Fun fact: the actress playing Thalia was very close to Lance reddict (Zeus) so It's very heartwarming knowing someone close to the actor for Zeus gets to play he's Daughter. RIP Lance 😢
I feel like the casting for Poseidon in the show was super good. The only difference was hair color. Also they are always describing Percy as looking like him, and he and Walker look very similar.
Part 2 Sally Jackson: a woman that looks older than she is with long brown hair and blue eyes, striped apron, a kind personality Tyson: a cyclops with a muscular figure, medium length brown hair, one big brown eye, crooked sharp teeth, and a wide smile Piper McLean- teenage Native American girl with dark brown hair/ multi colored eyes / extremely pretty / brown skin / Hello Kitty t-shirt / jeans / sneakers Athena: a goddess with Olive Skin / black hair / grey eyes / bronze armor / white robes Dionysus: a god with curly black hair / purple eyes / beard / fat figure / leopard print Hawaiian shirt / shorts / socks and sandals / immature & grumpy Zoe Nightshade: teenage girl / Middle Eastern descent / dark brown hair / thin / stoic Bianca Di Angelo: teenage girl with black hair and olive skin / wearing a green beret / jacket / skirt / stockings / old timey shoes Reyna- teenage Latina girl with black hair tan skin, black eyes, golden armor, purple t-shirt, jeans, sandals, long cape Ethan Nakamura: a Japanese American teenage boy with glossy black hair/ a skinny figure / eye patch on his left eye/ wearing bronze armor and evil Estelle Blofis: a toddler with salt and pepper hair , and sea green eyes Apollo: a god who looks like a teenager with blond hair, blue eyes, athletic figure, white teeth, band t-shirt, jeans, flannel Artemis: a goddess who looks like a teenager, with red hair, freckles, yellow eyes, silver parka, leather boots, jeans Mrs. O’Leary: a giant black mastiff with red eyes
Not sure if or when we would get heroes of Olympus but to be honest I am looking really forward to see who they would pick for Piper McLean for the show!
Ngl same thing that happened to Morgan when reading hazels description happened to me when I read pipers description and didn’t realize she was Native American so the whole time I thought she was white until trials of Apollo came out and I decided to look at every characters wiki
The Nico one isn’t how I think of him like his shoulders are so broad in the ai picture. But Nico is like described to look like his entire diet is one grape a day
Regarding the casting of actors I can honestly ignore differences like Percy's blond/black hair. Like, the actor is more important than the hair colour (unless it's a crucial detail, like Snow White for example, considering in the German original fairy tale she is explicitly described with hair dark as ebony (and as a side tangent, that's my biggest problem with the coming live action Snow White movie. She is literally described as having skin white as snow. That's where the f-ing name comes from!))
I feel the same way about Snow White 😭 Like…Her whole thing is that she has “hair black as ebony and skin white as snow” Like…Seriously?! Her name is her description and you’re just going to ignore the description?! 😭😭😭
I don't really mind the difference because the show still feels really distinct from the show to me. Book Percy and Show Percy are two different character in my mind.
Actually Snow Whites hair is the only part of her that is discriped. I just looked up the text to check what I new already. Her mother whishes for a daughter white as snow, red as blood and black as ebony but Snow Whites skin is not mentioned to be white. Colors in fairtales are always symbolic. White could just refere to her heart. Also what about her hair? Her hair is far more her signature then her skin. I always pictured her hair very long and much more then her skin or her lips. That's why I never liked the short cut on the old Disney animation. One of the murder adempt by the Stepmother is putting a venemous comb in her hair which she dose by combning it. Still she is called Snow White not Black Ebony and the reason is not her skin but because she is pure and innocent. I grew up whiththe old fair tales and honestly I don't care about Snow White's skin color. Her skin could be blue and the story would still be the same. The core of the story is the jealousy and envy of the Stepmother not a skin color.
Unfortunately, i had some orange juice in my mouth, sitting in front of my laptop and as soon as I saw Grover, the entire orange juice content sprang out from my mouth, into my laptop( which was very expensive btw). Now i am commenting this from my phone. Thanks a lot!😃😄
I'm so glad you finally made this video! I know the Harry Potter/Wizarding World franchise is your favourite franchise but you should give the Percy Jackson/Riordanverse franchise some more love.
