While a very faithful adaptation, Season 1 of Percy Jackson did skip a few fan-favorite moments.
In fact, several key story elements were added or changed.
But, the show couldn’t cover everything.
“Of course, Percy still has to take his final exams.
He listens in and hears the two using words and phrases Percy doesn’t understand like"Kindly Ones.
The trio is camping in the woods for the night, sleeping in shifts.
At one point while Annabeth is asleep, Percy and Grover have a heart-to-heart.
Percy wakes up to find Grover"sitting cross-legged on a blanket with something fuzzy in his lap.
But, the show did leave out a couple parts of the sequence that left some fans disappointed.
While in full view of the camera, Percy and Annabeth frantically take a stab at escape the ride-gone-wild.
‘“before all the cameras shut off.
This even got to the point wherePercy Jacksonauthor Rick Riordan had to take to threads and address it.
We will address that in future seasons if/when we get them - fingers crossed!”
However, the context surrounding the scene is very different from its book counterpart.
In the book, though, the pearls take them to a beach in Santa Monica.
As Chiron explains early in the book, he"would be in Zeus’s domain.
[He] would never come down again alive.
So, Percy comes up with a creative solution.
Here’s the phone number.’
Like the upcoming battle with Ares .
But, the books were a bit more malicious and pointedly intentional about Gabe’s fate.
InThe Lightning Thief, Percy and his mom reunite at their apartment near the end of the story.
He was physically abusing Sally Jackson:
“He raised his hand, and my mother flinched.
For the first time, I realized something.
Gabe had hit my mother.
I didn’t know when, or how much.
But I was sure he’d done it.
Maybe it had been going on for years, when I wasn’t around.”
Percy was enraged and actually had the capacity to do something to fix the situation.
The package was returned to sender followingPercy shipping it to Mount Olympusearlier in the story.
‘What about that meat loaf, huh?’
‘The meat loaf is coming right up, dear,’ she told Gabe.
‘Meat loaf surprise.’
She looked at me, and winked.
Rather, he sets a scorpion on the son of Poseidon.
Then, like in the show, Luke uses Backbiter to make his escape.
However, the scorpion is still there after the son of Hermes leaves.
Annabeth learns about what happened after the fact, as Percy is healing.
The first season ofPercy Jackson and the Olympiansis available to stream in its entirety on Disney+.
Gillian Blum has been a writer at The Direct since 2022, reporting primarily from New York City.
She also commonly reports on Percy Jackson, Invincible, and other similar franchises.
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