The New Percy Jackson Trailer Is Making Me Uneasy 

You can watch my new trailer breakdown here: ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-uGnWwJiGBQs.html&ab_channel=SmartyPants

Side note: It's too bad Disney didn't wanna splurge on making this a high-budget animated show. I guess they were worried some fans wouldn't appreciate the medium.

This is a Disney production, I’ve been nervous since they said it’d be on Disney+

I'm feeling hopeful personally I feel like if everything else is on point I can forgive the CGI a little bit as long as its not crazy bad. The main thing worried about is disney has been missing more than they have been hitting the mark. I just hope the team working on the live action are solid.

the best part about the books, in my opinion, is the injustice of the gods and how they are shitty people

Scobell who plays Percy he is a great kid actor especially The Adam Project being his first acting career. I am a bit worried about the CGI because it is a Tv series but I'll still watch it. I can't wait til people get to know Bianca & Nico since people will love them a lot.

I watched the Adam Project as soon as Walker was casted as Percy and I think he's gonna do really well in the role, he's got the sarcasm and comments down. I haven't seen Leah act yet but I think she's giving off pretty good Anabeth vibes, so the lack of blonde hair can be excused if she does well. And Aryan just seems so perfect for Grover :)

Unpopular opinion but I don’t like the way Thalia’s tree looks. I prefer the way it looked in the movie that shall not be mentioned.

As a pacific Islander, im actually pretty bummed that they didnt cast a tan, curly/wavy dark haired Percy.

I don't really have any expectations, it's Disney, they can do bad, good and great stuff, it is always random. I think they want to have the show released as soon as they can, like to have a big name show, since the last projects didn't turn out to be that popular. I want to hope for the best, but I'm sceptical, my hapiness would be beyond measurable if the show will prove me wrong.

My biggest fear is that Disney has rushed pjo to compensate for the failures in other projects and in doing so haven't given enough time or opportunity to touch up on the CGI and it ends up looking tacky

Things I want from the PJ-show: *As much book-acuraty as possible. *Age-accurate casting. Check! *Casting new actors for the kids, not like the kids from "Stranger Things" or the new "It" or something. Check! *Early 2000s-songs. (Green Day, Linkin Park, Fall Out Boy, Aerosmith, Panic! At the Disco, etc.) *Early 2000s-chlothes. Eeeeh... *Bianca and Nico in the background of the Lotus Hotel and Casino. *Reyna and Hylla on Circe's island. *Annabeth mentioning her family in boston. *Percy's awesome and funny narration. Please let there be voiceover. *Please don't downplay Percy's, Sally's and Anabeth's abuse! Also: Don't downplay the character's trauma! DON'T HIDE THE FACT THAT GABE WAS ABUSIVE! *Cast multiple actresses to play Aphrodite!!! *Don't whitewash the characters! *Clarisse is plus size!! Don't cast a skinny actress! *Include Percy's dreams! *Include blue food and explain why it's important for Percy and Sally! *Riptide is NOT a clicky-pen. It's a capped pen! *For the second season: Show how Percy sort of refused to accept Tyson as his brother at first. Percy is my favourite fictional character of all time. Don't make him a boring, flawless, can't-do-anything-wrong Gary Stue. *Don't hide Hermes' guilt, his pain and his love for Luke. Also: Include May Castellan and her heartbreaking story. *Don't turn Rachel into a simp for Percy. She's a way better character than that. *Make a joke about how Chiron gave 3 kids 100 dollars to travel the entire country. *In the 3rd season (Titan's curse) when Percy, Grover, Zoe and Thalia are in San Francisco, show us kids in purple t-shirts fighting a monster for a second, just a glimse, befor the mist covers it and they're gone. *Mabey a cameo from uncle Rick.

