The Sea of Monsters, by Rick Riordan, Part Two (Disney+ series, season two)
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Following up on our previous episode, we cover the latest season of the Percy Jackson and the Olympians: The Sea of Monsters, which is by almost any measurement a better adaptation than the movie.
I’d been sick a looong time and wasn’t quite out of the woods at the time of recording, so make some allowances for how I sound. If I sound not quite all there, it’s only because I wasn’t. (I sound substantially better on the Hugos episode I recorded last week.)
The Sea of Monsters, by Rick Riordan, Part One (2006 book/2013 movie)
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We return to Percy Jackson and the Mystifying Adaptations with Percy Jackson: Sea of Monsters, the 2013 movie based on The Sea of Monsters, by Rick Riordan.
Will this movie right the ship and kick of the remaining three movies into a successful and beloved quintilogy? (It will not.)
We’ll reconvene next month for the Disney+ adaptation, which has a better chance of going the distance.
Star-Wikileaks! (The Star Wars Holiday Special, with guest Scott Kirkwood from starwarsholidayspecial.com)
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We all attended a screening of the Star Wars Holiday Special in Vancouver, Washington a couple of weekends ago, and I reached out to one of the co-producers on the documentary film A Disturbance of the Force: How the Star Wars Holiday Special Happened, who happens to live in our town, and he agreed to host us for an informal discussion of the Special, the documentary, and his website.
If you live in the Portland area, check out the Kiggins Theater. They screen the Holiday Special every year, and also do lots of other fun events including the Oscar-nominated short films.
Double-dipping this month, covering a couple of previously covered books that got new adaptations. First up, the absolutely delightful nonsense that is The War of the Worlds, starring Ice Cube.
Assistant *to* the Regional Major (The Long Walk, by Stephen King)
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Seth was under the weather after returning from doing the Cotswold Way hike in England, so to protect the other guys from germs, this was recorded on his backyard patio, so please forgive the neighbor dog’s squeaky toy accompaniment.
Patio-cast! This worked out well enough that we’ll definitely do it again. Perfect day in Western Oregon.
Rankings!
Colin: movie/book
James: book/movie
Seth: movie/book
Post-credits scenes for this episode include some discussion of the Cotswold Way hike and meeting up with a friend of the podcast.
If you zoom in you can see the etching on the stone James is astride, saying “Bath 100M.” It’s miles, not meters. This is us pre-blisters.We have a Phil Nichols sighting!All of us at the finish line in Bath, blisters and all. Quite a long walk! (Left to right, Emily, James, Elaine, and Seth)
“Supertoys Last all Summer Long,” by Brian Aldiss (A.I. Artificial Intelligence)
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Wrapping up (for now) the informal Robot series we’ve been doing, we discuss Brian Aldiss’s short story “Supertoys Last All Summer Long,” adapted (loosely) to A.I. Artificial Intelligence.
We discuss the final four episodes of Season One of Murderbot, then discuss the season as a whole, and then have a long post-script about what project to undertake after we cover one more robot story. (Hint: both possibilities begin with the letter S.)
