Board Thread:The Heroes of Olympus/@comment-29729973-20170317173745/@comment-35275578-20180414033238

Lostofme wrote: Only, If Riordan does that, yes. If he makes not-jokable villain and villains, I really appreciate it. But when he goes and makes all the villains or enemies are jokable and complete dumbs, I really am offended and I feel like I'm insulted. Yes, It's like an insult. I mean, children are not dumb and they can understand things fine. It's not like they're lack of understanding plots, stories and good writings. So, there is no need to be to underestimating children's intellect.

And, when Riordan makes all villains as useless and pointless, this also automatically makes that they're easy to defeat. Anyone, yes, could defeat them. Because, sadly, they're badly written.

''But making Annabeth’s all enemies are total dumb doesn’t make Annabeth is smarter than them and it does not usefull to help Annabeth’s character development, at all. It is like, her enemies’s IQ points are 5 and Annabeth’s IQ point is 20 or something like that.''

I do, think the same thing. And It's not just for Annabeth or her enemies. It's also about other enemies and villains in the series. Really, when I go back and read the scenes again, I can't find any goodly written villain or a good fighting-scene plot. Seven defeated Giants too easily. They even defeated Gaea too easily and It was not even a fighting scene that considerably an exciting one.

''You are right, but the point is that PJ and HoO were created for kids 8-15 years old. I don't know if it's possible make some manipulation's scene easy to them understand.''

They can understand, because they're not stupid. I mean, there are so many books like that, with great plots, stories, fighting scenes and well written enemies and villains with all that intelligence and manipulations and all that scenes that really considerably exciting, inspiring, fascinating and impressive. If you want to make a real character development, you must write that kind of scenes and plots, I mean, the great plots and well written scenes. Otherwise, it's pointless. If Seven defeats all their enemies that easily, they're not gonna change. It's not gonna help their character development, it's not gonna change anything. So, all that plots and scenes are like, pointless and meaningless. Thank you.