I can't really tell by the lighting, but I do hope that they give Percy's actor the green eyes and dark hair because even though I know they aren't going for the visual accuracy I feel like it's such an easy thing to include and is so iconic edit: upon further inspection, I realize it is probably way too late lol

I've been uneasy since they said it was a Disney property

I think instead about worrying about race swapping, we should try to see if they preserve the godly similarities these kids are supposed to have with their parents like Athena's kids have stormy gray eyes and Poseidon's have green and Zeus' have electric blue. I hope they at least make it easier for us to believe that a certain god could be a certain kid's parents. I really hope they don't pull a Ring of Power where the races of both the parents is different from their child's race, like that makes NO sense.

Out of all the reviewers I have seen. I just have to say, you are a breath of fresh air. Seems very unbiased, not too critical, and understanding as where some faults are. As well as some strengths. Most reviewers I see are only on or off, no in between. As well as seems to care more about the plot, than the controversies/drama that the show may bring. I also hope for the best for this show, but it is one where visuals are very important as it is a fantasy setting. Not doing it properly will make it feel odd.

They should've made it into an animated series. A 2D one ofc. Problem with cgi and race-swapping disappears, you can have as many poc and any kind of diverse voice casting and nobody (or few) would mind, more kids would watch it, and Disney could finally have their own "spiderverse-like" animation (cause everyone are now trying to animate 2D similarly, only Disney falls back when it comes to animation studios I believe)

My problem with this show is the fact that everyone was up in arms over gods of Egypt for having the gods look white , but people are perfectly fine with a black zeus , a deity that is of Greek Origin . Other than that and the race swasps, I am interested .

I hope the eyes are on point. I want stormy grey eyes for Annabeth, electric blue eyes for Thalia and sea-green for Percy. doesn't look like they've done that though.

Wait, I thought Walker had darker hair. If he had dark brown hair and blue eyes that could pass for green, I would say it was close enough. But he is literally blonde? He's blonder than Annabeth! Smh.

Personally, Im worried about this adaptation. Aries looks absoltely notbing like the book describes, Percy looks nervous to be there, and Groover's actor is the only one i have hopes for. There are already certain scenes that are make me afraid that the CGI and shots are going to look horrible. This pior series kind of already got botched with one movie. Doesnt need anymore slander and Disney is infamous for messing it up.

I thought a lot of the trailer was really dark so I'm worried its hiding bad CGI, I dont mind bad CGI usually but Disney should have better resources and should invest in this show because of the fanbase.

I know it's kind of an unpopular opinion, but I dislike the actor for Annabeth. I think she actually would make a really good Hazel, but not really Annabeth. Mostly because of the obvious; Annabeth is decribed as being tan, yet the actor is black, she is described as having grey eyes, the actor doesn't and it doesn't look like they'll be using contacts (for any of the other actors either, which is a shame considering how a lot of the main demigods's eyes are described commonly and made to be unique colors in accordance to their parent), and she isn't blond (and no hair dye it seems either for anyone). The blond hair thing in pirticular I'm annoyed about because in the books Annabeth having blond hair is something that is mentioned as a sore point for her, or an insecurity. She is very smart and prides herself on her intelligence yet there's that "dumb blond" stereotype attached to every blond girl which she hates. It's not a vital detail or anything, but it's kind of telling for me: they really haven't gone for much book accuracy in terms of appearance besides proper age, and even a part of her characterization like that detail isn't really incentive for them to dye her hair blond, at the very least. Her gray eyes are also something pointed out a lot (by Percy himself, most of the time too), yet no contacts. It all just makes me worried for what it might mean for other things, from how they're adapting the book to the screen, and just general show quality. Not to mention, with Disney's track record of including political agendas and such in their shows and movies recently, I'm a little scared that they might change some of Annabeth's past struggles to something to do with race, which is really as far as you can get from her in the books. Racism was primarly something that Hazel and Piper dealt with, so not only would it be adapting Annabeth to the screen poorly, but it also kind of discredits Piper and Hazel's struggles with racism.

tbh walker scobell is 100% giving me percy. the second i saw that kid start talking i was like yeah i get why they cast him. cgi looks kinda janky but i think they've done a really solid job with casting. the second walker started talking in the teaser that dropped like yesterday i was like oh yeah that's 100% percy jackson. that's him. percy.

