I can hardly believe I am doing this but I guess I'm going to start writing more of an anecdotal set of pieces of my daily life. Translation: I'm writing a journal, I guess. I was ribbed by a someone today about how little I write on Mixi. I got to wondering and next thing I knew I was here at my keyboard listening to "Carol of the Bells" and eating a snack.
I am usually more of an introspective/analytical writer, so writing on what I did recently feels a little odd. I guess I sometimes just don't do normal very well. I prefer to take what is normal and shake it up as I inject a little spice. The typical format of a journal, for example, is something like "Dear Journal..", "Dear Diary" etc.
A year or so ago, when I once again tried to start writing a paper journal, I addressed them to various non-existant entities. Dear Enlightened Reader, Dear World Trekkie, Dear Relaxed Reader and on and on. Additionally, I wrote a magnificient intro explaining how you wouldn't learn anything about me by reading my journal. A statement that is all too true.
So, have you caught that I haven't actually broken away from my usual style yet? Let me flip the world on its head and scream into the ears of these tulips then. Yet, I need an audience imaginary or not, to focus my thoughts on.
Dear moviegoer who has read this far,
I just got back from seeing the movie "The Lightning Thief." I rather enjoyed the movie because of intricacies from Percy's sword pen to the cute little gold drachmas. The cast even was rather well chosen, although I had expected Grover to be a bit more bumbling which is directly connected to my next point.
Simply, Read the Book!
Yeah, you've got the minotaur fight scene, the journey to Hades, the meeting of the gods in Mt. Olympus, and other such flashy stuff, but for starters, what happened to Dionysius? Wasn't he placed in timeout by being made the camp leader? Moreover, wasn't Percy's cabin, a, well, cabin, not some out-of-doors-way-off-in-a-secluded-area dock? Don't even get me started on the rainbow communication lines.
Okay bullet point list time:
~ Percy first uses the sword against his teacher, the fury.
~ Oh, and he killed her, she didn't run away
~ They fight the furies a second time
~ A Hellhound broke into camp halfblood after he arrived
~ Percy spent a long time in the book not knowing which god he was the son of.
~ He broke the horn off the minotaur while riding on its back.
~ He was only out for two days? (three in the movie?)
~ He had to fly in an airplane in the book at least once.
~ Why did they leave our Ares?
~ Thalia too was left out completely.
~ The pen has a name: Riptide/Anaklusmos
~ The kids didn't get drugged in the casino by lotuses
~ They had green lotus cash cards.
~ Cerebeus was supposed to be guarding the Gates to Hades
~ Crusty the strecher was left out completely
~ In Hades, the kids had to walk a lot
~ Charon had an "EZ Death" entrance
~ Persephone wasn't even in Hades when they visited.
~ Ares placed the Bolt in Percy's Backpack
~ Hades also was missing something: Helm of darkness
~ The oracle which prophesied was left out.
~ Annabeth didn't have her yankees cap.
~ Mist prevented humans from seeing things they shouldn't
~ Flying Percy would have been killed by Zeus
~ Flying Grover however was A-ok
~ Speaking of Grover, he was psychically connected to Percy.
Yes, those are by no means all the things changed by the movie makers, but I tell you, the discrepancy list feels far longer for this movie than it did for LOTR or Harry Potter. Meh, if I hadn't read the book I would have absolutely loved the movie, but I can solidly feel the disparity between the two. Flip to any random page in the book and you will encounter at least one disparity.
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