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* In Episode 2, when Percy first meets Luke Castellan in the Hermes Cabin, there's a sort of ominous theme playing as Luke approaches Percy, who initially believes Luke someone who wants to give him a hard time like other bullies he's encountered. [[spoiler:The ominous soundtrack hints that Luke isn't who he seems to be and, ironically, Percy was right that Luke will eventually be giving him and his friends "[[{{Understatement}} a hard time]]".]]

* TheStinger where Gabe is revealed to have been divorced by Sally, locked out of the apartment, and accidentally prettifies himself with Medusa's head when he steals the package meant for Percy makes sense from a storytelling angle. In the books, Gabe was physically abusive to Sally for years, thus justifying her using the Head on him. The series version is an AdaptationalWimp and thus didn't deserve such punishment, but was still a lazy, greedy, and repulsive person, so it's appropriate that instead he suffered a KarmicDeath due to an [[EvilIsPetty vindictive act of pettiness]] backfiring on him.

* TheStinger where Gabe is revealed to have been divorced by Sally, locked out of the apartment, and accidentally prettifies himself with Medusa's head when he steals the package meant for Percy makes sense from a storytelling angle. In the books, Gabe was physically abusive to Sally for years, thus justifying her using the Head on him, despite it also being somewhat out-of-character for such a nice person. The series version is an AdaptationalWimp and thus didn't deserve such punishment, but was still a lazy, greedy, and repulsive person, so it's appropriate that instead he suffered a KarmicDeath due to an [[EvilIsPetty vindictive act of pettiness]] backfiring on him.

* When he appears in Percy's dreams, [[spoiler:Kronos]] carries around a lit lantern. [[FiveSecondForeshadowing Right before they are exposed]] in the Season 1 final, what is the true Lightning Thief carrying? A lantern.

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* TheStinger where Gabe is revealed to have been divorced by Sally, locked out of the apartment, and accidentally prettifies himself with Medusa's head when he steals the package meant for Percy makes sense from a storytelling angle. In the books, Gabe was physically abusive to Sally for years thus justifying her using the Head on him despite it also being somewhat out of character for such a nice person. The series version is an AdaptationalWimp and thus didn't deserve such punishment but was still a lazy, greedy, repulsive, and unintelligent person and so its appropriate that instead he suffered a KarmicDeath due to an [[EvilIsPetty vindictive act of pettiness]] backfiring on him.

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* In a departure from the books, shades in Asphodel [[{{Transflormation}} slowly transform into trees]]. This brings to mind another tree with a human soul: Thalia's pine. Just as the Asphodel spirits are trapped in an eternal middle between Elysian Paradise and the Fields of Punishment, Thalia's spirit is somewhere in between life and death. As long as the tree lives, Thalia's soul will not go to the Underworld (where she ''certainly'' will not get a fair trial on account of being a forbidden child), but she can no longer participate in the world, while other people's lives happen around her.

* On top of ColorblindCasting, Zeus taking on the form of a black man does lean into one of his myths and characterizations. As told by Ovid, Zeus once disguised himself (and Hermes) as poor beggars to see how people would treat him. The couple who treated the two of them well were blessed; the people who rejected him were punished. SacredHospitality is one of Zeus' domains as a god and was taken seriously in Ancient Greece, and while beggars aren't quite common enough in the West to use that method, race relations are also a decent way to test mortals. It can even be seen as a mix of Ancient Greece's morals (guest rights are sacred) and the ideals of the modern West (that of racial equality), where Zeus tests both.

* On top of ColorBlindCasting, Zeus taking on the form of a black man does lean into one of his myths and characterizations. As told by Ovid, Zeus once disguised himself (and Hermes) as poor beggars to see how people would treat him. The couple who treated the two of them well were blessed; the people who rejected him were punished. SacredHospitality is one of Zeus' domains as a god and was taken seriously in Ancient Greece, and while beggars aren't quite common enough in the West to use that method, race relations are also a decent way to test mortals. It can even be seen as a mix of Ancient Greece's morals (guest rights are sacred) and the ideals of the modern West (that of racial equality), where Zeus tests both.

* On top of race-blind casting, Zeus taking on the form of a black man does lean into one of his myths and characterizations. As told by Ovid, Zeus once disguised himself (and Hermes) as poor beggars to see how people would treat him. The couple who treated the two of them well were blessed, the people who rejected him were punished. Sacred hospitality is something Zeus in the myths treats seriously, and while beggars aren't quite common enough in The West to use that method, race relations are also a decent way to test mortals. It can even be seen as a mix of Ancient Greece's morals (guest rights are sacred) and the ideals of the modern West (that of racial equality) where Zeus tests both.

* In a departure from the books, shades in Asphodel [[{{Transflormation}} slowly transform into trees]]. This brings to mind another tree with a human soul: Thalia's pine. Just as the Asphodel spirits are trapped in an eternal middle between Elysian Paradise and the Fields of Punishment, Thalia's spirit is somewhere in between life and death. As long as the tree lives, Thalia's soul will not go to the Underworld (where she ''certainly'' will not get a fair trial on account of being a forbidden child), but she can no longer participate in the world, while other people's lives happen around her.

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