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Riordan writes series for children. So, he adds jokes, humour and such. But portraying gods like that, or portraying all villains like comic reliefs, is dull. What's the point with fighting with the gods and villains like that, if your characters always win? Or, what's the point of those cheap portrayals?

Satire? Satire's definition is this:  Satire is a technique employed by writers to expose and criticize foolishness and corruption of an individual or a society by using humor, irony, exaggeration or ridicule. Or,  the use of humour, irony, exaggeration, or ridicule to expose and criticize people's stupidity or vices, particularly in the context of contemporary politics and other topical issues.

How Pjo and Kc expose and criticize foolishness? For ridicule and irony, maybe. But for criticize things? I don't think so. Surely, Riordan adds jokes and humour in the books he writes, but that doesn't mean he writes his series for satire. Riordan is not Momus.

Criticize people's, in this situation, Gods's stupidity or vies...well, if in the Pjo books something like that happened, I totaly missed the whole thing! But, there is another thing, Last time I checked, Pjo's genres are adventure, fantasy, family, ect. If Rick's intentions were write satire, Amen. But he doesn't criticize people's (or Gods) foolishness, he makes them foolish, even if they are not. And he makes other gods  as complete different from their actual personalities. The big example, Poseidon. Ares. Demeter. Hera. Or Hades's portrayal's unfairness, making his all children as Nazis or Fascist and such, while making all Zeus and Posedion's children as heroes.

The criticizing, to me, making Zeus and Posedion as villains, for example. Rather than making Posedion as completely different from his actual personality. Because, what kind of criticizing is that?

Magnus Chase can be considered as satire, but satire for politics. Even if that's somehow dull. Because, you know, Riordan's portraying the situation is slapping all preachings, speeches, and unnecessary things in our faces.

Gods and goddesses portrayal, how this can be considered as satire? It's more likely, their portrayals are usually like comic reliefes for children, not for criticize and expose foolishness and such.

 If you notice, The Lightning Thief and Sea of Monsters were not that satire

You think?

but from The Titan's Curse onwards, the gods were treated like trash.. Yeap.