a new detail that came to my attention was how the script is really pushing the idea of Percy and Luke being two sides of the same coin, but the thing is – it's not only them.
sally is the one to bring this possibility up with her prophetic dream, and please correct me if i am wrong, but in the books she didn't have this ability, she could only see through the myst.
so now we have two mothers, one with prophetic dreams but that chooses to step away from a life among the gods and monsters to raise her son, and doesn't look into 'doing something with her gift', doesn't try to become the new oracle of delphi, and therefore keeping her sanity, and because of that being able to raise a good person, and an understanding one, someone strong enough to see that joining kronos is the worst thing to do in their already precarious environment as demigods.
whilst may castellan feels the necessity of looking for more and more, and do something with her ability of prophecy and sight, and being cursed for it, unable to filter and differentiate present from future, creating a hostile place for her son to grow in, scaring him and making him vulnerable, defensive, angry and far too weak to manipulation.
But the parallels don't end there, theirs fathers can also fall into this category.
Poseidon, The Sea God, Lord of Storms and Earthquakes, restraints himself for years, from the moment sally refuses to go with him to atlantis, he trusts her choice, and doesn't look back until 9 years later when she calls him, "The sea doesn't like to be restrained" but he does it, for her, for his son. in his absence, albeit unwelcome, he somewhat saves them.
Whilst Hermes, The God of Diplomacy and Heralds, Lord of Cunning, can't for the life of him find the restraint to step away and put haults into what he can share with May about his world, coming back again and again untill the damage is so big that now when he finally realises that he should step back is too late. His presence doomed the Castellans, it corrupted and contaminated them.
these 6 just make me go insane with these subtle script change from book to show, i do hope i am not reading too much into it and setting myself up for disappointment but it just makes sense you know, the mirror analogies, the acting against their nature, the countless "what ifs" that could've ended with such a different story.
luke is what percy could become — percy is what luke could have been
ohhh i am going crazy thinking about it
