I really wanted to like this. I grew up on the books and love Seaweed Brain to pieces! But there are way too many changes to the story and characters for me to be okay with it. I can live with them race swapping the characters, don't love it, but I was reserving judgment till I saw the show. Well, their physical traits are not the only thing they changed. Percy flops between being a whiny coward or a serious worrier. They made him look like a wimp in the bus scene with the furies. I'm sorry, my Percy does not run away from a fight. He stands up to bullies and protects Ananbeth even when she doesn't want or need protecting. Annabeth is a straight up arrogant brat that makes me miss Draco Malfoy. This is not the actors fault. Walker is quite capable of pulling off a sarcastic, witty pre-teen as we saw in Adam Project.
Furthermore, a pivotal scene (among others) were completely cut. The hellhound attack was the inciting incident that forced them to go on the quest. That is not something you delete. I was going to give this one star but then there was that little nugget with Medusa at the end of Episode 3 and I saw the real Percy shine through for the first time!! I'll give this one more chance, but I'm really not liking it. I hate saying this cause it's so bad, but in a way the movie is more enjoyable than this.