OSPodcast PERCY JACKSON SPECIAL! 

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There is literally no way Blue “I love domes and history” is not an Athena kid.

Love the detail that Red clearly tore off the sleaves of her Camp Half-Blood shirt, even though its a tshirt. Clearly her hatred of sleaves knows no bounds

I think some people are too hard on Percy Jackson sometimes. Are they not exactly like the full Greek myths? Yes. They’re meant for kids and unlike some authors that will not be named, Rick Riordan does try to be inclusive of other people than what was typically considered mainstream. It’s played a huge part in what is basically a Greek Mythology renaissance in writing, which I’m grateful for.

14:50 in the sequels, Frank's family are descendants of Poseidon, and only ever got shapeshifting powers, from his changeability, rather than sea powers. I believe its stated that Percy is Poseidons favorite mortal son, and he kinda beefed him up when he was adding that chemical x

I love how Red just absolutely will not wear sleeves no matter what. Also, I'm glad she likes the franchise somewhat. Personally, I love the books and series. They may not be completely accurate, but they're a great way to introduce kids into the mythos, and the resurgence of interest in Greek Myth they were part of can't be ignored.

After a stage performance by my friend Maria Olsen, she told me she'd been cast in Chris Columbus's next project, and she'd be flying to Canada in a day or two. She couldn't remember the title of the film. A day or two after she had left, I was headed AMC theater, and the Coming Next Year Teaser for _Percy Jackson and the Lightning Thief_ was shown. As indicated Chris Columbus, I emailed Maria, who confirmed that was the project. Accurately deducing it was a book series, I bought the first three as a box set on Amazon. Halfway through the first book I quickly ordered the 4th and 5 the books. I also emailed Maria and said "You're playing Mrs Dodds, aren't you?" She affirmed, wondering how I knew she was playing that particular role. I pointed out I'd worked with her enough to know it would be idiots to cast anyone else in that role. As the film neared its release date, and it's trailers began to surface, I was thrilled that they focused on Maria's scenes, particularly as they were very close to the scenes in the book. Then I saw the film. I was aghast. Apart from Maria's scenes as Mrs Dodd's, although they neglected to kill her in the museum, the film went so far off the tracks, I had to wonder wtf was going on? I love the IMDb comments on the film, in that those who haven't read the books were like "Meh, it was okay," to those who _had_ read the books, wanting to light a bonfire under whoever wrote the screenplay "adaptation"...

I think book Percy was pretty good at noticing signs he's walking into the trap but he's generally in such a bad situation that the trap maker is able to use magic to make him not care about the fact he's walking into a trap (Medusa using food to lure him and Annabeth into her garden gnome emporium because they'd just spent half a day running after losing all their supplies) or he's actually got no choice but to walk in (the trap Hephaestus laid for Ares and Aphrodite that Percy was forced to trip by Ares).

Always a pleasure joining you fine folks on the pod 😁

I prefer the pen with a cap. In the sequel series we find out that if he puts the cap on the other end it becomes the most overly complicated magical normal ass pen. And I just think that's funny. Also whether or not you like Percy Jackson, that series had a really big influence on making Greek mythology cool. Stuff like God of War and Blood of Zeus (which is awesome and you should watch it) wouldn't really exist without it.

Blue: I'm from Athens so if I don't represent Athena I'm disrespecting my bloodline! Also Blue: I'm a son of Posiden

To be fair on the Athena criticism in the show. Rick does some stuff with Athena in the Heroes of Olympus series that paints her in a more unflattering light. Including introducing Arachne and her story in the third book. But yeah, that stuff wasn't really in the original Percy Jackson series.

Thanks for having me on the show! It was a delight and an honor to talk PJO with you all!

For those trying to read the heroes of Olympus, I cannot stress enough, The Lost Hero is the weakest because it has to reintroduce camp Half-Blood to new characters for the first half of the book, and gets better when they leave the camp. Book 2 is where the story really sets in and books 3 and 4 are the best ones in the series of five. Don't judge based on the Lost hero

I remember getting into Percy Jackson because I just saw a bunch of kids in my class had the first book and thinking "The Lightning Thief? That sounds rad as hell!"

