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It’s so funny to me seeing people complain about how the PJO show is butchering the characters and story of the og series, as if HoO didn’t already do that.

saltyoldfan

justaz

“but hey that’s life and life ain’t fair” like they just get him on such an unbelievable level. pjo musical could’ve written hoo and made it phenomenal. rr could never write pjo musical

“i did everything they ever asked, yeah, i did. and for what?…it doesn’t pay to be a good kid, a good kid, a good son.” THEY JUST GET IT.

#i've said it once and i'll say it again #whoever wrote the pjo musical sounds more like rick riordan than rick riordan sounds like rick riordan

tippytaptaps

AU where Percy and co rescue Nico from Thorn at the start of TTC, but not Bianca, who's shipped off to Titan HQ and pressed into service.

And she thrives.

Not at first, of course--she's scared, and angry, and incredibly confused by this brand new world she's been plunged into. But life in the Titan army isn't so different from the rigid atmosphere of military school, and since she knows that Nico, at least, is safe, it doesn't take long for her to start appreciating her newfound freedom (so to speak). Housed in the girls' barracks and put through training, she makes friends and a name for herself as a very powerful demigod. She isn't sure she's on board with overthrowing the Olympians--she can't hate her father, she doesn't even know him--but between the respect she earns and the rush of finally, finally being free to be herself, she finds it ever easier to play along.

And all the while, Nico is at Camp Half Blood, training furiously to rescue her, unaware that she may not even want rescuing.

denni-the-grape

The pomegranate thing for the death trance doesn't make sense to me for many reasons but the main one is that I like pomegranate and I want Nico to also like pomegranate.

#holy crap yeah poppy flowers #my hc is that pomegranates heal or energize him or something #or upgrade one of his boons

vyky

the Hermes shrine in hoh is a literal deus ex machina and imo the entire thing could've been written better

#i legit thought this was talking about hades 2 for a hot second #like “i would hope there would be a hermes shrine in tartarus i paid for it to be there”

phoenixystix

personally I think it is worse actually to give sympathetic backstories to Circe and Medusa that emphasize their victimhood and the misogyny they faced and then proceed with making them villains. Like I’m so serious “evil snake lady wants to kill us so we chop off her head” is better actually than “traumatized woman wants to see us renounce her abuser but we refuse so THEN we cut off her head”

phoenixystix

I’m so serious when I say people should just forget that Thalia and Jason are siblings because canon never did anything with it

#honestly though #it defeats the whole point of them trying to find all the big 3 kids in the og series #and for what?

vyky

"why did we stop calling rr Uncle Rick?"

why did you call this middle aged man you don't even know uncle in the first place? you don't know him! he doesn't know you!

why would you encourage children into parasocial relationship with a stranger anyway? is that not concerning to anyone else?

vyky

seeing heated rivalry people calling their author rr is such a jumpscare, I always think they're talking about rick

I just started watching The Summer Hikaru died, and idk what's going on yet, but it basically sums up how I feel about og pjo characters in the newer books.

#for context it’s about this guy who realizes some other person/spirit/thing has taken over his friend’s body #who is technically already dead #but kinda just goes along with it like “I guess we’re all just supposed to pretend this is normal”#i mean to me “newer” is anything that isn't the og series #rr crit #rr critical #nico di angelo #pjo #percy jackson

bvckbiter

#anyways. another reason for why ‘‘show is bad’’ is seemingly an unpopular opinion anywhere that isnt tumblr#is probably bc pjo is actually still quite niche. and the show didn’t really help with this lmao (im laughing at rr as i type this)#(damn bro u destroyed the goodwill of ur work for nothing)#i just think general audiences are mostly indifferent toward pjo/pjotv so they dont really feel the need to really speak on it#unlike with atla and bridgerton and hotd and literally any other series with actual cultural impact and relevancy lmao

<- thinking abt these tags from @sleepyvib-es' post and the thing that gets me about the basically no-reaction reaction from the general public to pjo is that. it could be a franchise with actual cultural impact and relevance like atla and bridgerton and hotd and god forbid, hp. pjo was literally one of the biggest book fandoms from the mid 2000's to late 2010's. it was required reading in a significant number of schools. if you mention pjo to a random person, chances are they do know who it is and/or read the series when they were kids. rick just did an fuckass job of keeping it relevant beyond hoo because instead of keeping the material fresh he kept on falling back on the tropey fanservicey bullshit that he thought it was what the fans wanted. (or maybe he just wasn't good enough. lol) and he was kind of correct because the fans that did eat up that stuff were his diehard, uncritical fans who refuse to mature their tastes and critical thinking in the name of staying loyal to pjo. he's used them as a crutch for so fucking long to push the new series(-es, plural, DEROGATORY), to hate on the movies, to build excitement for the show. but in this age of streaming, pjotv was never going to survive just on the goodwill of the diehard, uncritical niche. it needed to catch the interest of the general public. but ricky rick refused to learn his lesson, and. well. here we are!

edited for addendum: lest we forget, if the numbers are right, pjotv s2 suffered a 63% viewership drop from s1. the general public was potentially interested; the show just simply wasn't good enough to keep them jooked.

#ironically i feel it would have stayed more relevant had he just ended with tlo and never touched it again

phoenixystix

Very funny to me that Rick's canon has become so convoluted that it is quite literally impossible to nail down a timeline. So you just have all these various fictional stories that exist within the same universe and reference each other but have discrepencies when it comes to certain details and the order of events and the motives behind those events.

It's almost as if there is no canon anymore and there are just particular subsets of people attached to the version of events and the depictions of particular characters that they find the most compelling. Almost like - almost like - dare I say it.... mythology ?

#i've thought about this lol #people are going to start arguing that rick is playing 4d chess