Jessica wan

What if Padme survived?
We all know the story of Revenge of the Sith(my favorite Star Wars movie). It tells the tragic demise of Anakin Skywalker, the birth of Darth Vader from his charred remains on Mustafar, and the birth of A New Hope in the galaxy in the form of his children Luke and Leia at the expense of the loss of his beloved, Padme. But what if, by some miracle, Padme survived? Would Anakin still become the monster we see following Revenge of the Sith? Would Padme know about her husbands transformation? Would she still see the good in him?
Hi, my name is Jessica and that's exactly what I'd like to explore with someone! A little background about me before I dive into the plot. I am a 20 year old trans girl, who loves nerdy stuff and romance, and has been writing for about eight years now. I am looking for a partner who writes in the third person, is somewhat descriptive and literate, preferably uses discord for roleplays, and is open to discussing ideas!
In this story, I'd like to explore what would happen if Padme Amidala didn't die following giving birth to Luke and Leia. I have a few ideas for this story that I'd like to explore. Though my basic idea for the plot is: Following, the events of Revenge of the Sith and her husbands death, Padme would watch as Supreme Chancellor Palpatine, now known as Emperor Palpatine took over the galaxy despite her resistance to it. By his side, the dark enigmatic Darth Vader towers over the senate in a dark shadowy mass as the Emperors peacekeeper. What's more, Darth Vader seems to hold a deep fascination towards Padme. He almost seems to follow her around like a shadow... constantly watching her from afar.... though he doesn't say a word to her... almost as though he's expecting something... yet he doesnt say a word... it infuriates her. He's everything that's wrong with Palpatines totalitarian regime... yet for some reason she can't bring herself to hate him. Something about him just seems so familiar.... she's not sure why though. Nobody seems to know where he came from... before Palpatines regime he simply just didn't exist... Just who is Darth Vader, and how will she react upon learning his true identity? Will she chose to love him, or believe like Obi-Wan does that Anakin Skywalker is gone?
Please message me if you're interested in exploring this story with me!

