User blog comment:SayuriDarling/The Mark of Athena Official Discussion/@comment-4517591-20121006071543/@comment-186.82.70.150-20121006190948

besides of the fact that he was getting knocked out all the time, jasons powers compared to the lost hero actually improved. in the other book he couldnt cast one lightning bolt without getting tired and now he makes an entire storm.

the one that got dumbed down was percy, he didnt used his powers as much as he could have and the guy who beat him at sword fighting well, it was just ridiculus percy is the best swordman in the last 300 years he wouldnt go down that easily.

i think RR did this on purpose, not just to give the others more protagonism but also to make jasons and percys powers more equal, even if everybody already knows that percy is clearly more powerful