Red has given up on the MCU hater allegations, but the Percy Jackson hater allegations are being fought

My favorite thing to do when someone says that they like Percy Jackson is to say “Oh I love those movies” The reactions are priceless

I loved when Percy first gets to his apartment in the series Sally is sitting on a tiny balcony in the rain, letting the rain hit her face. The way it was shot it felt like Poseidon made the clouds open for HER. Even though Percy hates Poseidon at first, there are small hints that Sally loves and misses him and Poseidon feels the same. I also loved how easily Sally manipulates Gabe. Like it's clear he sucks and is at least mildly abusive but the way she gets him to lend her the car is SO awesome. She just feels like an independent character which makes it sting all the more when she's almost killed and then taken by Hades. Basically I LOVED Sally and Poseidon in the show, they nailed it!! I didn't like other things about the show (*cough* tension *cough*), but the casting was great :)

11:07 congrats! you dodged the problem that many Percy Jackson fans have. It's also difficult when you're not the closest with either of your parents, so you have to try and decide which one isn't actually your parent to make yourself feel a little better

The show was good for a live-action Disney piece, but as so many people have said, it would've been MUCH better animated. All I could really think while watching it was "this is why I dont like live-action that much"

12:33 I love that we're talking about godly parents, and we managed to mention all three of the virgin goddesses

Of course, Blue would be a child of Athena! His love of Domes was in his blood from the beginning XD.

33:00 I just finished Titan's Curse and Athena was totally in favor of killing Percy on the spot after he saved Annabeth.

I could totally see the Sphinx putting on a bib and setting out silverwear as it hums the tune of Jeopardy after asking the question, just to distract and make the heroes anxious.

Thank you for talking about this series written by one of my favourite authors (even though I am far outside the target demographics), I just love how well Uncle Rick plays with the myths and weaves this entirely new world from them. It was an off-handed snarky comment at an appropriate time but just to avoid confusion, I wanted to point out that Rick himself wrote the a good portion of the show and had a lot of creative control. He also talked about how he took the opportunity to fix mistakes in his earlier work - one example being the Arc, which he had falsely assumed was next to the river. Also there were themes he only fully developed later on (i.e. Zeus being an abusive father) but now takes the chance to include in the early parts of the story. I strongly recommend the 'Apollo' series, which is quite unusual with an initially almost entirely unlikeable protagonist (Apollo himself), which is also written from inside his head (which Red surely would appreciate) and spills a lot of the tea on what is going on behind the scenes on Olympus.

I completely agreed on how they should’ve have just let the reason Athena let Echidna in her “sacred” place is to see if Annabeth and her friends can prove themselves to be dependable demigods, rather than making it look like Athena was super disappointed with her own daughter that she’ll allowed her to get hurt or worst… killed. I think they made Athena way too harsh on Annabeth, the only time that happened is when she became Minerva

As an avid fan of all of these people, today i learned i can't tell Blue's and Mike's voices apart… Unexpected since i spend SO MUCH TIME listening to them both. I also just remembered that I told Mike about the existence of OPS on a patreon livestream once, so I will be taking full credit for this crossover forever. Thank you and you're welcome ☺

Props to Red for mentioning the musical… which is boss!!!

In the “what monster would you send as a god question” I would like to submit the resume of the undead soldiers from the titans curse, the spartoi. Simple as they may be, they are skilled warriors with excellent tracking abilities that just can’t be beat by anyone who doesn’t have ties to the underworld. Also, since they are humanoid, you’re not going to be able to lose them by going somewhere they won’t fit.

> Red, I know how much you hate them (Percy Jackson) Oh yeah, off to a great start🔥🔥

Around 45 Minutes, the question of Hermes dicking the heroes around comes up. I think it's a question of family loyalty. He could not help Luke before. Now he's trying to keep his son out of the hot seat. If Percy and Co. fail? Luke is not exposed, and Hermes' complicity (even if it's forced as "your kid will go down for this if you don't help") isn't revealed either. Hermes does not want Luke to hurt more than he already has been... it's a common parental mistake, especially when overcompensating for bad choices in the past.