Yeah, I’ve kinda lost all hype for this. Which sucks cause when this was announced, I was elated. But between the casting, the dull look of the show and the fact that it’s in live action and not animation, I’m just not that interested anymore. I just don’t understand why they couldn’t have made this an animated show where you can have all the characters be accurate to the books and you can still cast whoever you’d like.

i think walker is exactly like percy in the adam project, even though he seems reserved in interviews. i think he hasn't had enough experience doing that kind of thing to be comfortable with it yet, and honestly I think younger percy would've been the same way

I was so excited when they announced a new show, more apprehensive after releasing the casting because I wanted the characters to look like their book counterparts, but kept hopeful, but honestly this trailer has made me give up more, I hate how Thalia’s tree looks, the cabins look too tall to me somehow? Plus some of the other sets look eh to me. I’m still going to watch it, absolutely praying the fact that Rick wrote the script will save it!

When they announced that they would be making the Percy Jackson books into I show from Disney a few years ago I thought oh wow it will be a good show. But now with what Disney's been doing(if you know what I mean) im a little scared and if I recall correctly anabeth was known for having blonde hair and grey eyes it was really her character, but I guess we'll see.

Yh my biggest concern about this series is their portrayal of dyslexia and adhd. it makes me uneasy knowing that there’s likely few in the main cast who r actually dyslexic and or adhd (I get that it’s difficult to find good child actors, and probably even harder for neurodivergent kid actors, but can’t stop feeling like this)… I trust that Ricks likely doing his best to make sure we get solid, accurate representations (hoping they’ve got specialists and actually neurodivergent ppl who’ve worked with the actors), but he isn’t perfect. Dyslexia and ADHD aren’t just “bad at reading and writing” or “can’t sit still or focus”, they impact ur entire life. They mean u might have delayed processing, hand-eye-coordination issues (which tbh makes the whole “adhd is ur battle reflexes” kinda funny, though u could chalk that up to hyper-focusing which adhders r prone to). For me, at least, how whether I like this show or not will come down to the dyslexia and adhd rep. If it’s done well then it has to chance to raise acceptance (awareness doesn’t equal acceptance, take queer phobia for instance). But if the rep is crap… it could add to stereotypes As a side note; I hope we get scenes where Annabeth’s dyslexia and adhd are more apparent, because girls can be neurodivergent and disabled too, it’s not just a “boy thing”

Tbh I don’t really like the cast of the main 3. Doesn’t really give the vibe of percy jackson, grovers feat could be better, and annabeth just doesn’t look like anything in the main story. I know disney is trying to promote lgbtq and have races have more chances, but they don’t really have to make every disney original character black :I

I'm honestly slightly upset at the casting choices for this show. Annabeth looks nothing like how she's described in the book, with tanned skin, blond, curly hair, and grey eyes as long as a tall physique, it's almost like Disney decided to change her looks completely. Obviously, I'm not too bothered with this as long as they portray Annabeth's personality right, then I'm totally neutral. I can't say I admire/favour the sudden change, but there's literally nothing I can do about it, which is sort of a bummer. I get that disney is attempting 'diversity' but at least try not to change original characters skin. Percy- I don't mind his casting too much. I'm happy that they at least got the ages correct (unlike the movies that shall not be named). There is only one thing I'm sort of unhappy about. It is the fact that they made his- jet black hair, as described in the book- a blonde colour. I prefer dark haired Percy Jackson, since it is literally iconic. I also prefer his hair to be dark due to the fact that Poseidon also has dark hair, and Percy is said to be a spitting image of his father- Poseidon. However, if they make him OP, and have a good personality (sassy and fun according to the books) then that can make up for his looks. Grover- Honestly Grover seems like the only fully valid casting here. By watching and analysing the trailer, it seems that Disney hasn't actually gone to far off with the castingfor Grover. The only 'bad' thing I would have to say is the fact that there is no wispy beard/chin as weird as that might sound. In the books, Grover is described as having a wispy/thin beard on his chin due to the fact that he is a satyr. Obviously, I don't mind it too much as nothing can be perfect, and I'm happy at the accurate representation of Grover. Now, all they NEED to do is make his personality correct. Grovers personality is extremely important as it is unique and quite special to his character aspects and developments throughout the series. The other castings don't seem too bad. The only one I am slightly worried for is Ares. His casting looks quite different from how he was in the book so I'm not sure what to expect. (ALL IN ALL, no hate what-so-ever to the actors of this show. I'm sure they'll do amazing. And if they don't then it's Disney's fault.)

