Any fanfiction where Percy Jackson is set in modern day Greece? Every character is ethnically Greek? Prefferably an interrupted continous story of the Homeric and Hesoidic stories into the present day. Percy is a descendant of Percy. Not required.
A modern day pagan Greek novel would have been awesome.
Can medieval folklore be considered pagan? I asked if Grimm's tales are pagan. Apparently not.
However what would this mean for Slavic mythology? Most of what we know comes from Russian fairy tales. Besides the Arkona Polabian Slavs and Vladimir's named pantheon we know nothing.
Any fanfiction where Percy Jackson is set in modern day Greece? Every character is ethnically Greek? Prefferably an interrupted continous story of the Homeric and Hesoidic stories into the present day. Percy is a descendant of Percy. Not required.
A modern day pagan Greek novel would have been awesome.
I think that this saga surpasses the Frieza saga. It felt like the most personal conflict Goku has faced. King Piccolo was a good personal villain whom Goku barely defeated. It was a climax of his Great Ape power.
He got revenge on him for Cymbal killing Krillin.
Tien and Roshi could not defeat him.
Goku lost to him badly in their first fight. He needed to be healed and was found by Yajirobe who gave him senzu beans. Yajirobe sliced a dragon he was no pushover here.
Anyone remember when Mr. Popo re-assembled shenron in his lego model? Yes King Piccolo actually killed Shenron.
Anyone remember back in 2018-2021 when youtubers and quora users had account names of the literal characters from the book and pretended to be them? It cool engaging with them.
I asked this question in the Percy Jackson subreddit initially but it got removed by moderators for reasons unknown to me.
[New link. Mods removed this post](https://www.reddit.com/u/GangStalked2022/s/p1fTGHkaXx)
(Disclaimer: I don't want to offend any mainstream religion. I do not want to say that any abrahamic religion is bad. I am not accusing any religion of being violent.
For those of you who know history, you may know that the conversion of pagan people, Roman Empire included happened violently and coercively. For those of you who know that Rick included World War 2 & The War of Secession into his story, have you ever wondered what Olympus ever thought about mortals forgetting their native folk gods and ancestors in favor of Jesus, Allah, Yahweh, Buddha (Dharmic) etc?
Olympus, Asgard, Egyptian Gods, Celtic Gods, all suffered because their temples were destroyed and their deities were deemed 'demonic.' Pagan practicers were persecuted. This happened to everyone who experienced the crusades. The Slavs especially.
Anyone here pagan? Is anyone in the fandom actually pagan)
I type this search here because I can't find this category via keywords. Essentially I am looking for a fanfic where modern day pagans start worshipping the Gods literally.
Imagine if modern day Orthodox Greece decided to recognize its pagan history and directlt continue the Homeric and Hesoidic myth into the 21st century after 1 700 years since conversion?
This is also a branch question to if you know any fanfics where *Percy Jackson & The Olympians* are set in set in modern day Greece instead of America and every character is Greek instead of American?
I remember reading a fanfic called, "Percy Jackson and The Olympians: The Mark of Athena" where Percy narrates in his own first person perspective the judo-flip scene.
Any works where Heroes of Olympus is retold from Percy's narration? He never finished his narration to you the reader. He wrote the book like a letter to you. "I didn't look back" is not the end to "Look I didn't want to be half-blood." The seven prophecy promised us so much in The Last Olympian but instead we get a One Piece-esque fanfiction.
Disclaimer: My personal opinion. To those who liked Heroes of Olympus I don't think it was a bad story, just a bad sequel to Percy's story.
I type this search here because I can't find this category via keywords. Essentially I am looking for a fanfic where modern day pagans start worshipping the Gods literally.
This is also a branch question to if you know any fanfics where Percy Jackson & The Olympians are set in set in modern day Greece instead of America and every character is Greek instead of American?
Disclaimer: I don't want to offend any mainstream religion. I do not want to say that any abrahamic religion is bad. I am not accusing any religion of being violent.
