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Author: WeAreAllKosh

May 18th 2013 at 11:48:56 PM

* Happened on ''{{Babylon 5}}'' sometimes. A few examples:
** The sunny well-manicured gardens of the Royal Palace on Centauri Prime, where the severed head of [[spoiler: Mr. Morden]] was mounted on a pike ("Into the Fire"). 
*** The Palace gardens were also the setting of the disturbing scene where [[TheCaligula Emperor Cartagia]] is washing blood from his hands, and lamenting to Londo about the ineffectiveness of his "pain technicians" in getting prisoner G'Kar to "give him a scream". 
*** A lot of scenes of Cartagia doing something disturbing are set in brightly lit pretty places around the palace (or the palace built on occupied Narn), such as his ornate throne room. (Interestingly enough, many palace rooms seem more brightly lit--actually airy and sunny--during Cartagia's reign (with the exception of that infamous darkened room where he kept and "conferred with" the heads of executed ministers who'd displeased him)--certainly moreso than during Londo's or the Regent's, or even our brief glimpse of Turhan's before. I think this was to provide added dissonance--along with his light and cheery mannerisms--to emphasize his total psychopathic insanity.) 
** One of the gardens on the Babylon 5 station where a young eloping Centauri couple are assaulted and almost killed by members of Home Guard (a human anti-alien hate group) ("The War Prayer").  
** Morden and Londo plotting war against the Narn in the station's hedge maze (although this was no doubt symbolic of the tangled webs being weaved, so to speak). 
** Earth Dome was the capital complex located in beautiful Geneva, Switzerland. The scene in "Matters of Honor" where officials in the inner loop of the Shadow conspiracy were meeting with Morden and discussing furthering "the program" of deceiving the population and furthering the Shadow agenda, was conducted in a nice bright sunny room there.

(The last two may or may not fit, as these bright or pleasant settings are somewhat "dissonant" in terms of conspirators usually being shown meeting in darker rooms or settings--but inversions of ''that'' may be incidental enough to be {{Chairs}} so who knows. Not sure if you had mere ''discussion'' or conspiratorial talk of unpleasant things in mind for "unpleasant scenarios".)