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Just because you’re transported to another world, doesn’t mean you’ll escape from your pain.
Abused by her parents, thirteen-year-old Frances only wants to be safe and for her life not to hurt so much. And when she and her class are transported to the magical world of Durannon to fight the monsters invading the human kingdoms and defeat the self-titled Demon King, Frances is presented with a golden opportunity. If she succeeds, Frances will have the home she never had. If she fails, Frances will be summoned back to the home she escaped.
Yet, despite her newfound magic and friends, Frances finds that trauma is not so easily lost. She is dogged by her abuse and its physical and invisible scars. Not only does she have to learn magic, she has to survive the nightmares of her past, and wrestle with her feelings of doubt and self-loathing.
If she can heal from her trauma, though, she might be able to defeat the Demon King and maybe, just maybe, she can find a home for herself.
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Author's Note: Will be gone on vacation to the United Kingdom for two weeks so I wanted to have some kind of update up. Here you go!
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From King Jerome and Queen Forowena of Erisdale to King Martin and Queen Ginger, and your friends and allies.
If you are seeing this, I’m afraid we have perished for the sake of final victory over the Demon King.
To some extent, we were anticipating that our lives might be needed to finish this war. As the battles intensified, and the needs of our subjects grew, we began to sense that we would have to sacrifice ourselves. Maybe it’s a premonition, but we are rather loath to let the promise of our future die just to maintain our lives. Moreover, we’ve realised that we might need more than just an army to affix that bastard Thorgoth’s attention on Kairon-Aoun and blind him to the wider strategic scale.
I’m afraid we lied about our plan to most of our closest confidantes and allies. We needed to threaten Thorgoth and yet promise him a decisive victory.
So first, our spies spread false information about two “Cursed Swords” to Thorgoth’s contacts. The swords themselves are quite good, but other than being somewhat of an inconvenience to mages up close, are only moderately threatening. However, it gave Thorgoth the idea that we were taking such efforts to develop a weapon in secret that whatever we had might actually hurt him, which lured him to attack our army.
The carrot was our deaths. We didn’t want to resort to it unnecessarily, but the report of General Helias’s suspicions indicated to us that while Thorgoth and Berengaria remained oblivious, his subordinates suspected something was afoot. We decided that warranted or not, we had to put our lives on the line. If we managed to kill Thorgoth, then all the better, but if we failed, it would ensure final victory.
This is because while you were aware that we planned for Queen Titania to reinforce the human armies at Kairon-Aoun in the last stages of the battle, we obfuscated one rather significant detail. How large and in what fashion should the reinforcements arrive.
Queen Titania has been assembling troops and supplies in secret even before Thorgoth moved to Kairon-Aoun. She managed this due to her forces reopening the Thornspear tunnel shortly after the Alavaria Academy for Magic was liberated from his grip. Originally this was intended to provide a secondary route to Minairen, but after news of the dragons and with promising news on the siege of Erisdale, we came up with a scheme with her and General Antigones.
Through using the Thornspear tunnel, Titania’s been amassing a massive army ready to move in and ambush King Thorgoth the moment he and his army are too weak to escape. They’ve included her best cavalry and the elite troops that hadn’t scattered when the dragons took flight to scour her lands. More troops were then funnelled and secreted to the tunnel. We expect her army to reach fifteen thousand soldiers.
Of course, the problem is that our intelligence estimates Thorgoth’s remaining soldiers to be about thirty to forty-thousand and he can draw upon reinforcements from Minairen and his kingdom’s garrisons if he strips them. We can match his numbers, even exceed them if we bring Janize’s forces to our cause. If Thorgoth knew that, though, he wouldn’t take that battle. No, we needed to bait him into a battle he cannot escape from and destroy his last army and with it, what support the Kingdom of Alavaria is likely to afford him.
That meant our only option was to use our available forces to exhaust his army at Kairon-Aoun and to make him think he was preventing a threat to his life with the “Cursed Swords.” Then, after we make him think he’s on the verge of victory, we collapse on him not just with Erisdale, Lapanteria and Erlenberg’s last remaining troops, but with Alavaria’s.
Assuming we’ve managed to bleed Thorgoth’s army at Kairon-Aoun, even if the Demon King is as strong as he seems, he probably is going to find it difficult to hold off not just the Lightning Battalion, but the rest of Queen Titania’s troops.
Could he escape? Could he run away? Indeed he may, but you can’t teleport an army away. At the very least, we believe that this battle at Kairon-Aoun will have decimated Thorgoth’s last army and dealt him such a crushing defeat that his own populace would no longer defend him.
In any case, we are certain the Demon King is finished. He may escape, but if he is to preserve his support, he must fight us and it will be a matter of time before his followers will realize that even if Thorgoth cannot be killed, they can.
Thank you, everybody for believing in all that is good and righteous in this world. We pass this last hope to you all.
For Erisdale. For Lapanteria. For Erlenberg. For Alavaria. For Durannon, and for our friends.
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When the allies called Titania, it was only the queen’s tired face appeared in the mirror. She was in full armour and in some kind of command tent. As she noted those calling her, she dipped her head.
“King—”
“The coronation hasn’t happened, though we will get to it quickly,” said Martin. Sitting down, he laced his fingers together. “How many troops did you bring?”
Titania flashed the humans a savage grin. “Sixteen thousand, with a strong core of veterans. We’re setting up defenses as we speak to prevent Thorgoth from escaping. When will your forces be ready to attack him?”
Ginger sat down beside her husband. “We just arrived and haven’t made our own assessment. Then again—” she pursed her lips and faced King Sebastian and Alexander “—Sebastian, Alexander, can you start or assign someone to coordinate with my deputy Helen to find places for our newly arrived cannon? We need to set up for an opening barrage at the very least.”
“With pleasure,” said Alexander, briefly exchanging a smile with Ayax.
“That works,” said Sebastian.
Martin drummed his fingers on the table. “I’m surprised that you kept King Jerome and Queen Forowena’s plans so secret for so long.”
“They had a fantastic plan.” Titania’s smile lessened, her lips curling inward. “My condolences for the loss of your monarchs, but they have essentially won us the war.”
Martin nodded, suppressing his sigh. “I understand, we appreciate the assistance and will call you to confirm the details of our attack.”
“I’ll look forward to it and brother?” Timur grimaced meeting Titania’s eye. “I’m sorry I had to leave you in the dark. The surprise had to be absolute. We needed to make sure that my armies and forces vanished from Thorgoth’s attention.”
The princes nodded. “I understand I…I’m just not happy about it. I am glad to see you, though.”
Titania smiled and waved. “I have to go, Thorgoth will be, or is already launching probing attacks. I need to attend to them.” With that the Queen of Alavaria ended her call and left the humans and their allies in silence.
Frances, who’d been holding onto Timur’s hand during the call, finally let go. “Martin, Ginger, with your permission—”
“Frances, go and take Timur with you,” said Ginger.
She hesitated, but Ginger flashed a smile, as did Martin. “We’ll talk later,” said the knight.
“Thank you.” Letting her feet carry her from the meeting, Frances strode on through the halls. She could hear Timur following her with his far longer strides and found herself glad of that fact.
“Thanks for coming with me,” said Frances. She came to a stop and turned around to smile at her fiance.
Timur let out a bit of a sigh as a grin returned to his face. Lifting his arms, he gestured with his hands. “Need a hug?”
Frances, shaking her head, walked to her fiance and buried herself in his embrace. “I don’t deserve you.”
“It’s not about deserve, as you’ve reminded me,” said Timur.
Frances giggled. “You’ve also reminded me of that too. Thank you.”
“You’re welcome.” Timur loosened his embrace, allowing Frances to meet his eyes. “So, tell me, what’s bothering you?”
“I…I miss them, Timur. Forowena, Ulric and Jerome. I wish they didn’t have to do this.” She wiped her eyes. “I must admit I’m a little angry at them as well for keeping me unaware.”
“You did sense they were up to something, didn’t you?” Timur asked.
“I did, but I wasn’t sure. Or maybe I didn’t want to realise it.” Frances winced. No, she knew it was the latter. She had known that Jerome and Forowena were planning to put their lives in the line of fire. She had dreaded it but she just hadn’t the words to confront them properly. “I guess I’m a little scared, not because of what’s to come. I’m just scared that they and so many others could do that for me, and for us all.”
The bubbling roil that were Frances’s emotions wanted nothing to do but spill out. Only her prince’s soft touch against her cheek kept it in check. For that, she could never be more grateful.
“You know we wouldn’t hesitate to sacrifice ourselves for our friends. Does that scare you?” Timur whispered.
Frances winced. “Kind of? Much less than thinking of what you would do to keep me safe.”
“I’m flattered.”
“Timur!” Frances exclaimed, unable to help but match the trogre’s teasing smile.
“Sorry.” Her prince brushed his lips against her forehead. “I know what you mean dear. You showed me what you would do for me when you went into Minairen. Yes I know that was partly Morgan and Hattie’s fault, but you followed them.”
“You’re right,” said Frances, nodding.
“So what are you worried about?” Timur asked.
“Aside from that?” Frances’s voice trailed off. What was she worrying about? She let out a small exhale. Her muscles were tensed, and she felt like her nerves had been twirled and bundled up by a fork. Yet, the anxiety and the weight on the shoulders was passing.
“Nothing. Just the battle in general I think,” she murmured. Her heart still ached for Ulric and her friends, but it was a steady, constant ache. She wasn’t bothered by it. She wasn’t sure why she felt alright, but she knew who was partially responsible.
Raising herself up on the tip of her toes, she kissed her fiance on the lips. “Thank you, Timur.”
Timur, slightly flushed, chuckled. “Glad I could help.”
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“Has anybody ever done a battlefield coronation?” Martin muttered to himself as he thumbed through a book on Erisdalian court etiquette. Across from him, Ginger and Nicole were going back on outfits. Other staff officers as well as nobles were racing around, trying to be helpful and delivering reports of all kinds.
Mara, Martin’s older sister, nudged him, almost making him drop the book.
“Mara!”
The taller Erisdalian smirked at the former knight, before gently squeezing his shoulder. “Brother, you don’t need to start your reign trying to mimic tradition. Just do what feels right.”
Martin shook his head, but it did nothing to clear his thoughts. “I know, but I feel like I should set an example.”
