Percy Jackson: When Plot Holes Are Worth It

'Let us swear an oath, and keep it with an equal mind / In the hollow Lotos-land to live and lie reclined / On the hills like Gods together, careless of mankind.'

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Timestamps:
0:00 Introduction
0:38 The adaptation process & different types of changes
4:34 Plotholes & mythic episodes
6:44 This is good, right..?
9:02 Conclusion

Sources:
The Direct interview: https://thedirect.com/article/percy-j...
(For clarity - the odd grammar in my quotations is preserved from the article's transcript)
Riordan's blog: https://rickriordan.com/2007/09/the-m...
Polygon: https://www.polygon.com/24011108/perc...
Other footage is from:
   • Rick Riordan Q&A  
   • Watch PERCY JACKSON author Rick Riord...  
and Google Earth.
Description topline is from 'The Lotos-eaters' by Alfred, Lord Tennyson. https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poem...

From Wikipedia, for SEO: Percy Jackson and the Olympians is an American fantasy television series created by Rick Riordan and Jonathan E. Steinberg for Disney+, based on the book series of the same name by Riordan. Walker Scobell stars as Percy Jackson, alongside Leah Sava Jeffries and Aryan Simhadri. In Percy Jackson and the Olympians, 12-year-old modern demigod, Percy Jackson, is coming to terms with his newfound divine powers when the sky god, Zeus, accuses him of stealing his master lightning bolt; with his friend's help, Percy must restore order to Olympus.