PERCY JACKSON AND THE OLYMPIANS Cast Photo Reveals First Look At Percy, Grover, And Annabeth

@marvel72 -


Guessed what?

@marvel72 -


Why does that bother you?

@mountainman -


What's your point?

@tBHzHomer - that’s ok. I enjoyed the films. Those aren’t my kind of books to read. I’m more of a where’s Waldo kinda guy.

@DarkModeDan -
The author, Rick Riordan, who is an executive producer on the series called fans bullies and racists for wanting the characters to appear as he wrote them. He can go [frick] himself. Actively attacking the fans for making a virtue signalling change that he acknowledges goes against what he wrote. What a bastard.

@DarkModeDan -
I answered your question before you even responded. I stated clearly my viewpoint that the race swap was against the characters iconography. You are purposefully ignoring the fact he knew the race swap would cause issue, that the departures from the original was what caused the original movies to flop. Now they are repeating the same mistakes as the previous movies and expecting a different result. The only reason they race swapped Annabeth this time around is because they already race swapped Grover in the previous films and wanted to generate new discussion.

Give it another 5-10 years with the same ideology in media and they'll race swap Percy because it'll be something new to attract interest to a book series that most people have accepted by this point will never be adapted with respect to the source material, it'll always be someone changing something - even if that's the author pulling a J.K.Rowling and race swapping a character to appeal to a new demographic or generate discussion.

They actively chose to hire the actress, despite them not fitting what fans desired, knowing the actress would get a ton of hatred. They actively set her up to get the hate because they know in current day it generates marketing, it's what is known as fan baiting:

• Individuals such as yourself will defend the change because to you the iconography of the character is not important, just the writing.

• Individuals such as me will feel that it's a departure from the source material because the iconography of a character is something that is important, alongside the writing.

All the while, those involved will stir the pot usually by directing hatred towards individuals who are not supportive of the change. They need the controversy and hate because at the moment they've shown nothing else of the show that would entice them and controversy generates discussion which generates social media interactions and they are adapting material that has already been adapted so without it, would anyone really care about this series at all?

Without the race swap, neither I or yourself would be discussing this.

Not a single person in this entire thread has mentioned actively looking forward to this show:

• slickrickdesigns is not sure about the new series
• GhostDog expresses enjoying the books but doesn't even comment on the series
• micvalpro and TheNewYorker both dislike the look of the cast
• Malatrovaa is trolling, as per usual
• Myself and Marvel72 are expressing disappointment over the lack of accuracy due primarily to race swapping

Remove the race swap casting and you lose ALL these comments except for maybe Ghostdog and slickrickdesigns - one praising the books but not remarking on the series, the other unsure how to feel about the series because they liked the movies but did not like the books.

@DarkModeDan -
The studios desired backlash. 'Good news' or 'the expected' results in people losing interest because it does not provoke a strong emotional response. If this was a 1-to-1 adaptation with zero variation then they wouldn't have any shocking headlines to report on. You and I would be unlikely to comment with anything more than 'looking forward to this'.

"What does “against the characters iconography” even mean? Define “iconography”, and what exactly about Annabeth’s “iconography” is intrinsically tied to her race."

Her character is written, described and stated as being a certain way in the books - these aspects define who the character is. Stories take on entirely different meanings when you swap aspects of the character because those aspects are part of what defines them.

Over time you develop a brand image around these characters, this aspect is iconic and used to sell merchandise and familiarize people more with your character, most people can draw Spider-man from memory because the iconography of the suit has been ingrained with them for decades.

"What exactly do you know better than the character’s literal creator?"

I think he's an author of a franchise that had a lot of attention and since getting backlash for a declining quality in his later work, he's decided to double down on the controversial decisions that got him attention previously. The writer's political and social views have also notably changed from a viewpoint of adapting Greek material to the idea of restructuring his work to reflect a modern day diverse audience even if that means sacrificing a large aspect of his narrative framework.

Fans of the books still remark on the decline in writing quality as the books progressed and he does not really have a leverage given the prior film adaptations both flopped.

https://www.reddit.com/r/camphalfblood/comments/rva2sf/maturity_of_riordans_writing_the_failed/?rdt=55376