All good things must come to an end and well, this season of Percy Jackson and The Olympians has come to an end, but it definitely went out with all the heart, love, and fabulousness that every other episode has had. Well, yet better.
And we didn’t know that it was possible that it could get better.
Here’s the thing about Percy Jackson and The Olympians (the television series) – it had no right being this good and not warning us. The show has knocked us on our ass and made us think about what the movie people were thinking. Were they temporarily out of it? Had they lost their minds? Or maybe we had to go through the bad to get to the good.
Because if there is one thing that we have learned watching this show is that we’re thankful right now that we have gone through everything, because it’s gotten us where we are. What do I mean? Well it’s gotten us to having three actors that were meant to play these roles.
Walker Scobell, Leah Sava Jeffries and Aryan Simhadri were meant to play these roles. They were born to be Percy, Annabeth, and Grover. No matter what they do in the future, they will always be these characters and that is not a bad thing.
In this final episode of the season, we open up with the show down between Ares and Percy. While I didn’t expect Percy to choose single combat, but good on Luke for teaching something useful. Yet, as we learn in this episode – that Luke is the lightening thief – so you would think that Luke wouldn’t have taught anything useful. But that’s the thing, he wanted to groom Percy to be able to work for Kronos.
Percy wins single combat and is able to bring the lightening bolt back to Zeus, who has a power complex. I don’t think that Zeus likes being challenged by anyone and I think that it’s worse that it’s from Percy. Sure, he’s like in the middle of wanting to go to war with Posedein, but like also more than that, I don’t think that Zeus likes to believe that he’s wrong.
Or be told how to lead his family.
But that’s the thing about the gods – they need to be told. They need to be told their reality, because they don’t want to hear it. They don’t want to hear that they are cruel to each other and they can be better. A child challenging a God isn’t something that is heard of.
Yet where is the lie in what Percy Jackson is saying? There isn’t one. There is no lie. The Gods are cruel. So very cruel.
But what you have to stand up and applaud is that Posedein shows up and immediately blocks his brother from killing Percy. While I won’t forgive Poseidon for not being there for Percy his entire life, there is a part of me that appreciates him keeping his promise of showing up.
And immediately conceding to his brother.
Now, while the first question that Percy wants to ask his father is about if Gods dream, pretty sure that anyone would have asked more than that. To each his own though, I guess.
While the complexities of family is one that I don’t think many of us get when it comes to the gods, it is intriguing. How it can and will unfold is something that we can’t wait to see. We think that as the books go on it becomes more clear, but it definitely still remains a lot to comprehend.
It seems like so much is answered as this episode ends – who stole the lightening bolt, why they stole it, etc. I think it’s super important for us that we see the growth of all of these characters and them figuring out things instead of being blinded by where they were at the beginning. I think that it’s important to note the character growth over the episodes.
Walker Scobell, Leah Sava Jeffries and Aryan Simhadri have left a lasting impression on many, bringing to life characters that we’ve all waited so long to see. Each left us with the thought that this is what fandom deserves and we’re thankful for all of these moments. Percy Jackson is an institution, but what it is now is leaving a legacy that mistakes with adaptations can be fixed and what we can get is the beauty of the books that we love.
And we are thankful for just that.