I am so excited!!! I saw a movie trailer the other night and
I am so excited!!!
Percy Jackson and the Sea of Monsters
I love this series! I have always been intrigued and
interested in Greek and Roman mythology, I think it all started with the Disney
movie Hercules!
Hercules was one of my favorite movies as a kid and I
remember watching it all the time and wanting to be Meg all the time. This
movie started my love of mythology. I remember being a freshman in high school
and there was a unit on mythology and I absolutely loved it! I have even taken
several mythology type classes at BYU in the Classical Traditions department. I
loved reading these books and seeing the connections made to mythology and past
stories that I have read previously.
My mother introduced me to the Percy Jackson series and I
remember reading all of the five books within a weeks time. I loved these books
and was so excited when I discovered that they were going to make them into
movies. The first one Percy Jackson and the Lightning Thief came out when I was
a freshman here at BYU and my friend and I went to the midnight showing because
we were so excited! I remember we were the oldest people there that were not
parents. We felt kinda silly but we really wanted to see this movie. We walked
out of the theater and we did enjoy ourselves but were also quite disappointed
because it lacked many of the plot points of the book and many differences.
I was upset because I was afraid they would not make the
second one let alone the rest of the series because this was really lacked plot
and story and changed some things.
I am excited for Sea of Monsters because it looks like it is
bringing the story back
1) It has the oracle!!
The oracle is the serious plot development in the books
because she hands out the quests for the demigods to go on to often times save
the world.
The Oracle gives I call them “mini-quests” something that
reveals the plot for each book which is to help the “great prophecy” which is
the purpose of the entire series.
2) It seems to have many of the vital points of the book in
this movie but that is just from seeing the trailer so we shall see, anything
can happen.
3) They have many of the same actors, which I appreciated
because I quite liked the cast they had. Especially Percy, because while
reading the books I fell in love with this stupid fictional boy and it was nice
to have Logan Lerman portray him because I find him extremely attractive!! 
4) Anabeth is a blonde!!!
It really bugged me in the first movie when Anabeth had
brown hair when she is suppose to have blonde but she does so I am happy!!
5) They brought in more characters from the books into this
movie that were supposed to be in the first one but were not! Like Clarisse,
from Ares! She is an irksome character but kinda important. Also it looks like they brought in Tyson who I also love so
that’s exciting! They also have Dionysis who I greatly missed in the first movie!!!
6) Nathan Fillion is in it!!!! :) I love Castle!!
I am so excited for this! One of my favorite books are
coming back to be put into movie and I hope it is better than the first!!! I
cannot wait! I want to reread these books again so I think I have my summer
book list planned.. at least for a week anyway, and then I can start the
continuation story over again and read the new ones!!!
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