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Just going from show vibes (I haven't read the books), my take of that scene at Medusa's place was that finding Ferdinand affected Grover who got fed up with playing nice and tiptoeing around Percy's and Annabeth's issues, and realized - if I remember this properly - "you need to break things before you can fix them"? Or something like that. Which in turn forced Percy to admit he was nervy because of the "one of your friends will betray me" prophecy. But ymmv, I didn't think it was necessary for Ferdinand to see his dead Uncle to get fed up with Percy's and Annabeth's bickering when they're been at it all day, and so many things had gone wrong with their mission. He could have just got fed up. And we'd still have the same character development, because the real bonding at that stage wasn't Grover's speech, it was the fact that both Percy and Annabeth had been given opportunities to betray each other, and they didn't.

Oh I see my mistake. I just got the impression that Augustus was another satyr from Grover's family who had gone looking for Pan. Basically Ferdinand 2.0. It kind of begs the question of why Augustus wasn't simply Ferdinand. Finding Ferdinand amongst Medusa's victims hasn't made any difference to the story (so far, from what I can see) but making him and Augustus the same character would have been narratively conservative and made Grover's reunion with him more profound for the audience. Or to put it in another way, I don't think the problem was that we didn't know about Augustus... it's that we (or at least I) didn't care about Augustus. But if he'd been the Uncle Ferdinand that Grover had been talking about from the start of the show, this meeting would have had a bigger impact. I don't think it's the time, I think it's bad writing.

This god was mentioned in a previous episode. When they saw centaurs running from the train, and Grover explained that their numbers were fewer, and Pan was missing and this was caused by urbanization. He talks about his Uncle Ferdinand who went seeking for Pan. Later on, he finds his Uncle Ferdinand who was Seeking (or Searching?) for Pan as one of Medusa's victims. I haven't read the books by the way, this is what I picked from the show. But I agree that there's too much telling and not showing. The episodes sometimes feel like a visual radio drama. They don't engage with their environments enough. This episode could have been in literally anywhere - a shopping mall, a museum, or an indoor playground - and nothing would have changed - they would have just found Grover distracted by something else. It didn't feel that the casino setting was necessary except as a metaphor for distractions but since the kids were not really distracted by the attractions of a casino, and just the lotus flower vapor in the air, any closed space would have had the same effect. Also how did Percy realize they had spent days in the casino? Now that part feels like something that happened in the books and we were expected to expect - for lack of a better way of saying this - but I didn't actually see anything in the scene that made him realize this.

I also agree that he looked visibly older. It was very lucky timing for the writers. If there was ever a time to have an inconvenient growth spurt in your child actor, it should be after he gets a figurative baptism.

I feel like if I would be interested in Eve's story if it was a completely separate show. As it stands, I find myself taking breaks whenever she's on screen, because it's such a distraction from the main plot. Her screen time would be better served on more relevant arcs: e.g. Angstrom's villain arc, or what happened with Allen. Yep. They specifically went there to hunt him down. They've been hunting him since he abandoned his mission on Earth.

I figured it was because they had a mole in the Coalition. That way the resistance is an organized group they're controlling, instead of scattered cells. On a shipping note, s1 made me think the show would eventually pivot to Mark/Eve but right now, Amber is being written so strongly and Eve is being such a platonic superhero BFF that I really hope they keep it this way. Love triangle-free and everyone being happy in their dynamics.

I'm going to watch it if there's nothing better.

Yes, I noticed that! I didn't understand how that's a specific Black or even a racist thing. I'm sure many White authors have also been asked to rewrite their endings or plots to be marketable. I did not sympathize with Kendra's Rebellion because it felt childish and unprofessional. She got angry at Diane and Richard for "ruining" her when she destroyed her own career over what really felt to me like a trifling problem. It doesn't mind control people.It just takes the Angry gene out of the Angry Black Women, which according to this show, is what all Black Women must have. Without the Anger, they miraculously become uber-competent and accomplished in all life endeavours. 🙄

Yeah I feel like I missed something. Did the movie ever explain how he magically brainwashed them?

Peter isn’t human either. And the point of the Guardians is that they’re all (except maybe Groot Jnr) trauma victims in some form of the other so this isn’t unique to these two. Most importantly, they’re still people. We’re meant, as a human audience, to find their actions relatable.

Everyone saying that Nebula and Rocket had 5 years to process Gamora's death are actually missing this very important point up there: The five years doesn't make it better. It makes it worse. If you've mourned someone one and moved on, having that person reappear in your life will be more disorienting than for the people who - mentally - never lost her. Peter (and only Peter because of course only his romantic connection to Gamora counts 🙄) can't deal with nuGamora because in his frame of time reference, she never left. He heard she died but before he could process it, he was snapped and when he came back "she" was back. But Nebula and Rocket actually figuratively buried Gamora and now they have to deal with this new person who looks like her ... but is not. That would mess with someone in a different, but just as powerful way as it does with someone who never processed that death. Yep. I don't know if I mentioned this before but this was also my take back. The Ravagers thing made no sense - they might have a code but they're still a crime syndicate and 2014 Gamora was running away from that kind of dysfunctional "honorable evil" family. It's like the movie forgot that she didn't join the Guardians... she was there from the beginning, and she was part of shaping the Guardians into what they become.

No smoke without fire, I still say. I’m sure British propaganda has made fun of a lot of their enemies… why is this particular rumour the only one that stuck? 😂😂😂 On a more serious note, I think Dinklage would have killed this role.

I feel like they faked her death and we'll see her back in part 2.

I'm just confused why he isn't short.