“Martin, you’re the Hero of Erisdale. You have already set an example for the normal, the common people who don’t have the advantages of the Otherworlders or mages. Listen to your gut and your friends.” She glanced up, and Martin followed his sister’s gaze to see Elizabeth and Ayax arriving. “I’ll inspect the troops and get them ready for the plan. Checkerboard formation right?”
Martin opened his mouth, only for him to immediately press a finger to his lips. “Salvo pike.”
Mara blinked. “Sorry?”
“See if we have any lighter cannon pieces. We aren’t going to have much room to maneuvre and neither will they. We’ll still use our typical checkerboard formation with pikemen flanked by musketeers, but this time we’re adding cannons to our front ranks.”
“I think I see what you mean. I’ll see what I can do.” Mara patted her brother on the shoulder and took off. Martin watched her leave, and smiled as Frances entered the meeting room, a smile also on her face.
“Martin!” Almost leaping to his feet, Martin ran to meet Frances’s sprint. The pair ran into each other, arm’s almost tangled together.
“It’s been too long,” said the knight.
“I know, brother. I’m sorry this hasn’t been in a better time,” said Frances. Martin flushed a little, and patted Frances’s head, making her pout for a second before she giggled.
“Didn’t we just see each other not too long ago?” Ginger asked, sauntering over. However, when Frances let go and reached out she was quickly embraced by the crimson haired woman. “Then again, work before wasting time eh?”
“Talking and just spending time with you will never be a waste of time,” said Frances, patting her friend’s back. “How has it been? I heard the siege was brutal.”
“Not as hard as you’ve been having it here. Being nominated heir, though…” One edge of Martin’s lips twisted up. “You should have told us.”
Frances chuckled, scratching the back of her head. “I’m sorry. I just…I think you would do good.”
Ginger rolled her eyes and ruffled her shorter friend’s hair. “We know and for what it’s worth, I think we’ve agree with you now.”
“I’m glad,” said Frances. She glanced between the couple. “You’re going to do great.”
“Assuming we win this,” Martin muttered.
“Frances!”
Frances turned around and bolted, dodging staff and other officers to run toward her best friend. Elizabeth, eyes moist, practically swept her friend off the ground as they embraced, giggling.
“I missed so much! You got engaged!”
“I know! I can’t believe I proposed!”
“I knew you would! I’m so happy for you!”
“Thank you, Liz. Thank you so much. Will you be my bridesmaid?”
“Like anybody would dare to stop me!”
Still trying to stifle giggles and ignoring the glances of the others in the room, Frances let go of her friend and drew her troll cousin into a hug.
“Hey Ayax.”
A wan smile gracing her lips, Ayax squeezed Frances tight. “Hey cuz. It’s done.”
Frances nodded. “I heard Elizabeth did him in.”
Ayax nodded, her tail curved up behind her, held quite still. “Yes. Is it weird that I’m just glad it’s over and we can start really living?”
Studying the troll’s bemused expression, Frances shook her head. “No. I think it’s more than natural. You hated the idea that your parents killer was still out there, but you wanted him out of your thoughts.”
“Exactly.” Ayax pulled Frances close in again, giving her one last squeeze. “Thank you, Frances. I’m really lucky to have you for family.”
“Me too.” Letting go the cousins turned back to their little group of five best friends. All a little older, all a bit changed, and yet, alive and well.
That very fact brought tears to Frances’s eyes. She wiped them away, but she couldn’t banish her smile.
“Where’s your fiance?” Ginger asked.
Frances chuckled. “He’s hanging out with Aloudin, Olgakaren and Epomonia. I’m not sure what they’re doing exactly. I suspect he will be out late.”
“We should take this opportunity to catch up,” said Elizabeth.
Martin winced. “I’d love to, but we’re a bit busy—”
Ayax tapped Martin’s shoulder with her tail, making him blink. “No buts, Martin. You need help with your coronation right?”
The knight nodded. “Yes, but—Pardon, oh. Oh wait, you can help with it. Are you sure, though?”
Frances arched an eyebrow. “I mean, why wouldn’t we help you?”
“That is a good point. Besides, we have some ideas we’d like to throw around,” said Ginger. She patted her buff leather coat, typical of a cavalry officer and grimaced. “I want to wear something a little more you know, regal, or feminine but something appropriately military. This doesn’t cut it. I was wondering what were your ideas, Frances.”
“I have a few. I might need some help from you Ayax with the needlework, though,” said Frances.
Ayax shrugged. “Sure thing, but let’s get going to somewhere more quiet. Reconvene somewhere else with everything we need.”
“I got the drinks!” Ginger exclaimed.
Frances raised her hand. “I got the food!”
Ayax grinned. “I’ll grab the material we need to plan things along with clothing samples.”
“I pick the top of that small round tower at the corner of the courtyard, which I’ll ensure is clear,” said Martin, raising his hand.
Elizabeth put her hand in the centre of the circle. “And I pick the time of in an hour. I’ll clear your schedules Martin, Ginger.”
“Oh thank Amura and Rathon for that,” Martin muttered, smiling with relief. As one, the other four placed their hands on top of Elizabeth’s. With a cheer, they raised their arms as one and split off.
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Frances didn’t have time to make something too fancy. Instead she opted for comfort food. Roast chicken with lemon seasoning, a vegetable stir fry, fried rice with sausage, and dale-brick fries with gravy and cheese curds to mimic a poutine.
She knew she was running late as she carried two baskets of food in her arms, but she was sure her friends would forgive her once she showed up with this feast.
With the smells of her labours wafting behind her, Frances strolled down through the courtyard gallery to the tower they planned to meet. She could see two women in the distance walking together, talking quietly as they did so.
One was in Lightning Battalion blue velvet and the other was also in a matching uniform, but it was far more ill fitting. Frances could tell by how she scratched and kept adjusting it with bandaged hands.
Before she knew why, Frances found herself slowing down. She wasn’t sure why, but it felt necessary.
Then it clicked as she saw the pair turn from their conversation to face her. Her breath stopped as she saw the scar across the blonde woman’s face and recognized the now haggard features of her darker-skinned companion.
“Oh, hello Frances,” said Jessica, waving a hand.
Frances managed a smile. “Hello, Jessica.” She had not talked to her former bully much aside from during war missions. She preferred to let Martin and Ginger talk to Jessica, and they apparently got along quite well with the blonde. Even so, she had heard of Jessica’s heroics and her continued good service as part of the Lightning Battalion. She had been even told that her former bully had befriended a now married pair of battalion soldiers.
No, Frances’s stillness was caused precisely by one woman, who stood beside Jessica, trying her best to keep her eyes up. Leila’s gaze however, continued to fall to the ground as she hid her bandaged hands behind her back.
“Hi, Frances.”
Author's Note: OOOOH And Leila and Jessica meet Frances agiain! :D
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Although my Episode 2 REDONE is probably the one I am most proud of since it is the one that's the most different from the movie and has the most original content, I think it is the weakest one out of my REDONE installments.
I have talked about the dislike of my Anakin-Padme relationship and how I will change in the later revision, but I think the bigger problem is that Anakin doesn't really have an arc in The Path to Destruction.
It is the story that is meant to have the most character growth for Anakin, and he is basically the same person from the beginning to the end. Yes, he says he is conflicted about the Jedi dogma, and in the end, he violates them by slaying the Separatist scientists. In the action, he is the same person who would make the same choices even in the beginning of the story.
In the story, Anakin meets the Nelvaanian tribe, and he immediately says he will be their Holt Kazed--their savior. On the contrary, Padme is the one who is more "straight to the mission" type and tries to make him not take their job. Anakin doesn't hesitate to save the Nelvaanians and diverge from the mission, which makes this part of his character to be flat.
Another thing this does is make Padme unlikeable. She is positioned in a place where she convinces Anakin to go out of the Jedi doctrine. She argues the galaxy needs a more direct rule and tells Anakin that the Jedi's obsession with the dogma and rules sucks and maybe he doesn't have to follow the strict rules to save people... but no, just ignore the Nelvaanians. They don't matter.
It also continues REDONE Padme's character introduced in the new revision of Ep1 REDONE. REDONE Padme is empathetic. She is shocked by the slavery. She solves the "specism" problem with the Gungans. She is kind to the natives like Anakin. Her character arc in Ep1 was from being a bigot stuck in the Aldermanian worldview to someone who witnessed the reality of the Outer Rim and began to understand the "outsiders". Which would be strange if Ep2 REDONE reverts her to a bigot again.
So here is the alternative arc for Anakin:
It would have made more sense if Obi-Wan/Mace Windu says, “Do not attract any attention. Do absolutely nothing out of the mission without checking in with your Master or the Council.” Anakin is still struggling and wants to be up to the standard the Jedi Order wants, so he refuses to go against that directive: stick to the mission, don't diverge, like how the Jedi ignored the slavery on Tatooine with their institutionalism. Anakin tries to bury his slave background, which is more reason for him to ignore the Nelvaanians. By doing so, he hesitates to help the Nelvaanians, thus going against his conscience. The Jedi also view the other followers of the Force to be a heresy. Anakin is the Jedi Knight, not some tribal warrior.
However, with what happened to her homeplanet, Padme is the one empathetic toward the Nelvaanians and pushes Anakin to "be free" to do what he wants. This was also set up in the recent revision to Episode 1 REDONE revision with Padme being frustrated with the Jedi and the Senate's inaction toward the slave trading. She asks Anakin if Nelliht just stuck to the Jedi rule and not recruited Anakin, he wouldn't even be a Jedi in the first place.
In the fireplace scene, it should be Padme telling the tribespeople Anakin is the Holt Kazed. Anakin is sort of forced to be the tribe's warrior by Padme. It is an inverse of the dynamics in 1 where Anakin is more of a fun-loving type and makes an idealized Padme view the reality of the Outer Rim Territories, which changed Padme to be the way she is in Episode 2 REDONE.
So Anakin unwillingly goes on the journey to Holt Kazed. However, as he goes on, Anakin looks at the suffering of the Nelvaanians (the bio experiment by the Separatists) and gradually becomes a willing Holt Kazed. By doing so, he goes through a character arc from a Padawan who is struggling to be an ideal Jedi (want) into someone who realizes he needs to abandon the Jedi Code to be a "savior" (need).
It also mirrors how Lady Jessica pushed an unwilling Paul Atredies to be the Fremen's Lisan al Gaib in Dune. Lucas pretty obviously intended to do a homage to Dune in Anakin's characterization in the Prequels, so this new character arc deepens that connection.
I think this is a more coherent character arc for Anakin than the disjointed one from the previous Episode 2 REDONE. What do you think?

