User blog comment:Darkcloud1111/Official "The Sea of Monsters (movie)" Discussion/@comment-7742465-20130703043838/@comment-3146930-20130704001759


 * As far as may goes, they could change Luke's back-story a bit. Instead of having May go crazy from trying to become the Oracle, she could go crazy just from being able to see past the Mist. Maybe the day Luke ran away, him and Hermes had a fight and Hermes' true form caused her to go crazy.
 * I do understand that Rachel was important for character development, but her becoming the Oracle was more for her development. By the end of the first movie, Percy seems to already like Annabeth, while in the book he didn't really start to realize his feelings until BotL (Aphrodite hints at it in TTC, but Percy is sticking to his "Just a friend" excuse).
 * The "New Oracle" plot line is important in the book, as we find out about Nico's past, the curse on the Oracle, which leads to May's craziness, which leads to Luke hating the gods; but with no Nico, we don't need to know about the Oracle's past, and I gave a different explanation for May's craziness above.

The movies will never be perfect and can't include everything from the book, but in order to make a three movie series work, these are the things that must be changed to work. If they are going to cut TTC and BotL, they can't include Rachel, Nico, Bianca, or any major character introduced after The Sea of Monsters for plot reasons (basically tossing in a bunch of characters in the final movie).

This is all speculation however, as none of the trailers I have seen, or any news on IMDB have listed this series as a trilogy.