#pjo medusa

[iamaweirdbeing]

changes in the pjo show that are better than their book counterparts (from a chronic over analyzer who has been obsessed with this series since age 12)

sally working morality lessons and her own opinions into explaining the greek myths to percy (sally is amazing any details included that allow more of her character to be shown are fine with me i love learning more about her thought process. i also think its a really interesting and more subtle way to show that the mortal parents of demigods are also impacted negatively/are victims of the gods actions.)

stating outright that luke sees annabeth as his sister (bc luke seeing annabeth as anything other than his sister defeats the point of the series in a lot of ways. it makes him irredeemable and is disgusting which overshadows all of his valid arguments and the way percy mirrors him. it's like when an author makes a morally gray character commits some vile act that is out of character but is so bad readers can't ignore it in order to turn that character into a "true villain".)

BRINGING UP THALIA (thalia is one of my favorite characters in the whole series so of course i'm ok with any mention of her, but it sets up future events so well. we understand characters motives sooner, its probably a way that luke can gauge whether a demigod will join the titan army based on their reactions to the story, WE SEE HOW DIFFERENTLY IT EFFECTED LUKE AND ANNABETH)

the medusa and annabeth parallel (that change shows the truth of the gods in one parallel. it sets up annabeth's change in mind set that we get to by the last olympian. i can't explain how much i love this parellel.)

annabeth being the one to watch luke's string be cut (he is her family, it will be her dagger, it is only fair she be the one to see it. that is all i have to say about it.)

GROVER MANIPULATING A GOD (i love this so much bc i think it shows his desperation in a way. he knows how much is riding on this and after finding his uncle and percy falling from the arch he is willing to do anything to succeed. no more thalias.)

there's probably more but that all i can think of atm

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[kairennart]

So you’re not a monster, what are you then?

#JESSICA PARKER KENNEDY THE WOMAN THAT YOU ARE #anyways enjoy. posting this before i get the need to fix all the little details #percy jackson #percy jackson fanart #percy jackson and the olympians #percy jackson series #pjo tv show #pjo fanart #percy jackson spoilers #pjo spoilers #medusa #pjo medusa #fanart #my art #listennn the colors were hard cause the show decided to make this scene impossible to see BUT I WANTED TO SEE MY WOMAN

[therainingkiwi]

tiny details about the PJO TV show that I appreciated (episode 3)

a followup to THIS post.

Grover having a conversation with the pegasus

The candy Annabeth goes to grab from the gas station isn't real in our world... meaning that the viewer is just as unfamiliar with it as she is

Percy's bed is the only bed in cabin 3 (and there were probably no beds in that cabin until he was claimed)

Medusa's dress makes her look like a marble statue

Grover, who is theoretically Percy's best friend, calls Sally "the only person who ever really cared about [Percy]." Self loathing? Guilt? A simple acknowledgment that he only came into Percy's life less than a year ago? Awareness of how much he's lied to Percy? SO much to unpack in one sentence.

Both Annabeth and Percy's opinions of Medusa can be summed up as "I believe everything my mother says about her."

#pjo #percy jackson tv series #pjotv spoilers #percy jackson #annabeth chase #grover underwood #medusa percy jackson #pjo medusa #pjotv #pjo 1x03 #i will happily take a whole season of underwhelming fight scenes if it means we keep getting this same level of emotional depth/complexity #also i have a sad headcanon #that percy's bed in cabin 3 was moved there from cabin 1 #where it's been for 4 years #since camp was expecting thalia to arrive #tiny details in pjotv

[rapselsstuff]

A survivor

#medusa #pjo #pjo tv show #percy jackson show #percy jackson #medusa art #pjo medusa #black sails #jessica parker kennedy

[happypeachsludgeflower]

Medusa was such a relatable character.

I absolutely agree that the gods are monsters and I’m please the show made that clear.

However, I disagree with her that she wasn’t a monster.

She became a monster when she decided to murder innocent people in her basement because she decided they weren’t redeemable. She literally hid their corpses in her cellar…

Also? It’s kind of telling that she had a few hundred monsters on her front step but THOUSANDS of regular people in her basement.

#you’re telling me uncle Ferdinand was evil?? #GROVER WAS EVIL?? #yea no #justice for uncle ferdinand #medusa #pjo medusa #pjoverse #pjo disney+ #pjo fandom #pjo spoilers #pjo #pjo series #pjo tv show #percy pjo #percy jackon and the olympians #percy jackson #percy series #percy and grover #percy and annabeth #uncle ferdinand

[adrianasunderworld]

I feel like goth and horror lovers are great customers for Medusa at her store. Like you find this garden store that's kinda off the beaten path and the lady there has the most insane monster statues youve ever seen.

