‘Loki’: Designing O.B.’s New Workspace in Episode 5

Episode 5 of Marvel Studios Loki takes views to a new place (and timeline) that seems eerily similar to locations already visited.

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After Time Slipping in out of the blue, Loki finds himself in a workspace inhabited by “A.D. Doug” — aka, O.B. It takes Loki a

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second to get his bearings, but slipping aside, if you’re thinking this space looks almost like a mirror of O.B.’s workstation at the Time Variance Authority

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Originally, the creative team behind Loki was looking for an actual space to film O.B.’s new location on the timeline, but, as Production Designer Kasra

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Farahani explains to Marvel.com, reusing the first set made more sense. “I pitched that idea because there was just nothing. We were looking for a location for O.B.’s

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Episode 5 follows Loki on a mission to bring all his friends from the TVA back together, corralling everyone inside O.B.’s workspace in Pasadena,

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California. It’s a space they’ve inhibited before, and now they’re back there again as Loki frantically searches for a way to repair the flailing timelines.

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“It occurred to me that this could be an opportunity for a really fun gag,” Farahani continues. “In my mind, when O.B. was brought from the timeline,

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he'd spent so much time in his real-world workspace, that however much brain wiping was done, the architecture of this space was just so deeply ingrained

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