#pjotv reactions

[what-even-is-sleep]

REACTIONS to the latest PJO TV episode (5. A God Buys Us Cheeseburgers)!!

First half is positive/hype reactions, second half is negative/critiques.

🚨🚨🚨🚨🚨🚨spoilers!! 🚨🚨🚨🚨🚨🚨

POSITIVE/HYPE:

I liked that they showed the irl reactions of media/first responders to the arch.

Love love loved the aunties/Fates. Perfect characterization

THE PERCABETH HUG. OH MY GOD OH MY GOD OH MY GOD.

hype continued under readmore

OHMYGODOHMYGOD OHMYGODDDDSSSSS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Percy jumping over the railing felt like hardcore parallels to how I imagined the dock scenes in HOO

THE FKCN PERCABETH HUG. IT WENT ON SO LONG. LOVED IT

Loved the physical comedy of the trio being behind that concrete highway block lmao.

ARES WITH THE DRAMATIC-ASS LEATHER CAPE I FKCN LOVE IT

The physical comedy with the trio popping up behind the concrete highway divider!!!!

Ares starting flame wars/fights on twitter lmfaoooo. Such a good addition to his character

Gabe was so pathetic. I don’t love the comedic turn of his characterization, but the pathetic wormy-ness was good to see

YES GROVER MY BOY!! PLAYING ARES LIKE A MF FIDDLE

The amusement park was interesting! Not how I imagined it, but v cool effects.

THE TRAP WAS SO COOL!!

LOVED ANNABETH GEEKING OUT ABT THE TRAP

Ok falling more in love with the amusement park designs

Percy’s reaction to Ares/Aphrodite affair lmfao yes boy drag those fools

The way the “What is Love” section ended was great lol. Very Harry Potter rollercoastery vibes

JUST. ALL THE PERCABETH MOMENTS. PERCY KNEELING BEFORE THE CHAIR. AHHHHHHHH!!!!

The fact that Ares just blatantly says that he hates kids and his own kids OUGH! Makes Clarisse’s storyline hit so much harder.

YES GROVER GET HIM. MANIPULATE THAT $&*%£+

SEAWEEDBRAIN

SEAWEED BRAJN

GRAHHHHHHHH!!!!!! IM GOING INSANE 🫨🤯🤩🥳🥹

Their whole convo fr 😭😭😭😭😭😭😭

OIYAGHHHHHHHHHHHH ANNABETH KNOWING THAT PERCY NEEDS HIS MOM AND LOVES HER SM AND- AND- AND- 😭😭❤️😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️ AUGHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH

AND HIM BEING LIKE ALSO UHH CAN U GET ME OUT OF THIS SOME DAY TOO LMAO

I can’t even analyze all the stuff in this convo, in this scene, in that exchange yet bc I’m IMPLODING!!!!!! 🥹❤️❤️❤️❤️

LEAH AND WALKER’s ACTING WAS SO GOOD DURING THIS SCENE OMFG

AND THE SPECIAL EFFECTS GRAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH

Stunning, magnificent, no notes

“Percy stand up I mean it!” “I’m ok, I’m ok, I’m-”

IM NOT CRYING YOU ARE

AOUGH. I cannot keep reacting in all caps this is unsustainable. But like. AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH

Annabeth immediately going to reverse the chair mechanisms <333333333

The way the ladder goes up is so cool fr :0

HEPHAESTUS!!! One of my fav gods ngl <3. Bro is more dramatic than I thought with the whole “baby don’t hurt me, no more” 💀 😅

ANNABETH DEFENDING PERCY WITH HER WHOLE HEART. AND HER GROWTH AHHHHHHHHHH

Maybe it’s just bc I’m a music nerd but OUGH I just adore how music is mechanical and a key for Hephaestus n everything. Idk just, very cool.

OUGH the way Percy comes out of the chair. So dramatic <3

Annabeth holding the shield and the way she drops it in front of Ares is badass asf and I fucking love it.