For those of you who know history, you may know that the conversion of pagan people, Roman Empire included happened violently and coercively. For those of you who know that Rick included World War 2 & The War of Secession into his story, have you ever wondered what Olympus ever thought about mortals forgetting their native folk gods and ancestors in favor of Jesus, Allah, Yahweh, Buddha (Dharmic) etc?
Olympus, Asgard, Egyptian Gods, Celtic Gods, all suffered because their temples were destroyed and their deities were deemed 'demonic.' Pagan practicers were persecuted. This happened to everyone who experienced the crusades. The Slavs especially.
Is anyone in the fandom actually pagan?
I remember reading the Percy Jackson books and one affair that impressed me was Nico's skeleton army. They were all armed with M16s in the Battle of Manhattan.
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I heavily disliked the Fox Percy Jackson adaptations. To me they are in same category as these failed book adaptations:
*The Golden Compass*
*Spiderwhick*
*Dragon Ball: Evolution*
*Ender's Game*
*Diary of a Wimpy Kid: The Long*
*Haul*
Also because college students play teenagers.
When I saw the Disney+ show on the plane I thought it looked extremely cheap. It felt like I was watching something between the *Wonder* movie adaptation*,* Depp's *Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, Spy Kids* and *Arthur and the Invisibles* but with a much younger cast.
First lets get the casting & representation out of the way. Disney like Fox are transnational capitalist corporations bent on making money globally. They are business tyccoons. Its true that before 2015 they didn't obsess over representation as much. But people want to know the explicit, blatant and straightforward answer to why the cast was picked the way it was.
To me, I don't think Rick really gave too much thought when he was selecting people from auditions. Many fans of the series are not the dominant Anglo-Saxon-founding or anglicized-European descendant settler majority. Someone auditioned and he picked whichever one impressed him most. The acting industry demographically matches the US population census.
It always confused me, because I was of the impression that the casting producer sometimes pre-selected the actor for the role. For Aragorn, New Line Cinema wanted Russel Crow. For Frank Costello, Scorcese initially wanted Al Pacino.
However we can't say original PJO didn't have minorities. Here is a list of minority male characters:
Ethan Nakamura. Japanese
Austin Lake. African American.
Charles Beckendorf. African American.
Michel Yew. Chinese.
Chris Rodrigues. Hispanic.
I have bias to remembering male characters more than female ones. So indicate the female minority characters of *Percy Jackson & The Olympians* in the comments below.
Besides Annabeth we have:
Luke Castellan
Thalia Grace
Clarisse La Rue
Chiron
Grover (twice now, first was w/ Fox)
Zeus
Athena
Whom were all raceswapped. I'd honestly add Percy himself to the list too. Walker is white but he doesn't look like Percy. He would have fit better if he played Will Solace.
To me its weird that Disney ran out of funding or maybe intentionally didn’t fund this TV show enough. I understand that comparing a TV show to a big budget movie is a mismatch, the Fox movie was a theatrical release, but its very cheap. It looks cheaper than *Cobra Kai* and *Stranger Things.* The first was a Youtube series, the second a Netflix series.
Nekomajin Z is the only canonical sequel we have to end of Z. Anyone read it?
This fandom on Reddit is the only place for discussions aside from Quora. Yet the subreddit does not get much traffic. Three comments minimum. I need in-depth, long discussions on the internet.
Why are we perpetually stuck in-between end of Buu saga and end of Z?
For 18 years now.
Yo Son Goku and his friends return. Post-Buu
Battle of Gods. Post-Buu
Dragon Ball Super. Post-Buu
Daima. Post-Buu
Is end of Buu the new baseline for reboots?
P.S. Nekomajin Z is the only sequel to Z. It contradicts GT. No one has heard of it because its obscure.
Disclaimer: review contains spoilers for anyone who hasn't read the book. If you don't mind spoilers, read onward.
