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percy jackson showrunner claims that "all the seasons are book accurate"

i thought all the changes you made to the story are "for the better" since the source material is "problematic", but somehow it's still "book accurate"? so which one is it?

#anti pjo #anti pjotv #pjotv crit #pjo crit #pjo critical #pjo show crit #anti percy jackson

bvckbiter

pjotv fans will straight up tell you the show is making the female characters so much more complex even though they scrubbed sally's story free off gabe's abuse and do the same for clarisse's fear of ares because hes primarily goofy as hell now and made annabeth a robot child soldier who needs to be taught how to be human and removed any of thalia's internal conflict of how she sees herself in relation to zeus and ultra-villified athena before she even actually appears in the story and canonized the ovid interpretation of medusa while sanitizing poseidon and finally created an original female character whose sole purpose is to absorb all of luke's villainous qualities so he can appear sympathetic without the villains' side losing its edge. did i miss anything

bvckbiter

i also forgot to mention my very personal beef with the makeup department constantly putting annabeth and clarisse in very heavy makeup. god forbid the teenage girls dont have the perfect berry-shaded lip combo while SAILING AND FIGHTING ON OPEN WATER FOR DAYS AT A TIME

theriseoftheangel

Not to mention that both Clarisse and Annabeth would never even willingly put on makeup😭 Its insane to have a face full of makeup in a freaking summer camp and certainly during a mission where theyre contributing to saving the world

it's official. the show's third season will premiere on nov 20, one day after GTA VI and same day as SOTR

while yes, they are a game and a movie -- GTA VI is the most hyped game release this year with more than a decade of build up, while SOTR has a stacked cast (ralph fiennes, maya hawke, elle fanning, kieran culkin, even cameos from jennifer lawrence and josh hutcherson) -- the media are gonna focus on both of them instead of the third season of an already existing show, which already lacks the marketing push for a supposedly flagship IP for disney

#anti pjo #anti percy jackson #anti pjo fandom #anti pjotv #anti rick riordan #anti riordan

fleetnflorpn

obsession (2026) official posters

nessa007

so i just saw obsession

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Just saw the interview where Curry Barker explained that it's totally possible to get a normal wish from the One Wish Willow, and I love the way they did that so much. The reason Obsession happened isn't because it's trying to twist Bear's desires into something evil. It's not even because he phrased his want wrong. Obsession happened because Bear got his hands on a magic item that could do anything in existence, and chose to force someone to fall in love with him, which is an inherently evil thing to do.

modernmusess

there’s something so gutwrenching about the fact that the female characters in obsession have real dreams and wishes but never get the chance to see them realized, while both male characters waste their wishes on short-term selfish satisfaction. they were complex, free-spirited young women who just wanted to create art, and they were destroyed by a man determined to confine them to his superficial perception of them. nikki wanted to be a writer, sarah wanted to be a tattoo artist and now neither of them will get to be anything at all

dishvnored

I was never with you.

officialdietcoke

on my second viewing of obsession, i had the realization that nikki’s story at the party wasn’t the movie using incest as an easy shorthand for making the audience uncomfortable or creating a general “things are off” vibe but was another way the real nikki was crying out—a metaphor for the fact that nikki, like gretel, is being made to fuck her “little brother” (bear) under duress, at the behest of an external magic (the witch’s spell in her story; obviously, bear’s wish)

smilesbag

i feel like people are overlooking the moment at the beginning of obsession where nikki straight up asks "do you like me?" and once bear lies and says no she replies "ok, good." for starters, it was a chilling moment to me because this is such a classic experience of having a close guy friend, only to realize that he wants more from you. girls aren't dumb! nikki isn't dumb! of course she knows that bear is into her, she has eyes! she can see his stuttering and sheepishness and she's just dreading the moment she has to turn him down, to tell him that he's like a brother to her. just before she had told him that she doesn't feel real love in her life, and i don't think it would be a leap to attribute a small part of that feeling to her fear that her friendship with bear isn't as simple as she wants it to be.

it's also a chilling question from nikki because once she walks away bear knows that she doesn't feel the same way about him, and he makes the wish anyway. he is incapable or unwilling to take a hint and see that she doesn't feel the same way. and that question is the last thing she says to him before he ruins her life forever. it's unfair.