OUP THE BACKPACK!!!

YES GROVER U DROPPED UR CROWN KING 👑

Lin Manuel Miranda jumpscare at the end there again lmao. Looking forward to the next episode 👀

The negatives/media-critical:

🚨🚨🚨🚨warning: I’m v critical. 🚨🚨🚨🚨

“Short version, we need to go to Santa Monica.” Okok im pretty sure that’s almost exactly what he says in the books, but it felt poorly set up in the show. Part of the pacing issues perhaps, but grahh it pulled me out of the story.

Where’s Percy’s backpack? Doesn’t he have one before Ares gives him one? Honest question bc I don’t remember for sure lol. Not assuming it’d stay with him thru the arch-falling shenanigans but like,,, what abt everyone else’s stuff? They aren’t walking around with NO water n stuff, right?????

Where is Annabeth’s necklace half the time? They keep forgetting it T-T. Sometimes it seems plausible that it’s under her shirt, but most of the time it’s very clearly not. + when they showed her dads ring on it last ep, that thing was Chunky-the outline of the ring would be showing under any shirt collar!!

The conversation behind the concrete highway thing felt kinda stilted. 1) when annabeth mentioned only one of the Fate’s names and 2) partially bc there was no background music the whole time…. Whenever the background instrumentals come in the quality of the show jumps so much!!!

Some of the Ares expressions/first convo/delivery felt hellla cheesy at points. In general when the gods characters say stuff like “young one” at the end of their sentences it feels kinda like a throwaway. Like the actors are embarrassed abt the line or smth… idk. Just doesn’t feel in-character enough the way those lines are delivered.

Ares says he’ll help them, then says they’re going to fail, then says he’d kill them so he can eat in peace when he offered them food in the first place…. makes them help him, then helps them anyways… idk the motivation portrayal in the show felt way more wishy washy and weak than in the books

The trap was really cool but it didnt read well until Annabeth went thru.

Different food on the table with Ares when they cut back to him and Grover at night. Super understandable that they could go thru multiple meals, but there’s no visuals of either character eating or calling the waitress over to get more food or like ANY storytelling cue to have the changing food make sense/have a reason to change. It just becomes another thing that kinda takes me out of the story.

Why is the Tunnel of Love where the shield “must” be?? There’s no indication that Percy and Annabeth have a demigod intuition towards the place, or that they’ve looked elsewhere. It’s stated like a fact that the audience is just supposed to accept and go along with. Where’s the reasoning???

Didn’t love the sound design when “What is Love” came in. Is it supposed to be playing in a tunnel loudly or not? The song kept getting louder and softer at diff points in a way that really took me out of the ‘realism’ of the moment.

What in the H2O water powers hard-to-read special effects was that 😭😂

The scene cuts between the Percy/Annabeth to Grover/Ares feels so choppy… :(

THE SWITCH TO THE FISHBOWL/OVERHEAD CAMERA POV… laughing so hard mfg. just Why.

Hwhat is the reasoning behind automatically assuming that the chair and shield are connected. 😭😭😭. Ik the books have way more context and internal dialogue. Pls show, just have them try and reach the shield or pull it down or say SOME sort of reasoning for why they’re connected instead of just spouting another fact that we’re supposed to go along with.

Ok I love Hephaestus’s character in the books and in mythology. For some reason this actor didn’t conjure him for me. My Hephaestus is hunched, buff, more noticeably physically disabled, more dramatic and eccentric and kind and gruff. Idk this actor just fell flat for me.

Just small things with the scene cuts. Like how the camera stays on someone’s face for a second or two too long… all the fckn time. Small, consistently annoying thing for me. ¯\_(:/)_/¯

“Thank you for the emotional abuse and the cheeseburgers.” … what? Isn’t the whole point that Grover was buttering him up? What is the point of the emotional abuse comment to Ares’s face if Grover was playing him up the whole time. It feels like something that was written for kitschy woke-ism points instead of a genuine callout/dialogue that fits more smoothly with what’s happening before, during and after that moment. Cause then Grover asks for paper towels immediately after… 😅 bruh what.

