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#pjo 1x06
counting-stars-gayly · 3 months
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Forever smiling bc of Percy’s face after Annabeth told him she stole Hermes’ key. He thought she was so cool for that, and he was right.
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chaoss-incarnate · 3 months
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watched the lotus episode!!!! WISE GIRL?!?!?!? i love them sm, luke asking why percy and annabeth were acting like an old married couple LMAOOOO also grover :( i felt bad for him sm, he just wants to help animals and find pan to help nature also talk of may castellan omg
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theartofangirling · 3 months
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percy jackson faces his greatest enemy yet: the parking lot exit ramp
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criesincomicsans · 3 months
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luke rly said “oh clarisse is the lightning thief?? 🤯👀 that’s wild isn’t it? 🫨😅 ofc i’ll tell chiron for you!! 😀🥸” knowing full well he is the lightning thief no one manipulates mansplains malewifes like him
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books-4-life9 · 3 months
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Heyyy everyone!! I was wondering what ya’ll fav episodes of pjo are so far!
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locke-esque-monster · 3 months
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Percy may know next-to-nothing about driving, but he sure knew the first rule of driving in high-traffic areas: Honking at and criticizing anyone you feel is driving worse than you, even if you're also struggling.
It's a nice, understated way to give authenticity to the fact that Percy grew up in NYC.
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snixxlixx · 3 months
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can we talk about the taxi scene for a second?
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this scene is everything, and one my favorite moments from season one — not only because it's adorable and so perfectly captures the dynamic of book one percabeth, but also because it's subtly setting up a wonderful "rule of three" pattern that we'll (hopefully) revisit in seasons three and five!
the rule of three is a storytelling device often used in writing, film, TV, comedy and other mediums, where a story is told three times: the first two instances establish a pattern, but the third instance diverges from the established pattern with the intention of surprising or amusing the audience.
it makes a lot of sense for the pjo writers to use this scene as the first instance of a rule of three pattern; not only is the number three important in this series and throughout greek mythology, but the book series has two more scenes that can perfectly complete this trifecta.
here's how i think the show will apply the rule of three to the recurring pattern of "demigods attempting to operate moving vehicles" (spoilers for the titan's curse and the last olympian ahead):
percy drives a taxi (season one)
percy tasks himself with driving the taxi out of the lotus casino, and it's an absolute disaster. he crashes into multiple walls, goes straight through the boom barrier and almost gets t-boned twice. it's a miracle (or, more likely, whatever magic is controlling hermes' taxi) that they make it to santa monica in one piece.
2. thalia drives apollo's sun chariot (season three)
in the titan's curse, apollo picks up percy, thalia, grover, nico, bianca and the hunters from westover hall in his chariot-turned-flying bus. despite her protests, apollo makes thalia drive it from maine back to long island — and as we later learn, thalia is terrified of heights, so it was a disaster waiting to happen. while attempting to control the vehicle in a panicked state, she freezes over the new england coastline, sets it on fire and then crash-lands into camp half blood's canoe lake.
3. annabeth lands a helicopter (season five)
at this point in the series, we've had two instances that establish a pattern: when demigods are tasked with operating a moving vehicle, it goes terribly and almost gets everyone killed. so in the third and final instance of this, annabeth defies our expectations and completely flips the pattern on its head.
during the battle for olympus, rachel flies back from her vacation in a helicopter to tell percy the message she received in a dream. unfortunately, she doesn't know about the sleeping spell morpheus cast over manhattan, and the pilot falls asleep as they begin to descend into the city. as the helicopter starts to spin out of control, percy and annabeth fly up on a pegasus to rescue rachel. annabeth manages to grab onto the side of the door, and rachel pulls her into the helicopter.
now, this is the moment where we expect everything to go wrong. previously, percy and thalia — children of the big three, two of the most powerful demigods alive — were comically awful at driving vehicles, so based on the established pattern, this should also be a disaster; but this is annabeth "you're better at this than me" chase we're talking about, and she gets her elle woods moment.
annabeth swaps places with the pilot, and when the helicopter is seconds away from crashing into a building, she manages to control it and safely land it in the middle of fifth avenue.
at sixteen years old, she lands a helicopter in manhattan. in the middle of an active war zone. with zero helicopter-flying experience.
what, like it's hard?
this is the perfect scene to round out the rule of threes, because the audience goes into it with a preconceived notion that we know how it will end: with a demigod's comical incompetence at operating a moving vehicle. instead, we get the brilliance of annabeth chase on full display, beautifully diverging from the pattern and proving that while she may not be a child of the big three, she has distinct abilities that they don't have, abilities that make her just as strong and capable and powerful as percy and thalia.
in conclusion: the taxi scene is not just a cute percabeth heart eyes moment, but could be setting up an incredible subplot across the five seasons of the show.
