods and Athena. And Oh boi is she the opposite to Luke. She craves her mother's admiration and... She's not seeing it. It's a great choice because it highlights how hands off the gods are and that the system NEEDS to change.

I also like how they tied that desperation for validation into her hubris. It's still pride her. But it's pride in her mother. And man, the pride with her plan feeding into her being self sacrificial reminds you so hard that they are all just kids.

Also, where would I be if I didn't mention how good the moments with Percy are. Him teasing her and getting a genuine laugh was beautiful. I love the chemistry for all of these actors.

Percy:

I love this idiot. He's so angry and scared and also funny. God, I love the nuance being brought to him. I love the genuine fear that he has facing the Chimera and being arrested by the cops. I also love how Walker Scobell sells the anger at the gods for implicating his friends in his actions to send Medusa's head. Great stuff.

Additionally, I love the moment on the bridge, this idiot (smart but brash) pulling a self sacrifice on the bridge feeds so well into his undying loyalty to a fault. Willing to trick his friends into letting him die, to save them is a very Percy thing. I also enjoy how they haven't made Percy stupid, whilst keeping Annabeth still more strategic than him, by having him basically just steal her plan.

Also the soft stuff in this episode fucking ruled. The train car joking, him cheering Annabeth up with a stupid voice. The little asides.

Overall, god I love these dumb kids. And this show has made me start rereading the books!!!! Am I hyperfixating again??! Never!!!

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. Yes I am.

[glacierruler]

So, as some of you know, I'm going to be liveblogging my re-reading of the PJO series.

If you haven't read the book series yet, I recommend it as it's really good.

If you'd like to block this specific post from showing up I will be tagging it as:

pjo book spoilers

And

percy jackson book spoilers

This is so as not to confuse anyone who is looking through the pjo spoilers tags for stuff about the series with this blog.

Yes, I realize that the pjo books have been out for a while, I'm still calling them spoilers for those who haven't read it yet.

I have an earlier post on my blog with the reasons I personally can't watch the show, but I don't feel like looking for it right now.

Again this is a RE-reading of the book series, meaning I've read it before. It's just been a while and I want to read the books again.

With that said let's get into reading

The Lightning Thief

[twicetolivetwicetodie]

I'm 3 books in and the Percy poison count is already at 4

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image id: a .5 photo of walker scobell wearing goggles. it bears slight resemblance to the photo next to it, which is a golden-brown guinea pig

don’t know why ppl say walker doesn’t look like book percy the resemblance is def there

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[several-breathing-eyes]

I saw somebody say that watching the Percy Jackson show made them realize that in the first books Percy doesn't even say half the stuff he thinks and he's just a quiet kid silently judging everyone, like they're so right.

Think about it from Grover's perspective. You know Percy as a quiet boy who certainly has his judgy thoughts but (aside from telling them to you) keeps them to himself. He's just trying to make it through school, for his mom.

Then his mom dies. And he loses the ability to give absolutely any fucks. He starts saying all this shit he never said out loud and to people who could do infinitely worse things to him than anything Nancy Bobifit ever even tried. And it only gets worse as he gets older.

Like bro went from quiet kid in the back of the class to fist fighting a god in the span of like a week. Then he openly told the gods to pay their child support. Grover was having heart attacks every other minute.

[kazoosandfannypacks]

Percy Jackson AU in which Annabeth gives percy a friendship bracelet that says "seaweed brain." Their dislexia gets the better of them: either she spelled it wrong or he's reading it wrong, because when he loses his memory, he spends an uncomfortably long amount of time trying to remember who "SEAWEED BRIAN" is or why he was important enough to have a friendship bracelet made with his name on it.

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I need Percabeth to be such a couple that everyone actively, audibly, and obviously ships them. And I need them both to be absolutely oblivious to this fact until season 5.

look don’t get me wrong I am LOVING the percabeth content we’re getting so far but I’m hoping they keep it at this level for a while. like until about season 4, it should show that there are feelings there, but they’re just best friends rn. I am hoping and praying Percy & Annabeth don’t become a couple in like season 3 or something because part of what makes it one of the best romances of all time is that it’s a slow burn.

but also Percy holds Annabeth while she sobs into his shoulder in literally book 2. which best friends can definitely do. but ya know. it’s not like Rick was subtle, or like the goal was trying to be lol

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PERSEUS-

[wowthatsextra]

Book 3 Percabeth is insane like 😭 in "We Visit the Junkyard of the Gods" Percy spent three paragraphs talking about how Aphrodite was the most beautiful woman he's ever seen and the fourth paragraph started with "she looked like Annabeth"

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The Biblically Accurate Trio in TLT

[c-herondale]

Obsessed with how Annabeth isn't spacial, she isn't a chosen one, she has no demigod magic powers, she is for all intents and purposes, a fairly normal girl.

But she poured her blood, sweat and tears into becoming the best warrior she could be. She trained hard for years because she knew she had disadvantages and she didn't want to be seen as weak.

She's literally known in Camp and by monsters like Alecto as the most powerful demigod alive and she doesn't have powers. It's almost as of girls don't need to be magical to be a hero!