Blindspot - March 6

…Sometimes, real life outright sucks, and then there people like that American toad that got featured on NG and similar sites: it literally lost its’ head!

…No, really, sometime during the last winter hibernation this toad lost most of its face, and head, and skull. I am not sure if it been euthanized or not, but if it did, it would be a good thing, really. After all, could you survive without most of your head, face, skull, brain, etc.? A toad did, so these days, whenever I think that real life sucks, (and it does), I also remember the toad, and realize that it can always be worse, on top of everything else, you could become a sideshow attraction – the amazing live headless toad/etc. – due to some infection, most likely.

And in other news, I would like to talk briefly about last week’s ‘Blindspot’ episode, which was centered about some device, code-named ‘Nergal’. The name does belong to a god, though he is better known not as a god of pestilence, but of war and of death, but he does has pestilence in his portfolio, so here ‘Blindspot’ did go true, (though why is it trying to imitate AoS in S3 is anyone’s guess, and is another thing altogether), whereas the device’s device/logo of the sphinx…

Well, firstly, it shows the lack (or fatigue?) of imagination that begins to manifest in ‘Blindspot’ S3. The last time anything got designated as ‘a device’ was on a Pathfinder™ RPG session, when the GM was too lazy to give the McGuffin (that everyone was going for as the game’s ultimate conclusion) a proper name. Here, in last week’s ‘Blindspot’ episode, I got the same feeling.

Moreover, as for the sphinx,…it was not a ‘proper’ sphinx, but some sort of a sphinx-shedu bastard. The shedu was a creature similar to the Greco-Egyptian sphinx, but from the Mesopotamian mythology and it was a humanoid-bull, rather than a humanoid-lion hybrid. The humanoid-lion hybrid of the Mesopotamians was called a lamassu instead… So?

So it is weird as to why did team ‘Blindspot’ got the three confused. Couldn’t they just been satisfied with the traditional Greek or Egyptian sphinx? If not, there are other cultures that used sphinxes, including India and Southeast Asia countries. Instead, we got some sort of a sphinx-shedu hybrid, and who knows why?

…This is it for the moment; we will talk later this week…hopefully. (Though yeah, the poor toad had it worse).