I saw Percy Jackson and was immediately summoned

This does not come until later in the books, but on the subject of Athena not being an angry or wrathful goddess in the original series- this comes into light during The Mark of Athena, with her Roman counterpart. Condemning Annabeth to die in the St. Louis Arch gives the same vibes as Minerva commanding Annabeth to follow the Mark of Athena. No spoilers but if you know you know!

I always get the Poseidon and I mean: I'm an underwater archaeologist, I excavate shipwrecks, breathing underwater world be great

I've always interpreted the gods in Percy Jackson to be the personification of the angel on humanity's shoulder. The gods can do a lot of things for humans, but one thing they can't do for us, is fight the devil on our other shoulder...humanity literally stands between them. This is why the world needs heroes to defeat monsters, humidity has to be strong enough to conquer its own demons because the gods and the monsters are just manifestations of the same thing..... humanity's collective belief in them

38:29 my biggest complaint is how they exited the Lotus casino. I liked how in the book, they run out to the street, flag down a cab, and when the driver asks for money, they try the casino card and it shows a balance of Infinity ♾️. That was my favorite part of that section of the book. And for lotus casino song candidates, maybe a very brief moment of “welcome to the hotel California” maybe quietly playing in the casino hotel room or something. Otherwise for the rest of it, I don’t have a strong opinion…

Personally, I think that the love shared between Poseidon and Sally is the reason why Percy is so powerful. Sally was able to connect to Poseidon in such a level (I mean, he called her a queen among women and wanted to build a palace for her), that when they...procreated, Poseidon either a) combined with Neptune, or b) became Mycenaean Poseidon. This would explain why Percy can control even the Underworld rivers, as well as create earthquakes and even do slight magic with the "ward-off evil" sign. The same pattern seems to follow with Nico: Hades loved Maria deeply, and their son has an extensive amount of control over the dead and shadows. By contrast, other Big 3 kids like Thalia, Jason, and Hazel aren't considered to be on the same level, and their parents really didn't love each other: Beryl only loved Zeus for his powers and title, and Zeus probably saw Beryl as a nuisance; Marie called upon Pluto and desired to have his riches, which Pluto warned against.

I am putting in my vote for the dragon's dogma chimera as coolest chimera. If you kill the main head, its rigging and behavior changes as the goat head takes over. Very cool.

In regard to the music choice I know it doesn't fit location wise but the lyrics to Hotel California sell being trapped somewhere and the guitar solo always hits

My mom gave me The Lightning Thief as a kid that I read over and over again until I got sick of it, not knowing the Sea of Monsters existed until I got a library card and read the book again and saw the inside page saying the Sea of Monsters was coming out.

Apparently it’s not as common to read every Percy Jackson related thing under the sun as I thought. But this was amazing anyway!

I have been enjoying Dominic's videos for 1 year, OSP for 4 years. - Indigo is Dominic's editor?! - This adjusted Red's age into danger zone. Red has my humor and creativity. When I saw Red looks extremely like (and sounds like) an ex-girlfriend, I calculated Red was born before Susan moved away. Red, if your mother is named Susan, please contact me.

55:05 Python actually appears in a late series. It takes place after Heroes of Olympus and is called The Trials of Apollo where Apollo gets blamed for a lot of what happens in the previous series, so Zeus makes him mortal as punishment. The Roman emperors and Python have been overtaking all of Apollo’s various Oracles to the point that it starts messing with Rachel Dare’s prophecies. Apollo needs to defeat the emperors, with the finale being his fight against Python and in order to return to Olympus he has to restore all of his Oracles back to himself. It’s really fun and entertaining, all of the chapters are haikus by Apollo himself, and he gets stuck in the body of a 16 year old Lester Papadopoulos and him walking around complaining about his lack of divinity, abs, and general talent is hilarious, definitely recommend reading

Oh the Dom is the Dominic Noble, you had my curiosity but now you have my attention

An hour of this amazing podcast and about percy jackson?! YES PLEASE 🎉🎉🎉🎉❤❤❤❤

I *DIED* laughing when Mike said he wanted to be OSP Tickle-me-Pink

Oh god. This series was so damn much of my kidhood and teenage years, and I'm looking forwards to seeing more of it. It's dear to me for a LOT of reasons. 1. I am genderfluid, and Alex Fierro from Magnus Chase is kinda how I figured it out. Seeing actual honest representation of how I felt literally unlocked that for me. It was amazing. 2. Growing up, I didn't register it at the time because I was a kid and it was "normal," but my parents were... pretty shitty in a lot of ways. The idea that I could secretly be a demigod, that I could have an escape and be more than an abused kid hiding in their room, meant a LOT. 3. I am a mythology kid to the core, and even if it's inaccurate at times, I adore how well a lot of it is done. This series was a core part of my childhood, and I'm very happy to see it covered!