Rhod Gilbert is joined by guests Jessica Knappett, Katherine Ryan and Gok Wan to roll back the clock. What will they learn about each other - and who will be the most embarrassed?

• Series 5 returns on Monday 22nd April on Comedy Central at 9pm https://www.comedy.co.uk/tv/rhod-gilbert-growing-pains/episodes/5/7/

What if The Prequel Trilogy should've started in 1977?
Episode I - The Phantom Menace (1977):
Sean Connery as Qui-Gon Jinn
Gabriel Byrne as Obi-Wan Kenobi
Nastassja Kinski as Queen Padmé Amidala (Age 14)
Ricky Schroder as Anakin Skywalker (Age 9)
Diana Rigg as Shmi Skywalker
Richard Burton as Senator Sheev Palpatine
Donald Pleasence as Sio Bibble
Greg Morris as Captain Quarsh Panaka
Richard Norton as Darth Maul
-Bill Nighy as the voice of Darth Maul
T.K. Carter as Jar Jar Binks
Eric Sykes as C-3PO
Billy Barty as R2-D2
Melissa Gilbert as Sabé
Louis Gossett Jr. as Mace Windu (Special Appearance)
Rutger Hauer as Nute Gunray/Ki-Adi-Mundi (Dual-Role)
Christopher Hewett as Chancellor Finis Valorum
Frank Oz as Yoda
Director: George Lucas
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Episode II - Attack of the Clones (1982):
Gabriel Byrne as Obi-Wan Kenobi
Nastassja Kinski as Padmé Amidala (Age 24)
Johnny Depp as Anakin Skywalker (Age 19)
Diana Rigg as Shmi Skywalker Lars
Richard Burton as Supreme Chancellor Sheev Palpatine/Darth Sidious
T.K. Carter as Jar Jar Binks
Scott Glenn as Jango Fett
Donald Pleasence as Sio Bibble
Eric Sykes as C-3PO
Billy Barty as R2-D2
Rutger Hauer as Nute Gunray/Ki-Adi-Mundi (Dual-Role)
Henry Thomas as Young Boba Fett
Burt Reynolds as Bail Organa (Special Appearance)
Louis Gossett Jr. as Mace Windu
John Gielgud as Count Dooku/Darth Tyranus
Frank Oz as Yoda
Director: George Lucas
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Episode III - Revenge of the Sith (1985):
Gabriel Byrne as Obi-Wan Kenobi
Nastassja Kinski as Padmé Amidala-Skywalker
Johnny Depp as Anakin SkywalkeDarth Vader
Richard Burton as Supreme Chancellor Sheev Palpatine/Darth Sidious (and now Emperor Sheev Palpatine)
Burt Reynolds as Bail Organa
Richard Kiel as Chewbacca
T.K. Carter as Jar Jar Binks
Donald Pleasence as Governor Sio Bibble
Scott Glenn as Commander Cody
Eric Sykes as C-3PO
Billy Barty as R2-D2
Louis Gossett Jr. as Mace Windu
John Gielgud as Count Dooku/Darth Tyranus
Frank Oz as Yoda
Delroy Lindo as the voice of Darth Vader
-David Prowse as Darth Vader
Director: George Lucas
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Bonus (Before The Original Trilogy):
Solo: A Star Wars Story (1992):
Matt Damon as Han Solo (Age 22)
Robert Redford as Tobias Beckett
Gabrielle Anwar as Qi'ra
Will Smith as Lando Calrissian (Age 21)
Pam Grier as Val Beckett
Emma Thompson as the voice of L3-37
Maureen O'Hara as the voice Lady Proxima
Brian Dennehy as the voice Rio Durant
Jada Pinkett Smith as Enfys Nest
Richard Norton as Darth Maul
-Bill Nighy as the voice of Darth Maul
Richard Kiel as Chewbacca
Alan Rickman as Dryden Vos
Director: George Lucas
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Rogue One: A Star Wars Story (1995):
Kate Beckinsale as Jyn Erso
Antonio Banderas as Cassian Andor
Jeremy Irons as Orson Krennic
Sonny Chiba as Chirrut Îmwe
Timothy Dalton as Galen Erso
Rik Mayall as the voice of K-2SO
Aasif Mandvi as Bodhi Rook
Burt Reynolds as Bail Organa
Jane Seymour as Mon Mothma
Delroy Lindo as the voice of Darth Vader
-David Prowse as Darth Vader
Lee Evans as C-3PO (Recast)
Tony Cox as R2-D2 (Recast)
Sab Shimono as Baze Malbus
Richard Roundtree as Saw Gerrera
Director: George Lucas
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What if The Original Trilogy should've started in 1997?
Episode IV - A New Hope (1997):
Tobey Maguire as Luke Skywalker
Brad Pitt as Han Solo
Milla Jovovich as Princess Leia Organa
Michael Caine as Grand Moff Tarkin
Lee Evans as C-3PO (Recast)
Tony Cox as R2-D2 (Recast)
Kevin Nash as Chewbacca (Recast)
Michael J. Anderson as Chief Jawa
Peter O'Toole as General Vanden Willard
Albert Finney as Uncle Owen Lars
Julie Andrews as Aunt Beru Lars
Cole Hauser as Wedge Antilles
Casey Affleck as Biggs Darklighter
Terence Stamp as Obi-Wan Kenobi (aka Ben Kenobi; Age 57) (Recast)
Delroy Lindo as the voice of Darth Vader
-David Prowse as Darth Vader
Director: George Lucas
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Episode V - The Empire Strikes Back (2000):
Tobey Maguire as Luke Skywalker
Brad Pitt as Han Solo
Milla Jovovich as Princess Leia Organa
Laurence Fishburne as Lando Calrissian
Lee Evans as C-3PO
Tony Cox as R2-D2
Kevin Nash as Chewbacca
Temuera Morrison as Boba Fett
Pete Postlethwaite as Lobot
William Hurt as General Rieekan
Cole Hauser as Wedge Antilles
John C. Reilly as Major Derlin
Timothy Spall as Admiral Piett
Charles Shaughnessy as Admiral Ozzel
Kevin McNally as General Veers
Sean Bean as Captain Needa
Terence Stamp as Obi-Wan Kenobi (aka Ben Kenobi)
Frank Oz as Yoda (Visual Effect/CGI)
Delroy Lindo as the voice of Darth Vader
-David Prowse as Darth Vader
Director: George Lucas
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Episode VI - Return of the Jedi (2003):
Tobey Maguire as Luke Skywalker
Brad Pitt as Han Solo
Milla Jovovich as Princess Leia Organa
Laurence Fishburne as Lando Calrissian
Lee Evans as C-3PO
Tony Cox as R2-D2
Kevin Nash as Chewbacca
Christopher Plummer as Emperor Sheev Palpatine/Darth Sidious (Recast)
Temuera Morrison as Boba Fett
Mikey Post as Wicket W. Warrick (Visual Effect/CGI)
Jane Seymour as Mon Mothma
Robbie Coltrane as Jabba the Hutt (Visual Effect/CGI)
Ernie Hudson as Admiral Gial Ackbar (Visual Effect/CGI)
Chiwetel Ejiofor as Nien Nunb (Visual Effect/CGI)
Terence Stamp as Obi-Wan Kenobi (aka Ben Kenobi)
Frank Oz as Yoda (Visual Effect/CGI)
Delroy Lindo as the voice of Darth Vader
-David Prowse as Darth Vader
Bryan Cranston as Anakin Skywalker (Special Appearance; Age 45)
-Johnny Depp as Anakin Skywalker (Force Ghost (Aged 22); Cameo)
Director: George Lucas
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What if The Sequel Trilogy should've started in 2017?
Episode VII - The Force Awakens (2017):
Kurt Russell as Han Solo (Age 66)
Tom Cruise as Luke Skywalker (Age 53)
Demi Moore as General Leia Organa (Age 53)
Nicholas Hoult as Ben Solo/Kylo Ren
Florence Pugh as Rey Skywalker
Damson Idris as Finn
Gabriel Luna as Poe Dameron
Jodie Turner-Smith as Maz Kanata
Tom Hollander as Supreme Leader Snoke (Visual Effect/CGI)
Ben Barnes as General Hux
Lee Evans as C-3PO
Tony Cox as R2-D2
Joonas Suotamo as Chewbacca (Recast)
Kristanna Loken as Captain Phasma
Lee Byung-hun as Admiral Ushos O. Statura
Nick Offerman as Temmin "Snap" Wexler
Max von Sydow as Lor San Tekka
Director: George Lucas
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Episode VIII - The Last Jedi (2021):
Tom Cruise as Luke Skywalker
Demi Moore as General Leia Organa
Nicholas Hoult as Ben Solo/Kylo Ren
Florence Pugh as Rey Skywalker
Damson Idris as Finn
Gabriel Luna as Poe Dameron
Tom Hollander as Supreme Leader Snoke (Visual Effect/CGI)
Jodie Turner-Smith as Maz Kanata
Ben Barnes as General Hux
Joonas Suotamo as Chewbacca
Lee Evans as C-3PO
Tony Cox as R2-D2
Kristanna Loken as Captain Phasma
Jessica Henwick as Rose Tico
Anya Taylor-Joy as Lieutenant Connix
Nicole Kidman as Vice-Admiral Amilyn Holdo
Frank Oz as Yoda (Visual Effect/CGI)
Javier Bardem as DJ
Director: George Lucas
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Episode IX - The Rise of Skywalker (2024):
Demi Moore as General Leia Organa
Tom Cruise as Luke Skywalker
Nicholas Hoult as Ben Solo/Kylo Ren
Florence Pugh as Rey Skywalker
Damson Idris as Finn
Gabriel Luna as Poe Dameron
Lee Evans as C-3PO
Tony Cox as R2-D2
Joonas Suotamo as Chewbacca
Coco Jones as Jannah
Ben Barnes as General Hux
Jason Isaacs as Allegiant General Pryde
Jodie Turner-Smith as Maz Kanata
Natalie Portman as Zorii Bliss
Jessica Henwick as Rose Tico
Anya Taylor-Joy as Lieutenant Connix/Young Princess Leia (Dual-Role)
Nick Offerman as Temmin "Snap" Wexler
Minnie Driver as the voice Babu Frik
Aidan Turner as Beaumont Kin
Stephen Rea as Emperor Sheev Palpatine/Darth Sidious (Recast)
Samuel L. Jackson as Lando Calrissian (Age 65)
Kurt Russell as Han Solo (Special Appearance)
Director: George Lucas

