Percy Jackson & Nostalgic Media Adaptations
Welcome to GT Radio on the Geek Therapy Network. Here at Geek Therapy, we believe that the best way to understand each other and ourselves is through the media we care about. My name is Josué Cardona, and I'm joined by Lara Taylor. Hey. And Marc Cuiriz.
Josué:Yo. Marc Cuiriz, What are we what are we talking about today? Oh, oh, everyone knew this was coming.
Marc:Everyone knew this was coming. I've been hinting at this, foreshadowing it for a long time now, but the time has come to finally talk about Percy Jackson.
Josué:I thought you were gonna say Assassin's Creed.
Marc:You know, I thought about it. I thought about doing a a whole swerve on you guys last second, but now we're gonna stick true to my homeboy, Percy Jackson.
Josué:Truth So is like, these are your favorite things. Right? Like, favorite movie properties, these two? Yes? Yes.
Marc:Assassin's Creed and Percy Jackson, hands down, two of my absolute favorite, like, media properties, franchises, all of it. Love them to death. Okay. So at the time of us recording this, season one has been completed, all eight episodes. And, Josué, you posted shortly before we started recording that season two was just confirmed.
Josué:Breaking news. Breaking Yeah.
Lara:Specifically of Percy Jackson and the Olympians on Disney plus.
Josué:Exactly. The TV show. Yep. Mhmm.
Marc:So this is a series for me that hits really near and dear to me. I think I I remember first reading the books in my sophomore year of high school. It'd been a while since they were out, so I was kind of late to the game a little bit. But nevertheless, some moment I started reading them, loved them. It it combined two of my favorite things, middle school humor and banter, and ancient Greece, which was a hyper fixation at the time.
Marc:And I really enjoyed it. So this combined both of it. And I don't know. I just I really loved the world building, the characters, the way things like, the way the situations unfolded. Like, it was it always kept me engaged.
Marc:It always kept me, like, at the edge of my seat. And when, like, the fourth and fifth books came out for the original series, I remember there were numerous times where I had to be stopped and told I had to stop reading the book so I could go to bed because I had school the next day, but I did not want to stop reading the book. It was just that good. I just did not wanna stop put these things down. And when the movies came out, I remember my mom took me to see the first movie, and I was so I was so excited.
Marc:I was so happy. And then I walked out of that movie feeling so incredibly disappointed.
Josué:Okay. Wait. Wait. Wait. I wanna I wanna I wanna I wanna touch on this for a second because that's always like a big deal when something that you like in one medium finally makes that transition.
Josué:Mhmm. Right? Like, whether it's comic book gets made into movies or TV show or whatever. So this is your your favorite book. How many times have you read the book by this by this point?
Marc:Which one? The first one?
Josué:Yeah. Yeah. The one that the movie is based on.
Marc:So the first book, I have read that book in its entirety, like, 10 times.
Josué:But how many times had you read it by the when when the movie came out?
Marc:Oh, by the time the movie came out? Oh, I had read it, like, maybe five, six times.
Josué:Okay. It's crazy to me. Okay. So right? Like
Lara:don't wanna read things like that.
Josué:Mm-mm. I know. I know. I mean, that's, like, impressive. You know?
Josué:Like Yeah. I I there there's maybe one book that I read five times, and it's a nonfiction book. Like, not a no fiction book. Okay. So you've read the book, like, five, six times.
Josué:You go to the movies. Why are you excited that this movie is coming out?
Marc:I think it was just the way, like, the trailers were about it. And the I can't remember the actor's name that played Percy, but, like, he he looked like it. Like, he looked like like a book describe like, how the book describes him. He had those characteristics. Like, it just looked like that.
Marc:So I was like, damn, this looks really cool. And I was just really excited just to, like, see it because it's hard for me to visualize things in my head. Yeah. So to see it on the screen have it actually be played out, it it was something for me to kinda, like it added to the experience of, like, listening or, in this case, reading the stories. And then watching the movie and noticing all the differences between the book and the movie, which I understood.
Marc:I was like, there are gonna be some changes and differences. I get that. It's just that there were so many changes that to me, it was like, this makes absolutely zero sense.
Josué:Not good changes.
Marc:Like, not good changes, like, at all. Yeah. Like, some of the big things was, like, there there's a few scenes that get cut out that happened, like, later in the book. More towards, like, when they're on their way to Vegas, like, when they meet Ares, which if I remember correctly, I don't even think they bring up Ares at all. Okay.
Marc:I I I had it's been so long since I've seen the movie. But now I kinda wanna go back and watch it just to see.
Lara:Mhmm.
Marc:But another big thing, which I really didn't like, was how they portrayed Grover. So, obviously, in the first movie in this first movie, they aged them up. So they were, like, high schoolers already. So that was a big
Josué:Already they took away half of what you Exactly. You loved about it.
Marc:So they were already in high school, and then they made Grover almost like like a player. Okay. Like, he's like he's like, he's trying to smooth talk with the ladies. He's trying to, like, act like like the suave kind of guy. K.
Marc:And if you read the book and you can tell by the when you watch the show, like, Grover's riddled with anxiety, like, all the time. Like, he's just constantly He's constantly on edge, always on the lookout for something to happen. Like, he's just riddled with anxiety all the time. So it's like, there are a lot of changes, direct oral changes to it that, like, some things were nitpicky, like Annabeth not being blonde. Fine.
Marc:Whatever. And then there were big changes like that where they, like, added stuff to it to make it more action packed where this is something that I read about the series afterwards when when this whole Disney plus series ended was that what people don't understand is there isn't actually a whole lot of action that happens in the first
Josué:book. Mhmm.
Marc:When you watch the show and people tend to compare it to the movie, which the movie was much more action packed. Yes. In that sense, like, it is drastically different and some people might not like that. They probably want more action packed or more stuff going on instead of just like the slow buildup. And admittedly, in the beginning, I was one of those people.
Marc:I was like, this is this is really slow. And then I I read those things and I kind of reflected. And then as I was saying before we started recording, I decided to reread the first book a little bit. So I was listening to it as an audiobook. And it made I listening to it again, I was like, oh, yeah.
Marc:I know that makes a whole lot of sense. Like, this is this is more character development, more setting the the foundation for the world.
Lara:As as a first book usually is.
Marc:Yeah. So
Lara:have you having blown through this so many times, it's kinda like Housewife was talking about last week that human memory is garbage. Mhmm. Garbage. Garbage.
