>>95074602I wish I was absentminded enough to read something this straightforward and misinterpret it as "IT'S DARK I DON'T LIKE THAT REEEEE."
The point was that individual scenes within the show are not usually distinct unto themselves in any way. Everything is perpetually muddy brown, green and blue-gray, so scenes don't stick out in your mind visually when compared. They tend to run together, making them more forgettable.
The show itself sticks out compared to contemporary cartoons, but the scenes within the episodes don't. It's why people tend to remember that one episode with the air current geysers: it has brighter oranges and browns, which makes it stand out from the other scenes in the show.
AoSTH has the opposite problem, where scenes are often a ton of different colors all at once with little choreography, making it harder to create association.