"Oh my God, this Hellhound statue is gonna look great in our garden. We'll take it!"

Or people who do haunted attractions buying stuff off her. Imagine some haunted house was doing a gorgon theme, not knowing they commissioned actual Medusa for her statues.

"Yeah, we're doing a Gorgons Garden for our haunted house. So we really want some scared people statues to put outside. Do you think you can have those made in time?"

"Oh yes, I can get that done in plenty of time."

#percy jackson #percy jackon and the olympians #pjo medusa #percy jackson show #aunty em

[me1-atonin]

medusa was so mother i can’t even

#percy jackson #pjo series #pjo tv show #percy jackson and the olympians #medusa #medusa pjo #pjo medusa #jessica parker kennedy

[violetren]

PJO!Show Medusa is a very special kind of tragic that feels much deeper than I remember it in the original book.

In the very first episode of the series we see Sally taking little Percy to a museum to learn a little about ancient Greece to help set him up for his inevitable future, but also planting the seeds of independent thought and a strong moral compass that will make Percy simultaneously an excellent hero and th BIGGEST headache for every Olympian, Titan, and otherwise supernatural being in the world. And she does this by prompting Percy to question his preconceived ideas of the monster Medusa. A woman who was tossed around by the whims of the gods and ultimately killed by them too.

The memory of this lesson carries over and is a major driving force in Percy's decision to follow Medusa inside her home even as his companions AND his enemy react to her as a straight up monster even before she has actually arrived on the scene. Annabeth sees a couple of statues and the "Aunty Em's" sign and is ready to GTFO immediately.

However it's not the only lesson in play.

In this same episode we are introduced to the concept of how monsters hunt. Not all of them are mindless beasts chasing down the scent of the most powerful demigod they can find. Some are drawn in by the demigods desire for glory, or feelings or inadequacy, their fear, or dissatisfaction with their relationship with the gods, and will use those same criteria to manipulate and tear down their prey. Something interesting about this explanation is that it still implies monsters are out there actively tracking down demigods to kill regardless of what is attracting them.

Medusa doesn't really fit with this proactive predator model creating a degree of separation between her and other monsters we learned about and seen so far. However they are very careful to never let us forget that she is a threat. As our heroes arrive there are petrified monsters everywhere and Alecto doesn't come closer than the driveway even after Medusa retreats inside because she knows that Medusa is 1. Powerful, and 2. Doesn't like her personally. Her personal distaste for another monster in the moment helps further distance her from the classic monster model we have been taught to recognise.

Inside the house we learn Medusa's version of the tale. How devout she was with nothing in return. How intoxicating it was to finally feel seen even if not by the god she had spent her life dedicated to. How she was shamed and punished for how eagerly she accepted that attention. She took her cursed punishment and turned it into a gift, a way to protect herself. It's a sympathetic tale. Percy is primed to be sympathetic. Grover who lived in the mythical world first then the mundane unlike both Percy and Annabeth even shows hesitation instead of being able to treat her as an out and out monster even if only for a moment. Annabeth is the only one who identifies her as a monster and sticks to it all the way through.

Everything is set up to make us question whether this iconic monster of Greek Myth, who we know from the books will attack, really is a villain this time around. This is especially effective in the current era of Medusa retellings as a tragic heroine, a protector of those who have been assaulted and abused, who was beloved by Athena not reviled.

Then the turn comes. She offers a deal to Percy, she'll help make sure no one can stand in the way of his goal, she'll petrify Grover and Annabeth if he asks. From there everything spirals out. We go down to her basement storage reminiscent of both a temple and her history as a shrine maiden, and the cave she lived in as a monster until Perseus came to claim her head. We get her villain monologue. Paraphrasing: "You could have taught the gods a lesson by taking a path other than obedience to them and their teachings. Now I will send you as examples and reminders of what their actions have wrought. I will make them see me."

Medusa in this show very much is a monster, despite all of the misdirects, but unlike all of the other monsters we have seen and all those we have been taught to expect even as she is stalking the kids in her basement she doesn't feel like some overblown mythical monster. She feels like a woman who has been driven to madness. Like she is trapped in a cycle and doesn't know how to exit it, so she pushes the onus of breaking the cycle on others and then punishes them when they can't.

If that wasn't tragic enough I have a theory on what she preys on as a monster and why.

She hunts on loneliness or at least a sense of being isolated, because that is the feeling at the heart of her creation as a myth and a monster.

