Dominic Baez

The Seattle Times

(TNS)

The last time Percy Jackson went to summer camp, his mother was kidnapped, he was accused of stealing the most powerful weapon ever known, the Olympian gods almost went to war with each other, Percy nearly died — a couple of times — and then he and his friends saved the world. It was a thrilling adventure for the demigod son of Poseidon, enjoyably captured in the first season of “Percy Jackson and the Olympians,” which adapted the first novel in Rick Riordan’s long-running “Percy Jackson” series.

Season 2, premiering this week on Disney+ and Hulu, doesn’t have the same compelling start as the first season, opening with disjointed sequences that deliver too much exposition and not enough at the same time. Both the narrative — based on “The Sea of Mon

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