Marc:Yes. Absolute. So, yeah, I I I know we I joked last week when when I was, like, getting ready to to set up the the ground rules for this for this week's discussion. And, you know, like, get ready. I'm gonna just tear this, like, tear right into this and just really highlight my criticisms while also talking about the things I really enjoyed.
Marc:And then I actually spent the week reflecting, thinking about it. And I'm like, know, maybe I was a little too hard on it. Maybe the expectations I had I don't think I was quite sure on the expectations I was I had actually. Like, I I don't know what I was expecting, but I was expecting something. Yeah.
Marc:And I think that was on me to kinda, like, think about it a little more deeply and plus with rereading the book on, like, okay. This kinda, like, set like, now I'm, like, resetting what my expectations are. And as I'm reflecting back on the whole series, I'm like, no. It's actually it's pretty good.
Josué:It's pretty good.
Marc:It's pretty good.
Lara:You say you say it's pretty good. And I know that there are plenty of people who complain on the Internet. But Rotten Tomatoes score, it's got a 92% and an 81 audience score, which is pretty damn good.
Josué:Is this for the show or for the This is for the show. The movie?
Lara:Let me look up the movie.
Marc:And Yeah, man. I because that was gonna be drastically different. I almost 49%.
Lara:49%.
Marc:Because here's here's the thing. The first
Lara:movie And the audience had 53%. So the audience liked it more.
Josué:So it's it's pretty much a coin toss for that one.
Marc:I will say this about the first movie. It's not a faithful adaptation at all, but it is entertaining to watch because of the action that goes in it and because of the differences. Like, it makes it an enjoyable movie on its own to watch. Okay. Like, I knew nothing about Percy Jackson and I went and saw that movie, I'd be entertained.
Lara:The audience doesn't agree with that.
Marc:And that that's a that's a personal thing for me. Like, I I walked away from that movie feeling disappointed that it wasn't a faithful adaptation, but I didn't completely hate the movie. I thought it was an entertaining movie, and it was like, okay. Well, I had a good time watching it. Like, there was some new stuff in it.
Marc:It was fun.
Lara:I think that's how I feel about most, like, superhero movies that I see. I may not I even if I do know a lot about the content, it's like, okay. It might not be this version of this character or whatever, but it was a fun movie.
Josué:Mhmm. Yeah. I always bring up Batman. Right? Like, I did an episode a few years ago where I was like, there are currently 14 different versions of Batman ongoing currently that I can that I know of.
Josué:And it was
Lara:like There's probably more.
Josué:I know. I know. I was like, there's multiple on TV. There's there was the like, it was during the Nolan franchise. Right?
Josué:Like, there were all these different versions going out at the same time. And even, I mean, even in the last few years, we had the Matt Reeves and Batman, right, played by what's what's the heck's his name from Twilight?
Lara:Rob Pattinson.
Josué:Rob Pattinson and and you got Ben Affleck. Right? Like, both playing I mean, technically, so did Michael Keane. He also played Batman in the last in the last
Marc:three years. All three of
Josué:them played Batman in live action. And it's one of those things where I I it's because of Batman that I was finally able to get to that point where I'm like, oh, this is just a different version.
Lara:And it's a little harder with Percy Jackson. There's literally only three versions.
Josué:But but I think that it there's a level right? Like, I think there's a level of, you're right. Like, there's only a few. But I I still think that there's, like, a level of I don't know if maturity is the right word. Right?
Josué:But for to go into into a movie adaptation and and just accept that it's not the it's not the book. Mhmm. It's not the original material. Was it there's a quote from the creators of the new of the live action avatar. Mhmm.
Josué:And they were quoted as saying, the show is a remix, not a cover. Yeah. Right? Like, trying to set expectations. Like, we've changed some stuff.
Josué:Like, this is not one for one adaptation. And it's very strange to see something that is, like, exactly the same. Like Mhmm. I think, like, watchmen is, like, one of the closest things, right, that that people talk about how, like, they recreate the panels almost exactly in the show. But, I mean, it still has lots of differences.
Josué:But
Lara:Well and same thing. We talked about the last of us. It there are very there are very clear sections where it is scene for scene, line for line. Yep. But they make big changes in that show, and it worked.
Josué:Yep. Yep. Yeah. Yeah. Adaptations, yeah, there there's something again, I'm just pointing out that I think I think it's it's cool that you and, also, it surprises me because I think it's I think it's very I don't know if it's more common or or not to be a fan of something and come out of an adaptation disappointed.
Josué:I feel like again, I I think that's normal, but I don't know if it's, like, the most common reaction.
Lara:Mhmm.
Josué:But to be younger and come out of, like, it's your favorite book and you come out of the movie Mhmm. Sure disappointed, but also saying like, that was still fun. Like, that version of it is fine. It's different, but it's fine.
Marc:Mhmm.
Josué:You know? Maybe maybe one day I want something different.
Lara:But Mhmm.
Josué:That's yeah. Something it's it's so funny that we many of us in geek culture and pop culture complain about getting more of the thing that we love. Because
Lara:it's not exactly the thing that we want about the thing that we love. And it's like, well, that could be for somebody else. You know?
Josué:Most movies don't get an adapt I mean, most books don't get adaptations. Most, you know, like, we get we get again, Percy's got now, like, the the books are still going. You've had the movies. Now you've
Lara:got I can't wait for this show to end someday so that I can feel like I can read the book because I prefer to do it the other way so I'm not as disappointed.
Josué:Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. That's a good I don't know. I don't know.
Josué:Like, when you mentioned rewatching the movie now, Mark, I'm like, I don't know if I want to do that. Like, I'm very curious. I used to be I used to love to, like, watch different versions of the same, like, oh, this is a remake of a remake. I'll watch them all. But because the story is, like, ongoing, like, I wanna I know I'm invested.
Josué:Now these are the my versions of the characters. I also don't know if I'll go to the books because I know that the series is coming back for another season.
Marc:Can you can how about you can you can go through and and live through what I had to go through, where I had to wait every year for the fall for these books to be released once I actually got caught up and I read them. By reading through the first book and then waiting for season two to drop, and then you can read the second book, and then wait for season three, and then you can read the third book. And you could just keep doing that over and over again until season five with The Last Olympian.
Josué:I o okay. I I if if you don't wanna stick to this part of the like, we can we can move away from this, but this is but this is something that I I I think it's because we have such strong feelings about about about these stories. Right? Like, the affinity is so strong for them that we have these kind of irrational fears and feelings towards the towards the the media because, like, I have examples. Like, the last time this happened to me was His Dark Materials.
