User blog comment:SayuriDarling/The Blood of Olympus Official Discussion/@comment-4902593-20141010142512/@comment-5927468-20141010215213

1. Yes Frank goes to Pylos. But there's nothing about Hazel's curse being washed away. I wonder if this was an oversight or if Rick plans to write a short story about it. Or maybe we misinterpreted something from SoN and the curse is already lifted. We don't really know if the jewels and metals she summons later bring bad luck or not.

2.  To be fair, not all the titans were very impressive either. Hyperion was turned into a tree, and it's implied that Jason took down Krios single handedly. The giants went down easily because they could only be beaten by gods and heroes working together. Before the gods showed up things were looking pretty bleak for the seven.

As for Gaia, it's not like Rick could actually let a Primordial like her properly display her powers. Otherwise she'd win almost immediately. Personally I liked how they took her down. I'd hardly call Piper's charm speak "sissy"   She used all Gaia's anger and frustration against her, essentially convincing her to kill herself (with assistance from Leo and Octavian).