Shows I've watched:

1. Hannibal -
2. Stranger things -
3. Money Heist -
4. Chernobyl -
5. Sherlock -
6. Breaking Bad -
7. Friends - -
8. Prison Break
9. Mindhunter -
10. Dark -
11. Rick and Morty
12. Black Mirror -
13. Peaky blinders
14. The Big Bang Theory - -
15. Schitt's Creek
16. Broadchurch
17. Luther -
18. Suits
19. Mr. Robot
20. Game of thrones -

2021

1. The Boys -
2. Young Sheldon -
3. WandaVision -
4. The Night Of -
5. Two and a half men
6. The Falcon and the Winter Soldier -
7. The Office -
8. After Life -
9. Twin peaks
10. Brooklyn Nine-Nine -
11. Daredevil -
12. Jessica Jones
13. The Defenders -
14. The Punisher
15. Loki -
16. Westworld
17. BoJack Horseman -
18. Sharp Objects -
19. When They See Us -
20. Silicon Valley -
21. Arrested Development
22. The Fall -
23. Inside No. 9
24. Modern Family -
25. What If...?
26. Trapped
27. Criminal: UK, Criminal: France -
28. Catastrophe -
29. Squid Game -
30. Only Murders in the Building -
31. Community -
32. The Mandalorian
33. Better Call Saul -
34. Parks and Recreation -
35. Hawkeye -
36. The Witcher -

2022

1. True Detective
2. Ted Lasso -
3. Veep -
4. The Book of Boba Fett -
5. Peacemaker -
6. House
7. Moon Knight -
8. Euphoria
9. Severance -
10. HIMYM -
11. Obi-Wan Kenobi -
12. Ms. Marvel -
13. The IT Crowd -
14. Invincible
15. Barry -
16. Atlanta
17. Upload -
18. She-Hulk: Attorney at Law -
19. House of the Dragon -
20. The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power -
21. The Tick -
22. Succession -
23. Mrs. Fletcher -

2023

1. The White Lotus -
2. The Bear
3. The Patient -
4. The Last of Us
5. Dahmer - Monster: The Jeffrey Dahmer Story -
6. Jury Duty -
7. Chuck
8. Devs -
9. What We Do in the Shadows -

My top 10 shows in no particular order: Hannibal, Mindhunter, Dark, Black Mirror, Silicon Valley, Daredevil, Bojack Horseman, The Fall, Veep, Succession.

I have a motor that I am driving forward and reverse and have installed a brake for holding and positioning a load.
The brake is functioning properly as is 5e motor. However, they are out of sync. The brake releases slightly after the motor starts, causing the shaft to spin with the brake collar’s set screws engaged for a brief moment.
Attached is a sketch of how I have this wired up, and a screenshot of the buck converter I am using.
What is the easiest way I can make the motor and brake sync up properly? Have mercy! I am an amateur.

Note: My analysis and review for Season One, Episode Two... => https://www.reddit.com/camphalfblood/comments/18phpjf/pjotv_my_analysis_and_review_for_season_one/ and https://www.reddit.com/PercyJacksonTV/comments/18pho40/pjotv_my_analysis_and_review_for_season_one/
Positives:

• I love the fact that Percy was the first one to speak during the attic scene with The Oracle by just casually introducing himself to The Oracle and calling her a Halloween decoration, even though in the original book Percy wasn't the first to speak in the original book, because this is just such a Percy thing to say and do and I just love it lol.
• The Oracle of Delphi / Pythia looks book accurate in that she looks like a spooky and creepy desiccated mummy. Also, Percy's reaction of "Oh, geez." and "You seem busy. I'll come back." when the Oracle moved and started groaning was a good reaction lol. Also, the green smoke that came out of the Oracle's mouth looked magnificent as well.
• I think Grover felt more like Grover in this episode. Especially at the end, when he kind of loses his patience and loses his cool. I literally don't understand anyone who says that Aryan Simhadri acting / performance as Grover is bad. In my opinion, Aryan was the best casted out of the trio because he not only has Grover's personality down, but he also even looks just like how I'd imagine Grover looked like in the book. Also, Percy's smile when Grover said, “I’m gonna pack the best snacks,” was adorable.
• Percy's "I think they're Canadian, maybe? Or from Chuck E. Cheese, I don't know," was a really funny added snarky line that wasn't in the original book, but still feels like it came straight from the original book.
• The CGI for the way the wing came out of the flying shoe was magnificent. I always pictured little wings sprounting out of the heels of the shoes, but instead the TV series has the shoe's laces intertwining to create a beautiful wing and it just looks so clean and so freaking great and it's very creative visually.
• Luke's final line that he gave to Percy where he said, "Just take care of each other out there," was really sweet and heartwarming and even better than his final line in the original book that he gave to Percy before Percy left Camp Half-Blood with Grover and Annabeth to embark on the quest where Luke said, "“Listen, Percy . . .” Luke looked uncomfortable. “A lot of hopes are riding on you. So just . . . kill some monsters for me, okay?”"
• I loved the added scene of Annabeth looking up at and touching Thalia's pine tree before they left Camp Half-Blood and also Grover subtly bowing his head because it's a beautiful moment that wasn't in the original book at all. Also, Percy's added snarky "She's really gonna to miss that tree, huh?" 😂😂😂
• Percy's line of "The most powerful being in the universe's best idea to save his daughter's life... was to turn her into a tree?", fits Percy's character perfect as someone who constantly stands up to the gods and holds them to account.
• Also, I love these little added moments of Percy just calling shit out with the crappy way the gods treat their kids. “She met a pinecone's fate,” is such a tone deaf (...and really funny lol...) thing to say, and yet something I can definitely hear another certain character saying the exact same thing or at least expressing the exact same sentiment... I like how the TV series is nailing how jaded Percy already feels and how close he could be to turning, it's going to make another certain character being his foil hit so much more harder than it did in the original book because Percy's "She met a pinecone's fate" line is lowkey true, and Percy is right to be calling the gods out.
• Grover's bit of exposition where he says, "Hero's quests are world-defining events. They have made and broken empires... altered the course of human civilization... changed the balance of power on Olympus. A quest is a sacred thing. And to be charged with one is to be in conversation with the gods themselves." was really interesting and it was added dialouge that wasn't in the orginal book. Also, I love how they cleverly showed the Empire State Building in the reflection of a Taxi window when Grover said, "changed the balance of power on Olympus."
• Annabeth being this stoic arrogant soldier type saying, "We're soldiers on a mission. It's not a vacation," when starting off on this quest is really great and it will make Percy, Grover, and Annabeth coming together as a trio so much more satisfying when Annabeth's character develops in the TV series and she fully opens up at the end of the quest with her walls slowly starting to come down throughout the entire quest.
• Percy and Annabeth arguing with each other on the bus was really great banter between the two of them with Percy going, "I wanna vote. Who thinks that we should all go get to breathe fresh air and buy our own snacks?", and Annabeth telling him, "There's no voting. Chips and sodas okay for you guys?", and Percy challenging her by saying, "I don't think you should just get to decide we don't vote," and Annabeth just going, "I'm sorry to hear that," and Percy continuing by saying, "Okay. I wanna vote on whether you get to decide we don't vote." It's just so authentic with 12 year olds acting like and sounding like and being 12 year olds which I love to see.
• Percy looking depressed and defeated and just going, "Our voting system's broken," was absolutely brilliant. Like every single added snarky line they gave Percy so far that wasn't in the original book still feels like it came straight from the original book which is just great.
• The way the TV series showed Annabeth being able to sense and spot the Furies immediately while she was out buying snacks was a nice touch considering the fact that Annabeth does have prior experience being on the run from monsters.
• Grover's bit of added exposition where he tells Percy that, "Monsters can't be avoided entirely. They're more common than you think. The trick is to spot them first before they spot you. It's true they are more likely to sense a more powerful demigod. A child of the Big Three, Zeus, Poseidon, and Hades, is at the most extreme risk. But it isn't your power, exactly, that draws them. It's more complicated than that," and Percy going, "They smell fear," and Grover telling him, "That's bees. What a monster senses kinda depends on the monster. Some are better at sensing your inadequacy. Some, your need for glory, your shame. It's important to remember that if you've ever gotta confront one... wherever your armor is weakest, that monster's probably coming right for it. Nothing will stop them, not even death," was really interesting and it's added dialogue that wasn't in the original book.
• I actually really like the new added element of Mrs. Dodds / Alecto being one of the monsters that went after Annabeth, Thalia, and Luke when Thalia sacrificed herself all those years ago on Half-Blood Hill and taunting Annabeth about it.
• I love the set design for Aunty Em's Garden Gnome Emporium. It adds up to book's description of the site having a closed-down gas station and the site being surrounded by acres of statuary.
• I didn't really know that the TV series was going to make Medusa more of a sympathetic character until I read about it somewhere online and I was a bit skeptical about how the TV series was going to be able to do that in an interesting and successful way, but the TV series definitely made an improvement over the original book with this change of making Medusa more of a victimized character rather than a monster. Also, considering the fact that there wasn't much screentime, Jessica Parker Kennedy still gave a terrific and magnificent performance as Medusa, especially when she gets emotional while telling her story at the dinner table.
• The CGI for Medusa's head of snakes doesn't look fake at all and actually looks pretty good.
• Also, it was a really cool and interesting missable detail with how Medusa manipulated the trio by only having the monster statues outside, but the statues of innocent people hidden away in her dark lair in the basement...
• Percy actually using Medusa’s decapitated head to turn Alecto into stone just like how his namesake, Perseus, used Medusa’s decapitated head to petrify the Kraken, causing it to crumble to pieces, was such a cool heroic moment to see and to have Annabeth watch because in the original book Percy doesn't use Medusa’s decapitated head at all to petrify anything.
• I also really liked how Grover actually showed way more emotion for dead Uncle Ferdinand, which I didn’t really feel in the original book.
• The song choice for the end credits sequence for episode three was brilliant and really fits with what Percy did at the end of episode three with Percy doing "what he pleases" and "deep in his heart he's just a boy" and "livin' his life one day at a time" and "showing himself a really good time" and "laughin' about the way they want him to be".