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bisexualpercyjacksons · 3 months
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no wait wait wait hear me out about how the four beads is a truly devious and smart addition
so starting off with four beads from the dryad establishes a few things:
1. getting out of the underworld wasn’t something they really thought about yet (too many steps ahead, I also have ADHD I get it)
2. poseidon HAS thought of that problem and has made the beads in preparation to protect them
3. poseiden thought about rescuing sally when planning how to get everyone back safely, not just percy and his friends
2 & 3 plant the seeds (a long with the dryad’s words and hermes’ comments) that poseiden really does care about percy (and sally!). yes I know I know, bare minimum to care about your kid etc. but considering this is a show and we don’t get percy’s internal monologue it kinda makes sense to have a little more details that make poseiden seem better to the audience
[read more break to not clog up the tag. I promise I get into the angst shortly]
all these little bits that imply poseiden really does want to be there for him but can’t, that he’s been watching from afar because he didn’t want zeus to find out he broke the pact and take his anger out on his son and former love (yes, love! this is the man/god that wanted sally to be his queen with him in his underwater kingdom!!!). I actually really like the idea of those posts about how he has been helping out in little ways over the years because. let’s be real for a second. NO WAY does sally afford that apartment AND have the ability to send percy to specialized boarding schools with the salary of a CANDY SHOP EMPLOYEE. I get it I get it, the gods are deadbeats, but I’ll admit I kind of like the idea that he’s been doing what he feasibly could without getting caught by making extra money appear in sally’s bank account or sm
making him seem (and possibly be) more sympathetic is another reason that fuels percy to change the system rather than join luke to tear it all down. he knows the system is bad but he sees hope and truly believes it can be changed for the better. that is something that can be saved, not destroyed
4. this is kinda irrelevant but I like that it is the dryad that agrees to give percy the pearls after poseiden says for him and his friends to go back to camp because she wants him to have a chance to change things. gives her a little bit more agency. (also y’all she’s SO pretty in gay but moving in)
so. four beads.
if we want to keep the dilemma and character growth that comes with there only being three beads and someone having to make a sacrifice, something needs to happen: one of the beads breaks or someone loses it
is it percy? who has realized they need four beads for EVERYONE to come back and is horrified that they now only have three, meaning either he himself or one of the most important people to him has to be left behind in actual hell in order for the world to be saved? think about the dread and self-loathing that would come from that
or is it annabeth or grover? where the horrifying realization is the same but now there is a gut reaction from percy to be upset with the person who loses/breaks it. he loves his friends and can’t stay mad at them but now they are in this impossible dilemma to choose who stays behind and it’s killing all of them. the impossibly guilt of the person who breaks/loses it knowing that it’s their fault someone doesn’t get to go home, someone has to stay behind in the underworld
and when does this happen? early on, and we spend the episode watching them all try to figure out the dreadful problem of who gets left behind. looking at each other thinking, I can’t leave them behind, I can’t. they’re my family. but we can’t leave percy’s mom behind either.
or does it happen right before they have the chance to go, and they all think everyone is going to make it and sally is in percy’s grasp only for everything to fall apart and now everyone is looking at each other thinking, who is going to have to be left behind? who has to be the sacrifice?
anyways, I think there is something truly devious about them KNOWING there NEEDS to be four beads and HAVING THEM only to have something happen and the option of everyone going home safe being ripped from their grasps
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georgies-ftts · 3 months
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gonna say what i’ve gotta say
Alexander Hamilton is currently slaying as hermes and i will not hear any different until proven other wise
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campdemigods · 3 months
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Percy Jackson and Annabeth Chase
Percy Jackson and the Olympians 1x04 // 1x06
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Grover: this place is a lot bigger than it looked on the outside
My 13 year old self clawing her way from the depths of my subconscious: Bigger on the inside you say?
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guccifloralsuits · 3 months
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Okay so, the good:
The soundtrack
Man Grover got really old (Walker is always consistently good)
The bad:
why they got Grover going off on his own side quests every 5 seconds
Dumb that they already knew about the Lotus eating. Let them be dumb kids wasting time!!!!! I guess I get the pumping it into the air but I still have mixed feelings
(I can’t believe I’m saying this about my favorite ship of all time) pushing percabeth too fast this is a Slow Burn
PLEASE SHOW INSTEAD OF TELLING ME EVERYTHING. I’M BEGGING
Why the fuck are they messing with the major plot points like they DIDNT miss the solstice. What the fuck. that pisses me off actually. The actual hell. Am I just remembering wrong cus wtf otherwise
FUCK YOU 4 PEARLS THERE WERE 3. LIKE THATS THE WHOLE THING THERE ARE THREE
If this wasn’t literally my favorite franchise of all time….
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Harry Potter ass Hermes cab sequence
That 2 second flashback to Percy in the car that’s never explained
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phoenixandthestral · 3 months
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This episode was great but I'm still salty about the lack of zebra last time. Unforgivable.
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sallyjacksonsson · 3 months
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The fact that when they say “we know who stole the bolt!” Luke’s reply isn’t “who?” but “how do you know?”
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pjosource · 3 months
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#percy truly is a new yorker <3
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(source by @maxiemumdamage)
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gifpercabeth · 3 months
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― Rick Riordan, The Mark of Athena
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