Composer Chris Westlake — who Mike McMahan describes as the first person he met in Los Angeles — explains how the score treats the comedy as if it were a serious drama, which paradoxically makes the show funnier. Westlake details how the lower-deckers' main theme came from Tendi's wonder-filled moment looking out the window in the pilot, and how Vindicta's insistent five-note motif was later transformed into a heroic theme. For the "movie episode," the tempo was slowed and the orchestration expanded to give it a cinematic feel.