ACAB Except for Carlton Lassiter

Timothy Omundson plays Hephaestus with a lot of quiet dignity. He feels old, strange, mysterious...and sad, to be honest. An old sadness that's weighed on him so long he knows nothing else.

I really loved Hephaestus in this episode. Not just because I absolutely love Timothy Omundson as an actor but because he brought such a beautiful sensation of empathy and heartache to the episode. He was initially so resigned to the way of life of the gods, the way they backstab and are cruel to one another and their children. Even thinking Annabeth wouldn’t try to save Percy, he was kind enough to give her a way out so she could continue the quest, whereas any other god, even her mother, would have left her to figure it out on her own. And when she gave her speech and pointed out that caring about people was more important, it genuinely moved him. It speaks to so much of his character as someone who wants unconditional love and was denied it. And that was what, less than 5 minutes onscreen?? The writers and whoever cast him are BRILLIANT and they did so well with this.