Josué:Right? So there's there's the trilogy. I read all three books, and I love them, and then watch the show on HBO. And I was always, like, looking forward to seeing certain things from the book Mhmm. There.
Josué:And you and and, like, I love how they did things differently and how things were the same way. I enjoyed that whole process. And yet, it always the the the prospect of that is never appealing to me because it's like it's like an emotional roller coaster.
Lara:Mhmm.
Josué:And I'm, like, I'm I'm actually scared of it, which is so silly to to, like, to to say. But then I still end up enjoying it. Like, the Batman thing, like, there's there's, like, no end. It's like, I wish there was a Batman anime. I got you.
Josué:You know what would be cool? There was a Lego Batman. There's two versions of Lego Batman that you can go you can
Lara:go watch. There's multiple watch or you could play.
Josué:You can also play. It's funny because the version that you play in the games, he has his own movies, and he's a different version than the than the than the one from the Lego Batman. Like, there's just so many different versions. I was watching this Christmas. There there's a did did you guys watch it?
Josué:It's a Merry Little Batman. Merry Little Batman was the movie that came out. Mhmm. Mhmm. It's a Christmas movie with about, like, Batman leaving the house.
Josué:It's basically Home Alone with Damien with with Batman's son. It is I did not like that version of Batman or that world at all. But it's cool because I've still got hundreds. Yeah. Yeah.
Josué:To to go to.
Marc:Yeah. I think when you talk about this, and I'm thinking about the book and the series, there's a part in it where I'm thinking on it right now where I was truly looking forward to this one part. It's about halfway through when they go to the amusement park.
Josué:Mhmm.
Marc:Mhmm. Now, this is a really this is a scene where Percy and Annabeth really start to kind of connect and they start to bond a little bit. Yeah. Like, this is the start of it. Yep.
Marc:And, like, the way it happens in the book and how it happens in the show, like, I was really looking forward to seeing the chaos that that happens in the book during that scene. And it sets the ground rule. It sets like a it sets something up for events later on in the series and even in the sequel series.
Josué:Okay.
Marc:And it doesn't happen that way in in the TV show. And I was like, I remember being so disappointed watching it. Yeah. Yeah. And then I think on but but I I know now that when I think on it, the emotions in both the book and the TV show, the emotion was still there.
Marc:And and the feelings that you were you were meant to feel in that particular moment was the same. Like, you you you really start to see that they're they're starting to form this friendship and this close connection. It's just done differently. And I'm like, okay. Like, I and now I look at it.
Marc:I'm like, that's actually really cool that, like, they were able to change it to be something completely different. Yeah. But they still kept the feeling that you're supposed to feel or that that that's the aim that you're that Rick would want you to feel in that moment between Percy and Annabeth? I I
Josué:think like we're more invested if we have a source material and then we're going to see the different version. Right? Because so there's like parallel versions running in your mind, and you've got all that stuff going on. So it's very much more like, I feel like you're more invested, you're more involved in the process. It becomes more of an active participation in the story.
Josué:But do you guys think do you guys think that's better? Like, for you? Is that more fun? Is it distracting? Has it been different for different stories?
Lara:I it depends. Like, I'm the kind of person who when I go it's been a long time since I went dancing. But when I used to go to the club and I go dancing, I would love listening for cues in the music for this next Can I predict what the next song is going be in the mix?
Josué:Okay. Like, that's a similar thing.
Lara:So I I like doing that. So I like when I'm reading a book or playing a game, I'm like, oh, how are they going to do that? Yeah. In a show because it's going to be very different. Like, I talked about Last of Us.
Lara:There's a whole thing in Last of Us part two where I'm like, how are they going to portray this story that you play this very specific way in a show that has a very different mode of storytelling. And so, like, there are things that I'm really excited to see sometimes when I read something. Again, I usually I usually read the book after watching the the movie or the show just because that's how I prefer to do it. But sometimes a book I've been reading does get adapted.
Josué:But I prefer to do it that way?
Lara:Because I know that lots of things from books get cut. And so I learn more. It's like I get lore.
Josué:Gotcha. Gotcha.
Lara:It's like it's like I get extra rather than Yeah. Taken from
Josué:Yeah.
Marc:Right.
Josué:Okay. Okay.
Lara:I'm less disappointed that way usually because I don't feel like something's been taken from me.
Josué:Just one. Yeah.
Lara:It's like I had with with Game of Thrones. And I'm somebody who did not hate I I do did not hate the ending. Was it the one that I felt like was probably intended? No. But I didn't hate the ending.
Lara:But there are things in the books that I'm like, I understand why they had to take it out. But it and if I had waited for the books to be finished, I would never watch the show because the books are probably never going to be finished. Yeah. But it's something that, like, again, now that it's partway through, I can go back and get more and get all this extra information. That's kind of cool.
Lara:And Mark was saying something about how you had the same feeling in that in that scene. And I think regardless of whether they are Word for word, line for line, scene for scene, as long as they get the feeling that the creator intended, that's the faithful adaptation It's the feeling you get.
Josué:I know. I don't know if we talked about this last time, but the the Scott Pilgrim has the the graphic novel, and then Mhmm. They made the movie.
Lara:And then on show now.
Josué:Well, they also made a video game. I I was gonna say Yeah. Back to, like, they all kinda like, the movie and the game came out around the same time, and they were each slightly different in a in a cool way. Right? I was like, oh, okay.
Josué:Like, book that it like, and not because it I don't think it it had to be done that way because of the medium. Right? They just made these choices. Like, are we gonna make it a little different? And then now that the show came out, the show is definitely a remix.
Josué:It is, like, ten years after, how would we do things differently?
Lara:Especially since the story of Scott Pilgrim in some ways hits very differently. Yeah. It doesn't age as well in some places. Yeah.
Josué:Yeah. And I I think it's one of those stories where, like, the main character isn't isn't like, it's an irredeemable kind of like it's a shit character. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah.
Josué:Yeah. So that's okay.
Lara:And watching for Ramona. Like Exactly. And
Josué:so the the the new show addresses that a lot of that head on in a very different way, but it's still anyway, it's it's it's great. But I I I hear you. Okay. Do you so so what's your answer to the question, Mark, of if do you think it's better to like, for you, is it a better experience or does it depend on the on the on the franchise if you have multiple versions running through your head simultaneously?
Marc:I think it depends on the franchise for me because watching
Josué:the
Marc:show the first time, I was getting so distracted. Yeah. I could I I'm sure my wife got so annoyed with me because I was constantly feeling like, they didn't do this. It's not supposed to be this way. I remember it not being this way.
