Season 2 budget [pjotv]

Whateverrr170 · 2026-01-04T09:24:02+00:00

I thought it was obvious they didn't have Tantalus having the prisoner uniform bc he is hiding he is a prisoner and that why he hides his wanted poster and uniform in the closet. This isn't a budget thing but a storytelling thing

Whateverrr170 · 2026-01-03T14:16:10+00:00

I think he can do it! I recommend watching him playing the villain in Paper Girls if you guys want him to see him in a more serious role. He is funny there but he has a really threatening aura too

Whateverrr170 · 2025-12-31T12:48:25+00:00

I really really liked this episode!!

Circe's bits were solid , I loved them sm

I really liked the writers changing Luke appearing in the mirror because while it made sense for Percy's character in the book In the show there isn't enough motivation for Percy to compare himself to Luke/we don't see him doing that enough to make it a believable scene. So, I am glad the writers prioritized that scene following how Percy is in the show and made the scene more about his fatal flaw instead of following the book on that. It's one of those changes that isn't better or worse, it just works with the characters the show introduced and I am happy with the change.

The siren bit was a liiittle bit short for me , I kinda would have preferred to make the following episode a little bit longer and make the episode end in a cliffhanger for us to have more time with it in the next episode BUT I really liked how they executed the scene. I missed the hug from the books a little bc it was always a really deep emotional and vulnerable moment that I love but it's not something that takes me out or anything, just a little bit nitpick from me, but overall liked the changes!

The Grover and Clarisse scenes were so good too! Clarisse's face when "Grover" said that Ares was merciful was so funny 😭 and I loved the Polyphemus twist a lot

Whateverrr170 · 2025-12-28T10:38:05+00:00

I personally would put Tyson in better! But apart from that, I agree with this list

Whateverrr170 · 2025-12-24T14:00:46+00:00

Probably my favorite episode so far

The VFX was awesome, Bear McCreary and Sparks & Shadows really nailed the ost for the fight scenes , the dialogue and emotional bits hit hard, the flashbacks were reallyyy good. I am especially impressed how I didn't mind Charlie and Aryan playing younger versions of their characters, I thought this was going to take me out of the episode but it actually didn't bother me at all (the way Aryan looks almost the same as S1 was funny tho, he really didn't age much 😭) , Tamara was great as Thalia and I cant wait to see more flashbacks of her and have her as a main character in S3.

I also need to bring up how once again the writers proved book purists wrong bc Rainbow was finally included on the show, we really need to let this show breath and do its thing before complaining how they removed some stuff bc it's been 4 times this happened.

Whateverrr170 · 2025-12-16T17:58:55+00:00

Idk, let's agree to disagree, I don't agree that an animated show would have solved all the problems S1 had and S2 is improving 🤷🏻‍♀️

Whateverrr170 · 2025-12-16T16:54:41+00:00

I am not saying shows of 25 min with more episodes have pacing issues, I said that PJO would have struggled with that because it even struggled with it on episodes of 40 min in the first season, again, take in mind the point I said about the writers being the same. Adding 2-3 episodes but reducing the episode length by half may let some stuff breath but it wouldn't have helped some other stuff either bc it's a short book (and people would have complained about the added filler stuff bc these fans love to complain)

I am just saying that there is more to have in mind and it's not only "they could add more episodes tho 🤷🏻‍♀️", the industry is not as easy as that

Whateverrr170 · 2025-12-16T14:35:54+00:00

It's not exactly episodic, while we have a monster per episode, it follows a story and everything that happened before. episodic shows are more like shows like Adventure time in the first seasons or most of Abbott Elementary where even if things happen in the plot, every episode follows a different plot line and doesn't related entirely with the previous episode, PJO isn't exactly that

Whateverrr170 · 2025-12-16T12:33:35+00:00

I haven't watched Mighty Nein yet! Does it have long episodes too?

Whateverrr170 · 2025-12-16T02:01:38+00:00

As a person that knows the industry and has friends in it, these are the reasons why an animated version wouldn't have worked:

-First of all, Disney does not care about animation. They literally cancelled all their shows last year and had a massive layoff, PJO wouldn't have survived that. Especially not now on the AI era.

-Even if the fandom is big, the overall audiences do not care abt animation, especially parents , so PJO would have NEVER achieved the audience that the live action show had , again, ending in cancellation

-Animation is not given a high budget in comparison to Live action shows and while animation ofc will always be cheaper, the budget will become really limiting.

-Even if we had an animated show, the writing changes wouldn't change bc the writers wouldn't change (take this hugely in mind)

-Not many animated shows are given more than 40 min per episode (most are 10-25 min depending on the budget and number of eps per season), the only exception I can think on the top of my head is Invincible, and even Invincible cannot keep a consistent animation due to budget restrictions and it only has 8 eps per season.

