#Books adapted for tv

[counting-stars-gayly]

It’s time we accept that Percy Jackson is an unreliable narrator. He’s not dumb. He’s just insecure. He’s not clueless about his and Annabeth’s feelings. He’s just in denial. He’s not clueless about Rachel’s feelings. He just doesn’t want to do anything about them. His mother isn’t perfect. He just loves and respects her more than anyone in the world. That boy contradicts his own inner monologue all the time. Do not trust him!!

EDIT: Please don’t interact just to disagree. You can make your own post.

#if anything proves this it’s the og text. but heroes of Olympus and the tv show made it even more obvious. #queued #percy jackson #percy jackson and the olympians #pjo #pjo books #pjo tv show #pjo tv series #pjo spoilers #pjo adaptation #percabeth #percy jackon and the olympians #riordanverse #heroes of olympus #percy jackson analysis #i guess

[octobergrover]

what if blackjack in the pjo show was voiced by Ryan Reynolds

#percy jackon and the olympians #percy jackson #percy jackson fandom #pjo fandom #rick riordan #riordanverse #book series #pjoverse #heroes of olympus #pjo show #half joking #ryan reynolds #walker scobell #blackjack pjo #blackjack the pegasus #pjo tv show #pjo tv series #pjo tv adaptation

[fluffywolverine]

if i see someone else whining about how the fight with chimera was too short, anticlimactic and generally pathetic, i will punch a wall.

i present you the lightning thief, chapter 13 'i plunge to my death', the chimera "fight":

i highlighted the parts when percy does anything, but when you take a closer look, it's mostly dodging, and most definitely not actually fighting. because that's just what this particular fragment looks: percy is scared, he doesn't know how to act, barely does anything and then takes the leap. that's it. short and amateurish.

and when you carefully read through percy's fights in tlt, you'll see he either gets lucky or, more or less consciously, uses water. when he fought with luke during training, he suddenly won after he splashed his head with water - before that, he wasn't much better than anyone else. the same with clarisse, he starts getting advantage when he accidentally enters the stream.

which makes sense.

percy is literally 12 years old. twelve. in the book, he has 2 weeks of training before the quest begins. in the show? probably like 2 days. yes, he becomes a good and a smart swordsman, but people seem to forget that it took him time to master his skills, as it would for anyone.

#yo folks if you want to nitpick and compare the show to the book at least do it well #and reread it because you probably remember much less than you think you do #percy jackson #pjotv #pjo tv show #pjo tv adaptation #percy jackson disney+ #percy jackon and the olympians #percy jackson spoilers #pjotv spoilers

[acearchivist359]

you know that feeling of wishing you could go back in time and read your favourite book again for the first time? watching pjo tv feels like being able to do that

like i’ll never be 11 years old reading percy jackson for the first time again but i think this is the closest feeling i’ll ever get to that like i feel like 11 year old me got to watch that and i’m so happy for her and that’s a feeling that i am so grateful for right now

#whatever happens in this show i am so happy to have this #i have so much faith in this adaptation #i always have #but especially after watching that #like you can tell rick was involved in this #and you can tell the people making it truly care about the books #the attention to detail is insane #even in the places where it’s not 100% accurate it still FEELS the way the books do #and that’s what’s important #the adaptation of all time i’m calling it #percy jackson #pjo tv show #percy jackson and the olympians

[solaceinfandoms]

aphrodite being played by multiple actresses because beauty and love is subjective PLEASE

#edit: yes this is canon in the books.. she has an ever shifting form #edit 2: YES ACTORS TOO #percy jackson #pjo fandom #rick riordan #percy jackon and the olympians #percy jackson adaptation #annabeth chase #grover underwood #aphrodite #pjo #pjo adaptation #pjo disney+ #pjo tv series #percy jackson tv series #percy jackson tv show

[mo-mode]

IF 👏🏼 YOU 👏🏼 ARE 👏🏼 MAD 👏🏼 THAT 👏🏼 THE 👏🏼 SHOW 👏🏼 ISNT 👏🏼 A 👏🏼 PERFECT 👏🏼 CARBON 👏🏼 COPY 👏🏼 OF 👏🏼 THE 👏🏼 BOOKS 👏🏼 THEN 👏🏼 LISTEN 👏🏼 TO 👏🏼 THE 👏🏼 AUDIOBOOK 👏🏼 WITH 👏🏼 YOUR 👏🏼 EYES 👏🏼 CLOSED 👏🏼 AND 👏🏼 MAKE 👏🏼 ONE 👏🏼 YOURSELF