Marc:It's supposed to be this. And all these other things
Josué:I would've left a room.
Marc:Exactly. Like, I wasn't I mean, I wasn't being so annoyed, but it was like, oh, like, this is different. Like, I noticed this part's different. I wouldn't, like, pause it and then go on a tirade of, like, how this is so incredibly different and the whole thing's ruined. I I wouldn't do that.
Marc:But, like Yeah. I noticed there were a lot of creative differences that happened. So I think it really depends because in the moment, I definitely did not feel that way. I definitely felt like it was more distracting than anything. Yeah.
Marc:But I think once I'm once it's done and like I've actually like, have a time, give myself some time to kind of digest it, reflect on it, kind of revisit the source material a little bit, then I kind of have a much more newfound appreciation for it. And that kinda goes hand in and, like, how that kinda depends is also, like, with, like, with Dragon Ball z. Like, watch the shows. That's really all I knew. I never read the manga.
Josué:Mhmm.
Marc:And then after super was done and since I've been sitting here craving, waiting for it to continue, I have since gone back and I read the Dragon Ball Super manga up until at the beginnings of what's going on currently. So I got through the whole Tournament of Power and, like, I see that a lot of the carry or not the Tournament of Power, like the moral arc or whatever. Yeah. So I see all these differences between the characters and the differences that the show makes because it makes for better television as opposed to what happens in the actual story in the manga. And for me, like, these two different versions, like, they're they can coexist.
Marc:That's fine. It's not distracting. I I'm not, you know, upset either way. I enjoy both variations of it. And Dragon Ball is also one of those shows where, like, it it was it's meaningful, it's impactful.
Marc:It played a big role growing up. But it's I think because Percy Jackson, because of how much I've read it and how invested I became in the world of it, I think that's why for me, like, the more invested I am in it and the more time and energy and effort I've put into a particular series or franchise, I think the more distracting it becomes. Whereas for Dragon Ball, like, I just thoroughly enjoyed it. I loved the fighting, loved all of it, could care less about the story. I just wanna see screaming transformations and and people throwing punches.
Josué:What color will their hair turn next?
Marc:Exactly. Yeah. So for me, like, that's easier for it to let it coexist because I'm just there for the I'm just there for the entertainment. Whereas this, like, I like, I dedicated myself. I put myself in that world when I was reading the books is young when I was younger and and as I got older, like, reflecting of, how I felt reading those stuff for the first time or the first or the third time or, you know, whatever.
Marc:Yeah. And noticing those differences and also how I've changed as a as a human Yeah. And as I've grown.
Josué:That I mean, that that's the affinity piece that that that we talk about. Right? It's like you're like, there's something about it. Like, you're you're connected to it. It resonates with you.
Josué:It becomes this this whole emotional experience. Like, I'm glad you mentioned dancing and music before. I remember, like, you know, artists that you love comes out with a new CD. You listen to it that first time. That doesn't count.
Josué:Like, right? Like, like, you need to re
Lara:listen to it afterwards. I can't remember. It was a very long time ago, but I there was a study about listening to music and like songs that you hate. If you listen to them enough, you might actually start to like them because you get used to the sound and like, oh, that's not too bad. Yeah.
Josué:Yeah. I know, like, for me, a show that this always happens with is or used to anyway. It was doctor who. I would watch an episode, and afterwards, I'll be like, each episode was just, like, emotional for me. I was so excited throughout the whole thing.
Josué:Had to watch it a second time to actually get what was, like, get the details and stuff because I I couldn't just watch it. It was it was an experience.
Lara:Mhmm.
Josué:And so I get that. And this I was so excited to see Percy Jackson because I've never read the books, never watched the movie, but I know that you love it so much, Mark. I was like, I gotta I gotta I gotta get in on this. I gotta get on this. So I I have a question then, kinda related to all this stuff with, like okay.
Josué:You brought up Lord of the Rings. I mean, no. Not Lord of Rings. I was thinking about Lord of the Rings. You brought up Game of Thrones, Lara.
Lara:Mhmm.
Josué:One thing I did was after maybe the second season, it was after the first season, I couldn't wait for the next season. So I jumped into the books. I was like, I'm just gonna continue the books. I didn't start from the first one. I did the the second one.
Lara:So so different. Mhmm.
Josué:So yeah. So, like, just one like, for one example that came to mind was the fact that when after Katherine dies, right, like, like, as Stark's wife, the mother of of all the Stark kids, she dies. Like, she comes back to life, basically.
Lara:She's a zombie, basically. Yeah.
Josué:Yeah. Yeah. Like a zombie witch magic. And I'm like, after I read that in the books, the whole time I'm
Lara:watching Stoneheart the show or something like that?
Josué:Yeah. And then the whole time I'm watching the show afterwards, I'm like, that's so weird that that's not here. Like, they just I mean, there's no
Lara:So many things. There was stuff where, like, people have, like, purple and blue hair and forked tongues and, like, there was another prince across the sea and, like
Josué:Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. So so in that case, it was not like, it did not make sense to jump in, like, oh, I'm just gonna continue the show and by watching, like, by by reading the book because I can't wait. I did that with Dragon Ball Super.
Josué:Once, you know, like, the show has stopped. There haven't been any new episodes after the the tournament, the the Universal Tournament. That's not what it's called, but, you know, the big tournament for the sake of Tournament of Power. Tournament of Power for all, you know, all the universes. And so I was like, oh, then I'm gonna read the manga.
Josué:So I immediately picked up from there and went and started reading the Moro arc. Right? Like, it just like you mentioned. Right? And that that was fine.
Josué:There wasn't anything crazy there that didn't line up. Right? There wasn't anything missing. Other than, like, Broly having have like, the move anyway. But, like, it was I I was able to continue.
Josué:So my question is for Percy Jackson. If I want more Percy Jackson, based on the show, do you think I can go right into the book, like book two, or should I read book one?
Marc:No. You can go right into book two. I think this is one of those things, like, like, there's a lot of differences in terms of some chain like, there are some changes that happen, but none of it, like, changes the main story, really. Okay. I think the biggest thing that they changed is him missing the deadline.
Marc:Okay. I think that's right there. The biggest the absolute biggest change I can think of that that happens. A lot of things are
Lara:In the
Josué:book, he doesn't miss anything?
Marc:No. And and in the book, it's right kinda like right there.
Josué:Okay. Oh. Oh. Interesting.