Glad to see Dominic here.

Oh my god this is the day. It has finally come 😭 OH WOW DOMINIC IS HERE!!!! This is gonna be my favorite ever

tbh i am SO glad that other people watched the musical and it wasn't a fever dream I had (also Drive, D.O.A, and Put You In Your Place are amazing songs and i will die on this hill)

Lets be honest, the only good addition in the second movie was 'Hey, don't walk on my roof!'

My Mum and I used to read them aloud to each other while the other was doing the dishes, I think most recently that was 2020-2021 when I was home from Uni (lockdown and xmas) - truly a classic honestly, we worked through like 4 of Rick's series

I should've expected Schubes, but I still didn't see it coming. And so I definitely didn't see Dominic Noble coming. Very excited to listen.

Gaslight, Gatekeep, Gorgon... Great stuff everyone

Blue, the cobra thing you're talking about is called a hood. Unless it was actually like the dilophosaurus thing you mentioned, in which case it's called a frill.

Oh this is going to be fun. Can’t wait to hear the OSP (and guests) discussing Percy Jackson.

I'm curious now about Red's opinion of Epic: The Musical

What is everyone's thoughts on Trials Of Apollo (third series)? I really liked it!

If Rick ever brings back the sphinx I want it to be a jeopardy thing. Not bc they'll actually play jeopardy but bc I want the sphinx to tell Annabeth that they took her notes into consideration but also still needed to make it appealing for an audience.

"WHAT BOOK DID YOU READ?" "uh... The Lightning Thief" XD

Hunter of Artemis is definitely NOT a cop out btw that's literally such a good answer. Esp for Red who's ace iirc (?) no downsides!

Indigo edits Dom's videos? I didnt know that! Neato!

The athena in the show feels a lot like athena in Mark of Athena where she was supposed to feel out of character and strangely vindictive. Her characterisation now could have long lasting adaptation implications if the show ever lasts that long, but for now it seems to be another case of the characterisation changing over time (which isnt a bad thing, its character growth) and the show drawing characterisation from across the book series rather than just the first book.

finally they talking about percy jackson and having Dominic Noble osp crossover

I listened on Spotify to prevent RU-vid Ads. Great video as always, I love hearing from you both and other creators!

Think one of the funniest things I’ve ever read online are people saying “the movies are better or that they like them more than the show cuz at least they’re more accurate”. I’m guessing it’s cuz of the appearances of the kids… even tho black Grover didn’t piss as many people off. Look I think the show was just pretty good and that it should’ve been 2D animated with how similar it is to avatar but there’s no chance in hell the movies are more accurate

My favorite Percy Jackson, adjacent fact Is that in the Kane Chronicles book, based on Egyptian mythology instead of settling the love triangle all by having the main female lead Choose one of the boys, they just fused them in the one boy

Athena is definitely not portrayed in a kind light in the sequel book Mark of Athena

Dom: “Blue, what have you done?!” Blue: “That which thou canst not undo.” Red: “I got that reference.” Me: “So did I!”

Something the movies did well: introducing hippocampi to popular audiences and making them pretty

I really do love Percy Jackson. The graphic novels were my ideal form of media and they were genuinely such a good read. I would’ve read the books, I have the lightning thief at home, but unfortunately I fell victim to the gaston disease of “how can you read this? There’s not even any pictures!” So I dropped it, but I’d love to pick it back up sometime.

GASP my favorite channel talking about my favorite thing! What a treat!