I wish they had given Leah Jeffries blonde braids. It would have just been an interesting to have a brown skin black girl with blonde hair. It would have been a nice visual way to show her feeling like an outsider. The movie Grover felt like someone who could pass as a teenager, but could also be a protector. Don’t get me wrong, I like tv Grover, he feels more like a companion, which I love. The AI got Clarisse right. I wish they could put the TV character head on the AI body. She would be perfect. (Not because the TV character is unattractive, because her acting is perfect!!!) Juniper is PERFECT!!! Just for fun. Do Thalia again, but this time write “thick black eyeliner.” Make eyeliner one word. I can say, the AI made Thalia look exactly the way most movie studios would cast her. Hazel’s eyes weren’t “gold” enough for me. They should have been like the color of her hair. You have to remember these are teens. So Jason is very accurate. If you do it again make him 21 and I bet he will look closer to what you imagine. I want you to do mom and stepdad. Percy’s mom is my favorite character (probably because I’m a mom). I’m just curious what the AI thinks.
The biggest complaint about the first Percy Jackson movie was Annabeth Chase didn't have blonde hair. So Disney recasts her as a black girl despite the book clearly indicating that she is white. Disney ruined Star Wars and now Percy Jackson. What next?
As a person of color myself (Afro-Latino ✌🏾) “Race-swapping” characters is kinda weird for me. On one hand, I don’t disagree that a character’s ethnicity or color of skin isn’t always integral to who they are, but on the other hand, it feels disingenuous to make characters more ethnically diverse to cater to audiences when that wasn’t how the character was envisioned by their author. It doesn’t help that the characters who get “race-swapped” are almost exclusively side characters and not the main characters, making it feel like people of color can only portray the less important characters in the story and not the protagonist. Like if the Percy Jackson crew went out of their way to race swap characters, why stop at only the side characters and not Percy himself? 🤷🏾♂️ Now, there are examples of race swapped characters I’ve enjoyed, Zoe Kravitz as Catwoman and Steve Toussaint as Corlys Velaryon to name some recent examples; but just because they cast these characters with black actors doesn’t mean I would’ve liked these characters any less had these actors not been cast in those roles. Personally, I think the ideal way to spotlight more diverse characters & actors is to adapt or create stories that actually feature characters of color; in fact, Rick Riordan himself wrote the Kane Chronicles, books in the world of Percy Jackson that follow a black protagonist (and his white sister) and feature multiple characters of color as well as Egyptian mythology. I understand that what gets adapted depends on popularity and not diversity, but there are definitely diverse stories out there that deserve an adaptation as much as Percy Jackson. My final point being that studios should want diversity, but should bring us that diversity through the projects they make, not by artificially inserting diversity where there was none to begin with; but that’s just my take 🤷🏾♂️ Bless you if you read all of this 👌🏾😂
They are demigods lol (and the first series is straight from Percy’s POV so there is his bias when it comes to descriptions). I kinda like the idea that godly blood kinda just gives you natural “good looks” (relative speaking) in the books.
@@giovanmorabonilla6400i mean, they can be not good looking by gods/demigods standard; the Maenads - Dionysus’ crazy girls, some Narcissus’ stans said that Leo is cute so… (and the first series was written from Percy’s POV, a kinda unreliable narrator, the only female demigod whose appearance was praised by him is Annabeth)
hi Morgan, i've been watching your videos since before covid and i never get tired of them. your a huge inspiration to me and you got me into Harry potter! every time you post, my day gets better. keep up the amazing work and congrats on being a soon to be dad! you and Cara are going to be amazing parents! - A fan and fellow Potterhead
When I read Percy Jackson, I mostly resorted to imagining the descriptions listed, I did envision a couple of movie depictions mainly Percy, Luke, and Chiron but it was hard to envision not only what they looked like but what they sounded like I found it hard to imagine different voices for everyone. I also intend to watch the show at some point if I can access it but I personally don’t mind the diversity casting as long as they act like the characters, though I found the casting for Annabeth interesting, I don’t mind that they made her black I just find it interesting because Annabeth’s blonde hair is one of her defining features specifically to defy the stereotype because she is the daughter of Athena and we all know what the blonde stereotype is.
Any aesthetic differences between the books and the show I chalk up to being a “different timeline”, meaning that it’s the same story, but with minor changes and moved up in time about a decade. Sort of like how Movie Flame has said he considers the HP movies as a separate timeline from the books for the same reasons
Honestly, while I do think the Disney series is a better adaptation than the movies I was still disappointed in it. There's just changes to the plot I don't really understand-and certainly don't improve the story so I'm kinda just confused on why those changes to the story were made. One particular change is how Gabe is presented. He's much more of a wimp in the series, and that makes his ultimate fate not feel nearly as deserved as the original. The casting was just okay for me. I think they all did great jobs but none of the actors in the show clicked for me. I don't think any of them were bad, but none of them really felt like they were the character. I don't know if that makes sense, but I always just felt like I was watching good acting, and never like "wow, that is actually (character)." As for how they look, I prefer them to look mostly like described, but small changes that can't be helped are fine. But the show is still good, and the acting is pretty good so it usually doesn't distract me, but some things are important to get right regardless. Like Clarisse being so large and physically strong is a big part in how she's so easily able to beat Percy at the wrestling training and get him into the bathroom to dunk his head in the toilet.
