Ohhh yeah, I do (sort of) remember all that. Thanks for the explanation.
Fraction... For a writer I really like, I didn't enjoy his Thor run very much. Not really sure why, it just didn't click with me.
Odin leaving Blake to die in a cave.. good old Odin, so consistently wise and good until Aaron ruined him, right?
The Blake explanation is a good example of why wanting or expecting writers to include all past continuity is unreasonable at best and a bad idea at worst.It's contradictory and confusing (understandable after almost sixty years). Continuity wasn't tight from the start, and it's a lot more unwieldy now. Taking the parts that best serve the current story is the way to go imo. Ignoring a lot of it is inevitably going to happen and that's for the best, too.