Marc:It's like it's like cutting it close, but he makes it on time. But also, like, there are also some changes where, like, I understand, like, it's to streamline the story because, you know, it's only eight episodes and they're only forty minutes, so I get it. Yeah. But I think right there, that's the biggest change where it's like he missed it before he even got to the underworld. And he's like, well, no, I'm just gonna see this through to the end.
Marc:Like, I get it because that that helps, like, establish who Percy is as a character. Character. Yeah. And I I so I I I'm okay with it.
Lara:And establishing like that he failed, but he still did it. And it's like, you know what? I'm gonna I'm show this. Yeah.
Marc:Yeah. Mhmm. Because he he believes and he knows that there's something bigger at stake.
Josué:Mhmm.
Marc:So yeah. Aside from that Yeah. Everything else is minor. It's nitpicky to me. So I think you could go into the second book and you you you you'd be fine.
Josué:What was that moment for you for like, for you when you saw that he didn't make it?
Marc:Okay. So Be like, oh, I so there's two things in that scene that happened that actually made me upset.
Josué:Okay.
Marc:So one was the the the nayad telling him that he missed the deadline. Mhmm. And then it's like, yo, like, sorry. Like, there's gonna be a war and you failed. Sorry.
Marc:Sorry, son. Yeah. And then the second thing was her giving him four pearls. Because in the book, he only gets the three.
Josué:What? That's a big deal.
Marc:Exactly. So he knows from the from the the get go
Josué:That changes things a lot. That, like, the emotional, like
Marc:The emotional thing of his mom, like Yeah. In the book, it's a deliberate yes, it's still deliberate in the in the show, but that's because, oh, they lost the fourth pearl. Whereas here is like, no, he knew going into it that someone was going to have to be left behind. So he was going in with that mentality already of like, I'm going to let my I'm just going to I'm going to leave myself. I'm going to save my mom.
Lara:Yeah. But then this gave a different opportunity for Grover to feel like, oh, no. I need to sacrifice myself. I'm the one who lost.
Josué:Yeah. And also the hope of, like, oh, like, it's a very hopeful from the beginning because you're like, it's gonna it can work out.
Lara:And then lose that, and it's like this everybody trying to sacrifice themselves.
Josué:For one hour, you get to think that everything might be okay.
Marc:Yeah. Mhmm. And that's the thing is that, like, everyone thought, like, with the four pearls, like, it it really took away from that emotional moment between, like, what happens in the actual underworld. Yeah. Because I think they all like, because he doesn't he brings out the pearls later, and then that's when Annabeth and Grover are like, no.
Marc:No. No. We're we're gonna fight, and we're gonna stay behind. He's like, no. No.
Marc:No. Like, we all have to go. Because then he realizes that line in the prophecy. Yeah. But here, like, him missing the deadline coupled with her giving him four pearls, and then you kind of want like, for us that know the story, you know that the fourth pearl is gonna go missing.
Marc:Like, it has to happen because otherwise then the prophecy wouldn't make sense. So like, it's like, okay.
Josué:Also, ultimately, it doesn't matter because even with the three Mhmm. Everybody's okay. Like, you read the book. Right?
Lara:Yeah.
Marc:Yeah. Like, you like, we all knew it was all gonna end up working itself out in the end. Like, we all
Lara:say it took away from the emotionality, but I saw all of what you're talking about. Throughout the whole thing. And there already was in the arch. There already was that scene of like, well, I'm going to sacrifice myself for the for you guys. Like, so.
Marc:Yeah. And so that's where, like, that's why I said, like, in that moment, in that scene, when they talk about him missing the deadline, it's like being the the biggest change for for me, at least, that I saw. The biggest change happening in the story. The the pearl one was just added onto it. But then after you watched the the next episode, then it's like, okay.
Marc:That you still see it. So, like, again, it's changed, but the feeling is still there. Because he still makes that deliberate choice to say, I'll I'm coming back for her. Yeah. Yeah.
Marc:So, like, but just in that moment, with those two things together, I got so upset. I got it it just it it it it bothered me a lot, and I sat with that for a good solid week until the next episode. And then I saw how it all played out, and I was like, okay. Okay. I'm a little less annoyed.
Marc:Yeah. But the deadline thing is what stuck with me because I'm like, he no. Like, the whole point is that he comes in at the last second. He's like, here you go.
Josué:I I it must have to do with the episodic nature of the show. Right? Like, how do how do you how do you make the ups and downs work within an episode structure? It probably wouldn't be as exciting if it like I said before, like, already, it doesn't have a lot of action. Right?
Josué:It's pretty straightforward. So this kind of adds a few different emotional beats to it.
Lara:And adds that emotional weight of him going anyway.
Marc:Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. I think the the once you get to the I think as the series progresses though, like it there's there's a lot more action, a lot more stuff. And as the characters mature, you see a lot more.
Marc:So Yeah. I am still excited to see how they're gonna do Sea of Monsters. But, yes, I think you can pick up book two and start reading it, and you'll be you'll be fine. You know the story.
Josué:Okay. Okay. I'm gonna say something. Send your hate mail to hoswayaki therapy dot org. I really, really, really like the the latest Flash movie, And it's a story that I know very well, the Flashpoint story.
Josué:Like, I read the comics when they did it. I believe there's an animated movie. I haven't watched that one. They did it on the live action TV show. Did it on the Flash TV show.
Josué:And then this was gonna do it again. This whole event where he goes back in time the Flash goes back in time to to save his mom, and then basically ends up changing the entire world.
Lara:Everything.
Josué:Butterfly effect kind of stuff. And when they did it in the comic books, like, it was such a world changing event that, like, literally, like, every everything changed. Everything changed in a way that was incredible. And I loved seeing, like, this version. And I'm enjoying the movie because I know the story so well, but it is absolutely going in in directions that I did not expect.
Josué:Right? So I was like, oh, they did it this way. Oh, they did it. Instead of Superman, it's Supergirl. Oh, instead of this, it's this.
Josué:And they just it was it was so fun to see, like, these different Mhmm. Versions. Like like, the fact that they they did take a hard right and and something changed drastically. Like, those moments, I love those moments when when that happens. But, like, if you're super invested in it, I guess, also, helps if you like the change.
Josué:Right? Not if you don't like the change, but I just love to see how things are different. And so I thought of two different two more. I I haven't finished Final Fantasy seven remake, Lara.
Lara:Oh, okay.