I can understand why Clarisse's looked a bit older. Her description was built like a rugby player. And typically when teenagers have muscle it can sometimes age them in the face a bit. I do think it's a little to old. Like the ai photo looked like in her later 20s earlier 30s.
I always love your videos! If you don’t mind can I suggest you make a video about the character counterparts of the Harry Potter, Percy Jackson, and Hunger Games series sometime in the future?
27:04 THAT FRINGE ON HADES THO 🤣 I also just wanted to mention, that as someone else with adhd, you shouldn’t be too hard on yourself, I find your tangents awesome. Love the content and Keep up the good work ❤️❤️
Frank Zhang is the character that learns he has a lot going for him that he doesn't realize how much of a somebody he is, sort of what Percy Jackson learns; but, at least Zhang didn't have to live in an especially toxic household with a mean step-father; if Frank Zhang had gone to the same schools as Percy, they wouldn't have to deal feeling that they were alone in their awkwardness and Zhang would've still eventually met Tyson much sooner if Zhang was not a Camp Jupiter kid, he could've had a lot to learn from that friendly Cyclops. Our hearts just goes out to Frank Z; Hazel, is one of my favorite characters, a sweet awesome girl whose one shortcoming is her cursed powers as the result of her mother's greed.
The truth is the movie was waaaaaaay more accurate to how the characters look than the disney series even to the point that Alexandra was forced to dye her hair blonde. When it comes to acting both groups gave 💯 only that the movies got bad direction and evil writers.
Agree. Also the movies were enjoyable, even though they were a bad adaptation because the story and characters made sense. My family didn't kmow anything about the franchise and they like both movies. But the TV series has so many things that make it unenjoyable. Some characters don't make sense (like a Demigod being black, which makes no sense, given they are all half greek) and the CGI is so bad compared to some much older movies/TV series and all newer (non-Disney live action movies/series).
I have started reading Percy Jackson last year and this year Heroes of Olympus and I absolutely enjoy it and I would love to see more videos about the life of of Percy Jackson characters
10:59 gotta give it up for Calypso. She gets the narrator of the first books series himself (Percy Jackson) to call her more beautiful than Aphrodite herself (and Aphrodite first appearance almost made Percy forget who he was just by looks alone)!
Morgan! First congratulations, man! You're going to be a great dad Secondly, if you do a Percy Jackson characters AI video part 2, I would really like to see Piper McLean. Piper and Sally let's see, piper, Sally, Quintus and Mrs o'leary!
In my personal opinion, as a fan of the Percy Jackson books and characters, I just want my favorite series to be accurate as close as possible when it comes to adapting on film or TV series. If the books has or says any description about the characters looks, skin color etc etc than I feel the creative team should find actors who looks like the characters as close as possible. I get what Rick Riordan was saying that "anybody can be hero" and stuff. However, when your books has established the characters appearance than you should be very aware that fans want to see their favorite characters to be as accurate as possible from both the books and their imagination. But overall the Percy Jackson TV series is still much better than those awful Percy Jackson movies though. Mainly because the TV series followed the book's storyline as close as possible. Which is why I'm looking forward to both The Sea of Monsters and The Titan's Curse (my personal favorite book in the series).
I'd argue that personality is much more important than looks. I'd much rather have an annabeth who acts like annabeth and is portrayed by an excellent actress who clearly really gets the character over an annabeth played by an actress who looks like annabeth but doesn't act nearly as well as the one we got
@@apersonwhomayormaynotexist9868 personality shouldn't matter at all as they're supposed to be doing their job which is acting like a totally different person, which essentially is what acting is all about. So no, they could've easily found actors that matched with the descriptions of their respective characters considering that it's produced by Disney
When they were in Kansas and him and Percy were trying to summon their horses Piper said he was taller than Percy so she felt Percy was a little underwhelming
I have nothing against the actress who is playing anabeth but it makes me "mad" or annoyed that they didn't bother to do something as simple as making her blonde so to at least have some resemblance to the actaul character
Especially since the movies didn’t really make her blond either. She had like blond streaks in the second one but she wasn’t fully blond and the first one she wasn’t blond at all. When will Annabeth finally be blond? 😭
Hi! I love ur content and I’m so glad that there’s a new PJO video but I think you forgot Piper or something. I love how they turned out I especially loved Nico and Calipso.
I just started rereading the series a few weeks ago. I loved it as a kid and read it many times. But I hadn’t read it in a while. I’ve barely been able to put it down!! Oh my gosh! I forgot how good it is! And Percy is SO HILARIOUS 😂 I forgot how truly funny he is. So perfect timing for this video!
