And everybody’s got an opinion about what went down. You’re just in a scene about this woman who seems complicated. If you’re too young to be in that conversation, it won’t bother you. “Percy Jackson” co-creator and co-showrunner Jon Steinberg - who credits writer Daphne Olive for steering much of this storyline - explains how the episode gestures at the original myth while keeping it age-appropriate: “If you know what she’s talking about, you know what she’s talking about. She decided that I would never be seen again by anyone who would live to tell the tale.” But then Athena declared that I had embarrassed her and I needed to be punished. I felt as though he saw me in a way I had never felt seen before. Your father,” she continues, now speaking to Percy. “But then one day, another god came, and he broke that silence. I would have worshipped her that way for a lifetime: in silence.” Then, correctly assuming that Annabeth isn’t as close to her mother as she’d like to be, she adds, “I wasn’t like you, sweetheart. She never answered, not even an omen to suggest she appreciated my love,” Medusa says. I worshipped her I prayed to her I made offerings. Then Medusa, sensing Annabeth’s anger towards her and allegiance to Athena, tells her side of the story. Unlike in the “Lightning Thief” book, the kids realize who the gorgon is immediately, but Percy decides to take his chances with her as she’s the kids’ only option for refuge while being chased by the Alecto (Megan Mullaly), one of the Furies sent by Hades to capture Percy. Then, in Episode 3, Percy and his quest-mates, Annabeth (Leah Sava Jeffries) and Grover (Aryan Simhadri), end up lunching with Medusa (Jessica Parker Kennedy). Young Percy (Azriel Dalman) sees Antonio Canova’s “Perseus With the Head of Medusa” at the Met Museum Disney “Not everyone who looks like a hero is a hero, and not everyone who looks like a monster is a monster,” she says to Percy. Medusa is first mentioned in the pilot episode, when Percy’s (Walker Scobell) mother Sally (Virginia Kull) takes her young son (played in a flashback by Azriel Dalman) to New York’s Metropolitan Museum of Art and shows him Antonio Canova’s early 1800s statue of Perseus holding Medusa’s severed head. “It was one of the first things we talked about, how to not have a patriarchal lens,” Rebecca says. “He was looking at it as, ‘This is a scary woman who’s trying to turn me into stone.'”īut that changed upon entering a TV writers room, where other perspectives become essential. “As a 12-year-old boy in 2005, I don’t think he had the bandwidth for deconstructing the patriarchy,” adds Rick. Rebecca Riordan, who is married to Rick and executive produces the TV series, says that “the only reason Medusa is not more fleshed out in the books was that it was Percy’s narrative and we don’t have her perspective,” as the books are written in first-person. So in the TV adaptation of “Percy Jackson and the Olympians” now airing on Disney+, the gorgon’s relationships with the kids’ parents gets unpacked with more depth. But Percy is the son of Poseidon, and Annabeth, who joins him on his quest, is the daughter of Athena, so both have loaded lineages in the presence of Medusa. The 2005 novel was written for a middle school audience and understandably didn’t delve into that backstory.
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