Toca pro inferno, motorista

I really really love Percy's arc of learning to accept (and like) change. You can really see throughout the books how much he struggles with it and it makes so much sense why he would crave stability (all the different schools, lack of friends, tumultuous home life).

so why would I, someone who cares about percy as well as his role in the narrative, enjoy a version of him that guiltlessly supports sacrificing clarisse's undead soldiers to her face? why would I, someone who cares about the tyson-percy relationship, about the fact that one of the only times percy cries in the entire series is when tyson leaves him to go work in the forges, enjoy a version of them that dedicates more screentime to percy's shortness and annoyance with tyson than his protectiveness of and genuine love for him? why would I, someone who appreciates percy's tendency to struggle with communicating and understanding his own feelings, his petty arguments with annabeth, his insecurities and awkwardness and lack of confidence, enjoy a version of percy that is capable of saying "I'd burn down olympus for you" as early as season 2? (never mind the fact that this line means nothing because this show has done very little if anything at all to establish what significance olympus even has to percy, much less given me, the viewer, cause to care about its hypothetical destruction this early in the series... it's almost like you have to establish why something is important in order for lines like this to land emotionally or something)

and I really wish the books would have talked more about the canonical fact that charmspeak is more effective against people who are (or could be) physically/sexually attracted to the user. this is a power that children of aphrodite have - a power that is implicitly tied to sexuality as a defense or offense. like this inherently necessitates that piper weaponizes her sexuality against monsters and deities and giants and any other antagonist that want to harm her. which is crazy. especially because she's a teenager and especially because piper is initially characterized as an underconfident girl who goes out of her way to downplay her appearance (do you guys remember how much harassment piper goes through in the books and what little gravity is afforded to those moments... like she has dangerous characters aggressively flirting with or expressing attraction to her A Lot, and she has to play into that attraction to save herself or her friends no matter how uncomfortable it makes her)

I used to think it would take a monster to put someone in a place like that office. Especially if the person was himself. But we're not monsters, Mark. Not real ones.

Kate O'Flynn as Patricia

annabeth spent forever defending him to percy’s immense chagrin. luke, who eventually did make the right decision in the end and it was percy that had to trust he would. annabeth grieving him and being so conflicted about whether or not she can confide in percy about how she feels, feeling guilt at not being able to help him when he came to his house which is even worse when hermes blames her. percy feeling resentment towards luke even though he technically died a hero, seeing annabeth grieve him and wanting to be there for her while dealing with his own complicated feelings. neither of them knowing how to deal with their feelings about him and how to talk about him to each other, luke haunting their relationship from the beginning

The catastrophic duo 🔥