#it's just gonna have a lot of world building and lore that isn't necessary for/doesn't fit into the main fic

[bokusaka]

so a couple weeks ago i said i was gonna start posting my new fic, but then i got smacked with a really fun idea to go along with it and i've been working on that while also struggling to figure out how i was gonna format it with my new fic. ultimately im deciding that im gonna post it as two separate fics rather than doing like interlude-type chapters with this side stuff. all that to say that i think im finally ready to post the first ch of the fic. i'll probably post chs for the main fic and the short chs for the side fic alternating weeks. expect the first ch for the main fic tomorrow hopefully

[archivedjuice]

yeah it's very much structured like an mcu show in that it doesn't have any character and feels like a 5 hour movie chopped up into 9 episodes. when i say it doesn't have any character i need you to think of star wars, star trek, the hunger games & james bond despite how generic those examples are. they were (are) very popular pieces of filmic media that have very distinct aspects; star wars has a really noticeable soundtrack and the earlier films have really specific transitions that were highkey alternative for their time. star trek has very peculiar lore and world building to points where people who aren't committed find it very hard to get into because the show (and movies) assume you're very well versed. james bond also has a very particular soundtrack across its films and a very particular formula and costume design. this all isn't even getting into the kinds of cinematography, the very specific kinda of actors that were casted, the kind of special effects they chose and stuck with etc. the pjo show is very bland. like the transitions are literally jump cuts to black shots then they jump cut to the new scene. not even fucking kidding. the scripts do NOT work with the actors. it's like they wrote they script before casting then didn't rework it to fit the actors chemistry because disney is lazy as fuck as usual so there are a lot of moments that feel really awkward. like i know walker is a brilliant actor ive watched his stuff before but his lines literally do NOT flow. they are literally banking so hard on the idea that the person watching knows everything that's already gonna happen because they've read the books which therefore fills in everything that's too sparse (the mcu does something similar but in a reverse way where they pretend the movies aren't based on the comics and it's entire original) but even then it still doesn't work because i can feel the awkwardness of it. my student films literally have the same vibe and my 'casting' is asking my friends who have never acted and are biology majors to read my experimental wanna be ass scripts. AND THESE ARE SKILLED ASS ACTORS IN THE SHOW. anyway adding to the part about them being lazy with the story there is so much characterisation missing to the point where a lot of the characters' motivations literally do not exist and if they do they're explicitly said. which when you're making a fucking film characterisation and the script have to mesh together. having one do all the work is like pushing the characters' personalities into some kind of intangible uncanny valley where the person is doing nothing but saying everything and that's just not how people work so it's freaky in a really awkward way. like for most of the 2nd ep annabeth is kind of just walking around and giving percy one word answers to his questions. in the book this makes sense because there are SEVERAL instances in which annabeth is seen interacting with other people and in these conversations her personality in present. the show explores none of this. i think we need to make show runners understand that a 25 episode season isn't a sin. anyway i also need to add that there aren't many mystical aspects to the show. like they only do what's necessary for plot points then stick everything else in dialogue. like that moment where chiron gets out of his wheelchair to reveal that he's a centaur? not there. sorry. they used the entire cgi budget on location and fucking rain instead. tbh these are all general critiques i have for disney and the way they Create shows ever since they started doing this stuff but it literally ties into the fact that they are a one trick pony when it comes to live action cinema and it makes the pjo show the mcu part 2

i also need to add that this post isn't an invitation to bust open disney+ to pay them so you can take a look. i am boycotting disney. you should be too.

the pjo show is very mcu and idk how to feel about that ☹️