If only Disney and Riordan weren't completely taken over by "wokeness" and stayed faithful to the characters' descriptions as they should've, then it would've been perfect. The actors are supposed to at least try to look like their respective characters that they are portraying; that's one of the main things about making a successful adaptation. Such a shame that Riordan decided to show the side of him that's falling apart and is on his way to ruining his own franchise smh
I personally cannot imagine a character in real life from Percy Jackson I always imagine them as the official art or fanart. To me they just look better that way.
So this just confirmed I've been pronouncing Thalia right this whole time and I thought I was just being stubborn because I didn't wanna call her "Tahlia" 😭
tbh, as an artist. I don't see any problem in generating images with AI, as long as it is not called ''art'' or used for commercial ways, ''realistic'' ai generated images are really harmless
The casting for the show was terrible. Not only were the looks all wrong but the performances themselves weren’t good. I never finished the first season because of how badly I perceived the character portrayals
I can't really imagine book characters as real people. I always imagine them as 2d or animated characters. Specifically the official art
@@AhmedHussain-ju6xd annabeth, percy and Luke were on dot
SAME! Really wish Disney had splurged on an animated series.
Literally
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@@OpticalSorcerer THATS WHAT I SAID 😭😭
Fun fact: the actress playing Thalia was very close to Lance reddict (Zeus) so It's very heartwarming knowing someone close to the actor for Zeus gets to play he's Daughter. RIP Lance 😢
finally, a percy jackson video after an eternity 😭
Yasss
I know I been look for ages
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yeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeesssssss😊😊😊😊
It took 5 freaking months
I feel like the casting for Poseidon in the show was super good. The only difference was hair color. Also they are always describing Percy as looking like him, and he and Walker look very similar.
So what you’re saying is Ryan Reynolds should have been Poseidon.
@@yanyanzhang5813 lol I actually think Toby Stephens looks similar to Walker as well.
The actress for Clairese in the movie, was WAAAAAY too hot for the role.
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She was only 23
Yes omg someone finally said it
So what are your thoughts on the actress playing her in the show?
@@thanthar-j6s Clarisse is like 18💀
Fun fact:Jason got the scar on his lip from trying to eat a stapler 😂
ULTIMATE SHOWDOWN
Jason x Stapler?
Or
Jason x Brick?
@@bean5254Brason.
Part 2
Sally Jackson: a woman that looks older than she is with long brown hair and blue eyes, striped apron, a kind personality
Tyson: a cyclops with a muscular figure, medium length brown hair, one big brown eye, crooked sharp teeth, and a wide smile
Piper McLean- teenage Native American girl with dark brown hair/ multi colored eyes / extremely pretty / brown skin / Hello Kitty t-shirt / jeans / sneakers
Athena: a goddess with Olive Skin / black hair / grey eyes / bronze armor / white robes
Dionysus: a god with curly black hair / purple eyes / beard / fat figure / leopard print Hawaiian shirt / shorts / socks and sandals / immature & grumpy
Zoe Nightshade: teenage girl / Middle Eastern descent / dark brown hair / thin / stoic
Bianca Di Angelo: teenage girl with black hair and olive skin / wearing a green beret / jacket / skirt / stockings / old timey shoes
Reyna- teenage Latina girl with black hair tan skin, black eyes, golden armor, purple t-shirt, jeans, sandals, long cape
Ethan Nakamura: a Japanese American teenage boy with glossy black hair/ a skinny figure / eye patch on his left eye/ wearing bronze armor and evil
Estelle Blofis: a toddler with salt and pepper hair , and sea green eyes
Apollo: a god who looks like a teenager with blond hair, blue eyes, athletic figure, white teeth, band t-shirt, jeans, flannel
Artemis: a goddess who looks like a teenager, with red hair, freckles, yellow eyes, silver parka, leather boots, jeans
Mrs. O’Leary: a giant black mastiff with red eyes
Not sure if or when we would get heroes of Olympus but to be honest I am looking really forward to see who they would pick for Piper McLean for the show!
Multicolered kaleidoscope eyes*
Ngl same thing that happened to Morgan when reading hazels description happened to me when I read pipers description and didn’t realize she was Native American so the whole time I thought she was white until trials of Apollo came out and I decided to look at every characters wiki
you forgot estelle
What about Tyson
Ay, no piper? My Favourite was actually Rachel as Ai an i did absolutely not picture annabeth the way ai did.
I was gonna ask about Piper, too!
I’m actually okay with no Piper, I feel like The Burning Maze ruined her for me.