#none of you have ever written for television and it shows #why didn’t they just do xyz? because the show runners can’t bend time and space and poodles are expensive #is the show perfect? no but is it a poor adaptation? ALSO NO #adapting literally means becoming better suited to a new environment #NEWS FLASH tv shows aren’t books #it has to ADAPT #i said what i said #percy jackson #pjo #percy jackon and the olympians #percy jackson and the olympians #pjo tv show #percy jackson tv show #pjo spoilers #percy jackson the lightning thief #pjo series

[batcavescolony]

just saw someone say Rick Riordan making a TV show is just as bad as anything JKR has done. BFFR you're comparing Rick Riordan trying to make his world more inclusive, changing some parts because of money/time constraints, or just making changes cus he thinks they're needed, to JKR being a terrible person!

#and not to say Ricks work is perfect. ill be the firat to tell you his mistakes. his aspec rep is shit. his minorities rep has problems #he has general time line problems. im not says hes perfect but he tried from a good place #jkr named a character ChoChang. her Scottish character blow stuff up and tried to make alcohol. named a black character Shackelbolt #like damn get over yourself. #percy jackson #percy jackon and the olympians #percy jackson and the olympians #percy series #pjo series #pjo #pjo tv show #pjo tv series #pjo tv adaptation #if you wanna say shit about Rick ok. but be correct about it #how is he just as bad as jkr for not using the book he made in the early 2000s an exact script for the TV show being released in 2024? #and they yall had the audacity to be pissed when he didn't put a song about sex thats literally says `fuck her face° in the background of #LITERAL 12 YEAR OLDS in a place with memory altering properties..... thats whats you wanted. children getting high to a song about sex. #°oH bUt iN tHe mOvIe tHaT i WaTcHeD wHeN i waS tWeLvE' where the actors where like what 18? and weren't 12? that one? 🙄 #some of you are getting on my nerves. yes the show's pacing is eh really thats a reason to curisfy Rick Riordan? thats what you're deciding #this is the line? a tv show thats on its first season and is more accurate then the movies that came out? #good to know

[professorhayforbreath]

also sorry but i'm not sold on "they only have 8 episodes" as a defense for why the show is falling flat as both a show and an adaptation. 8 episodes is roughly 5 hours. that's 3 hours more than most movies lol. that should be plenty of time to adapt all the most important things, they're just not using their screen time as well as they could be. sorry i don't think it should actually be this hard to fit the essential core of the lightning thief's story and characters into 5 hours. the movie and musical were both 2 hours give or take and they still did certain things better. skill issue

#'they can't fit EVERYTHING in!' yeah because they're adding in random shit they just made up or have taken from later books lmao #they could easily be prioritising their screen time better #pjo tv crit #pjo show crit #pjo #percy jackson #percy jackon and the olympians #pjo adaptation #pjo show #pjo tv show #pjo series

[doverstar]

the amount of affection you get for percy jackson, the character, from reading those books (no matter how long ago it was), is insane. if riordan did nothing else right, he made percy so real, wrote him so well, that readers feel like they know him and they read it for percy. we watch the show and we love walker easier because we loved percy. it lasts. that's good characterization.

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[marshmallord]

The show really hits you with the fact that Annabeth is the head counselor for the Athena cabin. Like, obviously she’s been there for a long time, but none of her older siblings are more fit for the job? How many others who are more experienced and older have already ventured off on deadly quests, never to return? Just how much death and tragedy has this girl witnessed at camp?

#i’m coming to realize there’s a lot of stuff i never looked too closely into when i first read the books #and then had already come to know and accept those facts every time i reread them #in my defense i was in first grade when i started pjo #so. wasn’t overly concerned with the mental and physical toll put on annabeth at such a young age #but still #absolutely crazy #there’s probably smth to be said about young girls being forced to mature early and blah blah blah but i’m too tired for meta #just thinking abt annabeth #this poor girl #percy jackson #percy jackon and the olympians #pjo #pjo tv show #pjo tv adaptation #what tags are we using #annabeth chase #annabeth pjo #pjotv #percy jackson disney+ #rick riordan

[counting-stars-gayly]

Great time to remember that, in the books, Percy didn’t actually come to understand just how terrible the gods are (as a whole) until The Last Olympian. And he didn’t start to get bitter as hell about it until even after that. The show is doing a great job of setting this up, in my opinion.

