Percy Jackson Sea of Monsters: Death of a Film Franchise 

It needs to get the storyline straight and needs percy to actully look like a kid

Not change all the characters so drastically that they’re not the same characters, and actually read the freaking books.

Don't mash significant plot points from the later novels into the first two seasons.

be good

I think what they need to nail is the vibe, the films suffer from being turned from a really creative series to something that feels like generic middle school fiction chosen one and all. It’s okay for it to be a little silly, it’s okay to use bright colors and honestly doing something a bit Tom Holland Spider-Man like would fit the series really well in my opinion. I can totally picture slow motion battles with sarcastic Percy commentary and punk and pop music during some scenes.

I have never heard a more accurate description

I remember being so mad I just walked out the theater when I realised that they were cramming the ending into this movie.

This is straight facts

They had simply decided it was going to be the last movie and wrapped it up. The first one wasn't a big enough hit and they didn't believe in the franchise potential. Stuff like Lord of the Rings, Harry Potter, MCU.... those are all planned long term.

I think you guys are forgetting the worst bit of this. After wrapping up the franchise for some reason they introduce Thalia back?! I feel like I'm remembering wrong but after that terrible ending I was even more confused cause they were trying to set up a sequel or something

Isn't the actor going to be helping w the show

@@shortstuff780 I think you mean the Author, Rick Riordan, but yes Rick will heavily be involved in the Percy Jackson Disney+ series.

If Disney pulls a Marvel, all will be fine. If Disney pulls a Narnia or Star Wars, we're doomed.

@@BrandenMcNabb actually, Fox did the Narnia movies, and before Disney bought Fox, even If I think the First one is great. And Star Wars in Disney gave us the final season of Clone Wars and The Mandalorian, and also the Bad Batch. So I have high hopes for Percy Jackson in Disney Plus.

@@arthurfortes8398 Disney made the first 2 Narnia movies, Fox only made the third one

The movies are better

@@Mark-yd8qc That's the biggest bait I've ever seen.

@@cameronwallace8265 not bait. Its true

@@Mark-yd8qc Whatever you say, little baby troll.

@@MisterUnknown707 WHINY BABY

Yeah I still remember that final battle with kronos in new york or some other city idk and the mini fight percy had with helios was also memorable for some reason. (I read them like 6 years ago so I don't actually remember any details).

In the video he said he enjoyed it when Luke was eaten by Kronos, and when he saw he was alive hoped he’d have a redemption arc. Now where does a redemption arc happen for Luke...... oh yeah, the books. Not to even mention how much of a “fuck you” having Kronos just chow down on Luke was to the plot of every single book to follow.

@@scratchsoft2347 yeah low key i forgot it’s 6 books instead of 5. Been so long. But wait if 4 was the labyrinth and 6 was the finale what was 5 again? It’s been so long man great books

NEW SHOW IN PRODUCTION! The creator makes a new Life action adaptation right now. SADLY no Animation, but hey, at least 'good' P.Jackson-Content!

@@nBUMBA There are only five books in the original series, He might be referring to the first book in the sequel series series the heroes of olympus

yer a baby caveman for not understanding how comparison works.

yEaH

Eragon fans know the feel, they killed off important villains from books 2-3 halfway through the first movie

@@luxinvictus9018 Yeah, this youtuber kinda failed to understand how bad those adatpational movies here are...

@@noncanalepricnipale Cool.

Kronos was revived on the 4 book on a human form, but he was all the time teasing Percy before, since he was able to enter his mind and sometimes Percy was able to see him on the sleep

@@marinadeburgos8666 Movie-Luke will never try to help Kronos against; that much is for sure, duh. He's eaten him, after all.

'Competent, at least' he says about completly incompetent movie-creation. Uhm, yeah, ok? No though? Competent is the opposite of incompetent.

Yeah honestly same it’s my fav of the original series like it just focuses so much on the characters which was very important for HoO

Also, in this book he broke the mold of the summer camp. It was a mid-winter mission that went wrong that started the motion this time

Yes, I think the third book really was where the series "grew its beard".