The Nico one isn’t how I think of him like his shoulders are so broad in the ai picture. But Nico is like described to look like his entire diet is one grape a day
yeah
If he was skinnier he would’ve been perfect. When I saw Nico’s AI I literally yelled “YES!” Because it was so perfect 😂
@ yeah fr
One grape a day 😭😭 I'm ded!!
@ that’s what it said ✨
6:30 looks like the AI threw the “teenage girl” prompt out the window, lol.
Regarding the casting of actors I can honestly ignore differences like Percy's blond/black hair. Like, the actor is more important than the hair colour (unless it's a crucial detail, like Snow White for example, considering in the German original fairy tale she is explicitly described with hair dark as ebony (and as a side tangent, that's my biggest problem with the coming live action Snow White movie. She is literally described as having skin white as snow. That's where the f-ing name comes from!))
I feel the same way about Snow White 😭 Like…Her whole thing is that she has “hair black as ebony and skin white as snow” Like…Seriously?! Her name is her description and you’re just going to ignore the description?! 😭😭😭
I don't really mind the difference because the show still feels really distinct from the show to me. Book Percy and Show Percy are two different character in my mind.
Snow White hair color does not matter. It is her skin tone because because she is pale like snow.
Actually Snow Whites hair is the only part of her that is discriped. I just looked up the text to check what I new already. Her mother whishes for a daughter white as snow, red as blood and black as ebony but Snow Whites skin is not mentioned to be white. Colors in fairtales are always symbolic. White could just refere to her heart. Also what about her hair? Her hair is far more her signature then her skin. I always pictured her hair very long and much more then her skin or her lips. That's why I never liked the short cut on the old Disney animation. One of the murder adempt by the Stepmother is putting a venemous comb in her hair which she dose by combning it. Still she is called Snow White not Black Ebony and the reason is not her skin but because she is pure and innocent. I grew up whiththe old fair tales and honestly I don't care about Snow White's skin color. Her skin could be blue and the story would still be the same. The core of the story is the jealousy and envy of the Stepmother not a skin color.
@@paulodelima5705 Her skin dose not matter either. It never says it is white. It says she is white which could refere to her heart.
Piper, Reyna, Will, Apollo?
Meg? Bianca? Tyson?
Dude, Hades just looks like Emo Henry Cavill
The AI picture of Nico reaally reminded me of Snape, Nico is basically little Snape to some extent😭
I think hades 100% reminded me of snape
@Chocchiccookie Oh my gosh truue, I didn't think of that!
Unfortunately, i had some orange juice in my mouth, sitting in front of my laptop and as soon as I saw Grover, the entire orange juice content sprang out from my mouth, into my laptop( which was very expensive btw). Now i am commenting this from my phone. Thanks a lot!😃😄
😭😭😭😭 rest in peace laptop you shall be missed
Lol i too was like that lucky i didn't have anything in my mouth 🫣
LMAO
I'm so glad you finally made this video!
I know the Harry Potter/Wizarding World franchise is your favourite franchise but you should give the Percy Jackson/Riordanverse franchise some more love.
True. Both are good, though.
Thanks for the Percy Jackson content after such a long time!
If you want to see the most book accurate character designs, check out the PJO fan arts. Which does an incredible job at this.
Thanks for this comment
If that is Calypso I would stay on a island for her.
Percy looks like a perfect combination of the two
I wish they had given Leah Jeffries blonde braids. It would have just been an interesting to have a brown skin black girl with blonde hair. It would have been a nice visual way to show her feeling like an outsider.
The movie Grover felt like someone who could pass as a teenager, but could also be a protector. Don’t get me wrong, I like tv Grover, he feels more like a companion, which I love.
The AI got Clarisse right. I wish they could put the TV character head on the AI body. She would be perfect. (Not because the TV character is unattractive, because her acting is perfect!!!)
Juniper is PERFECT!!!
Just for fun. Do Thalia again, but this time write “thick black eyeliner.” Make eyeliner one word. I can say, the AI made Thalia look exactly the way most movie studios would cast her.
Hazel’s eyes weren’t “gold” enough for me. They should have been like the color of her hair.
You have to remember these are teens. So Jason is very accurate. If you do it again make him 21 and I bet he will look closer to what you imagine.
I want you to do mom and stepdad. Percy’s mom is my favorite character (probably because I’m a mom). I’m just curious what the AI thinks.
after all the hate leah received after being cast. i hope she doesn’t give y’all blonde braids!
@@immaan3 fr she shouldn't fold like the actress for the pjo movies who got hate for her brown hair then dyed it blonde
10:10 i have always imagined messy and curly hair since nico is Italian
The biggest complaint about the first Percy Jackson movie was Annabeth Chase didn't have blonde hair. So Disney recasts her as a black girl despite the book clearly indicating that she is white. Disney ruined Star Wars and now Percy Jackson. What next?