#I’m begging you people please reread the books if you can #remember we’re only on season ONE!! #and let’s not forget that Percy equated Zeus to a monster without even having met the guy and then was proven RIGHT #percy jackson and the olympians #pjo #percy jackson #pjo tv show #pjo tv series #pjo tv adaptation #pjo disney+ #pjo season 1 #the last olympian #the lightning thief

[cowboylikebee]

watching book adaptations and realizing you've been pronouncing something wrong this whole time is so humbling

#esp if english isn't your first language #idk what i thought it was but it definitely wasn't “coriolanus” in my head #so is it minotaur of minotaur?? #percy jackson #percy jackon and the olympians #coriolanus snow #the hunger games #lucy gray baird #the ballad of songbirds and snakes #books #movies #films #book adaptation #reading #percy jackon #percy jackson show #pjo tv show #rick riordan

[killerfrostisme]

Not to be dramatic but Jonathan Stroud's letter announcing Lockwood and Co's cancelation literally broke me.

Like "Portland Row is always open for business"? "Drop by any time"? "It's your home too, after all"?

HOW DO YOU EXPECT ME TO BE OKAY AFTER THIS

#lockwood and co #books #fiction #jonathan stroud #renew lockwood and co #lockwood and co season 2 #lockwood and co series #lockwood and co tv show #lockwood and co netflix #l&co netflix #netflix #35 portland row #cameron chapman #ruby stokes #it's literally one of the best book adaptations I've seen in recent times #netflix you're an ass for cancelling it #ali hadji heshmati

[mrewanmcgregor]

EWAN MCGREGOR as Count Alexander Rostov

A GENTLEMAN IN MOSCOW | 2024

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[helpallthenamesaretakenblog]

random pjo/hoo/etc moments i think about #2:

when percy gets the news that annabeths doing badly after getting stabbed in tlo and he just snatches up will and??? drives a motorcycle in full speed to the hotel??? without knowing how to drive a motorcycle??? (omg its going to hit harder in the tv show when inexperienced 12 year old percy failing at driving a car for the first time vs 16 year old hero percy driving a motorcycle effortlessly for the first time without trying)

#the icon the legend and the moment #pjo #annabeth chase #rick riordan #percabeth #pjo fandom #pjo tv show #percy jackon and the olympians #heroes of olympus #pjo tv series #rick riordanverse #rrverse #rr #percy x annabeth #percy series #percy and annabeth #percy pjo #annabeth #perseus jackson #pjo books #hoo text post #pjo tv crit #pjo tv spoilers #pjo tv adaptation #pjo show #grover underwood #will solace #percyjackson #tlo #riordanverse

[chironshorseass]

i will forever stand by the lightning thief musical being the best pjo adaptation by a loooong shot. i’ve seen more than a few people critiquing the show for making these kids be way too serious for what they are—kids—and i’m just thinking abt how well the tlt musical writers understood the assignment!!! (and also the actors!) they’re adults playing 12 year-olds and u really forget that while watching the musical, by how well it’s written and interpreted by the actors. also the way the writers Understood the characters and their dynamics to a T…man, i still think about the good kid reprise when luke paralleled percy 😭😭😭😭 and how annabeth’s cleverness is never doubted and displayed, yet she’s also a silly girl! same with grover and percy! for example percy’s anger showing up in so many parts of the musical yet he’s always trying his best (which is why the good kid reprise works so well!) and then grover having his tree on the hill moment😭😭

back to annabeth: it really irks me how so many people fail to understand her? even her creator ???!!! truly outstanding how in the movie she’s watered down to just being the love interest who says she’s smart and the daughter of wisdom and blah blah blah yet does little to make the audience believe that, and then in the show she’s too smart, almost too perfect in everything she does. (none of the scenes have yet to show her making mistakes, like in the book). i love love love tlt musical annabeth bc she’s a girl looking for others to notice her! she wants to be seen! she wants to make her mark! she says she always has a plan yet sometimes she doesn’t! she’s still 12! she’s petty and makes mistakes and hasn’t seen the world! just goes to show which one is the superior adaptation.

anyway, tlt musical stans RISE!!!!

#tlt musical #pjo adaptation #pjo tv show #this was inspired by all the posts i’m seeing with show crit #u know i’m not gonna comment too much on the show bc i’ve begun to compare it to the musical and it doesn’t hold a candle to the musical lol #i could go on and on about the musical like it had 16 year old me in a chokeholdddd #i remember a few years back a lot of the soundtrack was in my spotify wrapped😭😭😭 #so i’m just gonna treat the show as a form of media inspired by pjo but saying it’s own thing without necessarily bringing the same #narrative as the books. this is the big difference between the show and the musical i think