Josué:I know that it's like, they're always hinting. And again, don't know if this happens in the first one or if this is something that's gonna pop in the second one. But, like, it's a it's a classic moment, and I went through it in the original game where Aerith dies. Right? Like, it's And
Lara:They didn't do it. Mhmm.
Josué:Right? And so in this one, it's like, what if we don't? Right? And then it's suddenly like, oh, you're like, oh, this isn't the same story. This is an alternate retelling of the same story and things are different.
Josué:Don't tell me anymore because I haven't I haven't played it and I wasn't sure if it happens or not or how or when that moment comes, but
Lara:It's just a thing that is very like, It is the same game and it's not right. It is as someone who's played the first one and never actually beat the first one, I've done everything except the final boss because I never got nights of the round. So now I get the chance to actually beat the game maybe when when all of it is said and done. But it's something that I've played the intro to the game several times on different platforms. And while I know there are differences, they did such a good job of getting to the spirit of the game.
Josué:Yeah. Yeah.
Lara:Other than that big change, I couldn't tell you
Josué:What else was different?
Lara:What what ex what exactly is different until I go and look at an article that's pinpointed things. I'm like, oh, yeah. That thing is different. That this didn't happen or this happened differently. But it is it's one of those things where, like, yeah, it feels like it caught the spirit of what they were trying to do in the original.
Josué:Okay.
Lara:Yeah.
Josué:And so
Lara:And just so surprising that the game is over at the point where, like, it's only, a third of the game.
Josué:Yeah. Of the original. I'm just like yeah. Yeah. Yeah.
Lara:Yeah. I'm like, wow. I just spent all this time that probably took people, like, to play through two thirds of the game, like, or all of the game. And I finished this part of it. So Yeah.
Lara:Yeah.
Josué:Well, that's like again, like, that's a shocking moment in the game, and so they change it there. And I'm looking forward to that moment where, like, I come to that, and it it's different. Even though I know it's coming because because I can't help myself from reading comments in in online. But the version of this that is the most has been maybe the most exciting to me ever, at least that I can think of right now, is Deon Genesis Evangelion. Have you have have you guys seen the show?
Lara:I've seen the anime, but not the the remakes.
Josué:So I've
Marc:I've watched the original anime because I watched the remakes up until three point o.
Josué:Mhmm.
Marc:And then when you were waiting for four, I then re I then went back and watched the original anime.
Josué:Okay. That's four. Yeah. That's such an interesting experience. So I've I've I've watched the original show multiple times.
Josué:And then when you watch the the rebirth of Evangelion, those are the four movies they're called. They start and it's like, you know, it's like, oh, we're redoing it, you know, with, like, in current time, you know, just and the first movie plays out beat for beat like the show. Like, it is exactly the same. And then, basically, if I remember correctly, everything turns out exactly the same. And then it's in a post credit scene where everything just, like, completely changes.
Josué:Like, there's something that happens that's come just so so drastically different that it it it just creates a fork, you know? And then the another three movies go in completely different directions. And it is it's like I'm like, what? You know, like, just I just can't believe
Lara:kinda it's thing. Right? They wanna make it honor what it was before and make a surprise for the people who like otherwise, you're just watching the same thing over again. I think about when I went to go see you mentioned Twilight earlier because Rob Pattinson, but Breaking Dawn Part two. And I'm in the theater and it shifts from the book.
Lara:And spoilers for a movie that's really old. Carlyle's head gets cut off, and it's like everybody in the theater went
Josué:Yeah. Yeah.
Lara:Yeah. Was a moment.
Josué:Yeah.
Lara:Right? Yeah. So that's why they changed things so that people have a a moment like that.
Marc:I
Josué:love those moments. I love those moments. I think most of the time. I've never had one where I'm like, oh, no.
Lara:Mhmm.
Josué:Not to mention, there's always, like, stuff in the background. Right? Like, with with Zeus, like, the in in in the Percy Jackson show just now, like, knowing that he died when the show
Lara:The actor.
Josué:You're watching it and you're like, oh, this guy died a few months ago. Same thing with on Ahsoka. I forgot the name of the character. But
Lara:Oh, right. Why can't Balan Skull.
Josué:Yep. Yep. Like, the whole time, like, he had died before the show even came out, and, like, that's something in the back of your mind. Yeah. All of those things are running through at the same at the same time that happened especially with, again, stuff that you're super into.
Josué:If it's a show that you don't care about or a new or a new franchise, obviously, you're not that invested.
Lara:Mhmm.
Josué:So I was pretty invested.
Lara:Mhmm. Cannot wait for season two.
Josué:Yeah. Alright, Mark. So so it's your favorite show. I mean, it's your favorite movie. I don't know if it's your favorite show, but not your favorite it's your favorite book.
Josué:I'm sorry. It's your favorite book. I don't know if it's I don't think it's your favorite movie.
Lara:Probably least favorite movie.
Josué:Yeah. Maybe your least favorite movie. Listen.
Marc:The first one like I said, the first one was okay. The second movie, we don't talk about that.
Josué:Oh, we don't? Okay. No. Even if I go back like, I can go watch the first one, but not the second one.
Marc:Yeah. That second one, literally a waste of time. Okay. Like, I I tracked that movie down because it was hard to find it at the time when I watched it. I watched it and immediately wish I never had bothered searching for it.
Josué:This isn't really this isn't so related, but I had that experience recently. There's a there's a what's his name? The guy that made Kung Fu Hustle and Steven oh, what's his name? Fossil Steven Steven Chow. He he made a movie about the a journey to the West, which is, like, the monkey king and all that stuff.
Josué:Mhmm. And I watched the movie with a friend, and it was amazing. I was like, this movie is incredible. And then we're like, oh, there's a sequel. We watched the sequel immediately afterwards, and it's one of the worst movie experiences I've ever had.
Josué:And just because it was, like, it was it was insulting to the previous movie, to the to the legend of it, to everything about it. Mhmm. So okay. So we'll not watch the second movie.
Marc:No. Don't.
Josué:Yeah. Yeah. Okay. So is there is there anything else that we haven't covered about this ex you know, these experiences, your feelings about your favorite franchise?
Marc:Mhmm. Well, one of the things I think probably the biggest thing, and it's really the reason why, like, I've come to really enjoy it and why I think I have such a great affinity towards it is, at least in this first book, the big theme that I picked that I took from it when I especially when I first read it, which was kind of staying true to who you are as a person. In addition to learning to accept pieces of your like parts of yourself that maybe you didn't quite weren't quite ready to accept or didn't want to believe were true and coming to terms with that and accepting that like, no, this is who I am and accepting yourself fully. High school Mark had a lot of stuff going on at that time in his life and did not have the greatest self image. And so reading this book and not only like, I look back on it now as an adult understanding that, like, I have ADHD and the character also has ADHD and was dealing with a lot of the issues that I was facing at that time minus the dyslexia.
