Percy Jackson (Walker Scobell) meets the little half-brother he by no means knew he had in Percy Jackson and the Olympians Season 2. The cyclops Tyson (Daniel Diemer) makes his debut within the season premiere, airing Wednesday, December 10, on Disney+. Scobell tells TV Insider that the sudden arrival of his child brother triggers a few of Percy’s core wounds about their dad, Poseidon (Toby Stephens).
Percy met his dad for the primary time within the Season 1 finale, when he returned Zeus’ (the late Lance Reddick, now performed by Courtney B. Vance) stolen lightning bolt and prevented an Olympian conflict (for now). A flashback scene with Poseidon and Sally Jackson (Percy’s mother, performed by Virginia Kull) made specifically for Season 1 confirmed that Poseidon does love his son, whom the human Sally was struggling to lift by herself. There was additionally actual love between Poseidon and Sally, however circumstances have been holding them aside. Percy didn’t know who his dad actually was till he was 12 and monsters began searching him down. When he met his dad in Olympus, he solely had one query: “Do you ever dream about Mother?” The candy child didn’t ask if his dad beloved him; he requested if his mother was beloved.
“His emotions about his dad are very sophisticated,” Scobell tells TV Insider. “He by no means actually obtained a solution for the dreaming factor in Season 1. The query he requested him [was] principally if his dad ever thinks about his mother.” Poseidon couldn’t convey himself to reply.
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That Sally-Poseidon flashback instructed viewers that the ocean god most likely thinks about Sally on a regular basis. Percy nonetheless has no concept that this interplay ever occurred, so he’s utterly in the dead of night about what’s seemingly some mutual craving between his split-up dad and mom. Poseidon’s absence for all of his younger life, plus the presence of his terrible stepfather, Gabe (Timm Sharp), has left Percy feeling unloved in a approach. Percy takes Tyson’s arrival as proof that his dad doesn’t love him, in line with Scobell.
“At first, Percy thinks, ‘OK, that is an insult to me. My dad doesn’t care about me. That is only a present of how a lot he doesn’t truly care about me,’” Scobell tells us.
Tyson will be part of Percy and Annabeth (Leah Sava Jeffries) on their quest to save lots of Grover (Aryan Simhadri) after he’s kidnapped by the cyclops Polyphemus (Aleks Paunovic). Tyson, who’s harmless and delicate at coronary heart however has been via his personal making an attempt instances earlier than arriving at Camp Half-Blood, will exacerbate Percy and Annabeth’s wrestle to know one another in Season 2. Annabeth has a bias in opposition to cyclopes as a result of a cyclops was concerned within the loss of life of her finest good friend, Thalia (Tamara Good), the daughter of Zeus. Annabeth should unlearn her bias, and Percy should study to reframe his emotions about his household.
“He begins to comprehend, all through the hunt, that it was truly extra of a present from his father, Tyson being there for him,” Scobell admits. “There’s an enormous emotional curler coaster that Percy and Tyson undergo collectively all through Season 2. Certainly one of my favourite elements of filming was getting to do this with Daniel.”
Percy Jackson and the Olympians, Season 2 Premiere, Wednesday, December 10, Disney+