The PJO Trailer is Out and You Should Really Watch It.
That's it. That's the post.
Actually no I lied, here's a full analysis of the PJO trailer:
First we have this: a picture of Percy packing a bag in what seems to be a bedroom.
Now, I'm assuming this is him packing for the trip to the beach with his mom at the beginning of TLO (The Lightning Thief), but around this time he says "I didn't want to be a half-blood", which makes me think that this is him packing for the quest. He doesn't want to be a demigod, because it means him going on this quest.
2. We have a whole scene of him walking to Cabin 3, the Poseidon Cabin:
The whole in his shirt is probably from the monster that attacked him the night of the Capture the Flag game, where he got claimed as a son of Poseidon. He also has his necklace already which rules out the possibility that this is a scene of him first arriving at Camp Half-Blood (CHB).
Ok so I just wanna say how much I like this shot because we have Clarisse, and the rest of the (I'm assuming) Ares cabin. We have Clarisse in front, her spear in hand. This could be a nod to the fact that she'll be a minor antagonist for Percy. They're also all staring at Percy.
@hyacyntart suggested in their Instagram story that because of the symbols on the left cabin (lyre and sun), it could be the Apollo cabin, aka Cabin 8. I also noticed that the right cabin has the number 6, making it the Athena cabin (Cabin 6). Maybe Annabeth is there?
Someone also mentioned that the 2 boys together left to Percy could be the Stoll brothers. Honestly, I'm not sure but I sure hope so. I'm absolutely loving the amount of detail in the trailer right now.
Anyway, like the Ares kids in the previous picture, they're all staring at Percy. Again, another nod to the book. Percy was an outcast for a while due to being a child of the Big 3, when they'd made a pact to not have children anymore. He's not supposed to exist.
3. The Poseidon cabin, Cabin 3, whatever you wanna call it. Anyway, IT'S BLUE! Lol.
This is near the end of the trailer. From this one scene alone, we can deduce that Percy is an outcast because of his parenthood, and now he is all alone in Cabin 3, setting the precedent for TLO to take place. Yipee!
4. Except that's not all!
After he says "Don't say I didn't warn you", we get a dramatic sound with a flash of what seems to be white. But playing it at 0.25x speed reveals that it's a color-inverted clip of scene. This could symbolise that things are going wrong and abnormal very soon. Basically things won't be the way they should be.
However, this is a bit of a reach, so take this with a grain of salt.
After the flash with the inverted picture, we get a shot of Percy in the dark. He seems to be wet, though it can't be said for sure. To be honest, I'm a bit stumped on this one. It looks like it's raining, but it's not clear.
Here's another picture I took. Here we can see the background a bit clearer, although I still don't know what it is. I have 3 theories:
First: This is the battle with the minotaur. I reread the chapter in TLO where Percy fights the Minotaur, and it describes the journey to CHB as rainy ("Outside, nothing but rain and darkness"). This could be Percy on CHB hill, assuming that it is rain in the background.
Second: This is the night when he gets claimed. The setting matches, since it took place at night, and the background could be trees instead of rain. As we know, Capture the Flag takes place near and in the woods.
Third: My dumbass thought for a bit that this was the scene where Luke betrays Percy, but the scene doesn't even take place during the night, so that's out the window. But remember how the background looks like trees? This could be Percy in the forest after the team got stranded (Chapter 14). This pretty pretty weak, so I'd say No. 1 is most likely.
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