Annabeth is described as being athletic and having curly blond hair (like a princess's), tan skin, and stormy grey eyes.

honestly grover looks more like percy than percy's actor. also no sunglasses for ares? I get the POC comment for Annabeth but what's the point of writing her as a blonde girl with gray eyes and illustrating her as such in the book art but swapping it here? if they swap annabeth and grover why not also swap percy, a kid with tan skin, messy hair,and green eyes (who kind of fits the surfer vibe). the actor looks like he would get sunburnt if he tried.

In canon the gods can look however they want, demigods can have literally any appearance whatsoever. As long as Rick doesn't pull a Rowling and change her canon appearance I physically could not care less

Ironically, Aryan looks closer to what Percy would look like than Walker. Switch them and they’d be closer representations of the characters lol.

If we're talking views I wouldn't be too worried now. Very many people are aware of and excited about this adaptation. This same teaser trailer is sitting at 17 million views on twitter so yeah... I think we're good

Ease your fears, the show is as accurate to the books as you can get and it's extremely fun! The two-episode premiere came out early tonight, btw, 8/10

I have 0 hopes because Disney just sucks at this point. Also, Annabeth is not Annabeth which isn't the biggest deal but still a small let down. Percy has the same issue, but the actors have proven themselves to be skilled, so I'm counting on that to make up for it. I'm sure they will.

The only thing I am worried about is annabeth not because of her race or acting abilities honestly I pretty exited about what she brings to the screen what I’m worried about is her color palette. As we know Annabeth in books tends to be a warm toned person now we can see they did not lighten or bronze her hair up at all which is not a bad idea to say the least it just changed her color tone so because there aren’t any warm tone coming from her body itself her close tend to be in the cool toned area what I miss is that Percy is obviously cool toned and annabeth was warm toned that was such a good contrast and mix in the book I’m sad it looks like we don’t get that here. I will say the purple does look good on her I just the warm color palette. Other than that I pretty excited for this series.

I don’t understand why it is so incredibly hard to get actors who look like the characters… it’s not impossible there are thousands of perfectly good actors that look the part. What is the deal??? I’m not gonna bother if they can’t even bother to cast right I doubt the writing any better.

They may as well went all in and made Percy Jackson black too. Screw it lol

When I saw black Annabeth, I was immediately turned off. And before you call me a racist, Annabeth is blonde haired in the books and Disney is just clearly pandering at this point.

Child's play. I was already against this adaptation when they announced the cast.

I see what you’re saying but, no they aren’t green screened, they literally have bts photos of the place it was shot at. Also, Walker is literally the perfect percy. He’s kind, Funny, snarky, and if Uncle Rick says he’s a good percy, I trust uncle Rick.

They took away Aries’s sunglasses and huge sword, didn’t dye Scooter’s hair. And I know this is going to be called a stupid nitpick, but they changed Annebeth’s RACE, she (if I remember correctly) was purposefully called a pale blond with piercing sliver eyes, her actress HAS NONE OF IT

Couldn't disagree more on the part about Walker Scobell. He's exactly how I imagined percy would act and look with slightly different hair.

