Welcome to Ranking Rick Riordan: A Percy Jackson Podcast. In this episode Dan, Clara, and Olga discuss The Heroes of Olympus: The House of Hades! Every week we review and rank a book in the Percy Jackson Mythological Universe. Each episode is available both on YouTube and podcast services.
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I sent you guys a long rambling email about my history with Percy Jackson and how much it means to me and helped me get through the toughest part of my life….I hope I sent it to the right email address…that would be awkward if not…..
omg Dan is my spirit animal, I 100 percent agree with everything you said.
Also, House of Hades is my fav book, and the single scene that managed to pull a tear from me is the very last scene, when Percy looks a the night sky and the stars and he says: "Bob says hello". Especially when you remember that Zoe Nightshade, his granddaughter I thing was killed and maid into a constellation. Just kill take me already :'~)
I've been waiting for this! I hope everything's okay in your life though. This podcast just makes my day/week!
On one hand I agree with the whole forced coming out thing from a representative stand point. And I completely agree that it's not good to do this to ANYBODY. But I feel like for a story that is supposed to take place within the frame of year there would've been no other way for Nico to have confronted his feelings as a gay teenager without making it MORE emotionally harmful for the readers. Having cupid be the one to force him to accept himself can be seen poetic even if it's forced
Especially since Nico would have never come out to Jason or anybody otherwise.
This scene was also one of the ways to help Nico get the idea of having an ally he can trust who wasn't his direct family since till now the only person he could trust completely was his older sister who died three years ago
Plus now that he has confronted his feelings, forcefully or not, he can grow from it and that part of it is what the future books want to focus on. And as someone who is 16 and struggling with my sexuality, seeing Nico grow to care and accept himself and have people around him who do accept him does make me feel happier
And Jason telling Nico that he would have more allies if he told the rest of them his secret but ultimately that it was still his decision was very important since that's kind of telling the readers that if someone tells you they're sexuality, you shouldn't tell it to anybody just because you think theyd be cool and accepting about it
Sorry if that didn't make sense, just can't organize my thoughts very well😅