I remember when I was about ten, and first getting into Percy Jackson, I yelled at my biological father: "You aren't my Dad! Poseidon is!" when I was confronted about cleaning my room.





I identified with Percy, and to this day, I still do.









This is how I first saw the books. At the time I had no idea how much of my life--and my money--they would consume.





Really. Nearly every year I re-read the series, and magnificently, they never grow old. Every time I re-read it there is something new to discover; some way that I can relate it to my life now that I could not on the previous read through.





This book series turned me into an avid reader, and has even helped shape my professional life. Percy Jackson and the Olympians made me love reading, and now that I am in my local university, enrolled in the College of Education--well, it's an understatement to say that I want to teach kids how to love to read, and teens to appreciate literature and the contributions/alterations it makes to society as a whole. Of course, there are other reasons that I want to teach. However, that is a subject for another day.





Just recently, I have stumbled across a development that has made me restless: the possibility of Percy's Odyssey being adapted into a TV show via Disney+. Given the extreme let down of the previous movie adaptions, this is welcome news indeed for these tired eyes. In fact, it excites me in a way that I have never been excited before. The format of a TV show seems to fit perfect for the series in my eyes, because it allows for a more in depth and accurate depiction of the books that a movie simply cannot hope to match. There is no pressure to condense the content like there is within a movie, because there's not nearly as much pressure on the writer(s) to ram the content of the books into a 2-3 hour time frame.





What excites me even more is that, according to We Got This Covered (I am not sure of the credibility of this source), the series will star actors more closely related in age to their respected characters. If this is true, and if this is not cause to celebrate, then hang me by my ankle and hit me with a slab of frozen meat because I am excited to see Rick Riordan finally respected by these film makers.









Rick says this about the rumors surrounding Percy Jackson and the Olympians being turned into a Disney+ exclusive.