The thing is that the second book isn't as good individually, but Percy Jackson really is a series where the sum of their parts is greater than any individual book. The books are really good, but the first two books really do a great job of building up to the final three (same with the Heroes of Olympus), which I why I would've recommended reading all of them before watching the second one, because it'll leave you wondering where they were trying to go after the second movie. Also books 5, 4, and 3 are probably the best written books of the series (in the order)

I know I’m gonna get dunked on, but I’d rather watch Percy Jackson than Artemis Fowl. At least those had some creative ideas. Artemis Fowl had nothing.

@@JediMasterIsaac The girl who played Holly Short was good tho.

I mean at least Percy Jackson got the basic setup of its books right. Artemis Fowl completely ignored that its protagonist is basically a villain, which was the main selling point.

Earagon

at this point all hopes for fans to get a good adaptation lie in the upcoming Disney+ series which to be frank with how A Series of Unfortunate Events turned out Maybe adapting books into episodic series is more the way to go moving forward

*cough Reyna 😭

*cough* *cough* Hylla

i mean they were obviously ending the series here and for sure not doing heroes of olympus so i guess it makes sense

NEW SHOW IN PRODUCTION! The creator makes a new Life action adaptation right now. SADLY no Animation, but hey, at least 'good' P.Jackson-Content!

“You must save Olympus, Pedro!” I friggin love Mr D’s inability to care enough to get names right.

@@theinimitablejora522 I like how he definitely knows their names, but he still screws around and comes up with funny ~similar~ names

oh shit didn't know dionysus had a youtube account

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'Competent, at least' he says about completly incompetent movie-creation. Uhm, yeah, ok? No though? Competent is the opposite of incompetent.

@@luxinvictus9018 Technically competent in what sense? In the sense that the creator literally apologized to the Fans?

@@luxinvictus9018 Uhm: Yet, it has Sequel-Baiting, or did you miss that? The Fleece? The Daughter of Zeus? Hello?

Honestly there seems to be no real direction they were trying to take with the sea of monsters. At some points it seemed like they were expecting to get a sequel even though they used crucial plot points from the books that weren’t even close to coming to fruition yet and sometimes it seemed like they knew that the franchise wouldn’t continue by speeding up those plot points to bring the short lived franchise to an end with a neat little bow on top EVEN THOUGH they left it open for continuation. If they actually got the green light for another movie where would they have even taken the source material? They already used up and butchered major plots. The next few movies would basically just be completely different from the source material all together.

I guess in the event that they had decided to continue the franchise (for some reason), they could've revived him again. I'm not sure about this bc I only saw the film when it came out, but didn't they say something like he hadn't completely recovered his power yet?

@UCoze3rj0F-I-LI6DfFegK-g took the words right out of my mouth! Also crazy how similar our stories are. I started the series a little later, just before son of Neptune came out, so I started that immediately and bought every book as soon as it came out. I also loved the Kane chronicles and those AMAZING crossover novellas. Such a cool idea to include everything in one universe. I got half way through magnus chase but honestly, at that point, I had just outgrown riordan’s books. I still love the man and follow his social media’s but I understand I’m not his target audience anymore

we're the same, the 2nd book is my least fave and the 4th was my ultimate fave

I got introduced to his books at 18, so I was already beyond the target audience age range but I still enjoyed Magnus Chase and PJO, but that’s just my personal opinion. I also follow other authors he helps publish their novels about mythology. Hoo is my least favorite installment personally. I didn’t like the sudden shift in tone and I just couldn’t personally click with the series.

@@alystdesign same!

Yeah probably

That has some season 8 vibes.

If these goobers,made the MCU,Thor would oneshot Thanos in his first movie.

To be fair. They changed directors and I think the second guy just went "what the fuck am I supposed to do with this mess" and just tried to wrap it up because they knew there wasn't going to be a third movie.

