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Justice for Circe’s Island at long last

THIS IS NOT A DRILL THEY ARE FILMING THE CIRCLES SCENE!! 🔱🌊

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Glad we’ve finally gotten a canonical pronunciation of “Thalia”

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You’re watching the show because you think the actor playing a character is attractive.

I’m watching it because I want to study the choices the actor makes in their performance and think about what it means for the character as a person.

We are not the same….

But we are both ✨so valid✨ for that 🥰

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Can’t talk, I’m busy

turning off the volume of my shows and watching the characters’ body language and facial expressions in order to see past just the words they’re saying and how they say them.

Like G-d my autism intended

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Parallel Edits, where 2 places are shown at the same time and create a mirror-like (or parallel) effect, will always be one of my all time favorite techniques

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Obviously the show has been doing everything better than the movies so far but I wanna talk particularly about the reveal of Luke as the traitor.

When Luke and Percy fight in the movie, it’s this big action sequence with a little bit of monologuing from Luke about how it’s time for demigods to “re-mold the world in [their] image.” Which is technically, technically book-accurate.

But the delivery of it makes Luke look like a clear-cut villain. The megalomaniacal tone, the smirk, the way he taunts Percy, etc. He’s not built as a sympathetic character.

But in the show.

In the show, Luke looks excited to tell Percy about his plan. He’s so confident that Percy’s going to understand where he’s coming from and join him immediately that he tries to reason with him. But when Percy’s horrified expression doesn’t change, that’s when Luke’s tone starts to change. But he still isn’t some overconfident, cocky opponent. He continues to try and explain himself and he does so with tears in his eyes and a bitter but still hurt expression on his face.

Movie Luke is a villain who wants to overthrow the rulers of the world because they’ve been in power too long.

Show Luke is a kid whose parent let him down.

Neither of their actions are right, but only one was written to be understood.

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Annabeth: *using her dagger for target practice*

Percy: *watching her make a bullseye and yelling at the top of his lungs* I SAID, whoever threw that dagger, your mom’s a HOE

Every Demigod within 20 feet: *staring at Percy in horror*

Percy: *smiles and walks away without a word*

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The fact that they chose to put the lotus flowers into the air of the casino to keep people at the hotel when casinos-pumping-oxygen-into-the-air-in-order-to-keep-people-playing is literally one of the longest-running Vegas myths, thus combining a Greek myth with a Modern myth?

BRILLIANT

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The Roman Empire wasn’t built in a day and therefore my Roman Empire shan’t be built on one scene.

Percy praying to his mom instead of the gods? That’s in there.

The stairwell switch in the St. Louis arch? That too.

The first Percabeth hug? The very streets on which Romans walk.

Waterland and the gold throne? That’s whole temple column, that is.

Grover gaslighting the god of war with ease? Immaculate, yes, welcome to the city.

Sally and Poseidon in the diner? You cannot have an empire without it.

Percy meeting his dad for the first time? Long live Rome, my friend.

I can’t pick just one scene, this whole show is my Roman Empire.

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Throughout the series. We get small hints that Luke has a “complicated” relationship with Hermes.

But we also see Percy, who’s frequently discontent with Poseidon (and very vocal about it) so, if anything, we assume that Luke’s feelings are somewhat of the same.

But then we get to episode 8 and see how Luke reacts to Percy even mentioning Hermes.

Look at the way Luke’s expression changes the second that Percy starts talking about Hermes. The disgust in the sneer that’s pulled onto his face is absolutely palpable.

Then the way he cuts Percy off immediately by going on the offensive.

And the ferocity in that two-handed swing. He put his full upper-body into that swing.

Though his monologue while trying to recruit Percy explained the way he felt about the gods in general, this one small fraction of a second showed how his feelings for his dad got him to this point.

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Why am I not seeing any post-Atlas Annabeth art from the show? I feel like we’re not thinking about the possibilities of Leah’s hair with the gray streaks and that feels like a crime.

In her natural hair?

Gorgeous

In her braids?

Stunning

There’s literally no style that she wouldn’t absolutely eat🤩

Let’s make more post-titans-curse-tv annabeth art

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Percy’s face when Sally mentioned Grover playing a role in getting him kicked out of school…

The way his face scrunches up really tight before relaxing? That’s anger.

But not the kind of anger we see in him in the last episode.

This is the kind of anger that makes you cry. The kind that’s underpinned by embarrassment and hurt and feeling like you’ve been treated unfairly.

Percy knows he didn’t push Nancy into the fountain and he thought that, if anyone would have his back, it was going to be Grover. And then he didn’t. And it’s unfair to Percy. It’s Wrong. Because no one believes him, apparently not even his best friend.

And the way he closes his eyes and takes a really deep breath? That’s a tactic that’s literally recommended to stop yourself from crying when you’re angry. It allows your body to “catch up” with your mind.

What do you wanna bet that Percy learned that from a school counselor?

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IT’S WORKING GUYS

If Walker Scobell can manifest his way into the role of Percy Jackson by carrying around a picture of a Poseidon statue, I can surely manifest my way into 4 more seasons by posting on my silly little website

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annabeth saying zeus will never let percy leave olympus alive and percy replying "I'm done running from monsters" like the line between gods and monsters is completely blurred

I'm GAGGED they GAGGED ME

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Episode 2 -> Episode 5

The way he says it with so much conviction the second time.

The way that it goes from being a fault of his to a strength of hers.

The way that he goes from focused on his dad seeing him succeed to focused on making sure the quest succeeds, regardless of whether he’s there when it does.

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“You are not broken. You are singular. You are a miracle. And you are my son”

The Percy Jackson show is really healing my inner child while simultaneously destroying me 😭

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I still can’t get over Grover being slapped in the face with a whole piece of cheese like one of those cats on vine