Board Thread:Antaeus' Arena: Audience Chamber/@comment-1515612-20170125025036/@comment-31094009-20170211212025

Lapetus -Bob- is a Titan who didn't actually die in the same sense as everyone else, Octavian was practically the antagonist and Bryce was kind of asking for it.

in PJO we actually see the mourning of a god for his deceased son, manipulation that's stronger than Octavian and Bryce just being jerks, Luke, and self sacrificing that actually was a sacrifice not just, "oh we may die" or somehow the entire "sacrifice" part is ruined by the said sacrificer, is that a word, having a magic item that restores death.

I don't know, I guess I just feel that Riordan was trying to make this series more mature by adding more romantic relations between the characters and in order to do that he had to cut back on some of the more realistic parts of mythological battles.