#my own personal opinion!!!!! don't get angryyyyy don't come at me lol

[sherlock-is-ace]

we're watching the Percy Jackson show and i have thoughts... But I'm gonna rant under the cut cause they're not nice thoughts lol

Mandatory psa... This is my own personal subjective opinion! If you love the show and disagree with me, that's fine, i'm glad you like it, we're allowed our own oppinions. Don't be a dick, move on and have a great day!

My main issue with this show is with the director to be honest. The actors are ok, they're not gonna change the world with their acting but it's fine, they're good enough. But the pacing! The pacing of the whole thing is absolute shit!

Every episode is the same. Maybe 5 minutes of the gand walking around until they find either a god or a monster. The next 20 minutes are spent at a table (literally, there's always a table) while the god/monster tells them the story of why they're angry or wants to kill them. While the camera just pans from one face to another. And then the last 5 minutes of the episode it's a fight that gets solved either with more talking (including shots of each character's face) or with a "battle" that's one single move from the gang where they kill the monster in 5 seconds or the god just suddenly decides to help with no effort. Then the final couple of seconds are a clifhanger that does not get resolved in the next episode (what the fuck happened with the chimera in episode 4?!)

That's it, that's every single episode... what the fuck happened to "show don't tell" ?! Rule number one of visual media?!

There's this one bit in episode 5 when Percy and Annabetha re in the love tunnel thingy and Hephaestus' story is being shown in a cool fun animation on the walls. And instead of the camera focusing on that, we're just seeing Percy's face as he (quite expressionless) says "my mom told me this story", and other things we already knew.

Somehow they managed to make the show feel rushed, having so little time with each character (some barely in shot... I'm thinking of Timothy Omundsom ans Hephaestus), while also making it feel so boring and slow because they do nothing other than talk. It feels like they're just reading a big mythology book, when they're supposed to telling a story about these characters.

The plot in itself is fine I guess, nothing too original but that's not the show's fault. I admit not having read the books, but again, my problem isn't with the plot or even the characters. But it you're telling a story that is sort of known (you know the greek gods are not exactly an original thought), then perhaps you should focus on telling the story in a new, fun and innovative way. Having the characters literally sit around and tell the story to the viewer is NOT an innovative way of doing it. Especially when it's about greek gods and stuff...

I'm gonna finish the show, we only have 3 episodes left, but damn I'm disappointed. I had very high expectations because of Jonathan E. Steinberg and some of the cast... but it's just simply not a good show. It might eb a good adaptation, I don't know, I haven't read the books, but the way is written, directed and filmed... it does not make good television. In my opinion.