Issues:

• The Oracle of Delphi / Pythia does take the form of Percy’s step-dad, Smelly Gabe (played by Timm Sharp), in the original book which I actually went back to check in chapter nine of the original book because I honestly completely forgot about this detail lol (Note: In fact, in the original book it isn't just Smelly Gabe that shows up to fortell the prophecy to Percy, it is also Gabe's buddies as well having a whole poker party)..., but the fact that in the TV series Gabe is just speaking in his regular New York accent instead of the rasping voice of the Oracle like in the original book and also the fact that it's this version of Smelly Gabe from the TV series, who's just a goofy over the top comedy character who only adds comic relief, completely ruins the spooky and ominous atmosphere this scene is suppose to have, especially on the last part of the prophecy where the Oracle warns Percy that his destiny is, "You shall be betrayed by one who calls you a friend," and "And you shall fail to save what matters most, in the end."
• This is basically just a nitpick, but it was a huge missed opportunity to have Grover's consensus song basically be "In The Same Boat" => https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D\_vDdHFIzxo and https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OqiQC0TtQcc. That would've been a really lovely easter egg.
• The whole attack on the bus scene in the TV series was a lot less exciting and action packed than it was in chapter ten of the original book... In the original book, all three of the Furies were attacking Percy, Grover, and Annabeth on the bus, not just two of them, plus, they had fiery whips. Also, to get out of that situation, Percy, using Annabeth's Yankees baseball cap, turned invisible and then wrestled with the bus driver over the steering wheel while the bus was on a highway road and they slammed into the side of the Lincoln Tunnel and while all of this is happening monsters and people were being tossed around the bus and other cars on the highway road plowed aside out of the way of the bus and then once they shot off the highway through a dozen traffic lights, Percy hit the emergency break and the bus wailed and spun full circle on the asphalt and crashed into trees. Also, in the end lightning struck the bus and the entire bus exploded with Percy's, Grover's, and Annabeth's bags inside... Here in the TV series the bus is completely stationery at a rest stop and there's a complete lack of a fight on the bus with Mrs. Dodds / Alecto just practically going, "oh, lemme just walk slowly towards you all against the crowd of bus passengers and allow you all a chance to escape" lol, and the entire bus doesn't get struck by lightning and explode at all like in the original book (Like what? Did Disney seriously not have the budget to simply blow up an entire bus using detonators lol?)... This should've started off as a really tense scene that was more like the original book where Annabeth clamps her hand onto Percy's knee and she points out to Percy that an old lady just boarded the bus and Percy immediately recognizes that the old lady is Mrs. Dodds but older and more withered but definitely the same evil face and Percy tries to hide by scrunching down in his seat but then two more old ladies come behind Mrs. Dodds and they all just sit in the front row behind the driver and then the two on the aisle casually cross their legs over the walkway making an X to send a message that nobody leaves and Grover whimpers, “All three of them. Di immortales!”, Annabeth begins to think hard and tries to keep Grover calm by telling him, “It’s okay. The Furies. The three worst monsters from the Underworld. No problem. No problem. We’ll just slip out the windows,” and Grover moans, “They don’t open,” and Annabeth tries to suggest, “A back exit?”, and Percy tells her that there isn’t one and even if there was one, it won't help because they're currently on Ninth Avenue, heading for the Lincoln Tunnel and Percy asks Annabeth, “They won’t attack us with witnesses around. Will they?”, and Annabeth reminds Percy that, “Mortals don’t have good eyes. Their brains can only process what they see through the Mist,” and Percy then asks Annabeth, “They’ll see three old ladies killing us, won’t they?”, and Annabeth thinks about it and says, “Hard to say. But we can’t count on mortals for help. Maybe an emergency exit in the roof . . . ?”, and as soon as she says that they hit the Lincoln Tunnel, and the bus goes dark except for the running lights down the aisle and it's eerily quiet without the sound of the rain outside and then Mrs. Dodds gets up and in a flat voice, as if she rehearsed it, announces to the whole bus, “I need to use the restroom,” and the second sister says, “So do I,” and the third sister says, “So do I,” and they all start coming down the aisle, but instead the scene in the TV series is just over in like one minute with Annabeth shouting, "Guys, you need to open that window! Now!", and Mrs. Dodds immediately showing her true form to the trio as Alecto and then Percy and Grover immediately get up from their seats and break open a window and all the bus passengers start slowly, and when I say slowly I do mean slowly at a snail's pace..., exiting out of the front of the bus and then out of nowhere another Fury just flys in and burst through a window like a literally missile and Annabeth just easily kills it in just one second with a simple knife/dagger throw (...the Furies in this TV series suck lol...) and Annabeth just picks up her knife and goes, "We're done here. Let's go," and then we cut to Mrs. Dodds hilariously trying to sluggishly make her way through the crowd of bus passagers exiting through the front of the bus (... again the Furies in this TV series suck lol...) and then we practically just cut to the next scene of the trio just casually and calmly walking through the woods on a satry path... Just continuing the awful trend that the TV series has so far with frenetic and breakneck pacing and basically speed-running through scenes from the original book and it just makes it feel like things are just happening and then "whoop, bye!", and it just leaves me with the underwhelmed feeling of, "Well that just sort of happened I guess..."
• The Mist in the TV series is so overpowered, my gods... I already discussed in my analysis/review of episode one that Mrs. Dodds attacking Percy in broad daylight right in front of all the students instead of luring Percy away on his own to a private place in the museum where obviously no one is going to see her take her true form as Alecto and attack Percy just like in the original book was a really weird change to me because I'm pretty sure The Mist doesn't just make monsters and magical creatures completely invisible lol... Like The Mist is just suppose to camouflage them and warp their appearance which makes me wonder what the hell were the students seeing when Mrs. Dodds was attacking Percy lol...? Like were they not just seeing their sixth grade teacher jumping Percy and pinning him down to the ground which is highly concerning and straight up illegal lol...? And with that being said, the attack on the bus scene in the TV series was done even weirder and even more nonsensical... Like, I had so many questions... Why didn't any of the other passengers react at all to Annabeth vanishing out of thin air when she put on her Yankees baseball cap in the middle of the aisle/walkway? Why didn't any of the passengers react to three kids breaking open a window in the back of the bus and hopping through it instead of just exiting through the front of the bus? Why didn't any of the passengers react to one of the Furies flying in and bursting through a window like a literally missile lol? I mean..., The Mist was already a pretty overpowered thing in the original books, but it seems to be even more overpowered in the TV series than it was in the original books where it can just make everything completely invisible instead of just warping the appearance of things lol. In the original book it literally says, "I was free. I made it to the front of the bus. We were almost through the Lincoln Tunnel now. I was about to press the emergency stop button when I heard hideous wailing from the back row. The old ladies were not old ladies anymore. Their faces were still the same—I guess those couldn’t get any uglier—but their bodies had shriveled into leathery brown hag bodies with bat’s wings and hands and feet like gargoyle claws. Their handbags had turned into fiery whips. The Furies surrounded Grover and Annabeth, lashing their whips, hissing: “Where is it? Where?” The other people on the bus were screaming, cowering in their seats. They saw something, all right."
