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I saw a lot of unwarranted criticism against ep06 of the Percy Jackson TV series, how there's no Lady Gaga or it didn't match the book. I think you guys were colored by the movie too much, with the trippy colorful lights and Grover's dancing. Iconic as that scene would be, it only works when the trio are late teenagers or near adults. Are you sure you're comfortable watching a bunch of 12 year olds gambling and clubbing?

Even if we followed the book exactly it would be a boring episode. If you remember The Lightning Thief, that chapter consists of the trio playing games all day and Percy only realised what was wrong when he saw the 70s-looking guy.

A scene like that would only last at least 10 minutes max, just like in the movie. It would be an empty episode leaving you wondering why they didn't just cut the entire lotus scene entirely and just explain the Nico plot points with a sentence in the future season.

I think this episode worked well when you insisted on having the Lotus casino scene. Instead of watching kids wasting time playing games. You get to explore the relationship between Hermes with Luke, and what's Annabeth's thoughts on it. And why after all this time Annabeth still believe in Luke. We also get to see the parenting style between Hermes and Poseidon. And how different Walker's Percy idea of his father is from ep03 till now.

Also, the taxi scene is fun. No notes.

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Estimating how old Alluka got locked up.

Alluka has always been odd to me.

She was weird in my eyes because I couldn’t comprehend how “normal” she sounded and acted when she got released from her so-called room after all these years.

Like yeah no zoldyck is actually sane in the head no matter who it is but it still made me wonder how long has Alluka been locked up. Cuz it’s been more than just five years, it must’ve been a whole decade.

We may not exactly know when she got locked up but we can still estimate the answer.

And to do that, we’ll need Killua’s and Alluka’s age when Nanika first made herself present since Killua is a year older than Alluka.

It was explicitly said that Killua was forced at the age of six to battle in the martial arts tournament at the Heavens Arena. Once he would reach the 200th floor, he’d be allowed to go back home. He returned after two years which would make him 8 at that time.

We know that he couldn’t have been eight years old when Alluka got put in isolation because the flashback with Mitsuba (Nanika’s first victim) had Killua looking way too young to be 8.

Meaning that all the events that transpired due to Nanika’s victims and their bloodshed must’ve happened when Killua was exactly 6 years old, making Alluka 5 years old at the time.

We can also conclude that the year this all took place in was in 1994 thanks to the manga’s timeline.

So now that we know Alluka got locked up at the age of 5, let’s also see how long she has been in isolation for.

Alluka was born in 1989, got confined at 5 years old in 1994 and got released by Killua in 2000.

So to conclude, Alluka has been imprisoned in the estate for 6 years and finally left Kukuroo Mountain after 11 years.

im scared of episode 6.

episode 6 is the lotus hotel episode. and its rumoured to be the musical episode. WHICH MEANS it's going to be a masterpiece or horrible, probably no in between.

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Jason is holding the gun Danny’s in front but also flying behind? Idk maybe Danny got split into Danny Fenton and Danny phantom. Tim is the annoyed one in the second photo he hasn’t had enough coffee yet

He looks so good omg???

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