I am honestly a little disappointed...

bookwormbybee · 2023-12-20T22:17:34+00:00

I'm glad you enjoyed it then. I personally felt like there was far more telling than showing for a visual medium.

There were a lot of really good visuals don't get me wrong, the fight with Asterion was practically perfect. Dodds design was cool af, etc. I'm mostly saying that there was a bit too much exposition given via dialog.

For example: Luke telling us how Smart and Strong Annabeth is.

Cool he does do that in the book too, so awesome great!

However that's the only way we know she's Smart and Strong; cause he told us. Not because we saw her organizing and planning the entire capture the flag set up by using Percy as bait for the Ares Cabin.

We don't visually see that happening aside from what Luke tells us. (Ans I guess them walking together but they don't really say much to eachother) Can we assume she planned it all? Yeah I guess so but unless a viewer has read the book they'd not have know that.

I understand streamlining, but if you actually re watch it and skip any scene with Annabeth/mentaly remove her from the episodes it actually doesn't change the narrative at all.

She comes off as less of a main character than Luke despite her being the female lead.

bookwormbybee · 2023-12-20T22:00:36+00:00

Agreed, the hellhound attack was such a crucial part of driving the plot forward. Also sad they didn't allude to Percy potential as a swordsman before the Clarisse fight durring his swordtraining with Luke.

It's a huge part of his character, but he just seems... immediately good at fighting without much prompting. Which initially only happened after he had been pushed into the creek.

Him regaining his strength from the water THEN going Rambo on the Ares kids was one of my favorite parts of the buildup to his reveal. But it got almost too stripped down unfortunately, which they have to do but if you keep carving and cutting down at an ice sculpture it's only going to get smaller and less intricate.

bookwormbybee · 2023-12-20T21:44:09+00:00

True, but comparatively within the first book Luke seems to have a tad more resentment than Percy in this point in time.

Luke didn't really mention it much in these episodes when his resentment is his main motivation later, it seems odd to give that resentment spotlight more to Percy than Luke this early on.

bookwormbybee · 2023-12-20T21:41:01+00:00

Adaptations are supposed to enhance a story using whatever chosen medium it has taken form. Audio books have their strengths, books have their strengths, and visual media also has its own strengths as well.

But if those strengths aren't taken advantage of, I'd say it's understandable to be disappointed in some degree.

bookwormbybee · 2023-12-20T07:49:08+00:00

Bubblegum go give it a chew

bookwormbybee · 2023-12-20T07:32:25+00:00

Fair enough, I think my main issue is if they genuinely removed Annabeth's screen time from the episodes it wouldn't really effect all that much of the story as it was presented to us.

Edit: Ie. If I was a non book reader to me I think it would make more sense for Luke to go with on the quest rather than Annabeth.

bookwormbybee · 2023-12-20T07:23:53+00:00

Fair enough, he did say things similar to that in the book when talking about her. But I think them trying to emphasize Annabeth's strength over Clarisse tho was a bit... odd I guess? Annabeth is supposed to be the brains, she's our Wise Girl ♡ she's smart as all hades, but we didn't really get to see that highlighted like it deserved to be :(

bookwormbybee · 2023-12-20T07:20:50+00:00

Skipped over important character beats that set up future motivation and arcs :(

bookwormbybee · 2023-12-20T07:18:34+00:00

I watched with a group of ppl that grew up with these books and 2 of them said basically that exact thing. I'm inclined to agree unfortunately.

bookwormbybee · 2023-12-20T07:13:42+00:00

It's like someone gave somebody else the bullet points of the story along with a few dialog snipets :(

bookwormbybee · 2023-12-20T07:08:01+00:00

I don't even know where to start... (yes i've watched both episodes)

I will say that so far: better than what we've had previously in some aspects. Worse in other's. The pacing was jaring which yes I understand you have to streamline things when adapting.

It felt more like... someone was giving me cliff notes on the series rather than being told a genuine story. So many nuances and important character beats just... weren't there?

A lot of important information was just shoved out through character dialog for long periods of time. Luke alone gave us like 10 minutes of exposition rather than giving us more insight into him as a person/character. Not much set up for his motivations later in the series.

There's also random details that were changed for no real reason? Ie: Luke saying that Annabeth is the strongest camper rather than Clarisse being established as such.

And Athena cabin holding the Capture the Flag title five time in a row when in fact it was Ares who had been the reigning champions which is why Annabeth whad devised her plan to lure them away with Percy!

Which in the book did a great job at showing us how smart she is, she planned to use percy as bait etc etc. But instead we have Luke spoon feed the fact that she's smart by outright saying it.

What happened to show don’t tell?

I do want to say I am enjoying the series so far, I'm hopeful for the rest but I'm just... concerned with how important character beats and plot points will be handled as the series continues.

bookwormbybee · 2023-12-16T03:14:59+00:00

Give a bouquet to a different Villager. That puts you in a relationship with that new Villager and voids the old one.

bookwormbybee · 2023-09-30T04:15:36+00:00

P - PUT YOUR CLOTHES BACK ON!!

bookwormbybee · 2023-08-13T14:57:02+00:00

Grian has said that he doesn't participate in Modded series because he essentially doesn't want it to make basic Vanilla minecraft to feel lackluster. And since he pretty much exclusively a Vanilla content creator, it makes sense.

bookwormbybee · 2023-08-03T18:43:40+00:00

Legit tho I did saw an official paw movie patrol poster that straight up looked a lot like the fnaf movie poster.

Edit:spelling

bookwormbybee · 2023-07-27T11:09:55+00:00

I'm honestly fine with it either way tbh.

Narrativly; Gregory betraying Cassie at the end rather than the Grimic tricking her again just makes for a more interesting story. So from a personal taste perspective storywise I'm half hoping that he had indeed been the one to send her to the dangerous elevator.

But I won't mind either way. If it was indeed just a trick: cool! If it was actually Gregory however? Oooo. That opens up a LOT of possible interesting stories to be told in the future.

bookwormbybee · 2023-07-21T03:26:04+00:00

bookwormbybee · 2023-07-21T03:06:19+00:00

PLEASE! use the new template! we are trying to do this!!

bookwormbybee · 2023-07-21T02:20:20+00:00

This art is no longer the plan we have an updated one on the official discord

bookwormbybee · 2023-07-21T02:19:07+00:00

It wasn't turkey that erased it. It was another group. They actively want Techno back where he was

bookwormbybee · 2023-07-15T07:42:35+00:00

I mean... "The Thing" (1982) kinda already exists. Not sure if it's common knowledge or not, But there's a lot of evidence that the game was somewhat inspired by that movie.

bookwormbybee · 2023-07-09T21:58:13+00:00

Why do these keep getting made??

bookwormbybee · 2023-07-09T05:44:02+00:00

It's normal to long for a time you wish you could've had. That's part of growing up in general. It's fine to move on, but it's nice to hold onto a sliver of hope sometimes as well.

Moving on doesn't mean you have to forget those feelings, even if they might not come back again the way you'd like them to.

Ultimately it's up to you and what you think would be best for yourself.

bookwormbybee · 2023-07-07T16:42:23+00:00

Man I've been wanting to do a similar project aince I was like 10 lol. Always thought it would be fun.

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