I'm no racist and not meaning to dunk on the cast here, but ever since I saw that percy's Actor was going to have blonde hair and annabeth was going to be African American, it kinda set me off, just because I feel like it wont feel the same because the characters actors look nothing like their officials art/ I imagined them to look like anyone else get what I'm saying, it would be like casting black panther as Hayden Christiansen,

here from the future on December 19th to tell yall that the hype has never been higher

WE GOT MAD AT THE ANNABETH CASTING BC SHE WASNT BLONDE AND NOW THEY COMPLETELY CHANGE HER WHOLE ETHNICITY 😂😂😂

It would be so easy to give Annabeth grey contacts and blonde extensions. IT WOULD BE SO EASY TO GIVE HER HER KEY DESCRIPTIONS. WHY

I kinda wished that they had given Annabeth's actress grey contacts because Annabeth's grey eyes are a very iconic part of her character and status as the daughter of Athena. Same with Percy's eyes and hair. Oh well lol

6:06 to be fair, we‘ve seen Disney fail at creating good cgi lions, which Narnia most definitely pulled off

The only problem I have is anabeth isn’t close to the book version of her

They're actually using LED screens instead of green screens. But leave it to Disney to manage to do poorly using the most expensive equipment. (I personally still have hope tho)

I will note that for teasers and some trailers the cgi isn’t totally complete and hopefully they’re paying the artist and giving them enough time to finish cooking. Like this same thing was said about the flash movie and well… we saw what happened there. So I haven’t given up on the cgi quality yet, they’ll still be working on this thing for a good bit of time.

The trailer kind of set back my expectations. I hope it turns out well.

My biggest problem with annabeth isnt even her race - the actress just doesnt give me annabeth vibes at all. In my mind annabeth is this super athletic, gifted person that makes percy look like a scrub in comparison. Shes taller, smarter, stronger, etc and intimidating. Part of percys glow up throughout the 5 books is him sort of catching up to her. This girl seems too nice and is already smaller than percy. I know its hard to find talented people fitting a specific description, but the end result is someone who i dont see as annabeth.

honestly Percy feels like a young surfer kid or something which kinda fits because he's supposed to be a child of the sea

I also think the CGI or the green screen looked really cheap, and I don't get why they couldn't actually film at a beach🤷🏽‍♀️ but personally, I think these kid actors will be really good, also Percy. But I'm new to the Percy fandom, so I've read most of the books knowing that Scobell will play Percy. I love that his hair is curly, I feel like that should have been a thing in the book as well😍😂

I wasn't super jazzed about some of the casting but the trailer gives me hope. There were some beautiful nature scenes and while some buildings look a little fake, the camera isn't on them for long. Overall, I've become pretty optimistic about the tv series and hope it turns out well.

The actor for Percy Jackson looks a lot like what I imagine Nico would've looked like

I'm upset about Annabeths casting. IT'S NOT BECAUSE SHE'S BLACK!!! It's because she's not blonde. I know that's a stupid thing to get upset about, but I feel like being blonde was part of her character because she was so smart, and blondes are usually portrayed as stupid. And in the books people mention this. They could have cast a black actress with blonde hair or dyed this actresse's hair, and I would be fine with it because I don't think her race had anything to do with her character. But as a blonde myself, I like seeing smart blonde people in the media since most of the time they are portrayed as just dumb and pretty.

I was enthusiastically happy to hear about it. I just watched the trailer and I’m like WTF? Why does Disney have to F everything up these days.

"I can't get past it being bad but I'd be really disappointing if the effects don't look good" This shows where the audience's priorities are. What a chuch

Theyre using the giant screen stages used in mandalorian in leu of using CG. The problem with those screen stages is that they work great for some landscapes, and look horrible for others

i only wished they casted the characters according to the books like how we imagined them and not in a messed up woke disney kind of way especially annabeth because imagining a girl with blonde hair and storm grey eyes? yeah she was the damsel of my childhood

i am truly hoping disney is doing this show justice and keep it close to the book as they clame they will and the actors do a great jop of playing percy and annabeth and grover also i do like the first movie of the percy jackson movies special annabeth

I like that Grover, Annabeth, and Percy look really young like they are in the first book

i’m with you on a lot of points , but walker’s mannerisms as percy are perfect man.

i dislike how they couldn't make annabeth's hair blonde like the book

Okay, I'll do it. I'll complain that Annabeth is black. The race change is 100% unnecessary. If they wanted a more diverse starting cast they could have gone with literally any other mythology series Rick Riordan has written. If they want the Percy Jackson name in it so bad, they could have done the Heroes of Olympus and had Hazel, PLUS Frank, Leo, Piper, and Nico. Do they care? No. Better optics for Disney is just making every leading female "not white," and I call BS. Hazel. Is. Right. THERE!

