The lowest price tier for Disney Plus now includes ads hence the cut to black moments for those who get the ads. I have the no ad subscription so it intially threw me off too 😕 I feel like Annabeth is a bit more chatty in the books since she's usually rattling off Greek mythology facts, but I'm assuming that aspect of her character is coming later. I do like her chemistry with Percy since I think Leah and Walker play off each other really well. I'm looking forward to seeing more of them. I think the issues of some of the story feeling rushed/not as fleshed out as the book version are due to the fact that the first season was only given 8 episodes so they had to cram in a LOT of information as quickly as possible. 3 episodes at the camp would be too much I think, it makes more sense that they pack as much setup as they can into the first 2 and leave the rest for the quest. Unfortunately that doesn't leave time for every single detail to be covered (especially since the Luke & Percy relationship needs to be the main focus atm for spoiler reasons later) but like you said I think they're doing a good job for the timing constraints they have to work with
the way that i see the thing about annabeth's appearance is that 95% of the time her appearance is mentioned in the books, its thru percy trying to describe to us how beautiful she is to him. and if ykwim i dont think that has much to do with her physical appearance
@@geraldgrenier8132people could be adopted, and maybe the Chase family tree is mixed race somewhere? They could go that route regardless of if they make Magnus and Annabeth look similar or not
Loved the reaction! People are saying the pacing is fast. Now, I do agree but what are you going to do with like 27 chapters in 8 episodes? So I’m fine with it. Others need to realize not everything can be crammed in and things might need to be changed a little. I’m fine with the changes so far. It doesn’t ruin it. I can see why little things were changed. Can’t wait to see the rest of the season!
the version of the 1st book i have has 22 chapters. based off of where we are in the show to the books, we would be 9 chapters in. thats about 40% of the book done in 2 out of 8 episodes. the problem with the show is that they wanna cram a whole detail-filled book into 8, 30 min episodes. so much so, that the show is suffering in detailed world building, character personality, and general book accurate scenes. if Disney (this was 100% Disney's fault, because they don't seem to want to be serious about the show.)keeps this up, the potential impact of later events wont be felt as great. and the show isn't gonna carry well.
@@virtualdominus5504 I think it's the opposite. If they already did 40% of the book in 2 episodes, it means the other 6 episodes are the 60% left. What I'm guessing is that they rushed the intro so they can go more in depth in the actual development of the quest and the story itself.
@@erikperhs_ that's probably why they did, im just mad Disney seems to want to force the show into 8 episodes, when they could have done it in 10, or at least make the 8 episodes an hour long each. The show, for me, is suffering a lot because it seems rushed. Many details about the camp, and the rest of the world, don't look like they'll be expanded on in the first season, and if the next seasons are like this, they'll lose a lot of potential. Kinda like when Game of thrones wanted to end the show with only 6 episodes, when it clearly need at least 10, or a whole new season.
Fun note on the contacts and hair colour stuff. When it came to Harry Potter it was said that Draco’s actor’s hair suffered a lot from the hair dye and Danielle suffered a lot from the contacts. Like their use is not really easy compared to what some people might think, so the industry takes a beat especially with child actors before having them used.
I love Leah as Annabeth, I think she embodies her perfectly. I will admit tho, I was a bit unsure about the casting because Annabeth's looks actually DO become kinda important later down the line. Of course we don't even know if they would ever adapt the Heroes of Olympus or Magnus Chase so rn it doesn't really matter. To just explain what I mean SPOILER for Magnus Chase . . . . . . . . . . If you read Magnus Chase, you know him and Annabeth are cousins, and I mean like on the human level. He's also described as a blonde. Magnus's mum is the sister of Annabeth's dad. And we find out there is another brother. All 3 of them apparently come from a line of some Nordic/Viking kings or something if I remember correctly so them being blonde and having overall Nordic characteristics makes sense. But of course, Rick was the one who approved everything so maybe he has an idea how to go around it if there would ever be a need.
I don't think they'll actually get out to Magnus Chase but if they do its easy enough to get around that by making it so Annabeth takes after Athena. It would even make sense and add to her complicated familial feelings if all her family and cousins look Nordic and her dad never talked about her mom.
