Jan 17, 2024
The three genders: seaweed brain, wise girl, and goat boy.
Watching the show was a weird experience. When I read the books as a kid, I was the same age as the characters, so I never thought about how young they actually were.
The actors have made it so, so clear that they were just kids, and it makes me sad. It was sad to see a little kid lose his mom and know that I was his age once.
Anyways, the starry background is there to represent that loss of childhood: five-pointed doodles on schoolwork now glitter ominously behind them. Grover and Annabeth look forward, they grew up quickly in a demigod’s world of loss; but Percy’s face is turned back to the glowing stars, to his childhood, his mom.