Percy Jackson Season 2: episode 3, a more direct approach?(Spoilers!)

Now, in the previous episode of Percy Jackson, I remember that I had very clearly mentioned some quite obvious differences between the book and the show, season 1 especially had quite a few, and some of those differences did carry over like Anna being black instead of a blonde with grey eyes, or Hermes being the owner of the Lotus Casino...

But Episode three, while there are some changes mostly sticks to the plot as is in the books by this point.

In fact the changes that are made in the episode are not changes per say, more like things I am pretty sure happened in the world of the books as well but we just didn't get to see them because the book likes to stick to Percy's perspective.

For example, the scene in the first photo of this article, Ares finds Clarisse going off on her quest without her plus one and plus two as her plus one went off with Percy, breaking the rules and hence being condemned by Tantalus and her plus two is someone she chose only because of her plus one so he is off to I guess.

Ares admires her one woman army approach and gives her an army of those who have lost in a war.

As those who loose a war owe a debt to the God of war.

Sad boi Ares aside, this time around all the soldiers in Clarisse La Rue's army aren't Confederates, some of them definitely are, but some are.

More importantly though there is a guy from Blockbuster who simply lost the streaming wars apparently.

Whatever, none of these people give a single fuck about Clarisse though, they all ignore her like she isn't even there and keep singing and partying.

At first I was like, no way these guys are risking the ire of Ares, you see in the book it was heavily implied that the soldiers are in some way bound to follow Clarisse's orders no matter how out there or nonsensical it may appear to them.

And I believed that would be the case here as well.

But now that I think about it, obviously Ares did something like this, bro is a dick of the first order.

Or maybe he wanted to test Clarisse or something, I mean in the books the guy was very clearly physically abusive with Clarisse to the extent that Percy was shocked to see his long time bully cower like that.

That in the books went a long way to humanize her.

Here though, Clarisse is a lot more nuanced, she isn't so much a bully as she is someone who just doesn't see eye to eye with Percy and maybe has a strong rivalry with him, it is somewhat a bit more realistic, sure we lost the moment of Percy flooding them with toilet water but well... you gain some you loose some I guess.

The fact that the soldiers do not directly listen to Clarisse and then she had to build their trust in her shows that she is a capable leader and perhaps Tantalus wasn't entirely wrong to pick her...

It adds nuance to the story and nuance is almost always a good thing.

You see this is just speculation but I believe that the way Clarisse was portrayed in the books there is a good chance that Rick probably had some pent up aggression around either one person or a particular type of person....

And that is why her "humanizing" moment is showing that behind all her bravado she is just pathetic.

Here though, it is different, her Humanizing moment while showing that she has vulnerabilities and probably considers herself a looser in some sense, she uses her vulnerability as a crutch to get the soldiers to follow her orders which they weren't very keen on doing.

And I like that...

Regardless, this time Tyson is much smarter as a character and in fact he is the first person to put it together that there are monsters on this boat that Hermes sent them to.

The plot point of Anna needing to hide something from Percy is brought up again and he is surprisingly understanding about the whole situation and even suggests a way for her to take control of the situation and prevent him from doing the stupid thing he is not supposed to do.

But as these things go, Anna is forced to reveal it anyways as Luke happens to be present aboard the princess Andromeda and tells Percy just enough of the prophecy that he might as well be told the rest.

Anna hates this, both not being able to tell him in the first place and then being forced to do it anyways.

But the more interesting fact or non-fact(IDK) is what Luke brings up about Thalia's true nature.

You see both in the books and in the adaptations it is pretty much understood that almost all Demigods have at some point realized the fact that the Gods really are pretty fucking shitty all things considered...

And in general most Half-Bloods wouldn't really mind if they fucked off, it just so happens that some like Percy tend to realize that between the Titans and the Gods, the Gods are clearly the lesser of two evils...

Like the Titans are fucking Tyrants...

And it is this general disdain towards the gods that Kronos exploits in order to get the Demi-Gods to do his bidding and so many joined on because they did really want a more equal world.

Luke absolutely has a point when he says that calling someone a monster based on some arbitrary rules isn't exactly fair, because by those same rules, Tyson is one, and there is absolutely nothing Monstrous about the big guy...

Oh well except the bomb he makes to help them all escape.

See I told you he was much smarter this time around...