User blog comment:SayuriDarling/Magnus Chase and the Gods of Asgard Official Discussion/@comment-1820614-20141013221548/@comment-1820614-20141107150757

I didn't return a visit to this blog until now. And like I stated, the Norse gods are much closer to immortal than the Greeks. Odin suffered a permanent loss of his eye. Tyr suffered a permanent loss of his hand. The gods can grow old. The frost giants are a constant threat. They know they are one day going to die at Ragnarok. The Greek gods can get away with being idiots because nothing in their own mythology constantly threatens them. They suffer no permanent injuries. They can take their anger out on whomever they want and never suffer any real consequences. It is easy to have them be immature idiots when circumstances never force them to grow up. It is harder to do that when you have situations that force maturity and permanent reminders of mortality like the Norse gods have to constantly endure.