Why people are more concerned with Nico’s casting than Bianca’s. *spoilers for PJO*

It’s not because of the story at all or book 3.

Rick has hyped up Nico’s casting choice with a tweet along the lines of (and I’m barely paraphrasing here) : “we were casting Nico and Ngl I got legit chills”.

The last time he did this was for Annabeth…

Again, I don’t mind diversity if it’s meritocracy, as a person of color myself but I really don’t want Nico to be Nico Patel or something because being part of queer community + person of color ticks two boxes for the showrunners.

Fingers crossed, hoping season 2 turns out good or at least watchable.

I didn’t even dislike the first one till episode 3 but when I started to fall asleep during 4 and 5 (I’m not an early sleeper and I have coffee towards the end of my shift late evenings) I started to actively loathe the show and the folks defending it and calling me racist or sexist or whatever-ist to further bad writing/casting decisions.

Would love to hear your thoughts.