Why The TV Show Version Of Luke Is A Better Person Than The Book Version

Why the TV Show Version of Luke is a Better Person Than the Book Version

(Percy Jackson and the Olympians Spoilers)

While I will not argue about which version of Luke is a better character or better written, I can confidently say that the show version is a better person than the book version, and we see this mostly in the finale.

But before that, let’s go over what the book version of Luke did that the show version didn’t do.

1) Go unnecessarily hard on Percy during training, especially after he found out that he was the son of Poseidon.

2) When asked about who might have stolen the master bolt, imply that Annabeth could have in an attempt to plant seeds of distrust between them.

3) Immediately try to kill Percy after he got back to camp.

The show version of Luke is blatantly more sympathetic to Percy than the book version. He doesn’t antagonize Percy for succeeding on his quest or for gaining his father’s approval. In fact, he actually tries to recruit Percy at first. He doesn’t want to fight him.

However, the extent of the show version of Luke’s compassion can be seen with what he did for Clarisse. Or rather, what he didn’t do.

Percy, Annabeth, and Grover were the ones who came up with the idea that Clarisse stole the master bolt. Luke just went along with it. They even asked Luke to warn Chiron and the rest of the camp about her. It would have been trivially easy. Whether Chiron believed him or not would have been irrelevant. Either way, it would have helped his plan immensely, since he would still be sowing discord into the camp.

But Luke didn’t do that. And by not telling Chiron, they were able to figure his plan out. So why didn’t he do it?

Simple. Because he sympathizes with Clarisse.

I haven’t gotten a good look at how many beads Clarisse has, but it’s clearly around the same number as Luke and Annabeth, so it can be assumed that she’s been at camp for about the same amount of time as them, which is longer than most of the other campers. In fact, it’s not improbable that they were all in the Hermes cabin at one point while they were still unclaimed. And she’s one of the handful of campers confirmed to stay at camp all year round.

And Luke understands Clarisse. He understands her desperate obsession for glory. He understands her longing for her father’s affection. He understands her frustration when she is repeatedly ignored. He understands her contempt when her father finally does pay attention to her but it doesn’t go the way she wants. He understands her resentment towards heroes like Percy who seem to do the impossible without any training, with a seemingly perfect home life, getting both a mommy and daddy who love him.

It wouldn’t have been right to frame Clarisse. Actually, it would have gone against everything Luke was actively fighting for. All of the misdeeds Luke commits, it’s for the sake of his fellow demigods. And no matter what your opinions are about the show, this version of Luke reminds us of that.

saw a screenshot on twitter and couldn't resist speed drawing through it

petition for walker, aryan, and leah to reenact scenes from the book that didn't make the cut for the show and post them on insta/tik tok. the backdrops can be just wherever they happen to be. the lower the quality on the props, the better. any other characters can either be played by the actual actor, anyone else who happens to be around, or one of the trio members in a cheap costume.

I'm so sick and tired of people on this app calling Annabeth mid or saying Percy was way out of her league or like writing fan-fics where Annabeth is the kid that gets bullied in mortal school for being nerdy and ugly, but Percy is some greek god looking rizz lord; when Annabeth is literally the Child of the Goddess of War Strategies and head canonically a bad bitch. Like if there was ONE person who would for sure be able to stand up for themselves and had fairly low chances of getting bullied because they know how to give a good ass whooping, it's Annabeth. Yes she is smart and nerdy but she's also a badass. She was pretty funny and lighthearted a lot of the times too, but people tend to forget that and only remember her seriousness. Also didn't she punch some guy in the face and knocked him out for bullying Percy?

Plus she's a demigod. Greek gods are super attractive. Saying Annabeth is mid just means you're stupid. She's Beautiful. She's the child of a goddess. She can't not be beautiful. Percy Jackson is Not out of Annabeth's league. if you think he is, please shut up.

Pjo in studio ghibli style that i attempted for a class assignment

I swear to god I’m on my last fucking straw-

On one of the reviews for the Percy Jackson show someone said “Being blonde was like 90% of Annabeth’s personality!” (In response to her being played by a black actress) and I just-

There is SO much more to Annabeth than just being blonde and white. Her dynamic is BARELY about the ‘Dumb blonde’ stereotype.

Her entire character dynamic is that she feels like she constantly has to prove herself because A)Her dad pretty much kicked her out of the house at age 7 because she was a demigod(Which was HIS fault as he’s the one who fell in love with a god) and B)Her mom is goddess, the goddess of wisdom at that. How is Annabeth supposed to live up to those standards? She constantly feels useless because all of her friends have these super cool powers and all she has is the fact that she’s smart. And she also feels like a failure because she’s the daughter of one of the smartest beings to ever exist and she STILL fails sometimes. She failed to save Luke. She spent 8 months searching for Percy and drove herself crazy because she couldn’t figure out where he was or what happened to him. She was supposed to be smart, why couldn’t she figure it out? She was one of the smartest people in camp. And she felt like she was failing everyone when she couldn’t figure things out.

again, there is SO MUCH MORE to Annabeth than just being blonde. If you ‘can’t relate to her anymore’ then you never related to her in the first place apart from the fact that you were blonde and white.

I can relate to Annabeth perfectly(and I’m not blonde), and I get her struggles. I understand what it’s like to be considered ‘gifted’ at such a young age and then suddenly start struggling at 12. I understand what it’s like to feel like you’re constantly failing everyone, like you have to earn everyone’s love. I understand what it’s like to doubt yourself every single day.

Being blonde has pretty much nothing to do with Annabeth’s character.