I wanted to share my opinions and impressions about it. First introduction. I first saw the trailer to the Fox movie when watching a preview for a DVD movie, I forget the name off, was it Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen? Then I confused this move with Disney's Sorceror's Apprentice because of lightning aesthetics. The Fox movies where terrible. College students playing teenagers. Bad book adaptation. Its this same 'one installment adaptation' of a serial book series that I have seen with, The Golden Compass, The Dark Tower, Spiderwhick, Artemis Fowl, Alex Rider, Ender's Game, & even Silverwing.
I loved reading Atilla Futaki's graphic novels in school. I was happy he adapted all three graphic novels before his death. I always wanted to know what happened after Sea of Monsters, because I know that the story did not end there regardless of what Fox thought. In general, almost all of my classmates and swimming teammates read the book series. It was huge and popular amongst The Hunger Games, Harry Potter, and other YA books.
Here is my review of the 5 books in Percy Jackson and the Olympians.
Book 1: Percy Jackson and The Olympians, The Lightning Thief.
I liked the fact that Percy starts the books by narrating towards the reader as if he is emergency notifying you that you maybe a half-blood in danger. This is also the first time I read a novel that's in first person not third person. It makes it feel personal and more immersive. Also it was a breath of fresh air for me after readinf Mull's Beyonders Trilogy which was entirelt in third person. Percy gets dragged into the urban fantasy world like Once Upon a Time by being accused of owning a McGuffin. Standard trope I have seen in Japanese culture, from Michael Bay's Transformers to card game animes like Bakugan and even Ninjago. At times Percy feels like he is taking it too far with his hypernervous speed-talking. I am anti-psychiatry. I believe that children should not be medicalized and pathologized for being roudy. I had classmates who had ADHD, not all of them needed a social worker or educational assistant to 'keep an eye on them' all the time while prescribing them drugs. As for Dyslexia that is a temporary fixable literacy difficulty.
The plot of the first book is pleasant because it is recognizable. It features Perseus's name, which we all remember from the famous Perseus vs Medusa myth. I read that graphic novel in school and enjoyed Sam Worthington's Clash of the Titans.
The premise copies the 'trio' structure Rowling established but Rick commits all they way and has the female protagonist classicly be with Percy. We were all dissappointed that Harry and Hermione didn't end up together. One subversion is Rick didn't have Percy be the son of Zeus. I always wondered how you could make water potent. Its not strikable like lightning. I knew Luke was going to betray Percy because I saw the Fox films beforehand but I didn't know Heroes of Olympus was necessary. I saw my classmate read Son of Neptune and wondered, 'what?' Why is there another book about Percy. Is it a knockoff? I'll come back to Heroes of Olympus later.
Book 2: Sea of Monsters.
This book couldn't have been all that bad, after seeing Fox's terrible adaptation. I knew the plot didn't end at Book 2 (gladly) and Percy Jackson was a series like Harry Potter. This book focuses on the retelling of the Golden Fleece myth by Jason and the Argonauts. A myth that Heroes of Olympus would later stretch out into 5 books. If only I knew the seven prophecy said by Rachel in The Last Olympian was just going to be a retelling of a retelling of Jason and the Argonauts, I would have indicated to Rick why he copied the plot of Sea of Monsters twice?? This book is not the strongest book of the series. Its not Percy's personal quest. Its Clarisse's quest.
The beginning chapter with him being bullied by Matt Sloan and defended by Tyson made me groan. Book 1 had a more interesting premise with him having female antagonists. Nancy Bobofif. Miss Dodds. Clarisse La Rue. It was an interesting change from the cliche'd male vs male dynamic plot devices in fiction. Tyson is this cliche of 'big guy co-protagonist' I have seen in school settings before. Tyson is Russel Northrop to Percy's Jimmy Hopkins. We don't really spend any meaningful time in the mortal world. Dissapointing since in Harry Potter Harry's summer years are just as important. Not for Percy's school years. For Percy it feels like Monster Buster Club, Ben 10: Alien Force, or The Amazing Spiez. Essentially, 'school in the middle of a mission.'