She went a lifetime ignored by the figure she loved the most. Her curse isolated her. It was supposed to drive people away from her/prevent her from getting close to anyone. She was killed without being acknowledged as ever having been human. Then by the rules the dictate monsters in the PJO universe she came back, probably a few dozen times at least before we met her in canon. She set up her shop in the middle of nowhere, harkening back to her life after being cursed in her original myth. Most importantly she sets up on a saytr path in the middle of a new jersey Forest where she'll likely only be stumbled across by other singular lonesome beings.

To really nail down that feeling of tragedy, even though a lot of her victims clearly never got past being terrified of her, someone did. Grover's uncle Ferdinand did. He looked at her with solemn understanding, at peace with his fate, maybe even a touch pitying. He couldn't make her feel seen, or make her realise that she didn't need the gods attention after all this time. And if he couldn't then there was no way in hell that a couple of 12 year olds and barely working age saytr could, and so once again the cycle repeated and she had to die.

#chirping wren #pjo show #pjo medusa #medusa #pjo

[nagmerriecircus]

🌊Just a work in progress!🌊

The lights in the new PJO Series is so good! I'm really forcing myself not to make studies of every single scene! 🔥🌊

Percy Jackson and the Olympians ⚡

#illustration #dark #pjo #pjo fandom #pjo fanart #percy jackson #percy jackon and the olympians #percy jackson fanart #pjo series #walker scobell #light study #sneek peak #wip #my art #the lightning thief #fan art #digitalart #pjo show #pjo medusa #procreate #whimsical art #art study #conceptart #illustrations #aesthetic #art

[mydarlingdearestdead]

The show fixed the one thing the book did wrong in my eyes:

It showed Medusa as a victim instead of a monster.

Poseidon raped her inside Athena's temple and she got punished. Or, at least, it is widely believed she was punished.

Medusa herself refers to it as a gift. Something to protect herself from men.

I think I agree with her.

#Percy Jackson #Medusa #Medusa pjo #pjo medusa #Athena pjo #annabeth chase #grover underwood #pjo #pjo show #Percy Jackson show #rick Riordan #walker scobell #leah sava jeffries #aryan simhadri

[pedanticat]

God! The Medusa scenes were so intense and unnerving to watch! Like I knew that things were going to be okay, but I still felt unnerved. It's probably due to a mixture of Medusa never talking in a malicious tone plus sympathizing with her yet also knowing that she could turn the trio into stone any minute.

#pc thoughts #medusa #pjo #percy jackson #percy jackon and the olympians #pjo medusa #annabeth chase #grover underwood

[friedwizardwhispers]

Medusa 🤝 Luke: right idea, terrible execution. 100% would not recommend.

#percy jackson and the olympians #pjo #percy jackon and the olympians #luke castellan #percy jackson #pjo medusa

[princemonday]

okay is it just me or does this new medusa remind you of the other mother from coraline too? the smooth voice that almost draws you in. the promises. the perfectly put together outfits from another era. the kitchen scenes with their respective kid victims? even the way that scene is shot (percy over medusas shoulder/the bottom half of medusas face) is so similar idk i love it

#also for dc fans the actress played nora in the flash cw show #medusa #pjo #pjo series #percy jackson #medusa pjo #pjo medusa #sarah parker kennedy #dc #the flash #nora allen #cw the flash #percy jackson and the olympians #percy jackon and the olympians #disney plus percy jackson #coraline #the other mother #coraline 2009 #the beldam #other mother #coraline jones #laika #laika studios #...🦇

[heartandflowerball]

To everyone who liked the new way Medusa was portrayed in the Percy Jackson's adaptation, I highly recomend the book "Medusa" by Jessica Burton

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[wyyrmwood]

New art style unlocked! Feel free to rb and share. Taking a break from Percy Jackson fanart (not really I literally just made Medusa Annabeth)

Up on my Redbubble shop now under the title Medusa :)

#art #fantasy #drawing #magic #aesthetic #monster #sketch #lineart #painting #digital art #medusa #pjo fanart #percy jackon and the olympians #percy jackson #percy jackson fandom #pjo medusa #medusa pjo #medusa fanart #poc #poc art #snake #snakes #myth #mythology #greek #greek mythology #greek myth art #wyyrmwood #wyyrmwood art #digital

[fandumb-thoughts]

Medusa dead ass made a bunch of burgers, fries, and shakes for the two demigods + satyr she’s planning on turning to stone. Iconic behavior, more monsters need to commit that hard to the bit.

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