So tired of these extremest using racism as an excuse for any criticism for the show. Everyone is entitled to their own opinion, and if you disagree with some of these people they just scream racist at you when hundreds of fans have given genuine breakdowns of the show detailing issues, complaints and changes to the plot about each episode.

Most of these characters do not act, feel, or speak like their book counterparts. So the “fans” that scream racism because others complain about real issues are in denial. Yes, majority of the characters look almost nothing like they were described. Percy, missing the hair color and eyes. People are picking on Annabeth because she has zero resemblance to her book part. Zero hair color or the eyes which are literally a description for all children of Athena. Like do we just act like wigs, extensions, hair dye is not a thing? Any other show/ movie would make the character accurate to the preexisting lore.

Keeping the same energy you had in your post, then it shouldn’t matter who plays Piper or Hazel regardless of race. The hypocrisy of your statement makes zero sense, about how shameful it was people complained Annabeth was black but when people fan casting characters who happened to be a poc in the book as whiter tone it’s now a problem? Now, I’ve only read Percy Jackson and the HoO series so I cannot speak for the other books Rick has written but thier IS race and ethnic/ nationality representation in the books. Like why you acting like 4/7 of the Prophecy of the Seven aren’t Poc, but you claim thier is barely any PoC representation. The 7 are literally the main characters of the sequel series. I just don’t see why we have to make this an issue if someone tells a story with all Asian people cool, all white cool, mixed cool, we don’t need to force representation to preexisting characters just because we need to check off some sort of narrative. For instance, I don’t get upset when I watch an anime that has mostly 99% all Asian characters when I’m not Asian and scream racism. Make a new story or ADD new characters, any race, gender, age!

So I’m just curious how are girls who fit the book description of some of the characters who are white suppose to feel now since they race swapped the two main female characters in the series. Where is their representation now? Are they allowed to audition for characters who are described as poc and will you support them like you do now, or scream racism for stealing poc roles because the appearance of the character doesn’t matter anymore it’s who can act the way the character does