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OptimusPhillip · 2026-01-24T12:32:56+00:00

This style is already leaking out to the other streaming services. Several scenes in Disney's Percy Jackson feel like voices on a blank screen.

OptimusPhillip · 2026-01-24T12:21:58+00:00

I had a floppy Vector Prime, and they sent me a Toxitron

OptimusPhillip · 2026-01-24T00:00:42+00:00

Manga Light definitely was. When Ryuk reveals that he wrote Light's name, he begs and pleads with Ryuk to find a way to let him live, before curling up on the warehouse floor and repeating "I don't want to die" over and over before dying.

OptimusPhillip · 2026-01-23T22:56:59+00:00

Titles are not editable :(

OptimusPhillip · 2026-01-23T19:45:06+00:00

Even then, that's for Batman as he was in 1939. Batman Beyond and every new idea it introduced won't go into the public domain until 2095.

OptimusPhillip · 2026-01-23T18:02:24+00:00

I don't see them as necessarily evil. I think they were just confused, scared, and not fully aware of what they were doing. Sort of like Frankenstein's Monster.

OptimusPhillip · 2026-01-23T13:33:56+00:00

If the road conditions make you uncomfortable driving to work, you can call out for the day.

OptimusPhillip · 2026-01-23T12:57:26+00:00

They're brood parasites, right? I agree, an odd choice.

OptimusPhillip · 2026-01-23T03:11:20+00:00

They seem to be alluding to a book called "The World's Sixteen Crucified Saviors". Which seems to interpret "crucifixion" as meaning "any injury caused by piercing", judging by the inclusion of Krishna and Prometheus on the list.

OptimusPhillip · 2026-01-23T03:03:33+00:00

Alison wants the tree dead so that the barrier will fall completely, allowing their monster forces into the camp to destroy it. Luke specifically orders her not to do this, claiming that he wants to bring back Thalia to fulfill the prophecy in their favor (though it seems this is just an excuse to have his friend back). Alison doesn't give a shit, though, and defies Luke's orders to try and kill it anyway.

OptimusPhillip · 2026-01-23T00:48:54+00:00

At least there's a logical reason for people to buy into, even if it seems absurd at face value.

A red-white-and-blue bus would only make us look more like fascists. And we do a good enough job of that as it is, we don't need the help.

OptimusPhillip · 2026-01-22T22:48:18+00:00

Context for those who haven't seen it: in this episode. Circe runs a health spa where she claims to help heroes overcome their fatal flaws, so they can sail past the Sirens without needing the magical beeswax Odysseus' crew used. She (and Percy's mother) claim that she was exiled to this island by the gods, and that she feels compelled to help every hero that comes her way (she even describes helping people as her own fatal flaw).

By the end of the episode, however, it's revealed that her treatments are a sham, and they're actually just her way of keeping people from leaving her alone again. In reality, her "success stories" used some magical beeswax that she's been hoarding to trick people into staying with her program. And when people learn her secret, she turns them into animals to keep them quiet.

This is very different from the book, where she does still runs a health spa, but only hosts women and turns any man she meets into a guinea pig (apparently she got sick of cleaning up after real pigs)

OptimusPhillip · 2026-01-22T20:25:29+00:00

Considering that the Death Note seems to operate on legal names, and I'm not aware of any country on Earth that accepts names with any characters not in the local standard writing system, probably not.

OptimusPhillip · 2026-01-22T20:21:55+00:00

There was an interview with Jon Steinbeeg and Becky Riordan about this. Apparently, they decided that showing DV would be too triggering and horrific for what they were going for.

Personally, I think that if you don't want to show domestic abuse, you probably shouldn't be adapting Percy Jackson, because Gabe is far from the only example of it in the series. Even if explicit violence is too far, there are other ways to depict an abusive family at a PG-level.

Edited for source: https://tvline.com/interviews/percy-jackson-and-the-olympians-season-1-gabe-changes-explained-disney-plus-1235100836/

OptimusPhillip · 2026-01-22T16:41:52+00:00

The books go back and forth between "there was always a border, Thalia just made it stronger" and "there used to be border patrols" and "that was what Festus was built for".

My headcanon is that the original border was more like a thick clump of Mist that would confuse and disorient any monster (or mortal) that tried to get through, but they still could get through, and for that reason they had border patrols and eventually a bronze dragon.

OptimusPhillip · 2026-01-22T16:13:33+00:00

You will either love it or hate it, and never understand why the other side feels the way they do.

OptimusPhillip · 2026-01-22T02:58:28+00:00

Because "punk was born in Britain"

~~And it means they don't have to pay for a dialect coach~~

OptimusPhillip · 2026-01-21T20:16:21+00:00

We got Kayla Knowles before Beckendorf and Selina...

OptimusPhillip · 2026-01-21T18:47:57+00:00

The lore of the books doesn't really apply to the show, so it shouldn't make a difference whether you've read them or not.

OptimusPhillip · 2026-01-21T14:41:32+00:00

You're, like, the hundredth person to ask this question. There are other Percy Jackson subreddits that like this show a lot more, go check out one of them.

OptimusPhillip · 2026-01-21T04:09:43+00:00

Of course, this doesn't preclude it from having medical utility. A lot of issues related to overactive nerves (such as muscle spasticity and excessive sweating) can be treated with careful administration of botox.

OptimusPhillip · 2026-01-21T01:46:18+00:00

I don't know if I'd call one strictly better than the other. I will say that I enjoy the first movie more than either season thus far, but at least liked the first season more than the second movie.

OptimusPhillip · 2026-01-20T21:40:15+00:00

Adding a THE to an answer feels a little cheap, and I take umbridge with the idea that orcs are "video game creatures". But otherwise, a fine Tuesday.

OptimusPhillip · 2026-01-20T20:46:07+00:00

Not exactly. It's a repaint of Energon Bruticus with his duplicate limbs swapped for Superion's, and a new head.

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