As a person of color myself (Afro-Latino ✌🏾) “Race-swapping” characters is kinda weird for me. On one hand, I don’t disagree that a character’s ethnicity or color of skin isn’t always integral to who they are, but on the other hand, it feels disingenuous to make characters more ethnically diverse to cater to audiences when that wasn’t how the character was envisioned by their author.
It doesn’t help that the characters who get “race-swapped” are almost exclusively side characters and not the main characters, making it feel like people of color can only portray the less important characters in the story and not the protagonist. Like if the Percy Jackson crew went out of their way to race swap characters, why stop at only the side characters and not Percy himself? 🤷🏾♂️
Now, there are examples of race swapped characters I’ve enjoyed, Zoe Kravitz as Catwoman and Steve Toussaint as Corlys Velaryon to name some recent examples; but just because they cast these characters with black actors doesn’t mean I would’ve liked these characters any less had these actors not been cast in those roles.
Personally, I think the ideal way to spotlight more diverse characters & actors is to adapt or create stories that actually feature characters of color; in fact, Rick Riordan himself wrote the Kane Chronicles, books in the world of Percy Jackson that follow a black protagonist (and his white sister) and feature multiple characters of color as well as Egyptian mythology.
I understand that what gets adapted depends on popularity and not diversity, but there are definitely diverse stories out there that deserve an adaptation as much as Percy Jackson.
My final point being that studios should want diversity, but should bring us that diversity through the projects they make, not by artificially inserting diversity where there was none to begin with; but that’s just my take 🤷🏾♂️
Bless you if you read all of this 👌🏾😂
I feel like either "attractive", "handsome" or "pretty" appear in almost every description...
They are demigods lol (and the first series is straight from Percy’s POV so there is his bias when it comes to descriptions). I kinda like the idea that godly blood kinda just gives you natural “good looks” (relative speaking) in the books.
@@redlox2 isn't the description of the hephastus cabin in book two to be "not good looking" because they are hephastus' kids?
@@giovanmorabonilla6400i mean, they can be not good looking by gods/demigods standard; the Maenads - Dionysus’ crazy girls, some Narcissus’ stans said that Leo is cute so…
(and the first series was written from Percy’s POV, a kinda unreliable narrator, the only female demigod whose appearance was praised by him is Annabeth)
hi Morgan,
i've been watching your videos since before covid and i never get tired of them.
your a huge inspiration to me and you got me into Harry potter! every time you post, my day gets better.
keep up the amazing work and congrats on being a soon to be dad! you and Cara are going to be amazing parents!
- A fan and fellow Potterhead
Tbh I see the fan art of these characters as what they would look like expecially percy
18:02 Frank is giving me vibes of Minho from Maze Runner
Wait- hollup why is this so true?!
@That_randomSwiftie right?!
he always gave for me
I see it
When I read Percy Jackson, I mostly resorted to imagining the descriptions listed, I did envision a couple of movie depictions mainly Percy, Luke, and Chiron but it was hard to envision not only what they looked like but what they sounded like I found it hard to imagine different voices for everyone. I also intend to watch the show at some point if I can access it but I personally don’t mind the diversity casting as long as they act like the characters, though I found the casting for Annabeth interesting, I don’t mind that they made her black I just find it interesting because Annabeth’s blonde hair is one of her defining features specifically to defy the stereotype because she is the daughter of Athena and we all know what the blonde stereotype is.
AI forgot abt the punk part in Thalia 😭😭
You should do a part 2 and include chiron, Mr D, Zoe nightshade, Sally Jackson, the stolls twins, the gods and titans!
27:07 Hades looks almost exactly like Snape 😂
🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣 so trueeee!
The crazy thing about Luke Castelen is the audiobooks make him sound like a surfer but he’s from Connecticut.
Any aesthetic differences between the books and the show I chalk up to being a “different timeline”, meaning that it’s the same story, but with minor changes and moved up in time about a decade. Sort of like how Movie Flame has said he considers the HP movies as a separate timeline from the books for the same reasons
Honestly, while I do think the Disney series is a better adaptation than the movies I was still disappointed in it. There's just changes to the plot I don't really understand-and certainly don't improve the story so I'm kinda just confused on why those changes to the story were made. One particular change is how Gabe is presented. He's much more of a wimp in the series, and that makes his ultimate fate not feel nearly as deserved as the original.
The casting was just okay for me. I think they all did great jobs but none of the actors in the show clicked for me. I don't think any of them were bad, but none of them really felt like they were the character. I don't know if that makes sense, but I always just felt like I was watching good acting, and never like "wow, that is actually (character)."