What dissapointed me in this book was that it was not Percy's quest because it wasn't his prophecy. I understand that Rick needed to maneuever his way out post-The Lightning Thief because you can't just have the main protagonist perpetually completing a prophecy quest every year. What dissapointed me in this installment is that it's not Percy's quest. Its Clarisse's quest. Percy attends this quest against Camp rules because Grover is missing.
The whole book is about Percy not believing that Tyson is his half-brother (because Rick capped the amount of children the Big Three can have) and Iris messages and dreams about Percy seeing Grover kidnapped by the Cyclops from Jason's golden fleecy myth. It felt boring because the quest is a sea voyage but its not an interesting sea voyage. Its a 'stranded on an uninhabitable island' trope I have seen in episodic day of the week YTV flash toons. Rick cut back on scale after The Lightning Thief traversed across the whole United States. Which is why it felt like a letdown. I didn't like Luke cruise's ship and the final battle on his cruise ship. Its the action movie trope of 'villain has a yacht' I have seen too much in Hollywood movies.
Book 3: The Titan's Curse.
So far I knew the plot of Books 1 & 2 generally thanks to the Fox films. However I knew the plot of Titans's Curse because I read Atilla Futaki's graphic novels. I was very happy this novel existed because as I said before the story continues after Fox's terrible Sea of Monsters adaptation. I didn't really like this book.
This book greenlighted the Percy x Hunters of Artemis fanfiction. I never understood why? Artemis's whole identity is built on the fact that only girls can join. Its a female only faction. Bianca joins. Annabeth declines to join. Thalia hates the Hunters only for ironically joining them in the end of this book. By the way I never understood how she already knew about Zoe Nightshade before we she was introduced. Thalia was a tree since 12, since Luke and Annabeth escaped to save Camp Half-Blood from monsters. I never enjoyed Thalia. Maybe because I didn’t like the Golden Fleece quest? But out of all people, Percy is shipped with Artemis despite the fact of gender exclusivity.
One thing I did like is that Apollo roasts Artemis throughout this whole book.
Well since in western fiction, male collectives are taboo, the only companion Percy got was Blackjack. I enjoyed Blackjack, especially his humor. He wasn't just 'a noble steed.' He could actually speak to our protagonist. Even if only mentally.
Spoilers here. I thought that Bianca being killed by Talos was too graphic and explicit. I felt uneasy with her death. This is where I felt like Rick was going into horror. As a kid I always covered my eyes whenever I watched 'adult' thrillers or horror movies. Reading this gave me nightmares.
Rachel got introduced in this book. I thought she was annoying at first. Especially the fact that she is a mortal that could see through the mist. But unlike Nancy Bobofit she is a good bridge into the mortal world for Percy.
A lot of this book is padded filler. I felt satisfied when this book finally ended. It was too complicated and messy
Book 4: The Battle of the Labyrinth.
This book was going to be about the maze because Labyrinth means maze in Greek. By far my favorite book. Only downside was that it was hard to follow. A breath of fresh air from the 'find my mom/find my friend/find my girlfriend' of the last three novels.
All four are in the book simultaneously, none of them are missing. Nico joins halfway after revealing himself to be the son of Hades, and earthquaking and scaring Percy, after leaving angry at him after losing his sister. Nico talks more in this novel. In the previous book he was mute, sidelined by the hunters (like everyone else)
Well this one was Annabeth's quest. She broke the rules by inviting more than 2 people to the quest. This book is as much about Daedalus and Typhon as much as it is about Percy. It expanded the lore but it didn't sidetrack the story as heavily as the Hunters of Artemis did. Luke reappears, possessed by Kronos this time. Kronos finally speaks. I liked Ethan Nakamura, Luke's number two. This book felt a lot like The Order of the Phoenix, because the whole cast was together traversing confined quarters. While simultaenously like The Half-Blood Prince because the ending was the battle of Camp Half-Blood similar to how in the books there was a battle of Hogwarts in book 6, not shown in the movie adaptation.
