Review 9 mata hari biography
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Something I’ve been wanting to do for a long time is to take a look at how accurate the Fate series’ depiction of their characters are. Obviously, considering the old joke that they made King Arthur a girl, they did take some creative liberties. But just how far away from the real thing did they land? This isn’t a novel or original concept; here is a user that has done an excellent job on some Servants already, but they haven’t gone very far (only Nero, Elizabeth, Siegfried, and Marie Antoinette). I tried not using their template as an inspiration, but it’s a very good template and scoring system, to be honest.
Because I don’t have a particular starting bias, I just decided to go from the most ‘common ‘(ex. Sasaki) to the ‘rarest’ (ex. Gilgamesh). Maybe I’ll choose one I like depending on my mood. Who knows. It’s my blog, my rules.
I chose a hard one to start with, because so much of Mata Hari’s life (during her time and in modern days) has been embellished that it was d
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In a text piece at the back of the first issue of Mata Hari writer Emma Beeby talks about how she first learned about the legendary female spy through a biography book titled Femme Fatale: Love, Lies and the Unknown Life of Mata Hari and instantly became fascinated with her. I had a slightly different introduction to the character, with the classic Bally pinball machine from 1978 named after her. I remember seeing the machine and its intricate artwork by Dave Christensen that was just eye catching and full of detail, both on the backglass and the playfield of the machine, and just being blown away. At that point I did not even know was a Mata Hari was but after playing the machine for a while I needed to find out and it was then that I learned about the history of the character.
This first issue gives a lot of information about the Mata Hari, the spying accusations, the famous dancing and more. It jumps around from place to place and time period to time period but somehow all seems