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There's children of the Big Three, naturally; those were unavoidable from the start. *sigh* I wonder, how does one miss the fact that the oath-breaking is a supremely bad plan?
But, beside the expected, there's also: children of Kronos, children who are 2/3 god, children of random other gods, probably both real and invented, Egyptian gods... oh, and several people who don't seem to be able to count, but that's nothing new.
It makes me sad. The books are excellent, IMO. Why must their subject matter be butchered?
...never mind. I remember. Because it's there, and there's a movie of it. Though, from the looks of things, the fandom was in a bad way even before the movie hit.

Isn't Alpha Centauri considered to be what happens after the spaceship ending of a Civ game, since it's a Sid Meier game as well?

In case you're wondering, 4X means, "Like civilization"

Basically, the best and brightest people flee earth to a planet in orbit around Alpha Centauri prime shortly before a massive nuclear war. After some misadventures involving a terrorist organization, an assassin, a damaged fusion reactor, and some other stuff, they split into seven factions and start cities on the planetary surface, at which point they come under attack by indigenous mindworms and fast growing xenofungus. It turns out the fungus is sentient and controls the mindworms and their naval, aerial, and, in the expansion, artillery and submarine variants.

Since it's a civilization style 4X game, the exact ending is up to the player, though the consequences of the conquest, diplomatic, and economic victories are somewhat unclear. Basically, the humans merge with the planetmind, get eaten by mindworms, or burn, poison, and nuke the fungus back. Alternately, in the expansion one of the alien factions calls in home fleet.

You know, somehow I'm not surprised that the fic for PJatO is lousy. It's a YA series - so it's aimed at basically prime fanbrat age - and the characters are canonically demigods. Let me guess, there's a lot of Big Three kids running around suddenly?

So, yesterday I go to see the new Percy Jackson movie. I come home, check the Pit, and realize that the badfic is bad.

What to do? First off, take care of the shapeless minis.

They are called Mini-Harpies, and are pretty much exclusivly female.

A current list can be found on my LiveJournal: http://a-la-piph.livejournal.com/940.html#cutid1

Adoption policy is at the top.

Human interest (which is not a synonym for romance) is not lame, especially when it comes to war movies. Most of them aren't just about fighting; most of them are at least in part meant to show how demanding, how awful war is for the people doing the fighting, which is something very important to remember. If they add in a few romantic liaisons, that's just part of the whole cloth because it's one of the few ways those guys have to relax and NOT go completely nuts. Though some of them will anyway, unfortunately.

I do agree with you about the latter, though. I know a few women who could do with realizing that equality means we have to do half the work, not just reap the benefits.

~Neshomeh

Just to let you know, a day late-- I rewrote the mission, and reposted it. Here's the new link(and it's in two parts) -
http://agentsams.livejournal.com/1425.html#cutid1 That's part one
http://agentsams.livejournal.com/1741.html#cutid1 And this is part two.
Also, there's a list of minis on my main journal up for adoption--the typo Mini in the title is being offered to Chilever, but everyone else is up for adoption. Here's the link - http://ironamerica.livejournal.com/1625.html#cutid2

One question-- what's Alpha Centauri?
-Honu_Wahine

What the hell? Damnit. I need to check my own spelling.... You want that one?

That was a fun read.

By the way italics are text without the spaces.

You made a Mini-Toruk of your own! At one point, the page calls them Mini-TUROKS!

I'll read the mission tomorrow.

Also, Vague curiosity: Who else here watched the movie after having played Alpha Centauri? Even if I hadn't been mildly spoiled, I'd probably have figured out what was going on when they commented on the trees communicating.

Part of it is human nature. Part of it is human stupidity (though I'm not quite sure there's a difference between nature and stupidity). Part of it is film producers who have this great action movie and think only guys will want to see it, so they try to appeal to the female crowd by adding romance. *rolls eyes*

Why do you think I'm sort of fed up with the Romance genre at the moment? It's not that I hate Romance. It's that it's everywhere! Why? People want to know what happens next. It's an overused cliffhanger that keeps people watching these movies and shows or reading these books. Will so-and-so end up with this person or that person? Le gasp! This character kissed this random person at the end of the movie! Oh, I guess I'll have to see the next sequel to find out what happened!

*sigh* Human nature. At least it means that we have an instinct for this sort of thing, right? As in, we may end up overpopulating the earth, but as long as there aren't any apocalypses, nuclear wars, plagues, climate disturbances, or badly functioning governments, we'll never have to worry about dying out, right?

Personally, I don't mind Romance all that much. I wish they'd come up with a more original way to keep people interested, though. And I hate nearly all of the Romance clichés, so I'm getting bored with seeing this everywhere.

Anyone else think that they do this to keep the viewers watching a plotless two-hour movie, among other things?

I think the reason romance plots are more glaring in movies is because the entire romance has to get shoehorned into the parts of the two, three hour movie left over from the main plot. This leads to a situation where the audience is still just getting to know these characters, and now that guy and that gal are already jumping at each other's lips. The same is kind of true in a stand-alone novel. In a longer book series or television show, we can be slowly led into the romance one scene at a time over multiple chapters/seasons, so it feels less forced and more like a natural progression of the characters' storylines.

I don't mind romance between action-oriented characters, so long as the romance doesn't completely disable them DURING the fight scenes.

RL asexual here. Meaning to come out to the people who know me in real life because I'd like my parents to stop thinking I'm just a social failure. Eventually.

Also busy writing a novel in which the main character does not end up in a relationship, because A) she's thirteen and B) she has better things to worry about. Two of her gang members sort of have a thing going, and there's two guys between whom I'm going to intentionally include as much Ho Yay as possible because if I don't actually state that they're gay then the fans who don't like slash will ignore it and the fans who do like it would imagine it was there even if it wasn't. But neither of those relationships is actually a major focus of the plot.

Isn't human interest lame? They even shoehorn it into war movies of all things. Also, I hate how twu wuv seems to be about treating the female lead like a princess instead of a partner.

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Single?
Couldn't care less?
Yeah, me too.
Seriously, it's been months since I've read a book or seen a movie in which nobody ended up in a romantic relationship with anybody else. I'm not suggesting that romance should be entirely purged from the media, but really. I find myself muttering under my breath, "Gah! Stop looking at him with 'a new understanding'! Just go off and stab some monsters! That's why you were written! And you! It doesn't matter if you upset her, because she's an idiot! Quit worrying about it!" It's like, no character goes through a novel without acquiring a significant other. If they're gay, that is the whole story and there's no plot other than "can we be gay or not?" and in the end they can, hurrah, caviar all around. Every story needs to have twu wuv in it somewhere. Discuss?

Ha ha, they're coming to take me away, ho ho, he he, ha ha, to the Funny Farm, where life is beautiful all the time, and I'll be happy to see those nice young men in their clean white coats, and they're coming to take me away, HA HA!

I am very glad, someone is willing to take this mess on. It is just wrong to do this to the characters.

I'll launch my Agents into this mess, I think.