When first listening to it, my eyes were already getting suspiciously full, and then Percy sings to Annabeth, “I won’t leave your side ‘til you’re remembered.” And it’s such a powerful sentiment! We talk a lot about The Lightning Thief empowering young girls with “My Grand Plan.” But just as important, it shows boys the value of listening, being supportive, being empathetic. This song takes your heart and just stomps on it, all while dazzling your eardrums! I absolutely bawled when listening to this song (several times in a row), and the melody has been haunting me for several days afterwards. (Unrelated to PJO, but receiving ALL the brownie points in these lyrics: referring to Percy’s “Poseidon Adventure!”) In “Pick a Side,” there is a reference to “The Last Olympian,” which may be among the most loaded references in the Riordanverse. “Pick a Side” spells this theme out for us, and later, “In the Same Boat” will drive it home for our protagonists, in a fleshed-out version of Percy and Annabeth’s Act 2 conversation about no longer fighting with each other.Īll the songs on this album are also full of references to the Percy Jackson books, little gems that will delight the most hardcore fans. While that still appears in the final musical in dialogue between Annabeth and Percy, it looks to have been much more prevalent in the cut material. The song also introduces a major theme running through this album: how the demigods don’t need to fight their parents’ battles. It fleshes out side characters whom we like, who all have valid points of view that bring them into conflict, and as a song it’s a joy to listen to. This song is really The Lightning Thief - both book and musical - at its best. As before, everything he says and does has double meanings – even as he urges his fellow demigods not to fight each other, there’s the undercurrent of his dastardly schemes underneath. Ultimately, Percy feels as though he has friends and support for the first time, and he feels at home in his new world of the gods.The thing that immediately strikes you upon listening to this song is how mind-blowingly great James Hayden Rodriguez sounds here, singing as Luke. Completing his quest and meeting Poseidon along with Zeus helps Percy feel more secure with who he is and with his family situation-especially since Hades agrees to return Mom. An honorable person, Percy insists on carrying the bolt back to Zeus himself, even if it means taking the risk of flying and risking Zeus’s wrath. When, in the Underworld, Percy discovers that the god Ares tricked him by planting the thunderbolt with Percy, Percy takes it upon himself to figure out what happened. While Percy continues to feel abandoned by Poseidon and to focus more on rescuing Mom from the Underworld, Percy gradually becomes more accepting of his dad. He discovers that he’s a skilled swordsman with Riptide, a sword that Poseidon left for him, and he begins to rethink his thoughts on Poseidon. Along the journey, Percy shows himself to be impulsive, overly-trusting, and occasionally rash. Along with Grover and Annabeth, a daughter of Athena, Percy journeys west from New York to retrieve Zeus’s stolen thunderbolt from Hades. Because of Percy’s parentage, the centaur Chiron decides to send Percy on a quest. Percy’s dad, whom he thought died, is the Greek god Poseidon, who later claims him. Percy winds up at Camp Half-Blood and discovers that his ADHD and dyslexia aren’t problems like he thought they were they’re normal for kids who are demigods, or the children of one Greek god and one mortal parent. This begins to change when, after a year of seeing and experiencing odd things, the Minotaur interrupts Mom and Percy’s trip to the coast and seems to kill her. Because of this, at the start of the novel, the only bright spots in Percy’s life are his new friend Grover and his strong relationship with Mom he feels like a failure in many other ways. Percy struggles with ADHD, dyslexia, and getting into trouble, so he’s been expelled every year since he started school. Percy is the 12-year-old protagonist of the novel.
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