Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-35304678-20180415140951/@comment-35304678-20180423151559

My problem about Nico is, Nico's unnecessary angst as I said. I understand him. But the fact that Nico has enough self-loathing and hate for himself that it almost knocked Jason out, It's too much. And Cupid scene was not necessary. Because what's the meaning of this? Abusing and make fun of Nico is fine? It's to much disturbing to me. Angst can be understandable, if it's necessary. But for Cupid scene, it wasn't. M point it, why Nico's bullying by Cupid was necessary? Cupid pretty much forcing Nico to admit his being gay. Nico could've been opened to people when the time came. When he feels ready, he could tell people about it.

Blood of Olympus dealt with the subject normally, and had a very bad reception.

What do you mean by that? Nico's getting over his love for Percy? What angst or subject you're talking about?

While The Hidden Oracle again switched to angst, it received positive reviews despite Apollo's self centerism.

Apollo being selfish or having self centerism is not a problem to me, much. The problem is...well, I pretty much explained it. His unnecessary comments and speechs about lgbt, it wasn't needed. Apollo's being bisexual is fine. But, for example, Apollo insinuating a threat if someone has a problem with his bisexuality. It's just unnecessary.

 The Hammer of Thor was almost a political mouthpiece, but ended up being Riordan's most critically acclaimed work.

All those political mouthpiece was unnecessary too. You can portray lgbt's normality without adding those political mouthpiece. The diversity was nice, adding this is acclaimed. I like to see diversity. The problem is how you handle and portray it. It's fine and Riordan's writting lgbt characters is great, but if you handled it well.

I liked Jo and Em for example. You don't see so much speech or preaching about it. It's just written the way it is. They have no unnecessary angst or they don't judge people because people maybe sees their sexuality as wrong and people judge them or smth. For example, think aobut Alex's unnecessary actions, like he is being ready to start maiming folks who get her gender pronouns wrong, even if those people have no idea what's Alex's gender is and couldn't know it.

I didn't reat ship of dead, but I don't mind spoilers right now. How did end those political mouthpiece or in the end, did Riordan manage to handle Alex's character and being genderfluid well?