Book 5: The Last Olympian.
I have mixed feelings about this one. The Battle of Manhattan, the ambush on Luke with Beckendorf, Percy in the underworld and Luke's & Nico's backstory all culminated to a great and long awaited finale. This book in general has not much flaws. The final battle reminded me a lot of The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King, Spider-Man: Web of Shadows (game) & Dark of the Moon but the protagonist is an active participant and leader of the war, not just a McGuffin guy.
My only issue is that the finale is anticlimactic. Percy is not the catalyst of the prohecy, Luke is. Luke was the hidden protagonist of the whole story. It was his flashbacks, his bond to Thalia and Annabeth, not Percy. Percy felt like a bystander in his own book. He is the poster child. Why isn't the finale connected to his origin? Percy here is not Harry Potter or Peter Parker. Instead he is a Frodo Baggins, Sam Witwicky or even worse, Newt Schamander.
Imagine Ethan actually hit Percy's Achilles spot? Percy would need to be revived, by taking off the curse, then mortal Percy fights Achilles spot Kronos-possessed Luke in a final fight? Typhon was a letdown. Easily defeated by Tyson. Percy's biggest fight was against Hyperion, a titan whom was just an NPC, easily defeated by Grover's vines.
One positive thing I enjoyed was Silena and Charles. They were the couple before Percy and Annabeth became a couple. I liked both characters. Their romance, Beckendorf's sacrifice and Silena's betrayal.
Moreover:
What I loved about the original series is that the Gods were actively integrated into the world. It felt alive, because the Olympians cameo'd in every story and Olympus was shown at the end of Book 1, 3 & 5. Heroes of Olympus still featured magical races, monsters and negaive deities like Aeolus, Ma Gasket, the fortune teller guy who kept Ella captive and Khione integrated into the urban world but no Gods. The Gods were largely absent in Heroes of Olympus. The literaly deities of Greek Mythology the series is based on was sidelined. I call this the Goku treatment. Goku was largely absent in Z. To anyone who hasn't seen or watched original Dragon Ball, I highly recomment you do. Its a good coming of age Wuxia story.
On the ending of the original series:
The story ends with Rachel saying the seven prophecy which leads into Heroes of Olympus. Percy tells Annabeth he expects to see new campers. Percy did not finish his narration! Spider-Man and Goku finish their narration by the end of an episode, issue, arc or volume. Either Peter in the Raimi films, or Goku himself or the narrator in the English dub. Percy starts of with an excellent hook.
"Look I didn't want to be half-blood. If you are reading this and realized you are one, know you are not alone, and help is along the way. Move swiftly." Here Percy says, "and for the first time, I didn't look back." Only to be replaced by an alternate third person narration by 5 no-name newcomers. Groundhogs who haven't seen the light of day in a *One Piece-*esque fanfiction of Percy Jackson. Someone self-inserted themselves into the sequel series.
I hate commercialization but Ironically its commercialization thay continues the story of our beloved hero. Its this that forms a fandom, community and continuity. It gives us a continuation instead of a sad decive closure I felt when Return of the King film ended. To those who don't know, Tolkien had a sequel planned called, The New Shadow which he never continued.
Now to address the fandom:
I feel like Victoria Ridzel, Percabeth shippers, Heroes of Olympus fanfiction and Solangelo hijacked the fandom.
For Victoria Ridzel, she was never the official artist for the series. Rick had his own canon artist whom drew the characters in his Demigod Diaries companion book. She was a Heroes of Olympus & Percy x Annabeth fanfic artist. For her fanart to be featured on the wiki is bizarre. Since 2015, every time you search up Percy Jackson, the results you get are her fanart and the 7 from Heroes of Olympus. Before 2015, the Fox film actors dominated the search results. But here fanart was so impactful that Viria copycats like Burdge and countless other Percabeth fanartisys like Windbyfire, Bente and CookieKhaleesi filled the internet. So much so that when Orpheus Collar replaced the now late Atilla Futaki as the artist for the graphic novel adaptations, her artstyle bled into the character designs of the 7. I don't like the fact that her designs are now 'the norm' for the characters.
