'Percy Jackson And The Olympians' Season 2 Episode 8 Review
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Warning: Spoilers Ahead
Season 2 of Percy Jackson & The Olympians has reached its finale. From start to finish, my eyes were glued to the screen. I can’t recall a single bad moment from it, except for the cliffhanger at the end that book fans would call being Rick Trolled. We start again with a flashback as young Thalia, Luke, Annabeth, and Grover make their way to camp pursued by furies. Thalia chooses to face the furies to buy Luke and Annabeth time to reach camp. The season has been switching back and forth between this time and the present day, and the finale brings it back in a big way.
In the present day, Percy and friends are riding in the blue Prius with Sally when Blackjack lands in front of the car. Percy learns from him that Clarisse took off on foot with the fleece because monsters were surrounding the camp. Meanwhile, Tyson lets slip news about the prophecy. So far, Percy was the only child of the big three- Zeus, Poseidon, and Hades- and the only one who could carry the weight of the Great Prophecy. A child of the Big Three will save or destroy Olympus. If the golden fleece brings Thalia back, she could be the one in the prophecy. Percy’s nightmares in the early season showed Thalia showing up at camp with scythe in hand, and Sally, in the first episode, mentioned dreaming of a drachma with a trident on one side and a scythe on the other. Percy convinces his mother not to follow them to camp because of the Minotaur that captured her in the first season.
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Inside camp, Tantalus has the wrong priorities and is making campers fix the chariot course while monsters are trying to break down the barrier. He gets angry at Chris for suggesting an all hands on deck approach to defending the barrier. He grabs a chicken wing during his rant, realizing his curse is lifted right as a fireball hits him, and he disintegrates. Percy tries to convince Mr. D to do literally anything to defend the camp. When he proves to be useless, Percy takes charge. His words echo Luke’s from that earlier scene: “We take care of our own…we stand up for our home.” Now, Percy, Thalia, and Luke are all connected in some way. They have similar beliefs and personalities. Percy and Luke have already chosen their sides. Thalia is the wild card.
Clarisse finally makes it back to camp with the fleece and is almost taken out by Chris’s defense force. When they realize it’s Clarisse, they cover her as she makes her way to Thalia’s tree. Chris plants the idea that there are traitors in camp, accusing Katie and stabbing her. Then, he reveals that he’s one of Luke’s loyalists, and apparently, the rest of his group is too. They surround Clarisse and have her pinned down. In a nod to Clarisse’s character development, Chris mocks her for thinking he was her friend, claiming she didn’t have any. Right on cue, Annabeth and Grover show up in a chariot rescuing both Clarisse and the fleece.
Luke brings a convoy into camp and lets in one of the monsters, showing his followers how to do it. Before he can let the others in, Percy and Tyson show up, followed by a huge army of campers. Luke, rather than taking a moment to bring in the other monsters, immediately charges the army. This is by far the most impressive action sequence of the series. It’s a full-on war with lots of moving parts and strong choreography that’s missing the awkwardness from earlier episodes. Luke makes his way to Percy for revenge. Percy manages to knock Luke’s sword out of his hand, but Luke just starts punching Percy in the face until he bleeds. Alison instructs Luke’s army to cut down the tree and the barrier with it, so their monster reinforcements can enter the camp. Percy stabs the golden fleece with a javelin and hands it to Clarisse, so she can finish the quest. A well-timed javelin throw heals the tree and brings Thalia back. Since time has not passed for Thalia, she’s still in attack mode, and her thunder hurts Percy as they both faint.
In a dream, Percy and Tyson can talk to Poseidon. Poseidon asks Tyson to help them make weapons for the war that’s coming. Percy offers his help, but Poseidon tells him his destiny is elsewhere. He leaves him with the advice not to underestimate himself. Percy wakes up and sees Grover and Annabeth standing over him. Thalia is lying on a bed in the same room, still out. It’s been three days since the war, and Chiron is back. Percy, Annabeth, and Grover learn from Chiron that Zeus turned Thalia into a tree not to save her life but to punish her for rebelling against him. Chiron realizes that his choice is binary. He can either follow the will of the gods or be a good example for the campers. Thalia enters with thunder outside, hinting at ominous things to come. She sees Annabeth, and they share a hug. Then, she asks where Luke is. That’s the end of the series. That question and Thalia’s fate will be decided in Season 3, which will come out later this year. The Percy Jackson cast and crew have been working hard filming multiple seasons to avoid the Stranger Things effect of having the actors age well past their character ages.
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In the credits, we see a preview of Percy and Annabeth at some sort of dance as the promo for the third season. Finally, the last scene of Season 2 is a humorous stinger where C.C. introduces an accelerated course to leave her island and face the sirens. She has her workers bring in statues of Annabeth and Percy. So we’re left with a few unanswered questions. Where does Thalia stand is the big one. Who is the child in the Great Prophecy? One of the biggest takeaways from this season may be that Luke is right, but his methods are wrong.
The dynamic of the story has completely changed. Rather than Chiron and the camp being right and Luke being wrong, this season has introduced multiple shades of gray and seems to be pointing to the fact that Luke is not a villain. In fleshing out his and Thalia’s backstory and having Percy say similar words, we see that in different circumstances, Percy and Luke could have been in each other’s places. This brings much-needed complex characters to the story and makes it feel a little more real. Here’s hoping Season 3 continues this trend and gives Percy a chance to finally use his powers over water. At least in the finale, there was no water around, so he had a good excuse this time.
Rating: 10/10
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