Marc:Like, I I found myself relating to him, like, to Percy. And he's one of those characters that, like, he really cares about like, the people that he cares about, it's ride or die. Like, he will do he'll in this case, he literally goes to hell and back for the people that he cares about. And also, he can do those things. And at the same time, here he is initially believing that he's different and he doesn't wanna be different.
Marc:He wants to be like everybody else. And he's struggling with that because in the beginning of the of the show, you know, or in the book, he talks about how he's been to six schools in six years. He's been kicked out of every single school because of fights, because of all these different things. And then by the end of the book, he's like, This is this is my place. This is my family, and I'm going to do everything I can to protect it.
Marc:Like, yes, it's flawed. Yes, there's a lot of things I don't agree with. And also, I know myself. I'm not going to get lost in this world, but I'm going to but this is still part of me. And I accept that and I'm going to live with that and, know, learn from it, build on it, make it something that he can accept and and fully, like, fully integrate into himself rather than try to hide it or shun away from it.
Marc:And I thought that was really, really cool, really important for for me at the time when I first read it. And it had a helped jumpstart this idea that, like, I needed to start being okay with who I am as a person and stop trying to be like everybody else or stop trying to be like certain people in the hopes that that would garner acceptance from others. Like, no, like, I am my own person. And as I learned to accept that, then like the people that I want to be a part of my life and be in my life, they'll come more naturally. Yeah.
Marc:That's like the big takeaway that I had. And so for you guys who obviously are not nearly as invested in this as I am, I'm kinda curious to know, like, what are some of the things that you guys kind of highlighted or what were some of the big themes that you guys saw in the show? What did you guys pull from the show? Because this is what I pulled from the book. Yeah.
Marc:So I'm curious to see what you guys pulled from the show, this being your first interactions with it.
Josué:Yeah. Yeah.
Lara:For me, in one way, it's like found family, but also all the demigods are related. So Mhmm. There's that. So it is actual family. But, like, the idea that doing something hard together, too, can help bring people together.
Lara:I honestly it's funny when we were watching it. Nina loves Grover. Go go figure. Mhmm. Because I feel like the comic relief character is very much always her go to for her favorite.
Lara:And for me, I ended up I really like Annabeth. Like, she is just I don't know. She's the practical one. She's the one that gets things done. And I liked watching her, like, let Percy in, you know?
Josué:I'm thinking about what you said, Mark. Like, I'm I'm trying to I'm trying to think about if it says fleshed out, like, if some of those themes are as fleshed out in the show as as what you described.
Lara:There's a little bit of feeling like he doesn't belong. Right? School. Like, he didn't he doesn't fit in at home because of the stepdad. Yeah.
Lara:All cut. Yeah. And then at first doesn't really fit in at Camp Half Blood.
Marc:Yeah. Like, he gets taken to the toilet to get a swirly. And then it becomes the supreme lord of the bathroom.
Lara:Mhmm. Mhmm.
Josué:I guess the thing that keeps coming up is the like, how he doesn't have either of his parents throughout the the main part of the quest. Right? Yeah. Does like, he's very close to his mom, but he never has his dad. And then there's, like, this I can't tell if he wants to see his dad.
Josué:I don't think he does. Man, like, that's kind of from from the show. I may I may be reading it wrong. I may be projecting. But it seems that think
Lara:he does wanna see his dad. I think he's upset that his dad never wanted to see him, and then he finds out that, like, he did.
Josué:Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Well, that that's the thing. Right?
Josué:It's like, he kinda needs his help or would like his help to to find his mom, but he is angry at him. You know? But I can't tell I can't tell, like, how much he's struggling with that particular piece of it. I can tell how much he's struggling with wanting to get back to his mom and save her at whatever cost because he's like, he he seems to get like, adjust very quickly to this new world. Right?
Josué:Or it's like, oh, okay. What are the rules I need to follow? Like, okay, how do I get to my mom? There's a quest. Point me in the right direction.
Josué:I'm gonna do it no matter what. I'm gonna make it happen. And there's like that determination and that motivation for it. I keep thinking about, like because, like, that relationship with his mom is very clear, and the path is very clear. But the one with the dad is the one that I'm, like, thinking about.
Josué:Mark, you have a you have a comment? So
Marc:I don't think the show did a a good job of fleshing that out. Yeah. And part of that is just that's I think that's really hard to do because in the book, the only time he interacts with his dad is at the end. Yep. And there are some details that are mentioned in the book that kind of like helps him understand that like his dad did want to be there.
Marc:It's just because of the rules and the laws, like, he couldn't. But, no, I think you're absolutely right that, like, he does want to see his dad. He does want to meet his dad, especially once he finds out that it's Poseidon. Like, he really does want that. And at the same time, he's so angry.
Marc:Like, he's incredibly angry because of the things that him and his mom had to go through because he couldn't be around. And to him in the beginning, he doesn't understand the rules and the laws and the restrictions that the gods have. And it's always something that he kind of struggles with when it comes to his dad. Yeah. At least in the first first few books.
Marc:And as he gets older, then he kinda starts to understand a little more. And then he creates like this his own relationship with his dad where like, it's an understanding. Like, he gets it. But in these first ones, because he doesn't know the world yet and he's not as familiarized with it, yeah, he's pissed because he's like, seriously, dad. Like, you couldn't do anything, like, anything at all.
Josué:That stuff is infuriating for me, like, in the show. Like Mhmm. I mean, all of it. Like, all and and I'm glad that that Percy and Annabeth both both pointed out. Like, all your Greek cards are stupid.
Josué:Like, your stupid rules, your stupid games, they're ridiculous.
Marc:However, and this is something I saw on Reddit that it I think this was a good way to kind of a good attempt at trying to highlight this. So in the show, when Luke is telling Percy about like how they they burned like the best part of their meal in the fire as like an offering to the gods. Right?
Josué:Mhmm.
Marc:You're supposed to give up like the the thing that you're wanting the most, you're supposed to give it up because then that shows the gods that like that gets them to listen because you're giving up the best part of your meal for them. Hate that shit. So yes. Mhmm. So that's the thing is that, like, that's how you get them to listen.
