‘Percy Jackson’ Kicks Off With a Nightmare at the Museum

“Look, I didn’t want to be a half-blood.”

Percy Jackson (Walker Scobell) begins his hero’s journey by rejecting the call to adventure, something he’ll do plenty of times before he finally accepts his fate. You know what? If I were a “troubled” (his words, not mine) 12 year old like Percy, I, too, would avoid conflict at all costs. This poor kid. At least he’s got the added perk of demigod powers—although, at the start of Disney+’s Percy Jackson and the Olympians, he has no idea of such superhuman abilities.

Nothing has ever come easy to Percy. He’s struggled with his daydreaming since second grade, when he began having visions of a monster atop a building in the middle of a thunderstorm. Teachers have always told him these images were figments of his imagination. But more weird things happen: Words often scramble on Percy’s homework. Like in Rick Riordan’s original book series, Percy is diagnosed with ADHD and dyslexia, which “explains” his confusions with the world.

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