I love videos like this. Having thoughtful analysis and discussion after the show. It's also good that one of you knows the source material and the other is new. You both can give different perspectives. Anyway, I love it so far. I agree with everyone with the pacing issue but I'm ready to ignore it as long as the core and the heart of the books were captured and so far it does. I'm looking forward to future episodes!
This episode is so fucking iconic lol Could they have given her grey contacts though? I had a friend back in middle school who had dark eyes like Leah does and she complained that when she tried to use colored contacts (I think they were blue) they didn't have any affect. Kinda like if you try to dye dark hair without bleaching it first. It won't show up
I hear what you're saying about different pantheons but though roman and Greek may be different skins of the same gods, other pantheons aren't different skins of Greek. To be fair, you may have not been trying to say that but I eye twitched a bit when you said Greek is the same as Egyptian, Orishan and Norse. But this is me likely reading more into that statement than was intended.
No no not at all, I was saying that each culture has a similar godlike being to one another, but DEFINITELY not the same. Each culture has their own rich and unique stories behind their gods. most have a “heaven/hell” like equivalent and so on etc stuff like that
I'm a bit confused because that's never really explicated in the books. They never talk about each god having an equivalent or parallel in different cultures. The only thing they say is that gods are different from God, which the show alr explained
@@cthulhuwu_ I was talking about the way he sounded in his reaction. In the books, different pantheons are different pantheons. I was making sure I was mistaken in the way I heard it.
the whole cut to black thing is cause of Hulu and the advertisements they have when they streaming the show live, then it doesn’t make sense cause cause is there they make the cuts like is a cable thing
Question isn´t Pegassus, in Greek mythology, the half-sibling of Percy Jackson? Because for those who know what happened to Medusa and Poseidon in the Greek mythology, all of you should know that Pegasus is Percy Jackson's half brother
I'm gonna be honest, the only thing that has bothered me in this series so far is one line. "You drool when you sleep." The cinematography made me uncomfy and the line delivery felt way to toneless and rehearsed. I've seen it like 4 times and it makes me physically twitch. I know its a very famous line from the book but at that point, just leave it out. Not a serious gripe, but my minor annoyance.
Changing Annabeth races has next to no import on her own story other of a small oint of disproving "dumb blonde" (which might be import so some readers who had deal with growing up). However it does have an impact on her Cousin story, Magnus Chase, as his race does matter in the story as identity is a major theme to his story. It probably can be written around but most would extract that to be ackwarder in it work around. But hey it not as bad as Fantastic four movie where the took Johnny and Susan storm who are twins and only chance one of their races
She's a newer actress, she'll get there but I think we need more on screen time with her. Rick seemed to be happy with her screen testing and performance so we gotta trust in that!
@@Matthewvhaynes I get that she's young. I hope she gets better with experience. I noticed the same thing in the first couple Harry Potter movies. I think it's just an experience thing.
I love the stilted why she speaks for the character, like she is calculateing everithing and waiting until she speaks, i think it's something she is doing not on accident becouse in other roles Leah is saying the lines differently
@@bsev1232yeah, additionally Annabeth was very direct and blunt and truthful when she would speak in the book. So I think the actress is doing the calculating thing and the very blunt matter-of-fact speech and it's coming off as stilted. I think it's a case of people don't know the source material and so WE are able to read between the lines and see that that is what the actress is attempting to do... whereas other people don't have that insight and context needed to understand that that's what's happening in Annabeth's mind. She chooses her words carefully. We know why ...but people who are coming in blind, don't. and so it just reads off as someone being stilted and wooden in their acting. 🤷♀️ But yeah I absolutely agree that she is a new actress and it might take a little bit of time to fully hit her groove within the character. I honestly think her acting is fine. Perfectly acceptable for a young actress... I've DEFINITELY seen worse.