As for how they look, I prefer them to look mostly like described, but small changes that can't be helped are fine. But the show is still good, and the acting is pretty good so it usually doesn't distract me, but some things are important to get right regardless. Like Clarisse being so large and physically strong is a big part in how she's so easily able to beat Percy at the wrestling training and get him into the bathroom to dunk his head in the toilet.
The musical continues to be the most faithful adaptation
I have blue eyes myself and I never heard the phrase electric blue eyes as an description 😂
This is what I've been waiting for
Thank you for the upload
I love this video, it's so fun to see how the characters would actually look based on the description and I'm so glad you included frank's glow up 😂
Not him forgetting Piper 😭😭😭
I can understand why Clarisse's looked a bit older. Her description was built like a rugby player. And typically when teenagers have muscle it can sometimes age them in the face a bit. I do think it's a little to old. Like the ai photo looked like in her later 20s earlier 30s.
I always love your videos!
If you don’t mind can I suggest you make a video about the character counterparts of the Harry Potter, Percy Jackson, and Hunger Games series sometime in the future?
hunger games mentioned
The AI Zeus looks like Keanu Reeves as John Wick.
27:04 THAT FRINGE ON HADES THO 🤣
I also just wanted to mention, that as someone else with adhd, you shouldn’t be too hard on yourself, I find your tangents awesome.
Love the content and Keep up the good work ❤️❤️
Frank Zhang is the character that learns he has a lot going for him that he doesn't realize how much of a somebody he is, sort of what Percy Jackson learns; but, at least Zhang didn't have to live in an especially toxic household with a mean step-father; if Frank Zhang had gone to the same schools as Percy, they wouldn't have to deal feeling that they were alone in their awkwardness and Zhang would've still eventually met Tyson much sooner if Zhang was not a Camp Jupiter kid, he could've had a lot to learn from that friendly Cyclops. Our hearts just goes out to Frank Z; Hazel, is one of my favorite characters, a sweet awesome girl whose one shortcoming is her cursed powers as the result of her mother's greed.
You should do percy jackson characters from tallest to shortest like you did with Harry Potter.😅
Its November so merry Christmas cuz we don’t celebrate Thanksgiving where I live 😭
The truth is the movie was waaaaaaay more accurate to how the characters look than the disney series even to the point that Alexandra was forced to dye her hair blonde. When it comes to acting both groups gave 💯 only that the movies got bad direction and evil writers.
Agree. Also the movies were enjoyable, even though they were a bad adaptation because the story and characters made sense. My family didn't kmow anything about the franchise and they like both movies.
But the TV series has so many things that make it unenjoyable. Some characters don't make sense (like a Demigod being black, which makes no sense, given they are all half greek) and the CGI is so bad compared to some much older movies/TV series and all newer (non-Disney live action movies/series).
Can you make a video where you show what Percy Jackson characters would see in the mirror of erised?
I have started reading Percy Jackson last year and this year Heroes of Olympus and I absolutely enjoy it and I would love to see more videos about the life of of Percy Jackson characters
Go for trials of Apollo and Magnu too! my favs
And Kane chronicles!!!
If it took Morgan this long to upload a Percy Jackson episode, then he was definitely on Long Island.
10:59 gotta give it up for Calypso. She gets the narrator of the first books series himself (Percy Jackson) to call her more beautiful than Aphrodite herself (and Aphrodite first appearance almost made Percy forget who he was just by looks alone)!
I always pictured Zeus with longer hair
Always love another percy jackson video
Morgan! First congratulations, man! You're going to be a great dad
Secondly, if you do a Percy Jackson characters AI video part 2, I would really like to see Piper McLean. Piper and Sally let's see, piper, Sally, Quintus and Mrs o'leary!
In my personal opinion, as a fan of the Percy Jackson books and characters, I just want my favorite series to be accurate as close as possible when it comes to adapting on film or TV series. If the books has or says any description about the characters looks, skin color etc etc than I feel the creative team should find actors who looks like the characters as close as possible. I get what Rick Riordan was saying that "anybody can be hero" and stuff. However, when your books has established the characters appearance than you should be very aware that fans want to see their favorite characters to be as accurate as possible from both the books and their imagination.
But overall the Percy Jackson TV series is still much better than those awful Percy Jackson movies though. Mainly because the TV series followed the book's storyline as close as possible. Which is why I'm looking forward to both The Sea of Monsters and The Titan's Curse (my personal favorite book in the series).
I'd argue that personality is much more important than looks. I'd much rather have an annabeth who acts like annabeth and is portrayed by an excellent actress who clearly really gets the character over an annabeth played by an actress who looks like annabeth but doesn't act nearly as well as the one we got
@apersonwhomayormaynotexist9868 I respect that. I personally like to have both though.
