We’re half way through this season of Percy Jackson and The Olympians and we’re not happy about it. We’re not happy about it because we don’t want it to end. We’re not happy about it because we don’t have a season two renewal yet and we’re so going to need that.
Percy Jackson and The Olympians is GOOD. It’s the adaptation that we deserve. It’s the adaptation that keeps us wondering what the movie people were thinking because we know that they didn’t give us greatness. (Yes, that’s shade).
As this episode we do wonder if Percy, Annabeth, and Grover understand that they are in Missouri and that’s not California and they need to get a move on.
Granted, totes get the fact that they had that whole big being attacked in the arch and stuff. Give them some grace. I hear you. We are going to work on that. We know that every agency is looking for them for the trail of destruction the monster that have been attacking them have left.
Before we really dive into this episode we really need to applaud our cast – Walker Scobell, Leah Sava Jeffries, and Aryan Simhadri are phenomenal. They are all captivating. Some shows we watch and we think, well this was so and so’s episode. But when we watch Percy Jackson and The Olympians each episode is all of theirs. It is episodes like that – they are just rare in TV. We need to treasure things like that.
As Percy, Annabeth, and Grover set out on foot to Los Angeles (well Santa Monica, cause that’s where Poseidon is supposed to be) they run into Ares. Only after Annabeth admits that she saw the fates and that they cut a string, so one of them is going to die.
Drop a bomb there Annabeth.
Where as we can appreciate Percy’s optimism all the time, we’re talking about The Fates and they will come for you.
But right now, they have Ares to deal with. Adam Copeland as Ares actually makes us kinda like the character in this show. Copeland as Ares is this mix of scary and vulnerable; wanting to be understood and not giving a f**k. Ares isn’t to be trusted, but he does know that Percy didn’t steal the bolt. He knows also though that this family just wants to start war and that is not acceptable to Percy.
But as much as I want to like Ares, he’s definitely using everything to his advantage. He wants his shield and of course, Percy and Annabeth set off to get it. He sets them on a course that is just not right, because he doesn’t tell them the entire story. Yet in this story, what Greek God does.
Grover has to stay with Ares and it’s totes okay with him. Grover is growing so much during this quest and we’re not that far into it. But Grover is like you do your thang, I am gonna do mine.
Ares sends them to Hephaestus’ playground basically, to get back his shield. Hephaestus doesn’t really like Ares cause you know, he slept with Hephaestus’ wife, Aphrodite. Percy and Annabeth have no choice but to go into the Tunnel of Love to get to where the shield is. But getting it means that they are going to have to sacrifice one of them.
The Fates weren’t wrong.
Percy gets trapped in Hephaestus’ chair – encompassed in gold. Not ashamed to admit that this writer started to cry as Annabeth wouldn’t leave him, even when Hephaestus told her there was no way to save her friend. She didn’t care about the fact that her Mom would find great honor in her getting the shield.
For Annabeth, her honor would be in not being like the family that is so toxic and fighting all the time. She doesn’t want to be a part of their cruelty. She doesn’t want to have the same issues that they do.
Leah Sava Jeffries and the way that she brings Annabeth to life is both perfection and confusing. You can’t help but love every moment that she’s in, but you’re confused because sometimes Annabeth is so logical that she doesn’t let emotion in and other times, you can see it’s all that she feels. It’s so intriguing to watch, and we don’t think that anyone could play Annabeth better than Jeffries.
You WANT to protect her. Just as she wants to protect everyone. This quest is a lot for her – it’s what she’s always wanted – but the changes that she is going through, you know that she’s overwhelmed. Change isn’t easy and you can see that it’s definitely not easy for Annabeth. But she’s doing it. She wants to be better.
Annabeth wanting to be better touches Hephaestus, as he doesn’t want to be cruel. So he does reverse Percy being trapped in gold, allowing Annabeth and Percy to return to Ares and Grover with the shield.
And Ares fulfilling his promise to get them to Los Angeles. Or you know, close. Las Vegas will do. Granted, it’s in the back of a truck that stinks, but all for the sake of the quest.
While watching this episode you do see Grover and Ares talking. Grover is listening to everything that Ares is saying and is figuring out how to pull information from him. He does just that will manipulation and it’s definitely really really impressive.
But it means that this episode is left on a cliffhanger with Grover telling Percy and Annabeth that he knows who took the bolt.
WHO GROVER? WHO TOOK IT!?!?!
We need to know, but we’re going to have to wait until next week to find out.