I'm rattling on the bars of my enclosure begging anyone who reads this comment to read Trials Of Apollo. Heroes of Olympus is a bit of a step down from PJ but Trials Of Apollo is phenomenal in every aspect and it has so many queers and I know we all like those.

Hooray! OSP is doing Percy Jackson stuff!

For the last question, has to be the Caledonian Boar, basically the Greek mythology original raid boss.

Knowing that Indigo edits Dominic's video adds some great contextual lore

My opinion of the Lotus Casino scene has nothing to do with what they did with the Movie and everything to do with the fact that Disney, owner of THE HAPPIEST PLACE ON EARTH, IN SIX DIFFERENT COUNTRIES, couldn't be bothered to drive the actors to the park after closing one day and shoot some b-roll on some of the rides, at no significant expense to themselves. Instead, we have the Lotus Casino: a place with 4 craps tables, a couple rows of slot machines, one VR area, one restaurant, and the kids interact with little to none of it.

I got into Percy Jackson because my teacher thought I would love the book. She was correct.

13:50 another fun obscure power. Considering that Poseidon is the god of sailing, earthquakes and storms, his kids probably have unnaturally steady footing. You'd never just trip over your own feet or anything embarrassing like that

There is something so undeniably delightful about finding out two creators you have discovered independently from each other, seem to be friends. I truly didn´t know there was any crossover with Dominic Noble, but in hindsight, it does make perfect sense.

Girlboss, Gatekeep, Gorgon! Brilliant!

Disappointed that Dom isn't in a beige shirt and doubly disappointed that Mike isn't in tickle-me-pink! What a missed opportunity!

I think hotel california and the house of the rising sun both match the vibe of what the lotus casino is really well. I don't know if the songs bop enough, but thematically they're perfect.

Haven't started watching yet, but man am I excited

For somebody who’s only exposure to this series beyond the movies and reading the book with the giant albino alligator that I didn’t know was related until later, it’s fun to hear all about this universe I know nothing about

If you read Percy then you go read the mythology, it basically create the effect of "Oh, this guy/girl did what Percy did" (It's weird)

When I was a kid I ended up in a Percy Jackson role-play group. Of course, the first question they asked me was who my godly parent was. I knee-jerk answered with the edgiest answer possible. Not Hades or Thanatos or anything like that. I said Tartarus. Anyway, there's a Percy Jackson stage play!?

What, Red the Ace Icon herself going for the Hunters of Artemis? This is such a shock. *Surprised Pikachu Face*

I grew up with the image of scylla being a mix of dog and spider. That she had a spider like body, with eight dog heads, sitting between the legs (so it's leg, head, leg, head, leg,... all the way around).

My 9 year old cousin just started reading them. I immediately gave her my copies of the first 5 books

14:45 I now have an image of Heracles picking up a dude, and smashing the dude into his forehead like a beer tinnie.

Here is the thing I started reading Percy Jackson with a lot of knowledge on Greek mythology and sure there are inaccuracies but by the gods I love the book series so far it’s funny, it’s entertaining, and I feel like I’m slowly realizing I might have adhd but that’s a problem for another day.

I never read the original series, but I did read the heroes of olympus books and really liked those, so I've decided to go back.

I've read nearly all the books. Greek, Roman, Egyptian, and Norse and a couple of crossovers. I really don't like the movies that thankfully died out. Its so much fun that he's got 4 Parthenons in the same universe.

Very fun, I was wondering if you guys were into the PJO series at all! I’m a TV only viewer but enjoyed it a lot (there’s obvious flaws but I’m here for the potential, and the parts that were good were really good!), it’s nice to hear all your different thoughts ^^

I personally find it kind of sad that red specifically didn’t get past years of Olympus because it also means she didn’t read trials of Apollo which I think she would really really like

WOOOOH we got a lot of people a LONG (ish) episode and it's all about Percy Jackson? don't mind if I do!!!

I do actually have a positive memory associated with the Percy Jackson movies! When they were coming out little baby me won a contest to get free tickets by re-creating the films poster out of Lego! while my opinion on the film has soured since then I’m sure younger me had a great time at the movies

33:09 Them: **talking about how book Athena wasn't that bad** Me: **laughs in Mark of Athena**

I used to be an Athena cabin counselor for CHB in Austin