The pacing on this show seems not polished Too much is happeneing to fast They should have taken time We cant feel the emotion for the scenes 5.5/10 currently honest opinion
Agreed. In defense of the show though, having only 8 episodes and all of them being less than an hour is unfortunately gonna lead to pacing issues. Hopefully if we get a season 2, the episodes will be longer or we'll just have more episodes period
The other thing I really can’t stand is the constant exposition. Like with Thalia or the ‘Forbidden children’. They couldn’t help but just have Luke monologue it all out instead of it naturally appearing as little dots of mystery throughout the story.
His charisma is 3-4/5. Think his dialogue didn’t show his character much and was too exposition-focused. I’m glad they didn’t foreshadow too vehemently to keep people guessing. I do wish they had kept slightly more mystery about Thalia. Luke could have had more sadness portrayed. I still think he could have his moment since Rick did such a good job with the trio dynamics. Luke was kinda invisible to me in the books outside of the triangle.
The acting is probably the thing that im the least worried about in this show. I think everyone does a very good job, especially Annabeth, Percy and Luke.
“I am your father peter” 😭😭😭😭 this series is so Fucking good everyone is doing amazing with the characters
COULDN'T AGREE MORE!
Luke: "He'll be ready, I know it."
Annabeth: "You're the one I've been waiting for."
Percy: *flossing*
LOVED that scene lol
@@Matthewvhaynes Why can I totally see Percy being a flosser lmao
Jason Mantzoukas as Mr. D is just perfection-
Honestly, I wasn't sure about it when I first heard the casting, but after seeing it I'm sold lol
The lowest price tier for Disney Plus now includes ads hence the cut to black moments for those who get the ads. I have the no ad subscription so it intially threw me off too 😕
I feel like Annabeth is a bit more chatty in the books since she's usually rattling off Greek mythology facts, but I'm assuming that aspect of her character is coming later. I do like her chemistry with Percy since I think Leah and Walker play off each other really well. I'm looking forward to seeing more of them.
I think the issues of some of the story feeling rushed/not as fleshed out as the book version are due to the fact that the first season was only given 8 episodes so they had to cram in a LOT of information as quickly as possible. 3 episodes at the camp would be too much I think, it makes more sense that they pack as much setup as they can into the first 2 and leave the rest for the quest. Unfortunately that doesn't leave time for every single detail to be covered (especially since the Luke & Percy relationship needs to be the main focus atm for spoiler reasons later) but like you said I think they're doing a good job for the timing constraints they have to work with
I FORGOT THEY HAD ADS NOW! 😭😭😭
I love how you looked at the screen when Percy said “I finally have some real friends” because uh Luke…
👀👀 lol
That's a spoiler.
f in the chats
Listen I respect him so much for not making ANY reactions to when she says something is going to be a big thing later on 😂
the way that i see the thing about annabeth's appearance is that 95% of the time her appearance is mentioned in the books, its thru percy trying to describe to us how beautiful she is to him. and if ykwim i dont think that has much to do with her physical appearance
Yeah Percy is crushing on her immediately and just calling her pretty constantly. Who cares what her race is. It truly isn’t going to matter
@maciedixon3983 it mater more Fer her Cousin, Magnus Chase as identity is a major theme in his story
@@geraldgrenier8132people could be adopted, and maybe the Chase family tree is mixed race somewhere? They could go that route regardless of if they make Magnus and Annabeth look similar or not
Loved the reaction! People are saying the pacing is fast. Now, I do agree but what are you going to do with like 27 chapters in 8 episodes? So I’m fine with it. Others need to realize not everything can be crammed in and things might need to be changed a little. I’m fine with the changes so far. It doesn’t ruin it. I can see why little things were changed. Can’t wait to see the rest of the season!
the version of the 1st book i have has 22 chapters. based off of where we are in the show to the books, we would be 9 chapters in. thats about 40% of the book done in 2 out of 8 episodes. the problem with the show is that they wanna cram a whole detail-filled book into 8, 30 min episodes. so much so, that the show is suffering in detailed world building, character personality, and general book accurate scenes. if Disney (this was 100% Disney's fault, because they don't seem to want to be serious about the show.)keeps this up, the potential impact of later events wont be felt as great. and the show isn't gonna carry well.
@@virtualdominus5504 I think it's the opposite. If they already did 40% of the book in 2 episodes, it means the other 6 episodes are the 60% left.