@@apersonwhomayormaynotexist9868 personality shouldn't matter at all as they're supposed to be doing their job which is acting like a totally different person, which essentially is what acting is all about. So no, they could've easily found actors that matched with the descriptions of their respective characters considering that it's produced by Disney
The way you had the pictures of the two adaptations of Annabeth up while describing her appearance I just thought of a skin tone gradient.
This may be too controversial but I'm not a fan of characters not looking how they do in books on the big screen.
No Piper McLean?
no 😔😔
I hate it here!
Is it only me who whenever thought of Rachel there mind went like Saddie Sink.
imagine if they tried to do 2D animation with characters describe exactly what the book said that wld be perfect
Ahh I love the Percy Jackson show and books so much!! I can't wait for the second season of the Percy Jackson show!!
20:57 I didn’t know that he was ever described as being taller and more fit than Percy but that’s hilarious
When they were in Kansas and him and Percy were trying to summon their horses Piper said he was taller than Percy so she felt Percy was a little underwhelming
Great video, love this format.
It's always a good day when Morgan drops a new video!!
Could you maybe do Marvel characters or Star Wars characters with this? These are honestly so enjoyable :)
Please you should continue reviewing new series and films of the topics you cover, for eg., MCU, DC, Star Wars, etc.
I have nothing against the actress who is playing anabeth but it makes me "mad" or annoyed that they didn't bother to do something as simple as making her blonde so to at least have some resemblance to the actaul character
Especially since the movies didn’t really make her blond either. She had like blond streaks in the second one but she wasn’t fully blond and the first one she wasn’t blond at all. When will Annabeth finally be blond? 😭
20:24 yeah for a min bc I’m TOA it says “franks weight caught up to him, he was big girthy and looked like a sumu wrestler”
24:35 thats giving me more of a hades vibe but still prrty good
Hi! I love ur content and I’m so glad that there’s a new PJO video but I think you forgot Piper or something. I love how they turned out I especially loved Nico and Calipso.
I just started rereading the series a few weeks ago. I loved it as a kid and read it many times. But I hadn’t read it in a while. I’ve barely been able to put it down!! Oh my gosh! I forgot how good it is! And Percy is SO HILARIOUS 😂 I forgot how truly funny he is. So perfect timing for this video!
OMG nico looks exactly how i pictured him!
Correction: one adaptation is terrible the other one is even worse
I go "ugh" whenever it's a Piper chapter. Leo is my 9th glorious king.
If only Disney and Riordan weren't completely taken over by "wokeness" and stayed faithful to the characters' descriptions as they should've, then it would've been perfect. The actors are supposed to at least try to look like their respective characters that they are portraying; that's one of the main things about making a successful adaptation. Such a shame that Riordan decided to show the side of him that's falling apart and is on his way to ruining his own franchise smh
Ahhh you finally uploaded a PJO vid.
It’s been so long.
Thanks😃
I personally cannot imagine a character in real life from Percy Jackson I always imagine them as the official art or fanart. To me they just look better that way.
What about Piper? Where is Piper?
I was just about to comment 'Do this for the MCU.' 😅
So this just confirmed I've been pronouncing Thalia right this whole time and I thought I was just being stubborn because I didn't wanna call her "Tahlia" 😭
I always pictured Leo as cartoonish
I have a feeling some of this is gonna be problematic and some people are gonna be mad
Who cares? Those people are mad at everything.
tbh, as an artist. I don't see any problem in generating images with AI, as long as it is not called ''art'' or used for commercial ways, ''realistic'' ai generated images are really harmless
Waiting for this one, you did harry potter and hunger games so this was a matter of time.
Jake Abel as Luke was pretty accurate to that description, minus the scar. Which the AI version didn’t have either
The fact that Morgan didn't realize that Hazel was Black African just tickles me to no end! 😂🤣
You should do a comparison video of all theses characters when they are “all grown up” as it would show their growth in character
...excuse you! Where have you lost Reyna?!
Fun fact there is a comic about Percy Jackson and it's amazing
I love these types of videos! Im also glad for more pjo content :)
Another amazing Percy Jackson video, keep the good work Morgan 🧡🧡🧡🧡🧡🧡🧡🧡🧡🧡
well hazel going to a school for black and brown people so😭
Ngl Clarisse looks pretty similar to how I imagined her
17:24 All of that description definitely came from Leos perspective 💀💀💀😂😂😂
Not the dancing scene 😂 4:28
Saw your newest post! Congratulations!
I think walker is what I expected a young Jason to look like
The casting for the show was terrible. Not only were the looks all wrong but the performances themselves weren’t good. I never finished the first season because of how badly I perceived the character portrayals
"Alexandra Daddario? I think that's her name"
Nice touch. 😂
Blonde annabeth where? I’m still waiting
i've looked at se much nico di angelo fan art that my brain has just created a marterpece