Percabeth was initially bizarre for me. Bizarre because its an official ship, a canon ship. They don't die, they get together, they don't get their relationship undone like One More Day undid Peter & MJ's marriage or unlike Harry x Hermione unrealized relationship Maybe that's why its not as contagious and does not suck you in and drown you so harshly like unrealized ships like Harry x Hermione do.
I never understood why the fandom shipped Will and Nico so much. Is this just the fangirl yaoi fanbase? Nico like I said was a complex character. An Italian whom during WW2 was in the Lotus Hotel. It was a neat revelation. His sister suffered an awful and eerie death which I still find horrifying and disturbing to this day. Him and his sister was a package deal. He had a vendetta against Percy and held him responsible for not saving Bianca. Nico redeemed Hades name and restored his seat at Olympus. Nico was the one whom continued the Battle of the Labyrinth when he told Percy, "I know how to defeat Kronos." He told him to dip in the River Styx. Luke already dipped there too. He went from being a younger brother to Percy to a semi-trusting acquaintance like Vegeta or Piccolo. He saved Percy and Annabeth from Kronos and persuades Hades not to support Kronos. Hades wanted to side with Kronos in order to get back at Zeus for banising him from Olympus. The Olympians are the 'adult' counterparts to the Order of the Phoenix in Harry Potter, a.k.a. the previous 'adult generation' main cast.
While I remember Will for healing Annabeth, after she saved Percy's Achilles spot unknowingly from Ethan Nakamura. She saved her when she was wounded. Will was a serious guy who knew what he was doing. It was also interesting to see Percy care for Annabeth for the first time, and Annabeth needing healing. She is usually the healer, she healed Percy from the Minotaur and Luke's scorpion in The Lightning Thief. Now she is the one whom needed healing. Yes Percy healed her with the Golden Fleece before but this was touching.
So for Rick to magically wham, 'Percy I had a crush on you,' then pair him with Will, surprised me as much as it did Percy. Nico has no reason to be in Heroes of Olympus. His arc was finished. His whole role was, "I found another demi-god from my 40s when I was searching for Bianca, I get kidnapped by the Gigantes clown twins 🤡, I thought I had a crush on Annabeth when she fell into Tartarus with Percy."
Anyone played Halo: 5 Guardians? Anyone seen The Act Man's review of that game? Well, Percy is Master Chief while the seven are Fireteam Osiris.
Lastly on Trials of Apollo, when I first seen the book on the book orders magazine in school I thought it would be about mortal Apollo, fighting monsters like Kyle Reese in Terminator when he went back in time, Percy would be an active participant in the story and Apollo would defeat Python as a mortal. Alone, but with Percy as a guide, like Will Smith to Tommy Lee Jones in Men in Black 2 Instead he becomes immortal again to defeat Python. The whole ending to Heroes of Olympus was ruined. If Percy had died in order to awaken Gaea, with Annabeth wounded and Apollo would have resurrected him, breaking the rules of Olympus then that should have kickstarted Trials of Apollo. That should have angered Zeus, sparked a conflict between him and Poseidon and banished his son from Olympus.
As for the spin-offs, I enjoyed Karter Kane. I thought why Greece didn't have Camp Half-Blood of its own, after all Kane Chronicles does feature the House of Life in Cairo, its not just the Brooklyn House in New York.
