Pjo Show Crit - Tumblr Posts
Hazel smiled. “Someday, when they write this story, I bet the readers will say the same thing. The great Percy Jackson and Annabeth Chase . . . their last challenge was to not be the ones who solved the challenge. But your struggle is being able to let go. Maybe the people who read your story . . . that will be their struggle, too. There’s always a time when you have to let go.” - rick
what??? rick this hurts my eyes. further proving my point that sometimes the fanfic is literally better than what the author did.
I'm half sure that rick doesn't even know the characters half as well as we do. and he kind of says the same when his editors get information of fan wiki, and he's never reread his books.
I wish I could be optimistic about the second pjo season, I really do, but every time I see that hopeful sentiment of "maybe the show runners will listen to the complaints about season 1 and fix it going forward!!" it reminds me of another notable time that RR's work received a not insignificant amount of criticism (the Blood of Olympus), and in response he wrote a passive aggressive one-shot wherein the seven literally just sit and verbally justify everything that happened asdlfksdjfsdf
It still blows my mind that they made a PJO show that wasn’t fun OR dramatic. Like, what’s left to adapt
tbh the pjo show has completely ruined the fandom for me.
I really feel like they would have done it more justice if they had made it into an animated series with the cast as voice actors. for me rn everything is just off.
Rick Riordan constantly trashing the movies for not sticking to his books then releasing a show in which he rewrites everything and loses the spirit of the books entirely
Rick Riordan constantly trashing the movies for not sticking to his books then releasing a show in which he rewrites everything and loses the spirit of the books entirely
Someone has probably said this already, but the point of Percy not knowing anything about Greek mythology (at first in the books) was to protect himself because knowledge is power, power is scent that monsters can smell and names have even more power when said by powerful people
So tbh Sally reading Percy myths (in the show) is like a death sentence imo