User blog comment:SayuriDarling/The House of Hades Official Discussion/@comment-24058332-20131016162724/@comment-24058332-20131016184650

Maybe weeks was a bit of an exaggeration but he was there for a considerable amount of time. Calypso herself stated that time flowed differently on the island so he could have been there for an extended period of time and only a day or two could have passed in the real world. Leo even says that making the navigation device took a long time since you can't rush perfection. Then the thing about Leo playing the victim card, I'm kind of confused about where he plays the victim card. It might just be my not remembering the novel very well but I'm pretty certain that Leo never played the "victim card". He brings up his past a few times about his mother dying in the burning mechanic shop but he never tries to play if off as if he is the victim of things. He makes sarcastic jokes to cope with the problem but he's not really making himself the victim but rather trying to negate the insult with a euphemism to make himself feel better. And the thing with the gods, it really is their job to free her from the island considering what Percy did to make sure they stayed on top of the Titans. Then the thing about them not having time to connect, I mean Leo already knows that Calypso is the daughter of Atlas and she's stuck on the island because of a curse. There really isn't much background information for her to learn there. Then if you want to try and argue that Calypso didn't know about Leo 's past, let's just rewind the novel. In the novel, Calypso comes to Leo's hut with the army jacket and other fireproof clothes. Leo is shocked because those were the clothes he wore the first day he arrived at Camp Half-Blood. So we already know that Calypso is some kind of sorceress since Circe mentions it in Sea of Monsters and she obviously is since she could not have known about those clothes any other way. Then her entire singing thing which made the projector thing work is also through some kind of magic. So we know she is somehow magically inclined. Then, after looking at the projector thing, she states that looking into the past is much easier than looking into the future. This infers that she has the ability to look into the past. So when she was making those clothes for Leo, she could have easily looked even farther into his past and learned about him. So now they both have that background information on each other. And her falling in love with him again goes back to her curse how she has to fall in love with whoever washes up on her shores. Like I stated previously, all the other heroes who showed up had someone, but Leo doesn't. This is a new element because now Calypso doesn't have someone else who already likes them. Now the thing about the her leaving the island and not liking Leo, I can respect that. She has no reason to like Leo once she is free from the island and she can just as easily leave him for someone else who she chooses. That part is more for my satisfaction with the novel than anything else I suppose. Then going onto the thing where they only start liking each other the last day. I think that's pretty short-sighted considering Leo's comments on her throughout their time together and her actions towards him. Rick Riordan doesn't come right out and say it but I feel you can infer that they are warming up to each other slowly. The thing about Piper thinking that the world will end in storm or fire is a pretty weak basis on what will happen in my opinion. Sure Piper thinks that's what is going to happen but these prophecies always have their double meanings which you don't fully understand until the last chapter of the last book. His swearing on the River Styx could be a bit impulsive from his hormonal rampage right before he left but it kind of plays into the romantic thing as a whole. On the topic of how Calypso's attitude is changed to fit Leo, I feel that's a pretty broad statement considering we don't learn much about her. She shows up in one book where she nurses Percy back to health but her character isn't really shown their at all. All we are seeing is her actions towards healing Percy so that he can go back to help win the war. So that encounter doesn't really say anything about her as a character. Rick Riordan took this "vaugness" so he could apply it in the future such as this book where we actually do learn a lot about her as a character. And just going off of what I've read, you seem to really hate the entire relationship thing but I can't blame you. Personally, I'm a sucker for the romantics so whenever these things happen I feel its justified because it appeals to me. But we're all entitled to our own opinion so all I can do is respect yours and give my thoughts on it.