#nearly called percy peter and somewhere up in olympus dionysus giggled

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a bad-faith criticism I have read of the pjo tv show is that it needs to be darker and aimed at an adult audience which is fundamentally a bad take because like, it's based on kids books so they made a kids show, cope

but it's also utterly wild to me considering I just read one of the books later in the series in which percy is so brutal in a near-murder of one of their enemies annabeth straight out admits he scared her

I mean, genuinely, most adult books would not go that far; having their hero do something that morally can't be pushed aside with a single smart quip. I don't know if the book pushes it far enough for my tastes, but it's such an interesting and intelligent moment, it's one of my favourites in the whole series, it's fabulous

like, just say the unsaid shit out loud; you want the tv show to have R-rated violence and for the kids to be saying fuck every two minutes. but that's boring. consider theme analysis instead of brain splatter, because you may find once you start digging there's no need to make this series darker