The Reel Rejects - PERCY JACKSON AND THE OLYMPIANS Season 2 Episode 4 REVIEW!!

Episode Date: December 24, 2025

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You prepped it. Thanks for prepping it. Thanks for prepping it, prepper. You did it. Prepper. Tara, I'll go to you first. Why do you have fantasies about Cyclopses on your own time? Why do you wish your boyfriend, what's a cyclops?

You know, because Tyson, he is so sweet, so kind, tall, he looks a little buff, and he listens. Wow. Yeah, that's, you certainly like fantasy. Mm-hmm. honestly i'm going to tell you right now this was my favorite episode i thought this was the best looking episode out of all the ones that they've done like i especially when we're like they're going to hold hands they're going to hold hands and then they they pop back into a wide he puts his hand out i just thought that lighting was super dope but my favorite part was really

at the end. With the water, it all looks really, really good. And I think it's like really exciting. I assumed the wind in the back and he would loop it around and I don't know. I assume that would work. But now we're screwed. But I like that writing because I mean, we're still, we're kids here. So like it can't be easy. Yeah, like where it ends off because the first half of this season is about the journey to the sea of monsters. And I imagine that last half will be about what it looks like in the very different world. Yeah. So we're getting two very different halves, I imagine.

Right? Like you got a little fantastical creature that was throwing the bracelet back in there. Right. I forgot about that. And with the ship being torn up and wrecked like that, you got to imagine it doesn't just look like some cave. Even though they might get reunited with, they should get reunited with Grover.

I think we'll probably get some different stuff in store. I hope so. I certainly hope so, yeah. And Grover's great. And also, he's a protector. He's supposed to, like, be a... around yeah that's true that's true uh i'd like the themes of uh consistency across the board but leadership here you know you're really flushing that out we fleshed it out by going through

annabette's backstory with talia and watching what her inspiration was and the and the difficulty of decisions and sometimes just having to trust a choice and follow through even if you have some doubts and that also parallels well what clarice was going through yeah and watch having the first episode where her heart starts to shine through and we start to get on board for her as a care crew where she makes a heroic choice at the end, I thought it was really good. Right down to Percy, you know,

being the navigator, mediator of a lot of these situations and being the one to confide in and be a supporting knowing when not to be the lead. But they all have different, like, leading positions. Like he was navigating coordinates from feeling out the ocean and everyone finding their purpose on the boat with Tyson of where he should be below deck.

I thought they had a really good job of placing people of making things feel necessary while still keeping the emotion alive. I just feel about the flashbacks with Adam Beth. Those were some of my favorites as well because Talia is such a badass

so it makes sense why she is the tree that's guarding the whole camp. Right. Especially with the way that she operated. I loved her, you know, the costume design for her, just her attitude overall. I think I mostly like the writing

that it's, she's like, well, you're a family now. I'm going to do whatever is right for the family. So you're going to, you're going to go to camp. Yeah. And, yeah, it was nice to finally see because I was like, what happened? And it is still weird that Annabeth does give off the vibe slightly, that it is her fault that Talia died. And I guess she could think that because they were all going to camp.

But really, Talia made the choice to be like, I'm going to, I'm going to do this. You guys get off. but I realize why she would still feel that way. Yeah. Yeah, that's a good point. But it's good. It's good. I like, I honestly, when you, you sort of shipped Percy and Clarice.

And now I'm like, because at first we're like Percy and Annabeth, but now I'm like, Clarice is kind of coming around. Oh, no. She's gone. Like dead gone. I don't think so. No, no. I don't think so, right?

We're about to enter 2026. We're in a very progressive era. I think he should end up with both of them. And they should all be on board for this polyamorous relationship. We should teach the kids that. This is the new monogamy. Get on board or get out. Or get out. Get out.

That's what we'll tell them. Just one person's not enough anymore. No, he's got to have Clarice and Annabeth. Yeah. And now that Clarice has shown her true colors, she's sacrificed herself. She's like, this is what I'm going to do. She rolls through and you're like, you're not so bad after all. That's why I need to.

That's why I need to. I know. Yeah. But Annabeth is also good. She's been good the whole time. Yeah. So I think if you're going to have two, you got to have like a good one and then like, ah, she's kind of bad.

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That is how math would work out in this situation. I know, but I'm just, I'm really thinking if the second person is 50% good, the other 50% kind of bad. then we're going 150% the person that you want, blah, blah, and then 50% of the new surprise. Well, 100% of one woman is 50%. Stupid, stupid, stupid.

