Not only was the story kinda predictable but I was annoyed how Asgard looked like a bunch of Skrull cannon fodder troops. They are supposed to be Gods, not people who get torn apart by Daken and Taskmaster
 

I also get the feeling that guys like Bendis conceived this story thinking a McCain not an Obama would be in power. If you think about the the whole Dark, Gobbie arc is a continuation of the stories during the Bush/Cheney Presidency. Bendis was not one to shy away from throwing politics into his comics. Asgard is a recognized as its own territory and sometimes with Gobbie leading the front the whole thing feels warped and twisted like a hardheaded UnitedStates trying to storm the Iraqi Embassy, Korean or Pakistani Embassy...but this time they are dealing with a sovereign territory with deadlier magic weapons that would make mankinds biggest nukes look like tiny little firecrackers.
  This is a story the writers team thought up, I feel they wrote themselves into a corner and were forced to run with it. Imagine for a sec Osborn lays a siege to Olympus. The Olympians retaliate, swat all the Dark Avengers away, decide to counter attack the plan Bush plan Gobbie, the Olympians fire off a magic blast and turn Washington into a crater.... is not really a big event.?
If Siege was 7 years planned is it just a muddled story some people wrote when Bush and War was popular and the Liberals and Pacifist voters of the US felt under Siege. After 911 many people were embarrassed to calls themselves liberal it was cool to support Bush and it was only after he fubared the economy and fubared Iraq that people started taking a go at his Presidency. When a black dude with a softer approach to war and more left economic policies came onto the election campaign the people with pens at Marvel did not have any new material for Obama, so they went back to old scripts
Siege IMO is from the Republican/911 era of comics and because the writers did not plan ahead, they had to run an old script
 the writers were forced to go with it?
I understand now why JMS wanted no part of this Thor story!!
 
 

 There have been hints over the years that each citizen of Asgard are supposed to fight as ferociously as Tombstone or Venom, so with each citizen being this powerful, and each of their citizens trained from the day they are born to be soldiers
 why the hell would those Gods need help from Bucky, Hawkeye or Captain America? 

Wow a whole lot of rant that made no sense... bravo.

taskmaster for the win

Why do they need help from Cap and Bucky.... Let me think
 

i agree too, it is some crappy writing ,once you have bendis in it you can expect anything.

notably theres something missing here. aside from the Void, Loki empowered Norman and Hoods
crew with magic and the Norn Stones, and likewise sabotaged Asgard from the inside out from the beginning.
so they were actually using magic reinforcement, not just bullets and their fists.

"notably theres something missing here. aside from the Void, Loki empowered Norman and Hoods crew with magic and the Norn Stones, and likewise sabotaged Asgard from the inside out from the beginning. so they were actually using magic reinforcement, not just bullets and their fists. "