I am really hyped for the show because riordan himself is involved. Bad CGI be damned. As for the actors, I agree with you about percy but let's see. We haven't seen this kid act so I wouldn't be too quick to judge, especially since he has his whole life to hone his skills. Personally, I think the casting in the movies was great. It is so sad that everything else in them was shit because if that cast was given a proper chance, I strongly believe that they could have delivered such a good performance.

I just feel like a lot of actors don't look like the characters described in the books (I would be okay with 1 or 2 but not almost everyone). Who was responsible for that casting?

what i generally hate about live action is that it can never capture imagination like your mind can when reading a book. so any scene will usually fall flat compaired to how someone pictured it in their minds eye. not to mention changing the characters in my opinion you should be able to pick the character out as soon as you see a picture of them with no context, otherwize why even make a character. dont forget this fandom also changed the official character artist because they hated the interpitations. i personally think the absolute best way to go with books is animation. take how to train your dragon for example, sure they changed the whole story but overall fans loved it because they didnt do small changes they completely made it their own film and the animation perfectly suited the style of this movie. personally i believe making an animated series would have done the percy jackson books alot more justice.

I just finished the first two episodes and am a humongous fan and have been for forever growing up, and with how disappointing the movies were... THIS SHOW IS SO FREAKING AMAZING SO FAR, I HAVE HIGH HOPES FOR IT, the idea of some of the characters appearance changes wasn't rly easy to except at first since im such a huge fan of the books, however i think it all works and rick knows what he's doing, he did write the books after all, now we get to see what he envisioned all along.

This is the problem with making books into movies. The author describes every small detail of the charactor from their eyes to their skin etc. and then (in some cases like this one) makes those details relevant to the story. The issue of Annabeth with the blonde hair [blondes are dumb] and grey eyes [her mother Athena's eyes] are relevant in building her charactor (more the hair than the eyes). You can also argue that Percy's hair and eyes and Grover's race should also be as their charactor's in the book but at least those details dont get brought up much (ones that i remember are: 1 medusa identifing percy as posidon's son through his eyes 2 grover having textured hair helps hide the horns ) Therefore in my opinion the actor of annabeth should at least wear a blonde wig to stay true to the charactor or the story should just abandon the plot points where annabeth's hair is mentioned(which is what it looks like is going to happen). Its just a shame that it(the hair) wouldn't be addressed in the movie as that detail is what made annabeth's charactor according to me as she is always trying to prove herself which leads her to make multiple decisions throughout the series.

As much as I love Percy Jackson (which was my Harry Potter as it were, along with Eragon); I cannot see myself resubbing to Disney+, because I know all their shows have strong cinematic starts to fill the trailers, and then the season devolves into CW level writing and production towards to the end of the season.

i wish people would stop attacking child actors for taking advantage of the opportunities presented to them. let them have fun in their roles. enjoy the show for what it is- or don’t watch it. simple.

walker scobell was so good in the adam project. he gave off some percy jackson vibes in that movie if you ask me

I actually loved the original Percy Jackson movies, they were a joy to watch. But I feel like I've grown out of it. All I see is a buch of babies running across the screen. I feel like I'd be lecturing them the entire series if I watched it. Growing up sucks.

My biggest worry is that they don't even look like the characters from the books... Annabeth looks more like Hazel than Annabeth, Chiron looks nothing like he's described in the books, Percy looks like a young Jason or Luke and Grover is... actually good? He's the only one I'm actually ok with... Also wasn't Annabeth and Percy on team blue in the books with Luke while Clarice and her siblings on team red? Why do they always fuck that up? It really isn't that hard... I'm getting sick of the race baiting and changing particular characters to fit modern narratives and it's not just this, but almost EVERY medium that comes from a source like a book or a comic does this. Can we get book accurate characters for once that aren't race swapped or actually looks like how they're described in the books? Also this looks more like a modern adaptation than early 2000's, Disney really missed out there. I wasn't too hyped about certain other scenes either like the Poseidon cabin for instance... in the books it's described as low and long and it DIDN'T have any decorations at first not whatever Disney did. Not until after Percy moved in and finished his first quest. Or Mrs. Dodds... when she turns into a Fury, it looks like it's outside near the fountain that got Percy in trouble with her in the books. Then going to Thalia's tree... in the books, it's supposed to be a freaking PINE TREE. That tree looks nothing like a pine tree... It feels like Riordan wanted to do the books justice, but had his hands tied with Disney trying to fuck things up and not caring about the source materials as usual, or he wasn't as involved and forceful as he could've been.

