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Hello again! I hope you all liked part one of our series on Changes From The Book: What It Could Mean For Future Movies or CFTBWICMFFM. Try to enunciate that one. I’m not even going to try. Well, here you go, part two of CFTBWICMFFM.

Part Two: Character Omissions
So we saw the film and thought, “Oh my gosh, here comes Clarisse to jack up Percy!” And what do we get? Annabeth in a Clarisse/Annabeth mixture. Then at the diner where they’re talking about the Gods being angry we thought: “Saweet, here comes Ares!!” And nothing at all. And also, when Luke gave Percy the flying shoes we thought: “NOOO! Don’t take those! Those are cursed!” And they weren’t. They didn’t have a peep from Kronos.

Well, what can all this mean? How will they swing those Character Omissions? Obviously they were on a tight budget. At least for this kind of film. I mean, the latest Harry Potter film had a budget of around $200 million. So they had to cut characters. Anyways, how can they make the cut characters back into the story in The Sea of Monsters etc? Your pals at percyjackson.org have a thought or two.

Character #1: Clarisse
In The Lightning Thief book, Clarisse bullies Percy and is the one to maim him in Capture The Flag. Instead we have Annabeth. In The Sea of Monsters, Clarisse is the one who goes on a quest to save the Golden Fleece from Polyphemus. And Percy, Grover and Annabeth help her at the end. So how can they have her do that when they didn’t have her in the first film?

Easy, they just introduce her as a daughter of Ares and all is happy. They could do the bathroom swirly scene. That was a good intro for her character in The Lightning Thief book.

Character #2: Ares
Ares was really a character made for The Lightning Thief. That was really his moment to shine. Instead they have it where Luke was working alone to steal the Lightning bolt. So they could introduce him later in the series. He doesn’t really have a story now, so they’ll probably show him in passing in one of the films.

Character #3: Luke
While he’s not omitted from the film, but he still gets killed by Percy, or at least presumed dead from the water trident. (Not in the book!) So I think what they’ll do, and it ties in with change #4 below, is that he wanted to bring down the Gods so the Demi-Gods could rule.

I think that they’ll have Kronos bring Luke back alive, and have him as his puppet to bring down Olympus.

Character #4: Kronos
This is probably the crook of the issue. While we don’t see him in the book, he’s pointed out as the puppeteer pulling the strings. He’s the guy who twisted Luke into stealing the Lightning Bolt, he was the one who wanted it to bring down the Gods. The shoes from Luke were designed to pull Percy down to Tartarus to Kronos, with the Lightning Bolt.

Now the question is: How will they introduce him as the series baddie? Well, I’ve given it some thought, and talking about Luke, I’ve already given an idea, but here’s some more:

Like I said before, he’ll probably bring Luke back alive and recruit him to help him out of Tartarus, and to bring down the Gods. He’ll start taunting Percy in his dreams, like he does in The Lightning Thief book. He’ll appear on the cruise ship in the coffin, with Luke alive and well from Kronos’ hand, recruiting people and slowly having Kronos come back alive.

Character #5: Thalia
Again, she’s not in the book, but she’s now the tree that guards the Camp from Monsters. She was with Annabeth, Luke and Grover, and sacrificed herself before the events of The Lightning Thief. What’ll probably happen is they’ll introduce her tree in The Sea of Monsters, when they explain that her tree is dying or something like that.

OR, they could introduce her as a brand new camper, fresh from fighting some monsters. That would be a little weird though, I hope they do something for her like she is in the books.

Character #6: The Oracle
Same thing in Change #1 about the prophecy, I don’t know why she didn’t show up. Maybe they’ll have her as a new addition to the camp, or have it where since Percy ditched camp right away he didn’t get a prophecy for the Lightning Thief story. Probably some explanation on Chiron’s part would do some good as well. I liked having the Oracle in the books, and I hope they’ll find a way to write her in the story.

Character #7: Mr. D (Dionysus)
Here’s a character omission I can’t figure. Probably just to save time but, he’s supposed to be over the Camp for a 100 years. He was seen, not even had any lines though, but seen nonetheless in the Olympus chamber in The Lightning Thief.

Again, like the other character omissions, they might have him as a new starter in The Sea of Monsters, just barely banished for a 100 years by Zeus to run Camp Half-Blood. That would be nice to have him in it, especially because his character begins to grow in The Battle of the Labyrinth and he helps Percy in The Last Olympian.

Anyways, I hope that all these characters are featured in The Sea of Monsters, and hopefully the studio will have a better budget this time to feature these characters. I’ll take how the movie was done because it was done well, and I’m sure they’ll do terrific with The Sea of Monsters and onward, but Mr. Titley, if you are at all by chance reading this, please feature these characters in the next film. Thank you. If not, I understand, but if you can that would be awesome!

I hope you all liked this addition of CFTBWICMFFM.