Lost Hero Reaction Post: Part Two

[greenconverses]

I'm finished now, so you can hit me all with your squee or RAEG or tears of despair, whatever. As always, spoilers under the cut.

First, let me jut get this off my chest.


"Exactly," Jason said. "Percy Jackson is at the other camp and probably doesn't even remember who he is."


what

WHAT

WHAT

THAT'S YOUR LAST LINE, RICK, FUCKING FOR REAL.

YOU DO REALIZE THAT BECAUSE YOU'RE WRITING THE DAMN KANE CHRONICLES TOO THAT WE HAVE TO WAIT A FUCKING YEAR FOR THIS TO BE RESOLVED, IF IT EVEN IS AT ALL. JUST ARGHHHHHHHH



i mean not that this doesn't give me a million ideas for fic especially of the percy/annabeth angst variety BUT FUCKING STILL


All right, now that I've got that off my chest, I can honestly say that I did like The Lost Hero ... when I wasn't being reminded that Percy was missing and we weren't out there looking for him. I really did start to like Jason, Piper and Leo's quest once we hit Medea and Midas, and things started rolling. Not to mention I love the idea of all the Big Bads from Greek mythology coming back to life. (Fan theory #1: Does this mean we're going to be getting a reappearance from Luke at some point?) But the instant any of them mentioned Percy, like even as "that guy Annabeth's looking for," I just got thrown out of the story because - once again - I was reminded that my favorite character is missing and these assholes DON'T GIVE A FUCK.

Don't get me wrong, I think the set-up with the exchange of leaders between the Roman and Greek camps is going to be awesome, but really, really bad choice on Rick's part to make Percy go missing before the big Save Hera quest started because his fans have the attachment to Percy first and foremost. I was expecting the quest to be to, you know, get him back and the fact that it wasn't kind of made me want to punch things. Even if I ended up kind of liking the quest in the end.

So like I said, I probably would've liked the book more if there hadn't been the specter of MISSING PERCY hanging over the entire thing. I liked the first part, liked all the Epic Battles, I started to like Jason and Piper more as the book went on, although I could really do without the shipping. And yes, we get the two of them are OMG SUPER HAWT and will make pretty babies together.

I'm ... not sure how I feel about the explanation of the Roman camp. With the amount of handwaving the Mist allows in series, it makes it completely obvious that Rick hadn't planned for the Roman camp with the previous series. I would have liked to see a least a tiny bit of foreshadowing with them in PJO, but it completely came out of nowhere. I did, however, like his explanation for why the Roman gods still existed - it's a little less complicated that having two separate pantheons, I think.

And does anyone think that there's going to be a MORE BADASS THAN THOU showdown when Percy and Jason finally meet? With everything Jason's accomplished, there's certainly going to be a contest, methinks. (Although Percy pretty much wins because, hey, he was offered immortality and pissed Zeus off by thumbing his nose at him. Jason... killed a sea monster, whoo)

Also, this leads to my Fan Theory #2: Without his memories and with the influence of the More Badass and Serious Than Thou Roman camp, Percy is going to turn into a dick. But he'll get better. Obvs. so i may or may not already be writing fic about it shut up and stop judging me

I wasn't exactly satisfied with the Thalia and Jason reunion, although it was explained pretty well. I didn't like the handwaving, "She's been at this longer than you, of course she wouldn't be surprised and accepted it as truth right away!" explanation. I liked getting the background with their mother and Zeus's relationship though. Really interesting.

And probably most surprising thing about this book?

I ENDED UP LIKING HERA, GUISE. WHAT IS WRONG WITH ME.

It was those scenes with her and Leo, I swear.


All right, so throw everything at me. I know some of you have lists *eyes tatooine* or need to get some flailing and capslock out of your system, so have at it!

Comments

[saturninepen.livejournal.com]

BUT IF THEY GET TO THIS OTHER CAMP AND PERCYS SITTING THERE LIKE, MAKING FUCKING SMORES OR SOME SHIT, I'M GONNA BE PISSED.

THAT MAKES TWO OF US.

I'M ALREADY KIND OF PISSED THAT WE HAVE TO WAIT TWO YEARS TO SEE PERCY AGAIN, IF HE'S JUST LAZING AROUND, THINGS WILL NOT BE PRETTY.

[artemisrae.livejournal.com]

on the other hand, smores are kind of fucking amazing.

[saturninepen.livejournal.com]

They are. But he can't wait until after we're all angsting about him? I mean really, smores with Annabeth at CHB campfire > loner smores in Roman camp.

[artemisrae.livejournal.com]

UNLESS HE HAS A NEW ROMAN GIRLFRIEND.

Uh, comfort eating until Annabeth finds him?

[greenconverses.livejournal.com]

FUCK HIS ROMAN GIRLFRIEND

WHO'S PROBABLY SOME BITCHY MINERVA DAUGHTER

WITH GREY HAIR AND BLONDE EYES

[artemisrae.livejournal.com]

WAIT ARE THINGS BACKWARDS IN THIS ROMAN CAMP? LIKE, A BIZARRO CAMP HALFBLOOD? BECAUSE THEN SHE NEEDS TO BE THE ANTIANNABETH.