honestly, this is the series that could have saved Disney, now... it feels like they're just letting Rick play a bit with their assets. Honestly feels like a Treasure Planet situation to me. You say not to dwell on the casting but seriously, did they even try finding someone that looked like Annabeth? Annabeth is a major roll in the story and a fan favorite if I'm not mistaken. I'm getting the feeling Disney pushed some woke stuff at Rick. I feel like it might be decent but at the same time, I can see this come out and vanish just as quickly as Disney becomes too focused on competing with other companies instead of focusing on what it already has. Seriously, I think One Piece proved if you stay true to the source and make something good, people will come watch it, but any spit on a series is enough to make fans question it. Disney is a sinking ship and I can't see this saving it at all which is sad considering how good the books are.

Le sigh, could they really not have kept the warm tone-cool tone contrast between Percy and Annabeth? Maybe given the actor a hair color swap? Some wigs & contacts? Like, please guys Percy looks too much like a son of Zeus right now. That's original Perseus, not our percy. And Annabeth really needs her defining blonde hair and stormy grey eyes. She literally talks about how people judge her as a dumb blonde sometimes, that's a part of her character. I'm mostly upset about them giving Percy blonde hair and blue eyes. That is very much for Jason, not Percy. Annabeth does still have some of the annabeth vibes thankfully, but Percy? Not at all our mischievous lad. He looks too.. nice, too innocent. Give me one look at that little lad and tell me you would blame him for a bus crash, come on. One thing I can give the movie that shall not be named credit for, was that Percy was a bit closer to his book counterpart. Also grover looks too young, enough said.

I don't mind the casting for Percy or Grover, but the race thing for Annabeth rubs me the wrong way. I don't mind race-swapping in most cases, like Grover doesn't bother me whatsoever, but that's because Grover's race really didn't matter at all in the plot of the books. Annabeth being blonde and the whole dynamic of her breaking stereotypes and even some jokes that are played off of it I thought made so much sense throughout the book's constantly breaking stereotypes (such as Hades not being the villain, Hera being a freak despite modern depictions of her in media, etc.). It definitely won't ruin my experience watching the show (unless it's one of these virtue-signaling case and they're just using her for her skin which is completely unfair for this young actress) because as you said, she looks like a promising actress overall. I don't know, just my thoughts.

There's no way this is gonna be good everything that has Disney specifically written on it fails

Ok, my opinions here. I like the casting, don't care about the "oh but the gods are Greek, they should be white" thing. Annabeth and Percy's casting were good, because it's all about the vibes and the personality of the characters, and these actors seem to fit them pretty well. Yes, I dislike Ares' the change of style, because I like the sun glasses and the red flames for eyes, but there's a chance I'll like the actor's play. I also think the CGI looks weird in some scenes of the teaser, but I'm hoping it'll look better when the show releases, and if it doesn't, I hope Disney will make it better the next season, if it gets more seasons of course.

I also expected the show to come out sometime 2024, but I just realized that December 20 is when the subscriptions for the current Disney+ $1.99 for 3 months deal ends - it's banking on renewals for Percy Jackson to boost Disney+'s profits before the year runs out.

sue me or cancel me but the casting for the percy jackson movies would have been really good if they were just younger ; they just had the vibes and looks of the characters (other than brunette annabeth)

I feel like they didn’t even try. When I saw that Annabeth was gonna be black, I can’t say I was pleased, but they can always braid lighter hair into her braids. But did that do that? According to the trailers, no. I gave up on Rick a long time ago. With how poorly written the sun and the star was, I think Rick should turn in and enjoy retirement. Thank you Rick for the amazing BOOKS you wrote. You can be done now. It’s ok. You accomplished a lot.