What I'm guessing is that they rushed the intro so they can go more in depth in the actual development of the quest and the story itself.
@@erikperhs_ that's probably why they did, im just mad Disney seems to want to force the show into 8 episodes, when they could have done it in 10, or at least make the 8 episodes an hour long each.
The show, for me, is suffering a lot because it seems rushed. Many details about the camp, and the rest of the world, don't look like they'll be expanded on in the first season, and if the next seasons are like this, they'll lose a lot of potential. Kinda like when Game of thrones wanted to end the show with only 6 episodes, when it clearly need at least 10, or a whole new season.
Fun note on the contacts and hair colour stuff. When it came to Harry Potter it was said that Draco’s actor’s hair suffered a lot from the hair dye and Danielle suffered a lot from the contacts. Like their use is not really easy compared to what some people might think, so the industry takes a beat especially with child actors before having them used.
Funny that you mentioned Deadpool because Walker is a big fan of Deadpool.
Yup!! I found it impressive he memorized the Deadpool script!
@@Matthewvhaynes people want him to play Kidpool.
I love Leah as Annabeth, I think she embodies her perfectly. I will admit tho, I was a bit unsure about the casting because Annabeth's looks actually DO become kinda important later down the line. Of course we don't even know if they would ever adapt the Heroes of Olympus or Magnus Chase so rn it doesn't really matter. To just explain what I mean SPOILER for Magnus Chase
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If you read Magnus Chase, you know him and Annabeth are cousins, and I mean like on the human level. He's also described as a blonde. Magnus's mum is the sister of Annabeth's dad. And we find out there is another brother. All 3 of them apparently come from a line of some Nordic/Viking kings or something if I remember correctly so them being blonde and having overall Nordic characteristics makes sense. But of course, Rick was the one who approved everything so maybe he has an idea how to go around it if there would ever be a need.
He could easily change that and make it not a direct 1:1 you know? Let’s see what he does!
How to fix that: Annabeth's father is blonde, meanwhile Athena is black. Problem solved :D
I don't think they'll actually get out to Magnus Chase but if they do its easy enough to get around that by making it so Annabeth takes after Athena. It would even make sense and add to her complicated familial feelings if all her family and cousins look Nordic and her dad never talked about her mom.
I love videos like this. Having thoughtful analysis and discussion after the show. It's also good that one of you knows the source material and the other is new. You both can give different perspectives. Anyway, I love it so far. I agree with everyone with the pacing issue but I'm ready to ignore it as long as the core and the heart of the books were captured and so far it does. I'm looking forward to future episodes!
what a great reaction!! love your different perspectives
Thank you so much!!
This episode is so fucking iconic lol
Could they have given her grey contacts though? I had a friend back in middle school who had dark eyes like Leah does and she complained that when she tried to use colored contacts (I think they were blue) they didn't have any affect. Kinda like if you try to dye dark hair without bleaching it first. It won't show up
I hear what you're saying about different pantheons but though roman and Greek may be different skins of the same gods, other pantheons aren't different skins of Greek. To be fair, you may have not been trying to say that but I eye twitched a bit when you said Greek is the same as Egyptian, Orishan and Norse. But this is me likely reading more into that statement than was intended.
No no not at all, I was saying that each culture has a similar godlike being to one another, but DEFINITELY not the same. Each culture has their own rich and unique stories behind their gods. most have a “heaven/hell” like equivalent and so on etc stuff like that
@@Matthewvhaynes fo sho, I figured as much. Great review
I'm a bit confused because that's never really explicated in the books. They never talk about each god having an equivalent or parallel in different cultures. The only thing they say is that gods are different from God, which the show alr explained
@@cthulhuwu_ I was talking about the way he sounded in his reaction. In the books, different pantheons are different pantheons. I was making sure I was mistaken in the way I heard it.
the whole cut to black thing is cause of Hulu and the advertisements they have when they streaming the show live, then it doesn’t make sense cause cause is there they make the cuts like is a cable thing
Question isn´t Pegassus, in Greek mythology, the half-sibling of Percy Jackson? Because for those who know what happened to Medusa and Poseidon in the Greek mythology, all of you should know that Pegasus is Percy Jackson's half brother
I think that they could have gave her blonde/light brown highlights in her braids, it would look cute and make her a little more book accurate
I'm gonna be honest, the only thing that has bothered me in this series so far is one line. "You drool when you sleep." The cinematography made me uncomfy and the line delivery felt way to toneless and rehearsed. I've seen it like 4 times and it makes me physically twitch. I know its a very famous line from the book but at that point, just leave it out. Not a serious gripe, but my minor annoyance.