As for Magnus, I didn't like him. I hoped to see Annabeth in his mythology. Yes. I thought it would be cool to have Annabeth as double mythological. Magnus's surname was Chase. This means Magnus's mother is Frederick Chase's sister. But imagine if Frederick Chase's brother was literally Frey? Too convoluted? Fine. Frank Zhang is a descendant of Poseidon's child who could shapeshift. Annabeth is Swedish by ancestry when it is revealed that Frey's mortal bloodline descendancy are all Blond Swedes. But she never appears in Magnus Chase. I thought Magnus Chase would be set on Earth (Midgard) with him traveling across the North Sea and Atlantic, encountering trolls, elves, goblins, dwarves, and Jormungandr but we got what we got.
All in all, Riordan sparked a new medium in YA Fantasy. He adapted European myth more faithfully than either Marvel or DC did. It wasn't just a Hogwarts or X-Men knockoff. He inspired Loki's Wolves and Kate O'Hearn's Pegasus series. However this genre of 'magic in the modern world' is not new. The portal fantasy was introduced by C.S. Lewis, in Narnia, (maybe The Lost World by Conan Doyle too?) Then revived by Brandon Mull. Magnus Chase is a portal fantasy. Kane Chronicles is its own Indiana Jones, The Mummy treasure hunter genre. Percy is the same genre as Once Upon a Time, Artemis Fowl and Supernatural. Even early original Dragon Ball to an extent. Regardless it was the fantasy series that defined my youth when I was teen in the mid 2010s. Now I am much older than Percy, ironic since he was 12 turning in 13 in 2005, meaning he was born in 1992. Hope to see more of Percy in Rick's new novels. Not anyone else. But Percy. He should have narrated Heroes of Olympus and finished his narration. The Senior Years Trilogy was a wish fulfillment but it wasn't a sequel. I don't like prequels or interquels. They don't continue the story they just exponentially form a mythos in reverse like in Star Wars Expanded Universe (both Disney & Legends). I hope to see an actual continuation of the Homeric myth and Hesoid theogeny. The myth does not end at the Titanomachy, Gigantomachy, Python and the Trojan War. People say Metis's prophecized son should have continued the cycle, this would be cool to see adapted by Rick but he probably won't. I didn't like God of War and to see Percy overthrow the Olympians wouldn't feel right with me. Instead I would like to see a mortal war against Olympus, maybe lead by Prometheus.
Kate O'Hearn's Pegasus series.
Loki's Wolves
Found one making fan films. 2023. There were more back in the day. Not much these days.
I remember back in 2010 watching the 'Sorceror's Apprentice' and not knowing what it was called. Its this affair that happens when you watch something when you were young but forget the name and confuse it with something else.
Fox's 'The Lightning Thief' was an advertisement to a dvd movie I always placed into my video player. They were just similar. The late 2000s early 2010 was the time when the 'black haired young man actor' was popular.
Aliens in the Attic
Merlin (BBC)
Stardust (2007)
Harry Potter
Twilight
This was early 2010s when casting college students as teens was popular.
Examples:
Chasing Mavericks
I am number four
Highschool Musical
All movies had this family friendly vibe similar to 'The Mummy,' but with this 'mortal elements' teen film aesthetic. I knew when I watched 'Sea of Monsters' that something was off. This could not have been the real ending.
Anyway the main topic of this discussion is that they were so similar. Percy (Logan Lerman) in an elevator rises up the empire state building and emerges into a thunder cloud. 'Sorceror's Apprentice' had Nicholas Cage's apprentice wield lightning with a ring, then wield lightning powers himself.
Now I discovered the 'Sorceror's Apprentice' via vague leading question fro. ChatGPT. Couldn't do it on Google.
Read the original PJO books back in 2015. Stopped at Heroes of Olympus book 3. I thought it derailed the story too much somewhere between a spin-off, reboot and a One Piece narrative. We already had the Argonaut quest narrative covered in 'Sea of Monsters' with the Golden Fleece. So it also felt repeptitive and unoriginal. Not a fan of the Disney + adaptation. Social issues aside, its really about quality and it looks cheap. I was happy Rick 'revived' Percy in the senior years trilogy but its an 'interquel.' I hate prequels and interquels. Just continue the story.