I don’t wanna sound insensitive or racist. But WHY does nobody EVER get Annabeth right man

I didn’t even know this was happening! I just randomly saw the trailer on my feed, and I was so confused😅

Lots of people are complaining about the casting and how they aren’t accurate to the books, while I mostly agree, for Annabeth there could be an reason she looks that way (that sounds so rude oml) it’s mentioned in the books that Annabeth doesn’t like the fact she has blond hair as it gives her the ‘dumb blond’ stereotype, an explanation on why she has brown hair is that she dyes it so that people won’t stereotype her as a dumb blond. For her eyes it’s also mentioned at lest like once that Medusa knew she was a daughter of Athena because she had gray eyes, what if it stay hidden from monsters (even though it’s mentioned that she hadn’t left camp before Percy came to camp) we know that there are features of demigods the make it easier for monsters to identify them, maybe she uses contacts. I’ve already seen fan art of Percy having blond roots, maybe Annabeth had blond roots (later in the story probably) then we could still have blond Annabeth. As for Percy being blond we know Sally had a rebellious side towards Gabe, Percy did too (by going along with his mother’s retaliations towards Gabe) what if Gabe (unmentioned in the books) didn’t like blonds, (or he liked them or was one before he was bald, and dyed Percy’s hair) and in retaliation Percy dyed his hair blond and maybe even at some points blue. Grover, I have no complaints, casting is pretty good, I just hope his personality is the same as the books (not like he was in the Peter Johnson movies) Ares is the one I’m most bugged about, he doesn’t give me war god vibes, he’s supposed to be jacked (right? my memory is terrible and it’s like 1:00 am rn) in the official art he has black hair and no facial hair, this version of Ares doesn’t fill me with rage and anger or violent thoughts, he gives me weird guy vibes.

I'll only complain about the Annabeth casting if they cast non African-American actors to play Athena and Frederick Chase. It would not make sense from a narrative standpoint. It would be like casting a family with an African-American mom, a Japanese father and the biological child is of Indian origin. It makes no sense at all

It will never not be frustrating to me that in a series where each character was intimately detailed, and each detail had a specific purpose to connect the character to the world around them, that they would take the liberty to just throw that out the window for cheap diversity. This is literally a series filled to the brim with diversity as is. Hephaestus and his children were always described as being black. Zeus and his children were aryan, Poseidon and his kin were tan with dark hair, Hades has the pale skin and jet black hair. It was all purposeful and they intentionally butchered it for DEI points. All the Greek gods were literally greek. You have a whole ethnic branch out from there. What the hell were they thinking.

i know it's been a while now, but if you weren't sure walker scobell would be a good percy jackson you should watch the adam project. he plays a younger version of ryan reynolds' character in the movie and he did a really good job of it, so i was very excited when he was announced to be playing percy.

Wait what the actor died or hes just only gonna be in one season? (for zeus?)

honestly, The movie version of percy is almost spot on to the image I had in my head when I was reading the books. Grover somewhat works but tbh I feel like even regardless of the race bs the 3 main kids were just casted badly. I think the movie did it perfectly. I do think though having it as an episodic series is a better call. I was super disappointed in the movies at how they skipped past all the cool camp moments like all the beef with ares dorm and the capture the flag, and they just zoom to like the end of the story. I'm willing to give it a shot but Disney stuff these days have just been let down after let down.

I didn't even know the trailer came out!

percy is supposed to have black hair and green eyes. Of course the eyes don't matter that much but this blond guy looks more like a magnus chase to me

I'm so exited because I love the books but I'm scared that this will be another disappointment. I don't know, I mean, it's the story but not the vibe. When I watch the trailer, I recognize the story but it's not given me the feeling of the PJ universe. And to be honest Percy looks a lot more like Annabeth than Annabeth herself