Nah nah if they did LOTR Bilbo would have killed Smaug and Sauron at once

And it's Kronos true form,like if Sauron retreived the Ring.

the second he said he didn't read the rest of the books I new it wasn't going to be good

Yea they should have, they don't even know how bad it is that Kronos got revealed in the second film

I also hate how he said every five minutes that this is just a book for kids, nothing especial.

​@@x0xgregx0x Yes this exactly! The way the characters are all dismissed off the bat by being just "Rick Riordan" characters and how they're far too simple to get wrong even though the movie was doing just that made me a little sad to hear. I absolutely adored these books growing up and recently re-read all of them alongside my sister, who at this point is pursuing grad school. We both thoroughly enjoyed going through the series again and re-experiencing our love for it. They might not be all that complex in the beginning, but captainmidnight even admits that the characters in the movies are wayyy too aged up and the ones in the books are still very, very young teenagers. Take Harry Potter for example here, the protags are young in both book and movie and they make childish descicions because they're, well, children and that's to be expected but they're not blamed for being children or chalked up to being inherently incomplex characters just because they're written like teenagers. And they do become more complex over time as both they and the audience that read/watched them grew up. It just seems unfair that these "Rick Riordan" characters are given such treatement because I remember and love the books so fondly; to hear them dismissed so completely in passing like that... hurts.

Subtlety is a lost art. Makes most people glaze over important details

Technically he sorta did, but at the same time he didn’t. He killed the Horcrux of the diary, which had the memory of Tom Riddle, who is Voldemort. Film/book 4 then revealed that Voldemort is truly back and then film/book 6 revealed he split his soul. Its all very messed up, but entertaining nom the less.

It's the fact that he wasn't supposed to be back until book 4

He already defeated him twice bro! XD

Pretty much

"Somehow, Voldemort returned."

Sadly, this RU-vidr misses a lot and is, despite being critical, WAY too soft. Seriously, at times i cringed when stuff was complimented where other Reviews criticize it to heck and back.

@@loturzelrestaurant to be fair, he hasnt read the series just this book and lightning to see how really damaging it was

Yea it's my least favorite but it sets up the story a lot. Also it introduces best boy Tyson, I gotta love it

Sea of Thieves? It's Sea of MONSTERS, my friend.

@@willw1991 autocorrect. I retyped it but it apparently redid it again and I didn't notice it.

@@danielhavoc889 ohh lulz :P

yeah like, in the books: now the good shit is happening, starting with titans curse.

That line is absolutely iconic

Na it the christens have god that can do this trick in reverse now that's a god

@@Scalesthelizardwizard3399 okay that’s a good one and I feel like would be in the books

The only part of the movie I actually liked lol

I cackled when i got to that part lmao

He also went on to do some amazing other stuff too, I guess not everything can be a win though

@@jacocharzukanamericanautho2422 I respectfully disagree

@@jacocharzukanamericanautho2422 I respectfully disagree as well

@InfernoDelta beginning

Technically, they did. It’s an anime movie made in Japan that, as far as I can tell, has no English Dub

@@GabyGeorge1996 Young Adult novel adaptations are basically the West's version of Anime, but its inferior to most actual Animes. Im glad the trend finally seems to be dying down. If I see one more dystopian teen movie with a romance drama i will die, and watch it regardless.

The Magic Tree House!😍 Tbh, I think I would enjoy that as an animated series, each book an episode.

@@jakespacepiratee3740 The trend died down like 10 years ago And most authors came back to release adpations recently, but not as near as famous

Hoping Disney does right by a franchise? Than all hope is lost ...

and Hopefully, Netflix does the Kane Chronicles justice it deserves

@@William-Morey-Baker MCU is Disney so yes

@Gentleman Murk riordan will be involve so i have high hope for the new series

Ever heard of punctuation?

I keep saying this. an Avatar the Last airebender style series but with Percy Jackson. I feel like the way they captures bending and the worldbuilding, magic lore, etc. would be perfect.

THIS^^^^^ plus the cast can be aged up easier without having to rush things

Even if its not that accurate, the writter is Ryordan himself. So, every change should be pretty logical and not that breaking of the pace of the story

When does this come out? i hadnt heard of it

I did saw the trailer just now. It does kinda look promising and better than the last adaptation.

