User blog comment:SayuriDarling/The Blood of Olympus Official Discussion/@comment-1820614-20141013001729/@comment-1820614-20141013215209

@Kronos300 - Nico states in the chapter after Octavian blows himself up that the idea of separating Gaea's physical form from the Earth and destroying it was to disperse Gaea's consciousnessso it could never reform. That is supposed to have been what happened to Ouranos and the way it was explained that is what happened to Kronos at the end of The Last Olympians.  If Gaea merely asleep she could wake up again. But she is supposed to be gone for good and WAS fully awake. That is what bothers me about it. It took four Titans and a surprise attack to destroy Ouranos. It took a Titan and a giant to delay Tartarus. It took three demigods and a small explosion to destroy Gaea.

I wouldn't say the Giants were more powerful than the Titans. Nothing I read in the books showed that despite the claims. The Titans are alternative gods including the magical powers, teleportation, and divine forms.. The giants were only formidable monsters with one or two special powers and no divine forms. The Titans though were still weak from rising from Tartarus and fewer in number than the gods. That is why they needed Typhon. Oceanus, the strongest active Titan, was able to battle evenly with Poseidon while in their godly forms. Polybotes, the anti-Poseidon giant, was defeated by a single demigod each time and only needed a minor god to finish him off. Hyperion matched Percy while the latter was under the Curse of Achilles and still needed help to finally defeat him. Polybotes fell before Percy when the latter was without the curse and on his own.

The problem with Zeus is two fold. If he were half-way competent there would be no stories. But if he is too stupid you wonder why anyone likes him in the slightest or how he has survived for this long. Like I said, most versions of Zeus have the jerk side and it is dominant, but usually show at least a decent side, some divine wisdom, or an instinct for self-preservation to see why some people do trust his leadership or respect him. Not in this case.