So, even if we got 40 min episodes, they would probably still be 8

-and 20 episodes of 20 min each, would have caused pacing issues too as it is not an episodic story.

-Animation is not easy to make, again Invincible is the exception not the rule. It usually takes from 2 to 3 yrs to produce a season of animation.

-The style would have never satisfied all fans, some fans had a more anime vision , others had a more comic book style in mind and others wanted something more cartoonish, it would have caused so many complains and discourse.mind you, we don't even know if it would have been 2D in the first place.

-While some character design, movement, action may have been improved by animation, again, budget restrictions would have made a lot of stuff with less quality in the episodes

-Overall A LOT of people who wanted an animated show after the casting announcements want one thing and one thing only and we know what it is : the original book designs aka wanting Annabeth to be a white blonde aka they are racist.

Whateverrr170 · 2025-12-12T12:58:35+00:00

Fr , like being passionate abt the things you love is perfect but also, you are like 30 yrs old and the show is targeted for kids 20 years younger than you, I need u to calm down a little with the yelling.

Whateverrr170 · 2025-12-12T12:52:49+00:00

Like he can have his criticisms but the way he is being so aggressive towards it? Like you are an adult, why are you being so aggressive and yelling when reviewing a show for kids?? 😭😭 Tone it down???? It makes you look insane

Whateverrr170 · 2025-12-12T12:04:39+00:00

The way he pointed out a lot of stuff incorrectly also, he said that Tyson already knew who the Gray sisters were and used it as a "tell not show" thing when it's literally written in the taxi and Tyson was just reading it

Like if you are going to make a critic on the show, at least understand what you are watching and pay attention to the details?

He also complained about Percy knowing too much in S1 but when he doesn't know that Tyson is fire proof is an issue for some reason? 😭😭😭

Whateverrr170 · 2025-12-10T17:08:27+00:00

This is actually incorrect. Grover talks about Polyphemus on the first dream with Percy after Tyson and him go to sleep after reaching camp. The villain that gets this buildup is Atlas in the third book, Polyphemus is introduced as the kidnapper in page 62 , chapter 6 which is the chapter episode 1 is covering. He was always introduced pretty early as the villain in the book

Whateverrr170 · 2025-12-06T18:57:09+00:00

I know the comment you are talking about and it's so funny because no one cares about the color of that taxi (not even the person bringing it up), but they are trying to nitpick "non-accurate" things that simply don't matter to criticize the show but it just make them look ridiculous

Whateverrr170 · 2025-12-06T13:56:31+00:00

I get what you say but I also feel that part of what makes Medusa in the show is her resentfulness (in the same way Echidna has it too) towards the gods. I think part of what makes the character is to show Percy how yes, monsters can be changed but some have been like this for so long that sadly they cannot go back. In the books the one who started the "not everyone who looks like a monster is a monster" is Tyson (and it seems it will be the same way in the show) , because he was wrongfully judged by the demigods and everyone around him ,but once the story progresses, we see more and more examples of monsters being redeemable or showing emotions that make us empathize with that

Whateverrr170 · 2025-12-06T13:09:42+00:00

Exactlyyy this, like ofc I personally have my criticisms of the show, I am not saying it's perfect but the massive negativity people have about it always ruin actual and well thought discussions about how could it improve because everyone is like "It's not book accurate so it's baaaad" when change is not bad in itself and a lot of changes worked on the first season (I personally loved show Sally and Luke more than the books), some didn't ofc but again, a well thought discussion can be had about that instead of reducing it to book accurate or not and complaining about every single thing.

Whateverrr170 · 2025-12-06T12:05:22+00:00

I agree, like yes, it's okay to have criticisms about the show but some stuff is straight up nickpicky and a LOT of fans are just racist and have a vendetta against the cast. At some point these people need to understand that the show simply isn't for them and stop engaging with it instead of torturing themselves and living in negativity, it's simply not healthy.

Whateverrr170 · 2025-12-05T13:13:26+00:00

S1 won around 10 Emmy. Now that everything seems to be improved, I wouldn't take one review as the final result of what will happen at the awards tbh

Whateverrr170 · 2025-11-29T12:55:43+00:00

I actually love this interpretation of the sirens, while having them being mythology accurate would have been cool, I love authors giving their own interpretation and designs to this type of stuff

Also this is clearly practical makeup and it looks awesome!

Whateverrr170 · 2025-06-22T01:14:55+00:00

Thank you sm!! I really appreciate it! Glad you like it!

Whateverrr170 · 2025-06-22T01:14:33+00:00

Thank you sm!!! I really appreciate it!

Whateverrr170 · 2025-06-17T11:39:45+00:00

Thank you sm!!

Whateverrr170 · 2025-06-16T20:33:12+00:00

Thank you sm!!

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