Percy Jackson and the Olympians season 1 is based on the books written by Rick Riordan, and it follows the life of a young boy who realizes that he has supernatural powers and is a demigod. So, let’s find out what happened in the first episode of the series, how Percy Jackson was able to find out about his true nature, and what fate had in store for him.
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Why did Percy leave school?
Percy always knew that he was not like other kids, and at first, it used to bother him. In the beginning, he always wondered why he couldn’t be like others; additionally, he was bullied and didn’t have a lot of friends. But with time, Percy became accustomed to the fact that he could probably imagine or maybe see things that others couldn’t. At that point in Percy Jackson and the Olympians episode 1, he didn’t know whether what he saw was real or not and he was not averse to entertaining the fact that he might be daydreaming. But with time, his hallucinations worsened, and he didn’t know how to deal with himself and pretend to be normal when he saw these huge mythic creatures walking amidst the normal people. Others obviously didn’t see that, and Percy knew that the moment he told anyone about it, they would mock him. So, he kept quiet, but things got out of hand one time when Nancy Bobofit, a fellow student, really crossed the line and bullied him to the point where he couldn’t stop himself. He just raised his hands, and something happened to Nancy; she almost flew and fell inside the fountain.
Just then, a teacher named Mrs. Dodds transformed in front of his eyes into this demonic creature, and she attacked him. All of a sudden, she vanished, and Percy realized that no one else saw her. In fact, when he said that Mrs. Dodds attacked him, he was informed that no one with that name taught in the school. Percy didn’t know if he was going mad or if the others just didn’t want to believe him. He was kicked out of his school, and he was scared about his future, but more than that, it was really frustrating for him to see that no one believed him. He felt devastated when Grover testified against him and said that he pushed Nancy into the fountain. Percy kept on repeating that he hadn’t touched the girl, but the headmaster had already made up his mind, so there was no point convincing him.
Did Percy have superpowers?
Mr. Brunner, Percy’s teacher, had always been there for him in the past, and he told him that he believed in his narrative but couldn’t change the school’s decision. He went back to his mother’s house, where she stayed with her partner, Gabe, who was another peculiar character. Percy didn’t really have a very good relationship with him, and moreover, he just didn’t want to answer his questions, as he was already quite taxed and irritated. The moment Percy Jackson told his mother about what happened to him and how he felt that his visions were real and not a figment of imagination, she told him that they were going to go to Montauk. They had a cabin where they often went for vacation, and Percy had no clue why his mother had suddenly decided to go there. Sally knew something that she was hesitating to tell her son. She was trying to find the right words so that Percy didn’t get shocked, but before she could do that, Grover arrived there out of nowhere and told them that they would have to leave for a place called the Camp.
Percy got to know that his father was one of the Olympians, which made him a demigod, which is why he had powers that no one else did. It was too much for Percy to handle that piece of information, and he got even more startled when he got to know that Grover was himself a demigod called Satyr, who was given the task of protecting Percy and delivering him safely to the Camp. Grover told Percy that the Camp was a safe haven where people like them stayed. Percy was mad at his mother for not sharing such important information before, and he was a bit scared, too, as he had no clue what the future held in store for him.
Was Percy able to reach the Camp?
At the end of Percy Jackson and the Olympians episode 1, we saw that a minotaur started following Sally’s car as it wanted to get hold of Percy for some reason. Percy didn’t understand why all these people wanted to kill him when he had not done anything, and Grover kept telling him that he would get to know everything once he reached the Camp. There came a point where Sally realized that she would have to try to distract the Minotaur; otherwise, it would catch them. Sally knew that there was a possibility that she would get killed, but she was ready to sacrifice her life so that her son could live.
Grover told Percy to run and cross the border of the Camp, but Percy just couldn’t leave his mother. He saw the minotaur crushing his mother as she faded into oblivion as if she had never existed. Percy had the pen that Mr. Brunner gave him, and he saw that it magically converted into a sword. The little boy wrote history when he killed the minotaur, which was almost ten times his size. Percy and Grover reached the Camp, where we saw that Mr. Brunner, who was himself a centaur, greeted them. A grief-stricken Percy had a lot of questions, and he believed that after so much struggle, he would at least get to meet his father, who would tell him what was happening to him and why all those creatures were behind him. In the subsequent episode of Percy Jackson and the Olympians, we would get to know what fate had in store for the little boy, if Sally Jackson had actually died, and if the Gods had some plan for Percy.
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