Just make it a good one

It's so ridiculous how the prologue song in the percy Jackson musical is literally seven minutes long and it still does a way better job than the entire first episode of the show

justice for the zebra lowkey

also sorry but i'm not sold on "they only have 8 episodes" as a defense for why the show is falling flat as both a show and an adaptation. 8 episodes is roughly 5 hours. that's 3 hours more than most movies lol. that should be plenty of time to adapt all the most important things, they're just not using their screen time as well as they could be. sorry i don't think it should actually be this hard to fit the essential core of the lightning thief's story and characters into 5 hours. the movie and musical were both 2 hours give or take and they still did certain things better. skill issue

rip "we drowned in a bathtub." "all three of you?" scene. gone but not forgotten.

rip elegant-british-bleached-blond-tortoiseshell-shade donning-italian-suit-wearing charon you're the only thing i can't justify losing

immediately, percy walking into crusty’s water bed palace saying “i know who you are. you’re procrustes. son of poseidon, murderer of travelers” and “i know the beds are a trap” and “i know there’s a secret entrance to the underworld here” and i know this and i know that is making me want to rip rickald to shreds and gnaw on his bones. so they know about medusa before they enter her lair. so they know about the lotus casino before they go inside. so they know everything about everything and there’s no real element of discovery and revelation because he’s somehow armed with allll this knowledge he’s not supposed to have, drastically reducing the stakes and excitement of one of the most naturally exciting plot lines ever, completely slamming a wrecking ball into the fact that he’s a 12 year old on his first quest who has to learn that everything is a trap and reality is never what it seems. so now instead of the three of them running unknowingly into procrustes’s creepy business as they’re trying to escape a gang of LA street bullies (bc surprise surprise the real world is where the monsters also are), he just fucking walks in and knows everything with a plan already hatched, courtesy of annabeth. how are you going to make me hate the episode five seconds in?

Something that is confusing me is how many people are defending the changes Rick made and defending Rick himself in regards to the show.

He lied to us.

He got the entire fandom to hype up the show, got the show made on the basis of getting a book accurate adaption. This was supposed to be something accurate to the books, including the book characters, the book scenes, the book stakes- we were supposed to get to see our favorite moments in the books on screen.

And then he went and rewrote the book.

This adaption isn't the book we read. The characters aren't the characters we read. Grover's personality was wholesale replaced. This is something entirely new-

And whether you like it for itself is a different matter entirely, but the point is that... this isn't The Lightning Thief that we read years ago.

He lied to us.

at this point I wouldn't be surprised if the show got rid of Annabeth's spider phobia, RR justifies the change along the lines of "we decided that since Annabeth is just so smart and 6 steps ahead of everyone, it just wouldn't make sense for her to have a fear as silly as that 🤓" and then all of the comments will be like "Omg so true! Masterful Gambit Uncle Rick"

making my tags into a new post: my thoughts on the crusty scene 🧍

i think my philosophy on adaptations is different from most people's tbh. if i have to see one more take that's like "if you wanted the same story just read the book" i stg.... if they wanted to write a different story why did they choose to adapt a beloved book? like yeah i did want the same story lol my bad for assuming a "faithful adaptation" would be the same story??

this show is NOT adaptaing pjo, its rewriting pjo.

Rip Kaz Brekker. Wish we could’ve seen you pull a man’s eyeball out

no mourners no funerals my ass. i’m mourning and i’m funeraling

sag going on strike means old fandoms will rise from the dead because of rewatches and I for one couldn't be more grateful and excited for this

The sexual tension between matt murdock and a hallway oof

honestly for a guy who is so aggressively catholic, he is bit of a whore (affectionate)

i cannot believe we actually got matt murdock being a slut in the year of our lord 2022. like we actually got matthew “manwhore” murdock i’m in TEARS