This production is blessed with
A: a good storyboard artist
B: a director and set designers who follow through.

Having the emperor on a podium is standard, and usually he is posed like he mesh with it. Here instead everything serves to underscore how small the person on the throne is; the gigantic dragon wall, that he slumps behind the table like a toddler, and Lu in the foreground, several steps below, looking down(!) on him.

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On one hand: you recognise the Heng Dian World Studios' permanent sets after you've seen two wuxia dramas. On the other hand: that drama productions easily and cheaply can film market scenes on full sized streets with extras does A Lot. It's easy to forget how weirdly bare studio set "outdoors" looked in tv productions up until the 90s, not just in China but globaly. Even BBC's big Narnia production suffered from it.

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Me *admiring the ochre tones* and beautiful lighting of the scene*: It's like a Renaissance painting!

*Bad dude of the week** is brought in.*

Me: ...a very _angry_ Renaissance painting.

(*Stupid blue filter!)

(**episode)

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They really nailed my Apartment!

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The Demon King has a humble and cosy home, don't you think? Smallish, rustic furniture, and he's probably recieving guests where he studies - that 'kökssoffa' he's sitting on is a telltale sign. The kökssoffa is a ~standardised item in Sweden; a firm, pew-like couch with storage, that you put in the kitchen. In origin it was placed at the wall closest to the entrance, so people who came to chat "for a few minutes" had somewhere to sit.

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If I was there I'd probably go
"Yeah, yeah - you take the gold and whatever, I take the furniture! The decoration on that shelving unit looks sooi good! And some sturdy baskets! Can't go wrong with baskets! Oh! That chest! Don't mind if I do..."

(Also, there's a 50% chance production went to the broken props department of Heng Dian World Studios and borrowed a cartload for this scene.)

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