#pjo Procrustes

[necromancer-at-abattoir]

Percy was not smart-Procrustes was dumbed down

This post is about the 12 year old trio (well, 14 biologically and 28 chronologically in Grover's case) getting caught in Procrustes' store in TLT.

So, our heroes run into Procrustes' store after being chased by mortal teenage wannabe gangsters.

And they come to Procrustes' store where he's nice at first and then traps them in the waterbeds

He leads Annabeth to another bed and when she doesn't want to get on, he pushes her onto it and traps both Annabeth and Grover.

And then he wants to get Percy on a bed, and instead of simply grabbing him and putting him on one........he tries to convince Percy to lie down?

Why did Procrustes have to convince Percy to lie down? Why didn't he push him onto the bed? It was pretty obvious that he could, but for some reason, he stopped and tried to convince Percy.

What, you're telling me that he sat down to demonstrate for Percy, knowing that Percy could just snap his fingers and say ergo and bind him to the bed?

Is this because Percy was agreeable to him? What, did Procrustes not think that Percy might want to rescue his companions and might be lying? Because if so, Procrustes is dumb.

Percy might have rescued his friends, but his wits in this are diminished by the fact that the villain was dumbed down.

Percy wasn't smart. Rick had to dumb Procrustes down, which undermines both the antagonist and our protagonist's supposed smartness. It's frustrating to see people use this as an example-please don't.

[moonlit-typewriter]

Y”all, ‼️Crusty’s Waterbed Palace‼️

This little angel’s kill count is about to go up

[feelingtheaster99]

I kind of like how Procrustes again played into this idea of this toxic family the gods have created—I don’t remember them referencing that they’re technically brothers in the book, but you can see Percy feels conflicted to be adding to that family tension

[lonestarfangirl2014]

PJO TV: hey can we copy your homework

PJO Movies: Sure just make sure to change it a little so it looks different

we're not taking inspiration from the movies" my ass

Charon and Procrustes are both litterly played by the same guy Julian Richings

Hihi my fellow titan army discord server members! Lol the conversations I have on this server i swear lol

[pjo-smash-or-pass]

[fandumb-thoughts]

Lowkey have always wanted to have my spine popped, the way you can pop your fingers if you pull on them. Sounds refreshing.

[mo-mode]

PJO Episode 7 Memes

Spoiler Warning :)

[moonminho]

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[demigodpjbth]

So, I believe changing Medusa into a victim is a little problematic since they have to kill her anyway, and then they don't kill Procrustes despite him murdering people. It was a little strange to me that they changed Hades to being cordial and slightly goofy, since he was more intimidating in the books. However, after thinking about it I think that it's actually accurate to the myths. While, yeah, the Greeks found Hades scary, in his stories he's always very accommodating. He was a very loving husband to Persephone, he let Hercules visit and take things more than once, let Orpheus try to bring his wife back, wasn't involved in the harsh punishments, didn't often get involved in things, etc.

If I could make one change, I'd have him look the same as the books (10 feet tall, black robes, sitting on the throne, 'omg this guy is evil and terrifying') and then the second he talks he acts the same as he did in the episode and then people realize that they got the wrong idea about this guy. Maybe be a little irritated that they're accusing him, but otherwise fine.

[startledstoat]

There's something so funny about the god of travelers sending them to the murderer of travelers to get into the underworld

[kronoscythe]

this is the first season, their first quest, they should make a lot of mistakes but the show aims at a perfect portrayal where the 12 year old kids are never tricked by millenia old creatures. "well annabeth is so smart it wouldn't make sense if she didn't figure it out!" if we get season three maybe annabeth will know better than to fall of a cliff since she's a daughter of athena. riveting television i tell you. cinemasins ass logic

[caleohateclub]

i dont care about logan lerman! i want chris mccarrell in pjotv and i want him to play the 80s guy from the lotus casino who makes percy realise the place is weird

[drooleary]

I fully expect Procrustes to be done better in the show than in the book with how they've set things up already. The question of "what makes a monster" automatically applies because he's just a non-magical human who was cruel enough to get attention from Theseus. In the book, Percy says, "If Crusty were human," Riptide wouldn't kill him. Actually, he was just as human as Gabe, and Percy knows that celestial bronze doesn't only hurt monsters. I wonder if there will be water involved instead.

[bogslob]

I find it really weird that the show kept crusty in. Like surely for the sake of run time you could’ve cut him out completely as he has no overarching plot relevance and just make the underworld entrance at the recording studio like in the book.

[femslashspuffy]

Julian Richings how does it feel to be the only person so far to be in both the movie and the show?

[scottishaccentsareawesome]

No, but in PJO 1x07, Percy really rolled up to Crusty's Waterbed Palace like, "Hey, Big Bro, can you do me a solid and gimme a ride to Uncle H's house? No? Oh, too bad....SIKE! LATER LOSER!"

Like he was in true Little Brother form in that scene