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What opinion do you feel comfortable expressing here that you don't feel comfortable expressing, or what opinion do you have on any of the other Percy Jackson subreddits?

The ending of the second season left us more cliffhanger and with more possibilities than the ending of the second book.

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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.

They film these shows so close together in Canada that Disney needs to bring in that special effects and stunt team ASAP. Tbh, Percy should feel like Storm in the X-Men by the final battle

Ok imagine it wasn’t only the eldest gods, choose from existing demigods we know from any of the series (PJO, HoO etc). Each of the first 5 books have the same quests and prophecies (altered to suit the characters tho).
Who is the ‘Percy Jackson’ of your version?
Who are their key supporting characters in each of the books?
How do you think they could win/survive to the end?

Make up your own rules otherwise as to if you want it at CHB, Camp Jupiter, whether they can mix and what not.
I tried to write my own but got too confused by myself 🤣 so lemme know what you think, I just kinda got sick of the debates on this reddit so wanna bring more whimsy and fun discussion 😅.