But it's an abomination if it's two guys in one woman. That is filth. I'm saying it. Not on my television screen. It's too progressive for me. I can't. I'm fairly conservative about that.

I legit can't. Oh my God, I can't. I can't. I don't really care. I think you'll end up with Adam that. It seems like that's where it's destined. Yeah, maybe. Him and Clarice did seem like they were forming, like, good chemistry.

They were. They were. They were. They were forming, like, the peanut butter and jelly sandwich scene. Even though we had issues with the peanut butter and jelly sandwich. Why is Spoon? Why a spoon? Making it too slow.

And in one shot, there was a bite. And I was like, when did he take that bite of that sandwich? Continuity. Continuity problems. I'm just saying, all right? All right. Your Disney Plus, maybe your visual effects look freaking awesome in the end. Amazing.

But you really got to get a proper script supervisor. Well, you really... Percy actor. Like, hey, maybe don't take a bite of that sandwich and wait until the end of the scene or else we're going to have some real continuity. That's why I had to make it really slow. because they had to justify why he would take. The spoon bothered me more than the bite, which was in a wide shot.

Well, I think you can spread jelly fairly easy, but like a peanut butter seems really hard to spread. And I feel like on a pirate ship, you would have a knife. Are you going, okay, to what you're saying, you're saying, well, this will be a bitch. I'm saying jelly's reasonable peanut butter is not. Exactly. But are we thinking he had a knife for a one and a spoon? No, he had a spoon the whole time, right? knife because it was cut in half pretty perfect ridiculous if you're going from a knife and you're like

I'll switch to the spoon for the jelly why might have cut it in half really nice with a spoon no there's no way he had a knife there's no way but he is percy yeah man of two lovers it'd be it'd be it would be moist too moist because he could only like water pressure you know like there's like the real water pressure that could cut off your limbs your skin That would really ruin that peanut butter sandwich. It will not if he's really precise. A tiny thin. That's true.

Really quick. Well, outside of that big thing, which takes this episode down to like five points. Obviously. From like a 10 out of 10 to a 5 out of 10. The rest of that are half is pretty good. And yeah, the final battle was beautiful to look at it. Gorgeous. And, yeah, it was really, it felt very, like truly cinematic.

Sometimes you can see people go for spectacle. on television and you're like yeah you still look like television that actually felt like a real movie sequence i love the shot where he specifically when he's standing on the edge of the boat and then she's behind him with the cannon blasting and the waters flashing all over them and the thunder thunderous uh even though it's like no thunder in the sky the water itself you could feel the weight of the impact of the water and keeping the creature obscured was really smart too it was like it felt like a very kaiju-like situation. It was really beautiful to behold

with an unexpected ending overall. Yeah. And also to the flashback, there's a lot of that emphasis on Luke versus Percy, but there was the exposition given in the last season about Luke and Annabeth and them having a history. And this was the first time we really got to feel it. And I never quite saw Luke as someone

who was a true protector over Anabeth. So to drive that home makes what's going on here even more of a challenge, more tragic. And, in fact, the personal stake seemed to be between Luke versus Percy, but more like, more like Annabeth versus Luke. Agreed. That's the true conflict at heart here more than Luke and Percy. So, yeah, I thought this did a good job in elevating it.

And again, this season, I think, is shaping up to be much stronger than the last season. Way stronger. Like, seriously, with the camera and the lighting, the set design, like that makes... The riding, acting to... I know, I know. That too. Craft services to casting director. I think mainly, like, delighting is not the bright TV that season one was.

Season two, even within the first couple episodes, we had already noticed the change. But specifically in this one, you brought out the egg game. And I like that. They brought out the egg game. Yeah, guys, what did you think about this episode? We throw it off to you guys. What do you think is going to happen next, book readers? If you read the book, you probably know it's going to happen next.

So keep your trap shut or actually no comment it. and I'll just be smarter enough to not look at those specific comments but we need the comments he won't be he's not he says smart enough and I'm like you aren't I'm able to figure it out I'm able to put it out I make sure

the top comments are all the ones insulting you that way you go to it yeah it's the only thing it's a real it's a real grave digger those ones think it's all now hating you because oh man they're at the top no no I manipulate the situation

he deepens everyone with me to top dollar. I paid good money to make sure people kept doing it. So good. All right, guys. Well, happy birthday, Tara. I know this was the best birthday present you could ask for filming with me. And we will see you guys. We don't know what the upload schedule will be, but we will do what we can. See you.