Micas Folsom

Decided to give it a shot, even after hearing about the changes in character appearance which did make me feel worried, but still I guess it can be overlooked if the acting was good and they still tried to keep it close enough to the books— I can’t even express enough how disappointed I am in the 1st and 2nd episodes. First off, the acting just isn’t great— but whatever the cast is full of kids so I’ll let it slide? Mrs. Dodds and the Minotaur fight felt extremely anticlimactic and rushed and not at all how it went down in the book. Sally is acting way too confrontational with Gabe than she is suppose to be in the beginning. Gabe doesn’t even come off as threatening or abusive in anyway. Dionysus doesn’t have his usual “annoyed” personality. Percy… well he isn’t the same Percy from the books. Many things have been changed. There are some things that is accurate to the book, but many of the things that should have been more “important” like the fight with Mrs. Dodds and the Minotaur— which imo were huge moments leading up to Percy finding out he’s a demigod were changed horribly. Not going to spoil what happens, but there just seems to be way too many changes already. Changes that aren’t even good whatsoever. I was excited when I heard they were planning to make this show into a live action, but now I’m wishing that it had just been animated instead like other commenters have suggested. If the show gets better then I’ll change my review but I’m not having much hope for that.