To point out, this is a show intended in part for younger audiences. It's also not a particularly serious show as in the case of something like Avatar; which is more oriented to tween or teenage audiences with a overarching plot - on my understanding - more serious than it is light-hearted and episodic. Elements of "modernity" do slip in because I believe it would loose touch with its audience or atmosphere otherwise. The way the show works too - episodic - also entails it to the condition that it's being written by many writers, many of whom may not be working on the show any longer than one or two episodes all together and get only a basic enough run down on what the show is so as to write something in it. If it were a series with a much more long-running story arch with a more consistent base of writers who all understand what the show is and where it's going at the D E E P E S T L O R E level then the show wouldn't experience so much aesthetic inconsistency.



Having pointed that out though, I think it's worth mentioning one of the primary aspects of the show - that being the thing stressed by each episodes plot together - is the content of the ideas in each episode and focusing too much on lore shit kind of distracts from it. Sure it's fun to pitch an idea somewhere other than the same old stage, but treating the quality of the stage itself over the whole act itself misses the entire point of the story telling.