YOU KNOW, GOTH. OR SOMETHING.

[chibimarchy.livejournal.com]

LOL CAN WE JUST REFER TO THE ROMAN CAMP AS CAMP BIZARRO FROM NOW ON? That, or Camp Purple.

[artemisrae.livejournal.com]

THIS IS WHAT I KEEP THINKING OF, I CANNOT HELP IT. A camp with the same people, except backwards! A teacher with the top half of a horse and the bottom half of a man! THAT KIND OF SHIT.

[chibimarchy.livejournal.com]

LOL WHAT THE HELL IS THAT COVER. And yeah, I'm thinking that's exactly what the Roman camp is.

[saturninepen.livejournal.com]

I'm torn with the Roman girlfriend idea. One, Jason's already done that "I have a love interest type deal already, but forgot about her and found someone else," and two, we've already had a Percy/Annabeth/[girl] "love triangle."

AND PERCY AND ANNABETH WERE MEANT TO BE D:

BUT, I'm horrible and love angst, and I think this would probably be more effective than Percy/Annabeth/Rachel was, so idk.

[artemisrae.livejournal.com]

I actually do not think that Percy has a roman girlfriend, if only because Annabeth is his freakin emotional tie to his mortal life. Which is a little bit stronger than some girl Jason maybe made out with a few times over at Came Bizarro Blood.

I THINK ANNABETH JUST ANGSTING OVER PERCY NOT REMEMBERING HER IS ANGST ENOUGH.

[saturninepen.livejournal.com]

I wouldn't be surprised if he had some girl trying to get him though :| Whether that actually happens, idk. I really don't know what to expect with the Romans, because they keep talking about how different they are from the Greeks (which, yeah, okay is true).

And it's a decent point; he may not remember her, but Annabeth is pretty much his anchor, so...and I think I meant to put that in my last post, but oh well. The Jason/Reyna thing did seem more of a "oh, hey, I might like her" than a "oh, hey, she kept me from disintegrating into nothingness and is the only thing attaching me to the mortal world" kind of thing.

PROBABLY. SO MANY FIC POSSIBILITES.
but the ideas won't come ,___, I WANT TO WRITE ANNABETH ANGST SO BAD DAMMIT.

[green-climber.livejournal.com]

Doooo it. Just read Alpha and Omega, and it is AMAZING.

[saturninepen.livejournal.com]

I'll think of something eventually, I'm sure. I just have so much going on in my head right now that I can't settle down and focus on one thing :/

[rosegilmore.livejournal.com]

Just wanted to say thank you guys, for reminding me about the whole 'annabeth being his anchor to the mortal world' i have much more confidence in my otp now. :) i cannot believe i forgot about this amazing point of their love

[green-climber.livejournal.com]

I agree totally. Also, I see this maybe venturing in a Jason/Piper/other Roman girl direction than another Percy love triangle. I don't think RR would do TWO triangles that were so extremely similar concurrently. At least, I hope not. I also think it would take a lot of time and pages to deal with another Percy/Annabeth love triangle, and I'm going to speculate that RR might not be so keen on that since this series is supposed to focus on the new demis. And it would be challenging to tell that story from a Piper/Leo/Jason narration, IMO.
Hey, check out my rationalizing. Not bad, is it? (Pats self on back.)

[green-climber.livejournal.com]

And I bet Percy makes awesome smores, since he doesn't burn easily and could probably just stick his hand right in the fire. I'm actually eating B&J smores ice cream right now...not gonna lie, it's good stuff.

Is RR doing a chat/interview anytime soon? I'd love to pelt him with questions.

[artemisrae.livejournal.com]

omg isn't that the kind with the graham cracker crumbles and the marshmallow goopy stuff? THAT STUFF IS AMAZING.

I think RR is in hiding or something.

[greenconverses.livejournal.com]

He's doing a book tour on the west coast. YOU COULD AMBUSH HIM AMONG THE SCHOOL CHILDREN.

[tatooine.livejournal.com]

he came to dc a week before i read the lightning thief

my timing, it sucks

on the other hand, i read tlo on a trip through the long island pine barrens so i guess that's cool

[greenconverses.livejournal.com]

I got my copy of TLO signed by him last October when I went to Austin. Definitely one of the oldest non-parents there hahaha

[flooglebunnies.livejournal.com]

... I can just imagine...

"GTFO LITTLE CHILDREN - THIS IS GROWN UP TALK."

Just like lining up for Toy Story 3.

[rosegilmore.livejournal.com]

THAT WOULD BE TOTAL PERCY. JUST BEING ALL CHILLAX GUYS, AND EATING A SMORE. HE'S GOT ALL THE ROMAN CAMP UNDER CONTROL AND SO NOW HES EATING A SMORE, WAITING TO BE FOUND.