#the lightning theif spoilers

[shhhhimwatchingthis]

I see a lot of people talking about the duel between Luke and Percy, and while a lot of people are correctly interpreting the moment where Percy cuts Luke and immediately apologizes and lowers his guard as another moment revealing Percy's fatal flaw --loyalty and love for his friends, an inability to contemplate betrayal and a habit of giving mercy/redemption to those people-- I think a lot of people are misinterpreting, or glossing over the next moment--when Luke retaliates

people seems to be reading the moment where Luke strikes Percy back, knocking him to the ground and drawing blood as a comment on Luke's cruelty and violence,(in contrast with Percy's loyalty and mercy) and while i don't think that's wrong, I think a better way to look at the moment is that Luke's reaction reveals his fatal flaw.

its never explicitly stated in the books, But Rick Riordan mentioned it after The Last Olympian in interviews. Lukes fatal flaw is Wrath. he is angry, blindingly, overwhelmingly angry at the gods, and Kronos is able to manipulate and twist that anger until things go so far Luke is forced to destroy himself to save the world

The duel between Luke and Percy is such a brillant scene, yes because Luke and Percy are foils, yes we see Percy's fatal flaw in Crystal clarity. but we see Luke's too--he reacts in a surge of anger knocking Percy to the ground, making him bleed, ignoring Percys apology because in the moment he doesn't care about reconciliation only revenge, he hesitates only just before killing Percy, his rage taking over. Luke doesn't make Percy bleed in this scene in a moment of cold or calculated cruelty. its swift burning and unthinking anger. its his doom. because the next moment Annabeth reveals herself, sides with Percy, and Luke runs off, isolated, where, if you've read the books, he becomes even more tragically isolated from his friends and vulnerable to Kronos' manipulation

Loyalty and Wrath cost them both in that fight. their fatal flaws indeed.

[helpallthenamesaretaken]

"percy manipulated bob" "percy manipulated charon" i think the thing we all need to focus on more is the fact that he accidentally manipulated the whole of the pjo fandom into seeing him as dumb and stupid when he was just insecure as hell

[my-hyperfixations]

The second I see someone edit Luke with his reprise of Good Kid from the musical it’s gonna be all over for me

[sofia-not-sophie]

Drive 🫱🏽‍🫲🏾 The Consensus Song

[abucketofweird]

BEFORE IT STOPS TRENDING IF YOU LIKED PJO LISTEN TO/WATCH THE LIGHTNING THEIF MUSICAL!!!

ITS LESS THAN 2 HOURS AND I NEED MORE PEOPLE TO KNOW ABOUT IT

Sassy Neurodivergent Percy, 12 yr old Annabeth who absolutely will cut a bitch, Hades is even more fabulous, Grover is played by the amazing George Salazar, Sally and Percy are so great, Luke and Percy’s entire relationship and parallels, JUST THE MOST FUN TIME THAT HAS ICONIC PARTS OF YHE BOOKS YOU WANTED BUT MISSED AND JUST SO MUCH MORE!!!

(If you message me I will send a link to a great bootleg if you want)

[bogslob]

Okay but the parallels of Luke and Percy singing “Good Kid” in the musical are exquisite

It really highlights the ways Percy and Luke are so similar and how easy it would be for Percy to join Luke

As much as I enjoyed the reveal in the show and as much as the book has a special place in my heart, I truly think the musical did it best

[justsomeppl]

what belongs to the sea can always return to the sea ... its a seashell :)

[gayandtrashy]

You know someone who's lived underground for millions of years would probably behave like Hades

[the-random-factor]

Something something musical annabeth saying "I'm not leaving your side til you find what matters" and TV annabeth saying "I'm not leaving the underworld without your mom"

[evilincoperated]

My thoughts on Episode 6

PJO EP 6 SPOILERS

- Oh its the Principal as Kronos i like that

- Maybe we shouldn't stuck our heads out the window on the highway

- We can all see yall are in love Percy

- Luke watching them accuse Clarisse knowing damn well he's the thief: 🧍‍♂️

- Aww Grovers adorable

- That looks dope asf ngl

- Aww old married couple things

- That architecture is amazing

- This is a great song

- Yeah dont eat there

- Why tf would yall split up

- No Grover why are you following him

- Annabeth talking about Luke and his mom :(

- Grover no theyre your best friends!!

- Bro theyre literally minors you should not be encouraging gambling

- Why are you making them remember horrible things about their past? Who hurt you?

- The Blind Leading the Blind with Poseidon giving parenting advice tbh

- Omg queen shit

- Whos Grover?!?!

- Kick his ass Percy!!

- Aww he has no clue whats going on but he's still ready to help

- LMAO HE KNEW 😭

- Okay yeah but still why isnt Annabeth driving

- Youre doing amazing (bros crashed 3 times)

- Santa Monica!!

- Thats why yall shouldn't of split up

- Aww he tried to be there :(

- Excuse me?

- FOUR PEARLS?! THIS IS OFF BOOK QUITE A BIT

[captaincleverusernamehere]

I felt really represented in episode three of Percy Jackson, like I really saw myself (<- played The Statue Of Uncle Ferdinand in the lightning thief musical)

[toxxenn]

Grover’s song is giving drive and I have never been more thankful for Joe Tracz

[joyboyish]

pjo show had me going insane like percy and luke literally parallel each other ik if they spent more time together he really would be the end of olympus

[shiftingwithmars]

”oh they changed the entire tunnel of love scene in the show!!”

the scene that they replaced involved spiders. A lot. budget aside, don’t you think children watching thousands of fucking spiders fill a pool would freak them the fuck out?

[absolutekillswitch]

I don’t want to go too into detail on spoilers for this episode bc I want to give people the change to watch it before I open my mouth. That being said, I have some shit to get off my chest. spoilers for episode eight under the cut.

Actually going so insane from the Luke and Percy parallels. We had the good kid x last day of summer parallel in the musical, and now we have episode one “look, I didn’t ask to be a halfblood” and episode eight “look, you didn’t ask to be a halfblood” im physically fucking ILL!!!!

[abucketofweird]

*Entirety of Luke’s Good Kid reprise*