I'd found the two films OK, but this remake from the first book is much better.
I had never read the books, so changes did not bother me. It was the author who wrote the script, so complaints are silly.
But I also notice a consistent pattern of people who take the trouble to write several reviews of later episodes of a series they supposedly were bored by. I take this to be another case of racists trying to spoil a dramatisation that dares to have non-white characters in important roles.
Annabeth, described as blond in the book. And also Zeus, whom I felt was played very well.
The end follows the book in having Sally's obnoxious husband choose to open the parcel with the head of Medusa. The book is much more savage - Percy considers using it so, but leaves it to his mother. She later writes, mentioning how her husband had vanished, and meantime she has been able to sell a sculpture than is strikingly life-like. Much less ethical: it would in fact count as pre-meditated murder.
The TV series also copies the film in putting it with the end credits. An irritating habit that I suppose is put to make us watch them, and shows a lack of respect for the audience.
Still, it was an excellent adaptation. I assume we get the rest of the books.
I had never read the books, so changes did not bother me. It was the author who wrote the script, so complaints are silly.
But I also notice a consistent pattern of people who take the trouble to write several reviews of later episodes of a series they supposedly were bored by. I take this to be another case of racists trying to spoil a dramatisation that dares to have non-white characters in important roles.
Annabeth, described as blond in the book. And also Zeus, whom I felt was played very well.
The end follows the book in having Sally's obnoxious husband choose to open the parcel with the head of Medusa. The book is much more savage - Percy considers using it so, but leaves it to his mother. She later writes, mentioning how her husband had vanished, and meantime she has been able to sell a sculpture than is strikingly life-like. Much less ethical: it would in fact count as pre-meditated murder.
The TV series also copies the film in putting it with the end credits. An irritating habit that I suppose is put to make us watch them, and shows a lack of respect for the audience.
Still, it was an excellent adaptation. I assume we get the rest of the books.