PJ is worse than Harry Potter, I agree in that. The author actually does fill the story with the kind of muh representation lunacy Just Kidding Rowling likes to throw in later.
Like the newest series of this bullshit mythology bastardisation has a shapeshifter character who is not just a shapeshifter, she is "genderfluid". The protagonist's gf or something. The author sounds legitimately braindead.
I'd disagree. I grew up with the first five Percy Jackson books (which is weird as I'm British. You'd think I'd be more of a Harry Potter guy in my youth) and I reckoned the author had a much clearer idea of where he was going than Rowling, and really understood Greek mythology (Hades being a tired bureaucrat who doesn't want too much more death as the underworld is overloaded, gives me life).
However, what came after...for the sake of my childhood, I just pretend it ended at book five.
To be fair, Rick Riordan is unintentionally based when it comes to religion. He wrote himself into a corner where:
The gods' power comes from how influential they currently are on humans
Catholicism is real. God and Jesus are real in Percy Jackson with multiple references to them and characters that are worshippers of the Abrahamic religions.
This makes the Christian God that leftists hate so much canonically the most powerful and all-encompassing being in Percy Jackson, and the gods just try to ignore this by not talking about it and getting annoyed when it comes up. It's a punch on the face to leftists who like Percy Jackson because they are pretend pagans or whatever.
I don't believe Riordan intended this what so ever but it is hilarious.
No, the very few times he is mentioned, it's with the pretext that he is so above the pagan gods that he doesn't even consider them.
In Rick's Norse mythology series Thor complains that Jesus Christ never accepted his invitation for them to battle.
In the Egyptian series, the main characters are magicians, and talking to some older magicians, they complain about that time Moses beat them in front of the Pharaoh.
Stuff like that.
It's just supposed to be one off jokes, but each instance is an instance of the pagan gods getting their asses kicked lol.
PJ is worse than Harry Potter, I agree in that. The author actually does fill the story with the kind of muh representation lunacy Just Kidding Rowling likes to throw in later.
Like the newest series of this bullshit mythology bastardisation has a shapeshifter character who is not just a shapeshifter, she is "genderfluid". The protagonist's gf or something. The author sounds legitimately braindead.
I'd disagree. I grew up with the first five Percy Jackson books (which is weird as I'm British. You'd think I'd be more of a Harry Potter guy in my youth) and I reckoned the author had a much clearer idea of where he was going than Rowling, and really understood Greek mythology (Hades being a tired bureaucrat who doesn't want too much more death as the underworld is overloaded, gives me life).
However, what came after...for the sake of my childhood, I just pretend it ended at book five.
To be fair, Rick Riordan is unintentionally based when it comes to religion. He wrote himself into a corner where:
This makes the Christian God that leftists hate so much canonically the most powerful and all-encompassing being in Percy Jackson, and the gods just try to ignore this by not talking about it and getting annoyed when it comes up. It's a punch on the face to leftists who like Percy Jackson because they are pretend pagans or whatever.
I don't believe Riordan intended this what so ever but it is hilarious.
No, the very few times he is mentioned, it's with the pretext that he is so above the pagan gods that he doesn't even consider them.
In Rick's Norse mythology series Thor complains that Jesus Christ never accepted his invitation for them to battle.
In the Egyptian series, the main characters are magicians, and talking to some older magicians, they complain about that time Moses beat them in front of the Pharaoh.
Stuff like that.
It's just supposed to be one off jokes, but each instance is an instance of the pagan gods getting their asses kicked lol.