• I really hate that the TV series decided to completely cut out the part where Percy decides not to run off of the bus and decided to stay and help out his friends even though that would put himself in danger because that moment was soooo important in the original book. It is the first instance where that part of Percy, which in the end is his fatal flaw, really comes out in the original books. "Another great idea: I hit the emergency brake. The bus wailed, spun a full circle on the wet asphalt, and crashed into the trees. The emergency lights came on. The door flew open. The bus driver was the first one out, the passengers yelling as they stampeded after him. I stepped into the driver’s seat and let them pass. The Furies regained their balance. They lashed their whips at Annabeth while she waved her knife and yelled in Ancient Greek, telling them to back off. Grover threw tin cans. I looked at the open doorway. I was free to go, but I couldn’t leave my friends. I took off the invisible cap. “Hey!” The Furies turned, baring their yellow fangs at me, and the exit suddenly seemed like an excellent idea. Mrs. Dodds stalked up the aisle, just as she used to do in class, about to deliver my F– math test. Every time she flicked her whip, red flames danced along the barbed leather. Her two ugly sisters hopped on top of the seats on either side of her and crawled toward me like huge nasty lizards. “Perseus Jackson,” Mrs. Dodds said, in an accent that was definitely from somewhere farther south than Georgia. “You have offended the gods. You shall die.” “I liked you better as a math teacher,” I told her. She growled."
• Another part in episode three that I disliked is when Percy talks about getting a phone to call and ask for help and the TV series decides to handle this situation by having Annabeth turn to Percy and basically call him a coward... Bro like, did they forget that the whole reason they don't use a phone in the original books is because it attracts monsters from miles away to their position? It just felt like the TV series was trying to make unnecessary drama happen and an argument happen between Percy and Annabeth when it really didn't need to... In chapter ten of the original book it's literally explained, "For the first time, the quest felt real. I was actually leaving Half-Blood Hill. I was heading west with no adult supervision, no backup plan, not even a cell phone. (Chiron said cell phones were traceable by monsters; if we used one, it would be worse than sending up a flare.)"
• Speaking of Chiron, I am so disappointed with the way this TV series completely underutilized him when in the original book he was literally playing the Obi-Wan Kenobi to Percy’s Luke Skywalker or the Professor Dumbledore to Percy's Harry Potter... Like how on earth do you just not utilize an actor like Glynn Turman...? Like in the TV series, Chiron gets pushed to the sidelines and gets such a diminished role compared to his role in the original book and again he barely makes an appearance at all in episode three here before Percy, Grover, and Annabeth leave Camp Half-Blood to set off on their quest... In the TV series, Chiron doesn't explain at all or give Percy important and valuable knowledge like how he does in the original book with him telling Percy interesting things such as, "The gods move with the heart of the West,” and why Percy being claimed as a big 3 child is a monumental event in this universe with World War II being apart of the official reason for the big three swearing off impregnating humans and the resulting implication that Adolf Hitler was a son of Hades... Also, Chiron doesn't tell Percy that the sword, Anaklusmos / Riptide, "has a long and tragic history that we need not go into,” and to "“Use it only for emergencies,” Chiron said, “and only against monsters. No hero should harm mortals unless absolutely necessary, of course, but this sword wouldn’t harm them in any case.” I looked at the wickedly sharp blade. “What do you mean it wouldn’t harm mortals? How could it not?” “The sword is celestial bronze. Forged by the Cyclopes, tempered in the heart of Mount Etna, cooled in the River Lethe. It’s deadly to monsters, to any creature from the Underworld, provided they don’t kill you first. But the blade will pass through mortals like an illusion. They simply are not important enough for the blade to kill. And I should warn you: as a demigod, you can be killed by either celestial or normal weapons. You are twice as vulnerable.” “Good to know,”" and, "“Chiron . . .” I said. “When you say the gods are immortal . . . I mean, there was a time before them, right?” “Four ages before them, actually. The Time of the Titans was the Fourth Age, sometimes called the Golden Age, which is definitely a misnomer. This, the time of Western civilization and the rule of Zeus, is the Fifth Age.” “So what was it like . . . before the gods?” Chiron pursed his lips. “Even I am not old enough to remember that, child, but I know it was a time of darkness and savagery for mortals. Kronos, the lord of the Titans, called his reign the Golden Age because men lived innocent and free of all knowledge. But that was mere propaganda. The Titan king cared nothing for your kind except as appetizers or a source of cheap entertainment. It was only in the early reign of Lord Zeus, when Prometheus the good Titan brought fire to mankind, that your species began to progress, and even then Prometheus was branded a radical thinker. Zeus punished him severely, as you may recall. Of course, eventually the gods warmed to humans, and Western civilization was born.” “But the gods can’t die now, right? I mean, as long as Western civilization is alive, they’re alive. So . . . even if I failed, nothing could happen so bad it would mess up everything, right?” Chiron gave me a melancholy smile. “No one knows how long the Age of the West will last, Percy. The gods are immortal, yes. But then, so were the Titans. They still exist, locked away in their various prisons, forced to endure endless pain and punishment, reduced in power, but still very much alive. May the Fates forbid that the gods should ever suffer such a doom, or that we should ever return to the darkness and chaos of the past. All we can do, child, is follow our destiny.” “Our destiny . . . assuming we know what that is.” “Relax,” Chiron told me. “Keep a clear head. And remember, you may be about to prevent the biggest war in human history.” “Relax,” I said. “I’m very relaxed.”" Like all of this stuff is pretty important info that goes into explaining the lore and building the canon of the Percy Jackson mythos... I feel like episode 2 should've ended with it just being revealed that Percy's the son of Poseidon and then later on Percy talks with Chiron and Grover and Mr. D about why it's a problem (...with the whole World War II backstory and Zeus' Master Bolt being stolen and all that...) at the beginning of episode three instead of immediately at the end of episode two in extremely rushed fashion and completely neglecting to mention the World War II backstory.
• You know..., I really didn't really like how in the original book it took the trio quite a while to deduce in chapter eleven that Aunty Em was actually Medusa with there literally being acres of extremely life like statues everywhere of human people with startled and terrified faces and Aunty Em literally talking about making statues and so when Percy was like, "Aunty Em. Aunty “M.” How could I have been so stupid?", I was like, "For real... How could not only you, but also both Annabeth and Grover who are both pretty experienced in the world of Greek mythology be so stupid lol...?", so I was completely cool with the TV series having the detail of only the statues of Greek monsters outside of Aunty Em's Garden Gnome Emporium and keeping the statues of innocent people hidden away in Medusa's lair down in the dark basement to make the trio feel smarter in this encounter, but guys..., having Annabeth immediately, and when I say immediately I do mean immediately go, "Oh, come on. Aunty "Em" has a garden full of petrified stone folks. Yeah, this is someone from our world, all right. Anyone want to guess what "Em" is short for?", in literally the exact second the trio wonder across it deflated me and goes right back to the fast and frenetic pacing issue this TV series has so far with going over stuff from the original book really quickly... Guys..., this doesn't fix the problem of the trio being stupid about who Aunty Em is and in fact it just creates a whole new set of problems and entirely different reasons for why the trio is so stupid in this encounter... In the original book, the trio walked into a trap without knowing it was a trap, and here in the TV series they walked into Aunty Em's Garden Gnome Emporium fully knowing it