Percy Jackson 1x01 Full Length Reaction
Added 2023-12-21 18:00:09 +0000 UTCThis is a pen!!! π Thoroughly enjoyed the first episode of Percy Jackson and the Olympians, and I'm so impressed overall. Rick Riordan and Neil Druckmann really showing us what's possible when the original creator is co-showrunner!
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I will say, that's a detail I really wish they'd included in the show, because otherwise, that just didn't fit with Sally's character. She's such a wonderful mom, that it didn't make sense that she'd be with a schmuck like that, unless it was for a purpose (as it was). Thank you so much for sharing!
Movie Night
2024-02-04 16:48:49 +0000 UTCSince the show doesn't really go into it I wanted to let you know about Gabe Ugliano(Percy's stepdad). Sally didn't really like him, obviously lol, it was mentioned in the book but sally stayed with Gabe because he was the most normal mortal man around and the monsters wouldn't be able to catch Percy's demi-god scent over Gabe's mortal stench. so while I agree he was a piece of shit and sally deserved better, she wasn't staying with him for no reason
the vengaboy
2024-02-04 07:40:35 +0000 UTCGreat reaction. I look forward to see you go on this journey for the first(ish) time. There is so much I want to say but I'll keep it to a couple points as to avoid spoilers (this comment is somehow going to end up way to long anyway): - D+'s lowest tier actually has ads. That's why the show has those fade to blacks. - This is actually the 3rd adaptation of the book. It's the second screen adaptation but there is also a Musical that even had a limited run on Broadway back in 2019. It's pretty good. Not the best musical ever, not even the best musical based on Greek mythology to come to Broadway in 2019 (that honour goes to Hadestown) but it has fun with the source material while staying faithful to the core of the story and features some pretty good songs. - The books started as a bedtime story for Rick Riordans son, who has both dyslexia and ADHD. Uncle Rick, as the fandom affectionately calls him, would read his son Greek myths and when he ran out, he would create a new Greek myth - the myth of Percy Jackson. As a result the books stick extremely close to the original myths. After all the intended audience of one was kind of an expert on them now. All of this makes the books basically legacy sequels to the epics of old, pulling even from fairly obscure stories and sometimes bending over backwards to explain changes to the "cannon of Greek myth" (it's what originally drew me to the books, because I was THAT kind of kid). - The opening of the show is not just like a YA novel. Here the show is literally quoting the first couple lines of the book word for word. - Grover is a Satyr (pronounced in English as "zader"). And yes, they are the Greek version of what the Romans would later call "Faun", but the two are not 100% identical. The Italian half-goats are a usually depicted as more shy than their Greek cousins,. for example. - Some notes on the myth of Perseus: As is to expect the retelling of the myth on the show is accurate but obviously leaves out a lot and since I think it's fun here are the cliff-notes: The king of Argos gets a prophecy: his grandson is going to be responsible for his death. So he locks his only daughter, who is still childless at this point, inside a tower to keep her away from any and all men. But he didn't plan for Zeus. The highest of gods impregnates the princess by way of a literal golden shower. So the king exposes mother and son to the waves (expose meaning here the ancient Greek practice to kill an unwanted kid by leaving him at a dangerous place without food or water). Zeus however asks his brother Poseidon to protect them so the two survive. Perseus grows up kills Medusa gets married and then competes at a sporting event. There he slips and accidentally throws a discus into the stands hitting his grandfather who was there as a spectator, not knowing his grandson would compete. The old king dies from the head wound thereby making the prophecy come true. Perseus inherits the kingdom and lives to be one of the few Greek heroes to die of old age.
Vittelius
2023-12-22 22:34:11 +0000 UTC