[feelingtheaster99]

The fact that person burns his blue candy as an offering to his mom to tell her that he thinks he’s made real friends is HEARTBREAKING on so many levels:

Right now, he thinks she’s dead. This is him reassuring her spirit that he’ll be okay

He’s talking about LUKE. He’s saying Luke is one of his first true friends, when we all know that this feeling of true friendship will only end in betrayal

[bheska]

People already started making poker face edits of episode 6 and its hilarious to me because it's a move so petty that I think Rick Riordan himself would be proud if he doesn't burst a blood vessel first

[imaginita-est-omnibus]

Interesting how they combined the three heads of the chimera into one. I… honestly really like it. The cobra hood coming up when it breathed fire was especially cool.

[sunfireshards]

Percy, while deciding whether Annabeth joins the quest in episode three: "And if the mission required someone to push me down a flight of stairs for it to succeed...you'd want someone who won't hesitate when they do it."

I—

…Y'ALL,

[be-bisexual-eat-hot-chip-and-lie]

GROVER NO

[talesoflore]

THE POOR BABY I AM ROLLING ON THE FLOOR

I'm just gonna.... Leave these here....

Also, their caption

[latinopercy]

I thought you'd like to know that I watched Black Sails last year because of your prediction video for pjotv. First of all, thank you, what a brilliant show. Second, I a, 23 year old with a job was so insane about Percy Jackson after coming home for holiday season, baking blue cookies and squeaking and not shutting up, that I got my younger brothers, my step dad and my mother to watch pjo with me. Then, because my mom and step dad are history nerds i started gushing about how the same writers were also involved in a little show called Black Sails and how they would love It. So I put the first episode on and we're halfway through season one and they loved It. Mom is a teacher and she likes to use shows and books and pop culture in general to discuss subjects in her classes and she said she could use a few themes on BS with her students. So. You spreading the Black Sails word had a chain reaction. I hope you're proud of yourself.

this makes me SO happy yes i'm very proud. the agenda continues!

[azurecanary]

Sometimes i forget how gracious i am to adaptations as long as they're being done by the creator 😅

My reaction towards PJOTV (created by Rick Riordan, the og author) and Ahsoka (created by Dave Filoni, co creator of Ahsoka Tano): "Interesting choice, let's see where this goes."

My reaction towards MCU Young Avengers (done by Disney and Kevin Feige): "KEEP MY CHILDREN'S NAMES OUT OF YOUR FUCKING MOUTH."

[feelingtheaster99]

The cutaway from Luke saying, “When it’s time, he’s gonna be ready. I know it,” to Percy standing on a rock, flossing is PEAK COMEDY

[feelingtheaster99]

Grover iconically giving zero fucks about how the freed animals might harm people

[feelingtheaster99]

The way Adam Copeland is playing Ares, with just quiet, insidious, joy at the idea of war and betrayal and death and description is so unnerving

[feelingtheaster99]

As some who got pronounced the “th” in Thalia until I got made fun of for it I feel so seen by Luke Castellan now

[feelingtheaster99]

I understand it’s to set like a scary atmosphere but the Waterland scenes are simply too dark

[feelingtheaster99]

Leah Jefferies is SERVING Annabeth. She:

Immediately takes charge

Is annoyed by Percy’s pestering but keeps a fairly level head

Prioritizes Percy’s safety even in small things like having sit in the back of a smelly bus

[feelingtheaster99]

It just occurs to me that the show’s focus on the importance of glory (it’s now been mentioned like at least 5 times in the second episode alone) really provides a solid background into Luke’s character, explaining even further why it was so damaging for Hermes to give him a quest Hercules had already completed