belonged to Medusa (someone who can easily turn on the trio and instantly turn them all to stone if they so much as look at her...) all because Grover was hungry and because Medusa gave the trio this ultimatum that they could either follow her inside or fight Alecto, who they know wants them dead, and this ultimatum in the TV series literally made absolutely no gods dam sense lol... I was just left wondering what kind of mental gymnastics the trio did to think that the Fury was more of a threat than Medusa and why they couldn't just easily take down Alecto together when Percy, without any training, already beat Alecto all by himself at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in just a matter of like two seconds max by accidentally stabbing her with Riptide and Annabeth already easily killed one of Alecto's sisters with just a simple knife throw on the bus in even less time than that and it was literally three on one here with the odds in their favor lol... Like I think the trio could've easily taken down Alecto in the TV series instead of having to follow Medusa lol... If I were to do a bit of reworking/rewriting, this scene in the TV series would've made more sense to me if instead of having just Alecto show up to confront the trio, you also had another one of her sisters show up as well with her and the other Fury both actually having their fiery whips that they had in the original book and the trio decide to run inside Aunty Em's Garden Gnome Emporium to escape from both of them and the two Furies mysteriously don't follow after the trio inside Aunty Em's Garden Gnome Emporium because they both are aware of who owns Aunty Em's Garden Gnome Emporium and figure that the trio are as good as dead and the trio don't even get to take the time to actually notice or assess for themselves the fact that the site is surrounded by acres of statuary because they are just only worried about escaping together from the two Furies with fiery whips, and then the TV series could've had it like the original book where it gradually leans into it with Aunty Em revealing and introducing herself to the trio as a friendly lady and the trio don't know that Aunty Em is actually Medusa at first and there's an off feeling about them going into this emporium trying to escape from the two Furies with fiery whips and then things could've slowly start to be revealed with Grover hearing a hissing noise and the trio noticing that Aunty Em's human skin is slowly shedding and coming off just like a snake's skin would as the scene gets more darker and more foreboding and with Aunty Em slowly revealing her true nature and her true skin starts to show and then the TV series could've had Annabeth be the one to finally figure out that Aunty Em is Medusa and then the TV series could've presented Medusa telling the trio her sympathetic tragic backstory and then we could've gotten more of Percy trusting his mom's advice of, "Not everyone who looks like a hero is a hero, and not everyone who looks like a monster is a monster," and deciding to leave Grover and Annabeth in the dining room with all the candy and sweets and follow Medusa into another room and with Percy feeling more and more bad for Medusa the more and more he hears her talk and then the TV series could've had Grover and Annabeth decide to secretly snoop around the garden gnome emporium together and they eventually ended up discovering and finding Grover's Uncle Ferdinand as a statue in the dark basement along with a bunch of other innocent people and then the TV series could've had both Grover and Annabeth come in to warn and save Percy from Medusa. This would've made this scene in the TV series more tension filled and more horror filled and more mystery filled that it should've had without making the trio look stupid at all and without glossing over a lot of stuff from the original book and having everything be over and done with so quickly...
• The action scenes, can I even call these action scenes because that kind of seems disrespectful to action scenes..., in episode three where all fucking terrible lol... In episode one I really enjoyed the fight between Percy and the Minotaur and thought it was really well done and cool for Percy's first ever battle and I also thought the fight choreography and sword play in the Capture the Flag scene was also really great, but... the fights with the monsters in episode three felt way too easy. Like there was no tension. I mean for christ sake..., the attack on the bus scene only lasted one minute and Medusa just gets killed by Percy in just two minutes lol... Not even joking here lol... => https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gCjfULCi59g. Like the action scenes in episode three did not feel like action scenes, so far literally all of them have been one attack and its immediately over, which I'd understand for the original books because it could still be impactful from explanation and detail of what exactly happens, but it just feels weird in the show, it feels like the main characters are level 100 but also suck at the game but still have op stats, and all the monsters are like level 5 lol... I feel like one of the jobs of an adaptation like this is to make action scenes longer, because at the end of the day the action is a major part of this series, so they really should extend it to be actual fight scenes. Like when it was revealed that Medusa has a huge dark lair in the basement that actually looks Greek and it actually has human statues I was like this is actually pretty cool where it's like a labyrinth of human statues and I thought this was going to lead to a really cool and thrilling action scene where the trio somehow get split up from each other and get lost in the dark basement and we see them try to avoid being caught by Medusa and them trying to find each other again so that they can figure out a way to kill Medusa and escape from the dark basement together => https://pbs.twimg.com/media/FTlMBdmaAAA62IY?format=jpg&name=4096x4096, but instead the quote on quote "action scene" is just immediately over in two minutes...
• Why did they make Grover completely useless in the whole Medusa fight sequence? In the TV series, Grover just disappears off into the darkness of the basement and then randomly causes a distraction by accidentally crash landing into a human statue... In the original book Grover yelled, "“Percy!” Behind me, I heard a buzzing sound, like a two-hundred-pound hummingbird in a nosedive. Grover yelled, “Duck!” I turned, and there he was in the night sky, flying in from twelve o’clock with his winged shoes fluttering, Grover, holding a tree branch the size of a baseball bat. His eyes were shut tight, his head twitched from side to side. He was navigating by ears and nose alone. “Duck!” he yelled again. “I’ll get her!” That finally jolted me into action. Knowing Grover, I was sure he’d miss Medusa and nail me. I dove to one side. Thwack! At first I figured it was the sound of Grover hitting a tree. Then Medusa roared with rage. “You miserable satyr,” she snarled. “I’ll add you to my collection!” “That was for Uncle Ferdinand!” Grover yelled back. I scrambled away and hid in the statuary while Grover swooped down for another pass. Ker-whack! “Arrgh!” Medusa yelled, her snake-hair hissing and spitting."
• Jeez..., are Disney's censors really this bad to where the TV series couldn't even show Medusa's decapitated head as a prop...? I mean..., The Lightning Thief movie was rated PG and it still was able to actually show Medusa's decapitated head as a prop. It would've been a much cooler and better looking kill in the TV series if Annabeth's Yankees baseball cap immediately fell off as soon as Percy cut Medusa's head off and we actually got to see Medusa's decapitated head hit the ground with green slime/blood pouring out of the top of her headless body instead of red blood to keep it PG. Having Walker Scobell pretend to hold an invisible head the entire time just looked really cheap lol...
• Wow..., this TV series really has no concept of graduality and build up and a proper pay off when it's over here outright revealing that Grover was actually the satyr that failed to protect Thalia Grace this early in the story instead of keeping it a secret until episode six, "We Take a Zebra to Vegas", where it's suppose to get revealed if the TV series was following the original book, and having Percy immediately tell Grover and Annabeth the last few lines of the prophecy in episode three (the same episode he's first told the prophecy...) instead of just having him hold off on telling them both until maybe episode seven, "We Find Out the Truth, Sort Of"...

Nitpick:

• Where are Grover's reed pipes lol!!!??? => https://twitter.com/seaweedbrainpod/status/1738034778006548528