But for all of her comic relief, Blankenship became a tragic figure in the Mad Men mythos, dying silently at her desk. |
A really obvious example of this happened when the Romans invaded Greece, and ultimately adopted a modified version of the Greek mythos. |
This mythos is still prevalent, though abused for the most atrocious purposes. |
The fact that she is on record as being sexually experimental simply feeds into that mythos. |
Had she only lived earlier in the century she might easily have become the centre of a mythos. |
The whole notion of the transporter, which is admittedly one of the favorite devices in this mythos, created scores of problems in a dramatic context. |