also the dad goes crazy. collecting the wine you drank at your wedding with your ex wife and finally seeing her after 11 years with a fiancé and saying “you’re the only one i’d ever drink it with”. man was PINING
absolutely wild, in the parent trap when she goes “i’ve always wanted a big sister!” when her dad is trying to tell her he’s getting remarried
the lines “this has always been a family story” and “this is the kind of family they are” are SICKENING in the context of a series that starts with “the campers here, they're mostly good people. after all, we're extended family, right? we take care of each other” and ends with “family, luke. you promised”
i think my fav grover moment so far is him saying "also i'm 24" in the middle of a VERY drastic situation where he is trying to prep percy for what he is about to face. yes grover, the most important thing right now is explaining the satyr aging system. i can't wait for percy to bring it up like 5 episodes later when they're on better terms like "what the fuck did you mean when you said you were 24"
i know no one on here cares about football but if they put georgia or bama in to the cfp over texas who beat bama who beat georgia just in the name of SEC it would be a goddamn CRIME
I also think more movies about high school should take a page from bottoms 2023's book and just lean into being absolutely surrealist. Yeah the pep rally cheer is just everyone pouring water on one girl. The classes are sometimes four minutes long because that's when the scene needed to end. The actors are clearly in their 20s. It's the kind of having fun with genre conventions I just adore. Oh and also the murder you can kill the opposing football team it's not a big deal.
i think the absolute craziest thing in bottoms (2023) for all it's awareness, never once acknowledges how hazel is the gayest looking person in the immediate area, at all times, no contest. never once is pj like oh yeah i think i could see myself getting with hazel, because she's obviously gay. everyone here is a 6 and i'm going to die alone when brittany doesn't work out. like okay dyke.
i feel like im in a weird demographic when it comes to the percy jackson live action series because of the age i was when i read them. cause i read the lightning thief for the first time when i was in single digits, so percy being twelve seemed appropriately grown up. and then as i got further into the series and into heroes of olympus, percy got older with me, and was always kinda broadly my age or a little older. so like, the movie cast was too old when that happened, because they were way older than me. but now the series cast is actual twelve year olds (or so) and they are so obviously just little babies that im now forced to confront the fact that uhhh percy was in fact a fuckin child when all this started??? exCUSE ME???