(Sorry about the text speak in the title. Comicvines 60 character limit is so annoying.)

So up until about maybe halfway through the run I thought the New Gods were going to play a much bigger role in the run. I was theorizing that the whole thing would be contaminating in an all out war between the Olympus and New Genesis. Although in the end I was totally off base with that.

So what are some things you earlier on that you expected to see that never came to fruition? Were you disappointed when it didn't, or happier with the way things ended up?

I was rather expecting for Hephaestus to turn on Diana at some point, it just seemed to me he had so many reason to do something like that to get one over on the family that threw him down a mountain.

I was halfway expecting most of the deceased Olympians to be revived in some form by the end of it all thanks to the normal practice of comics to leave as they arrive. Imagine Diana ending up with moral dilemma of either siding with the First Born or bringing back her extremely flawed extended family.

But I am not saddened by their absence.

@muffin_sangria: I wonder if the lesser role of New Gods was in part due to DC editorial, since one of the things Azz wanted was to start a relationship between WW and Orion, but DC shot it down due to the fact they could get her a much more newsworthy boyfriend (Superman).

I also expected more from the New Gods. But for the most part the story played out as I expected ... I did expect Athena to show up much earlier, but I'm not shocked that she was essentially there the entire time in the guise of Zola, just figured she would have been more central to the story rather than a background player. I was also expecting a twist around Apollo's death ... Especially since we didn't see it directly "on-screen".