Samhi C.

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Yes, the first episode was kinda predictable and kinda boring.

But the rest of them are not. I think in order to set up the fictional lore and the setting, the first episode required some not-so-useful narrative exposition and obvious plot devices. But now that that’s over, for those who have not read the book series, the rest of the episodes are filled with enough questions without obvious answers. 

The comedy bits have also kept up with expectations. This is not one of those shows that makes the first episode hilarious to hook viewers and then gives up. Every episode offers nuanced humor, mostly by way of dialogue and character over-the-top-reactions. 

Grover is still my favorite character. Apparently, he is twenty-six in satyr years. Meanwhile, Aryan Simhadri is seventeen. How he passes for twelve and twenty-six at the same time but definitely does not look seventeen is beyond me. 

Some other notable entrances and exits: Jason Mantzoukas as Dionysous, Jessica Parker Kennedy as Medusa, and Adam Copeland as Ares. 

The last I checked, Grover and Ares had some bromance-admirer thing going on. Like literally, the scene that I last watched involved Grover sucking up to Ares about how great he is at creating wars which he considers an art. But I think he might be trying to distract Ares or flatter him so he can survive him… 

I am also loving the adorable love-hate friendship and potential future tween romance budding between Percy and Annabeth. She is such a bully and way too smart for him. But I think he acknowledges that it comes from a place of feeling the need to protect herself because of being abandoned by both her goddess mother Athena and unnamed human father, so he deals with it. 

One of my favorite scenes so far is one in which after she hugs him because he survives a stunt that she thought would be a death sentence, he starts to tell her it is okay that she hugged him and they do not need to get weird about it when really she was being weird about something completely unrelated. 

Maybe he is the one who felt something after that hug more than? 

I assume so. And I hope so. 

Anyways, Beacon Readers, I am about halfway through Season 1 and will be back when I am done.