I loved thouse 2 episodes
*me watching percy get bullied* almost threw hands with a twelve year old-
Changing Annabeth races has next to no import on her own story other of a small oint of disproving "dumb blonde" (which might be import so some readers who had deal with growing up). However it does have an impact on her Cousin story, Magnus Chase, as his race does matter in the story as identity is a major theme to his story. It probably can be written around but most would extract that to be ackwarder in it work around. But hey it not as bad as Fantastic four movie where the took Johnny and Susan storm who are twins and only chance one of their races
So much fun it's like a aquaman origin show
Leah Jeffries speech pattern is very stilted. It's almost as if she has to remember her lines as she speaks. I really hope she grows out of it.
She's a newer actress, she'll get there but I think we need more on screen time with her. Rick seemed to be happy with her screen testing and performance so we gotta trust in that!
@@Matthewvhaynes I get that she's young. I hope she gets better with experience. I noticed the same thing in the first couple Harry Potter movies. I think it's just an experience thing.
@@cbjfan99 oh definitely!
I love the stilted why she speaks for the character, like she is calculateing everithing and waiting until she speaks, i think it's something she is doing not on accident becouse in other roles Leah is saying the lines differently
@@bsev1232yeah, additionally Annabeth was very direct and blunt and truthful when she would speak in the book. So I think the actress is doing the calculating thing and the very blunt matter-of-fact speech and it's coming off as stilted. I think it's a case of people don't know the source material and so WE are able to read between the lines and see that that is what the actress is attempting to do... whereas other people don't have that insight and context needed to understand that that's what's happening in Annabeth's mind. She chooses her words carefully. We know why ...but people who are coming in blind, don't. and so it just reads off as someone being stilted and wooden in their acting. 🤷♀️
But yeah I absolutely agree that she is a new actress and it might take a little bit of time to fully hit her groove within the character. I honestly think her acting is fine. Perfectly acceptable for a young actress... I've DEFINITELY seen worse.
The pacing on this show seems not polished
Too much is happeneing to fast
They should have taken time
We cant feel the emotion for the scenes
5.5/10 currently honest opinion
Agreed. In defense of the show though, having only 8 episodes and all of them being less than an hour is unfortunately gonna lead to pacing issues. Hopefully if we get a season 2, the episodes will be longer or we'll just have more episodes period
The other thing I really can’t stand is the constant exposition. Like with Thalia or the ‘Forbidden children’. They couldn’t help but just have Luke monologue it all out instead of it naturally appearing as little dots of mystery throughout the story.
I can agree a bit on the pacing! But with the show being adapted from the book, there’s gonna be challenges
Luke's actor has the charisma of a tea spoon. Honestly, in the books Percy looks at him with such admiration but here he's just...... dull.
His charisma is 3-4/5. Think his dialogue didn’t show his character much and was too exposition-focused. I’m glad they didn’t foreshadow too vehemently to keep people guessing. I do wish they had kept slightly more mystery about Thalia. Luke could have had more sadness portrayed. I still think he could have his moment since Rick did such a good job with the trio dynamics. Luke was kinda invisible to me in the books outside of the triangle.
Yikes the acting is so baddddddd
Have you watched the episode or basing your opinion on the footage in the reaction? 🤔
Well, for a 12y boy, his better than some adults 😅
The acting is probably the thing that im the least worried about in this show. I think everyone does a very good job, especially Annabeth, Percy and Luke.
You’re not watching the same show as us. You must be watching the movie. 😂
@@valathor95 peter johnson, son of dionysus movies. commonly confused 😂