Marc:Yeah. And then when they do the flashback and Percy's mom takes some random person's ice cream, lights a mansion, just drops it in there, and then he shows up. That is their attempt to showing just how much he cared because it wasn't even her meal. It wasn't anything particularly desirable. It was someone's leftovers that she burned as an offering to get him to come.
Marc:And he was so wanting to that he basically used this as an excuse to come.
Lara:She sacrificed something. Yeah.
Marc:So it's like, yeah, it's like, oh, look. Yep. She gave up
Josué:I think
Marc:she was an offering. I gotta I gotta this is a prayer. I gotta I gotta respond. This is what I'm gonna actually reply to. And then he was he was there in a heartbeat because that's how much he cared about Sally and
Lara:Percy. Mhmm.
Josué:Yeah. That makes me more upset. Like
Marc:But again, it's those it's those Yeah. Those godly laws and restrictions that, like that's why he's like, I I can't go see him. I can't go talk to him. Like, that's against the rules. And if he does that and I think it's like if he were to do that, then to make acknowledging him as his son, which not only would Zeus know, but also that would then run the risk of monsters being attracted to him much sooner than.
Marc:Yeah. And and he's already in danger as it is. So the risk of potentially exposing him to the world sooner when he's not as prepared, like, Sally's like, no, I I need time to teach him how to be how to be a human, basically.
Lara:Yeah. Like little eight year old Percy having, like, you know, furries coming after him or whatever would have been ridiculous. Yeah. Yeah.
Marc:Well, I mean, Annabeth did it at age six, but you learn about that in the second book.
Lara:Yeah. Yeah. That's But she's she's also not Percy. That
Marc:is true.
Josué:Yeah. Yeah. I was I mean, it it's good that the that this the framing of the show and the world that the kids live in infuriates me because that's, like, motivating. I'm rooting for them. It just reminded me, like, two episodes ago, we talked about God of War, and that's a whole fantasy about just killing the gods Mhmm.
Josué:For their hubris and for their stupidity.
Marc:Mhmm.
Josué:Yeah. Oh, oh, Percy kills their asses.
Marc:Just wait till just wait till book five. Then there's the whole sequel series. Can't That's a whole another five books.
Josué:Okay. I'm I'm kind of the themes that you said that resonated with you the most, it's funny. It made me think you mentioned, like, being true to yourself and to your to your values and, like, accepting who you are. Like, this is stuff I'm dealing with in therapy right now.
Marc:Stuff I need to address in therapy.
Josué:Yeah. Yeah. Maybe I should maybe I should read the first one. Let's go through it. I hear it's not a long read.
Marc:It's not. But it's really good. It's a fast read. You'll get through it in Yeah. Hey.
Lara:When I did Hunger Games, I watched the first movie and then read all the books. So and then watched the movies as they came out. And I was not disappointed there. So
Josué:k. K. K. Alright. You've convinced me, Mark.
Marc:That's what I do. I convince you to to read on ordinary. I could convince you to read Percy Jackson.
Josué:I'm hooked. Yep. Yep. It doesn't take I mean
Lara:It doesn't take a whole lot to convince him to at
Josué:least If I like the person who's recommending something to me, I'm most likely gonna you don't have to you don't have to sell me too hard on it.
Marc:I don't have to twist your arm. I can let go now?
Josué:Yep. Yep. Yep. Yep. Yep.
Josué:Okay. Yep. We can't recommend too many things at the same time. They wouldn't. Yeah.
Lara:That that would be overwhelming.
Josué:Yeah. Exactly. Exactly.
Marc:Can't do that.
Josué:Yeah. You recommended two webtoons, so I read one. I I got invested in I got invested in I read both.
Lara:So you can't recommend now you anything till he finishes the Percy Jackson books.
Marc:I don't worry. I I fresh out of fandoms.
Josué:Fresh out of fandoms. There's nothing else. He doesn't even like anything else. That's it. We've covered all
Lara:the gonna read another webtoon. Never gonna yeah. Mhmm.
Marc:I have the same three that are ongoing that I'm reading
Lara:and Never gonna read another book, watch another show.
Marc:I love
Josué:this this reminds me of when when we're talking about His Dark Materials, and Link was like, oh, I love those books. I was like, oh, did you read the sequel series? She's like, there's a sequel series? And and with An Ordinary, right, I was like, oh, I'm all caught up. You're like, did you read, like, even even these?
Josué:I was like, yeah. It's like, I went ahead of you, actually, with the ordinary.
Marc:Yeah. You you paid money to to to read ahead, and I was
Josué:like I did.
Marc:I I ain't gonna pay money. I I could be patient.
Josué:Yeah. I thought I thought you cared.
Marc:I did care. I I got caught up, waited for so many to come out, and then decided to reread it from the beginning to then get caught up again.
Josué:We'll see if there's yeah. There's plenty of the Percy Jackson books. I think I think I might get into it. I did like the series a lot. I did really enjoy it.
Josué:So
Marc:I will I will say that there for the for Percy Jackson, the this series and the sequel series are the main ones to read. There's a couple of side stories. Okay. That's that's all in there's, like, three side stories that's all in one book. And then now, obviously, this other one that's the ones that are currently going on right now.
Josué:How many books is that? 11. Right now? 11.
Marc:No. Right now, 12.
Josué:12.
Marc:But they're short Cool.
Josué:Cool. Cool. Cool.
Marc:Yeah. I'll do that. Especially the first the first series, it's they're they're short. You you can audio book those and and probably I think they're the longest one's probably gonna maybe be like twelve hours. Maybe.
Marc:I haven't looked, so I could be completely wrong. Okay. And that's at normal speed.
Josué:Yeah. Okay. I'll do it. I'll do it. Alright, Mike.
Josué:Anything else about about your favorite
Marc:media franchise? I love it. And I've I'm I'm actually really appreciative of this series after I reflected on it. I'm really appreciative for it. I really enjoyed it.
Marc:I'll probably rewatch it. Give me give me a little bit of time, but I'll probably rewatch it. And I'm just really curious to to know what other people's thoughts, feelings, opinions were for those of you guys that have read the books and then watched the series or the show like me. For those of that have only watched the movie and then watched the show. Or in this case, like, this is, like, your first time ever being introduced to Percy Jackson.
Marc:Like, I wanna know the thoughts. I wanna know the feelings. I wanna hear opinions.
Josué:Yep. Let us know in any of our community spaces, which you can find in the show notes. Thankfully, when our favorite comic books and and books get turned into movies and TV shows, way more people watch them. So get it gets them brought into the fandom. So yeah, let us know.
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Marc:Bye.
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