This is also our first real chance to get to know Annabeth (Jeffries), who had her backstory told to us by Luke in the previous episode. She’s kind, but in a “don’t mess with me or I will not hesitate to kill you” sort of way, and this grounds the character in reality and helps make clear how complex she is. Kennedy plays a gentle and softly spoken Medusa with an undertone of malice. Much of “We Visit The Garden Gnome Emporium’s” success can be attributed to Leah Sava Jeffries and Jessica Parker Kennedy, who spend the runtime stealing scenes from one another.

These arguments between Annabeth and Percy get more serious as the episode goes on, brought on by their encounter with Medusa, the chilling antagonist and subject of everything this episode has to say.

Percy Jackson and the Olympians’ dialogue and writing continues to allow our main three to feel like real children, such as when they bicker about what snacks to get and who is going to get them. This being our first time getting to see the team in action together, “We Visit The Garden Gnome Emporium” is full of growing pains, as Percy and Annabeth vie for power as leader of the group while Grover attempts to appease them both (though he does break from his coddling eventually, in a cathartic moment for both him and the audience).

It’s a bold move that could have brought the pacing to a screeching halt, but instead delves into the psyche of our main characters and delivers some of the most important lessons the series has to offer them. Rather than hit the ground running, the third episode of Percy Jackson and the Olympians slows things down for a side mission that tests our protagonists, both in their loyalty to one another and their parents, revealing new perspectives and sowing seeds of doubt.

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