summerbrook

it is terrifying that bear only sought to "alter" his wish rather than cancelling it but what is even more terrifying is that he wouldn't even have called the number had nikki not inconvenienced him. if she did not act in such extreme ways bear wouldn't even have a problem. which is sooooo sooooo terrifying because he was completely fine living and being "loved" by nikki who he knew wasn't the real her. he claimed to love her, but even when she started acting like a totally different person it was water off a duck's back for him. he DIDN'T CARE whether it was the real nikki or an entirely different person.

even when she begs him to kill her, he does not feel even a shred of pity for her; he only worries "is being with me that bad".

the only reason he tries to change anything is because her behavior started to scare him FREAK him out. had she acted in a meeker way, bear would've lived with her HIS WHOLE LIFE knowing she ISN'T the real nikki NOT GIVING A FUCK about what she would've wanted. PERIOD.

the more i sit with it the more i realise that the title of the movie did not refer to nikki's obsession with bear but rather his obsession with her. because i know fs that what he felt for her definitely wasn't love.

acefuruya

nikki breaks my heart so bad because in the brief moments we see her before the wish kicks in, she's so cool and funny, clearly kindhearted, very driven about her future (telling bear about how she was going to quit her job to focus on her writing), and also very sure of herself as a person. ive seen people describe this movie as "mean-spirited" and I think thats so apt because it was a 2 hour long tragedy of the torture of this innocent girl, taking away everything she's ever had, including her own sense of self, putting her through unimaginable horrors, and leaving her with nothing except the three dead bodies of her friends, with the one who she trusted most being the one who did this to her. nothing for her to look for hope in, because she has nothing before her except a lifetime in prison or in an institution. it would be one thing if the movie ended on a note like weapons, where everything was over and there would hopefully be recovery somewhere down the line, but here, not only was the evil not committed by a random stranger but her closest friend, but she doesn't get any chance at recovery either. so goddamn tragic. on that note, if anyone can come up with some sort of fix-it for nikki please link it to me because I will be crying about this girl forever.

drbigsadbabymd-blog

What. It's not "mean-spirited" or unresolved or bad, it's...I don't know even know where to begin explaining why there's artistic merit to an unhappy ending.

This post acts like Obsession is needlessly gratuitous torture porn thats upsetting for cheap shock value and not, y'know, a movie about the horror of male entitlement, exploitation, robbing women of autonomy/agency, etc. The ending is thematically relevent: it's commentary on how men like Bear harm women with their selfish behavior! If Nikki is not the victim, the movie is misogynistic. If Nikki gets a happy ending, it lets Bear off the hook by minimizing the consequences of his choices!

Like it doesn't need to be fixed. If you "fix it", it ruins the themes of the story in a pretty fucked up way. I'm so frustrated by this take.

starvariety

oh and another thing that devastates me about Obsession is how much nikki is judged and blamed by those around her. sarah and ian repeatedly telling bear that he shouldn’t have to deal with her, that she’s not his responsibility, that they’re worried she’s taking advantage of him. as if they aren’t also her friends, as if they shouldn’t know her well enough to notice something is off. there’s no concern for why nikki is behaving the way she is, there’s just distain towards it. she starts acting out of character and so it must all be intentional. but bear doesn’t get questioned. bear isn’t gossiped about. nikki loses all her agency and autonomy, and all she gets for it is judgment

starvariety

if i think too hard about nikki’s experience in Obsession i feel physically ill. imagine one second you’re just walking up to your house after a night out, and then the next, you’re looking out of your own body, but you’re not longer in control. you’re a prisoner to a terrible, unnatural version of yourself that only exists because of a choice someone else made. when you scream, nobody listens. when you claw your way out for long enough to explain that this isn’t you, nobody listens. when you beg the man who trapped you in this situation to put and end to it, to set your free, he just. doesn’t. listen. and then when you do finally regain control, all your friends are dead, and you are covered in their blood. because of a choice someone else made

antopazas

It’s actually made worse because it’s not just ‘someone’. It’s a person she considers a friend, a person she loves. And this person decides that her type of platonic love isn’t enough, and that because he feels differently he doesn’t need to act like a friend at all.

tankhall

saw obsession for the third time tonight. greatest score of the decade, i cried this go around. my golden rule of horror is that if you want it to be scary, it has to be sad, and cast and crew nailed it. i love movies.

transverbation000

ill always stand by the idea that the scariest feeling is being in deep sadness and alienation which seemingly doesn't have an end or an exit. scarier than any jumpscare or murderer.