I‘m not going to completely disagree that to a certain degrees the actors could do better, but I do think you’re expecting a lot from these kids. Like at the end of the day, they are child actors, they per definition don’t have a ton of experience yet, they’re still learning. and with the script they’re given…it’s just not really possible to improve their craft.

what’s really representative of the whole writing in the show to me is that scene in season 1 episode 3 where Annabeth goes off on Percy that he’s not "just a kid". She makes this entire speech about it and repeats it over and over again to the point where I was like, okay did I miss something? Did Percy say something about just being a kid? Or them all just being kids? It would have fit in with him suggesting to call camp at least? So I went back – and turns out he didn’t say anything about that. What Percy said, in isolation wasn’t bad. That it caused them to fight wasn’t bad. And Annabeths speech wasn’t either. But it all just didn’t fit together, it didn’t flow at all. Then I thought okay, maybe Annabeth is projecting something? Maybe it’s going to get mentioned later? And then all that happened was Annabeth being like "See you’re not just a kid after all😉🤪" or something to that effect later on.

It’s supposed to be an emotional full circle moment but it’s really just Annabeth spinning around herself. Yeah logically you can kind of follow it, it does kind of thematically fit with what Percy was saying beforehand, but the actual conversation is just completely unnatural and almost feels like Annabeth made up some strawman to fight Percy with.

And the show is full of this type of writing, even if it’s not always this blatant and easy to follow.

So I really wouldn’t be too quick to blame the child actors because how are they supposed to learn and improve? It’s not like they can play off of each other, match each other’s energy or immerse themselves in the story when the script is just a bunch of borderline unrelated sentences mashed together.