User blog comment:SayuriDarling/Magnus Chase and the Gods of Asgard Official Discussion/@comment-1820614-20141013221548

My concern is how the gods are going to come across. A common problem with portraying both gods and mortals is you either have to portray the gods as idiots or water down their powers considerably so mortals can fight them. Riordan got around this in the Percy Jackson books by having the gods be immature idiots and handwaving some of it by saying "The Fates forbid it." In the Kane Chronicles, the gods were much more reasonable, but relied heavily on hosts, location, date and a number of other factors. In the Norse stories, they have the Norns (Fates) so that can limit them some. Yet Odin, the head god, is the god of WISDOM so he shouldn't be nearly as blinded by pride or stupidity as Zeus. The rest of the gods are not stupid either. The whole "We can age, suffer permanent injury, have constant foes we have to be on guard about, and will one day die" makes them much closer to mortals than other gods like the Greeks. So they tend to be far less childish.