Season 2 of Percy Jackson and the Olympians

Episode 1

By Megan Palcic

I put off watching Season 2 of Percy Jackson and the Olympians;, since I have been a as a fan of the books from a young age, and even a fan of the first season of the show, I had the familiar there’s always a fear that an adaptation wouldn’tn’t live up to expectations–or  or worse, that it will fail miserably like other adaptations before it. After startingeeing the first episode of Season 2, based on Rick Riordan’s second book The Sea of Monsters, I am reminded that the story is in good hands. While the first episode made deviations from the chapter of the same name– “I Play Dodgeball with Cannibals”–” the changes make sense for the switch from page to screen. Moving between mediums while still keeping the core of the work intact isIt’s not something that adaptations of any story are able to master, but somehow this series accomplishesmasters it. The episode does a good job of setting viewers up for the challengers ahead of our heroes. A question to be asked for all adaptations is “what makes the retelling of this story worth it;” or rather, what can be done is able to do in this new format that was impossiblen’t able to be done in its original one. In this case,  the creators of the series have expanded the point of view from beyondjust the notoriously unreliable perspective of the titular character Percy and to  the other characters as well,s which can set up interesting perspectives the original books were unable to explore. unable to be explored in the original books.