Percy Jackson Season 2 Episode 4, The weight and Trauma of being Special.

Episode 4 of the Percy Jackson Show's second season continues telling the story of the Sea of Monsters, and this episode has two main goals, to further the plot to a point where Clarisse and Percy can talk to each other as equals, and secondly to further expand upon the relationship between Thalia, Luke and Annabeth.

And when you see it, you clearly realise that there is a degree of Hero Worship for Anna, towards Thalia more than towards Luke, Initially of course she Worships both of them, bit with Luke, they both Grew up a bit and hence she sees him in a more Human light.

But with Thalia, she died when Anna was still young and in her hero worship stage and to add to that Thalia died trying to Save Anna.

On the whole, it seems very likely that when Luke tells Anna that she has the wrong Idea about Thalia, he was correct.

On top of that it is very clear that Anna carries a high ammout of guilt for the whole situation.

Anna feels Guilt because Luke gave her Kellogia's charm from a well hidden place as a sort of protection, and then she lost it.

Having Lost it, she retraced her steps to find it, at this point they had already been met by a messenger from Chiron, non other than the Satyr Grover himself, who appears as their protector to escort them to Camp Half-Blood.

In the misadventure to gain back this "protection charm" Thalia is called upon once again to defend Anna from the three cyclopes who decided to randomly bully a ten year old who is clearly lot.

After this event, Thalia and Luke collectively decide to take Anna to Camp because that is clearly the safer option with all three of them together and a pre-pubescent child in their midst.

And that is eventually what leads to the chase up to camp that ended with Thalia in her near death state.

At her age, Anna blaming herself is understandable.

Just like it is understandable that with a father like Ares, Clarisse, does not wish to go on her quest with Percy, him being the one who humiliated her father a year prior.

As I said in the last blog post, this version of Clarisse is more humanized and more likeable.

And that comes across very clearly in two instances, firstly when she praises her crew in front of Percy, Anna and Tyson when Anna proposes an alliance as Percy knows the seas and she knows the trials of the sea of monsters.

And then once again when Anna kills the crew members that Clarisse uses as an excuse to not ally with them, and then again when Anna suggest using the undead crew as fodder to defeat Scylla.

All children counted as Demigods are clearly allegories for real life "gifted children"

Talent as they say, is a gift and a curse.

As someone with a gift they have a lot more easier time with a lot of things than others would, Anna is super smart, Percy controls the water, Clarisse is super strong, all that... but as well, this places a great amount of expectations on them.

I remember watching this movie called Clash of the Titans which follows on the legend of Perseus, which also coincidentally is Percy's namesake(and yet has absolutely nothing to do with Titans).

No not the 2010 one, the Original, with bubo the owl.

In the Original, the whole quest happens because someone compares Andromeda's beauty to their Patron Goddess Thetis in front of her statue, knowing that she is real(I will not miss you).

As a result Thetis just randomly decides to send the Kraken after Andromeda to just eat her... I guess...

In the Modern version, the king and the Queen of Argos just decided to declare war on the Gods, and all of Olympus is threatened because Zeus was an idiot....

In the Earlier Version the Gods are just toying with the mortals, their immortal lives are boring after all.

The gods in the Percy Jackson universe are much closer to the gods in the earlier version than the newer one but at the same time, there are elements of the new one, Sure they toy with the Mortals, but because their immortal lives are boring, they also throw in a world Ending event or two...

There is a line in season 1 to emphasize exactly what kind of family the Olympians are...

The gods constantly toy with each other and their families the Demigods, and as the in they don't really care what happens to the world, from their perspective, an end is just the next exciting adventure.

However, being mortals with Godly powers, Demigods are the only ones who are simultaneously aware and affected by this while having the power to do something about it.

Their talent and specialty is what causes them all this unnecessary pain, not to mention that this also puts a gigantic target on their backs, even without monsters hunting them constantly, the gods take out their Jealousy on each others children, like Percy being unable to go on planes...

And then there is the whole subplot about Percy being branded a terrorist in book one...

This in a very strange way actually parallels how gifted children are treated in the real world, and that is also what makes this interesting...