@@noahweston8298 2024

Yeah, I loved Circe too! It was so great and sad. I loved the ending!

Kind of goes to show how the filmmakers would've been better off making their *own* story that may have been much more successful and had a lot less backlash rather than trying to cash in on the Percy Jackson name and fans.

Too bad they went back to incipid boring direction once David Yates took over the director's chair for the rest of the franchise.

@@luismarioguerrerosanchez4747 movies 6 and 8 (and to a lesser extent 5 and 7) are absolutely brilliantly put together. I must utterly disagree with your opinion on Yates.

@@thareelhelloagain That's fine. I actually like 6 for the Snape reveal at the end, but that has more to do with writing than filmmaking, and part 5 is my least favourite of them because of dull it is.

Check the third series about Apollo too.

Bad taste

Man if they can nail the child casting like the Harry Potter films did, I know it’ll be amazing.

I loved the thing with blackbeard and the introduction to the party ponies.

Needed a little vacation, yeah. Nice to hear I was missed haha.

@@captainmidnight 'Competent, at least' he says about completly incompetent movie-creation. Uhm, yeah, ok? No though? Competent is the opposite of incompetent.

We read the lighting theft in 5th grade. That teacher is sole reason for my love of books. He introduced us the Lightning thief and “the witch, the lion, and the wardrobe.” Both books i enjoyed. Even finished the percy Jackson series later on as well as the sequel hero of Olympus.

@@popenieafantome9527 That's awesome! Have you seen the movie(s)?

@@coopercurtis8502 for Narnia i have seen “the witch, the lion, and the wardrobe” movie and liked it. Saw the prince capsian one twice, but don’t remember anything about it. Did see Lightning thief movie, but really didn’t like it. Felt like they were mixing other books into for no reason and really hated how much of a bad guy they made Hades. He got the short stick in all kinds of things. Didn’t know sequel was made for this either. Really enjoyed Rick Rodian’s books. Might have continued reading more of them, but books can be expensive to buy, although i have seen some at libraries. During elementary and middle school they still had the scholastic book fair where you could buy entire series for like 25 dollars. Otherwise, its like 15 dollars per book at a book store.

they're going to have a TV adaptation, and it's overseen by Rick himself so I think it's gonna be good. the casting choices are pretty good too

I also want to know the answer to this. The reasons Ive heard are the jokes, the whimsy, and honestly I really don’t feel that Percy Jackson is anywhere near as whimsical as Harry Potter, especially when comparing the first book of each series. I mean, Percy wanted nothing to do with camp half blood in the beginning, but Hogwarts was painted as the best place on earth. Not criticizing. I just don’t get the whole it’s so whimsical comment. And i guess most adults, especially those who mostly read adult novels get way too critical, which prevents them from enjoying the good stuff in the books

I think the only reason I have heard is maybe the jokes and humour. Harry Potter is a lot more serious in tone, mainly coz it isn't told fron the perspective of a sarcastic teenager. But then, I gave also seen people site the humour and tone as a reason why percy jackson endures beyond Harry Potter. I guess it cones down to personal preference. Some people are drained by the seriousness in Harry Potter if they read I as an adult, others really can't stand sarcastic teenagers who don't seem to take things seriously at first. I personally find Harry Potter really draining to read, and enjoy the balance of the serious and the humour that percy jackson pulls off.

It also gave us Tyson

Bet your gonna laugh at the new Disney+ series as well…

Well anabette is not blonde in the new series but now no one can complain...

I think the thing that hurt way more in the second one is that the first act of the film is actually pretty spot on in terms of story beats and mild ret-conning of the first film. Even though it's lame, when they changed Annabeth's hair color I remember thinking "wait did they actually listen to us?!" But then the film only takes a nose dive from there. The first act course correction only made the choice to cram the OTHER THREE BOOKS INTO THE END feel even worse.

@@knightbot4052 I think that was most people's issues with this movie. It was just such a bizarre choice

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