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1 Yes, Sally had more development in the series than in the books. We get flashback scenes showing why she didn't take Percy to camp when he was little, and how her decisions shaped the person Percy became. It also highlights her maternal and protective nature—like when she essentially adopts Tyson and puts her own life at risk, not just once but twice, to protect Percy.

1.2 Regarding Gabe, I’m just going to paste the responses that were there, as they seem extremely lucid to me regarding the situation: "Criticizing isn't a healthy thing to do. Especially when you know the child has issues.

He doesn't know the full context. Percy has a history of being bullied and was just defending himself.

YES, AND IF SOMEONE IS CONSTANTLY GETTING EXPELLED, THEN CRITICIZING THEM WILL ONLY MAKE THE SITUATION WORSE.

Please, never become a parent. Criticizing someone isn't how you get them to change their behavior.

EXACTLY. Again, Gabe doesn't know the full context.

EDIT: The people downvoting shouldn't have kids. It isn't healthy at all to CRITICIZE YOUR OWN CHILD. That's how you raise a troubled adult."

"He berated Percy (both in person and live on TV). He answered calls without permission. Sally was literally hiding from him IN THE RAIN.

Nothing you mentioned means he isn't abusive. Abusers can still make concessions. Being abusive doesn't necessarily mean you're stupid.

For sure, they're in the same category. Just because someone is in a worse situation doesn't mean it isn't abuse. Someone who was beaten as a child isn't in nearly as bad a situation as someone used as a sex slave. But both cases are abusive.

Why on earth do people insist so much on turning suffering into a "

"I never called it a fact?????? You're the one acting like it's a fact that Gabe isn't abusive.

I just think you guys are downplaying the emotional abuse.

The fact that Sally isn't being abused doesn't mean Percy isn't. Besides, we only saw a fraction of their time together; it's possible he was abusive in other instances.

Berating someone is absolutely abuse; it's not just 'saying mean things.' That is not how you should treat YOUR LITERALLY

EXPELLED PERCY" THAT IS NO EXCUSE. Berating your child is never justified.

You are literally turning suffering into a competition. You're acting as if emotional abuse isn't abuse just because it isn't as bad as physical abuse (which is SUBJECTIVE, not a fact).

That isn't what you're doing, AND YOU KNOW IT. Stop acting like your OPINION is a fact. Why do toxic people always act like their toxicity is just an opinion? You don't know what an opinion is.

Please, never have a child."

"You clearly don't know how to read. I literally said it wasn't [abuse] because I knew Gabe was supposed to be abusive."

Gabe actually started criticizing Percy the moment he got home. Sally didn't do that, lol. Did you watch the show?

2 Clarisse simply had more time—more books—and possessed greater depth.

3 Are people seriously complaining because Annabeth is literally being portrayed as a child—and the soldier as a soldier—when in the books they are literally child soldiers? In fact, all the kids in the partnership are child soldiers; if you didn't pick up on that in the books, then there's nothing left to say about it.

4 Thalia barely even appeared properly in two episodes, and they literally came up with a major justification for why she’s going to join the Hunters of Artemis...

5 People are complaining that Athena is being portrayed as a bad mother, even though that is literally her character arc in the books; she literally sent her children to their deaths for 2,000 years just to try to recover a statue.

6Medusa wasn't raped in the series; she was deceived. That is what the lore says—she was tricked, not raped. Confusing the two is incredibly disrespectful to actual rape victims. Honestly, complaining that Rick chose this version of Medusa—when it has always been the version used in the Percy Jackson universe—is just laughable.

7 What would be the harm in a female character being the villain? There are millions of male characters—and not just villains, but villains with absolutely no redeeming qualities.