User blog comment:Fimber/When family is what destroys you/@comment-5220958-20121121084104/@comment-5102537-20121122111741

Ah okay, thanks 123Action. Ann no need to apologise. If you think I'm wrong I don't mind you telling me. If I think I'm right, I will try to show you why :-D? But thanks for your kindness.

In my opinion, a family show has to meet some criterias to qualify for a show suitable for minors. Aside from not showing blood and much too obvious physical violence, the emotional violence and cruelty should be avoided as much as guts flying around, for example. "Merlin" is pretty open with showing emotional torture as well as physical torture and when such things appear, it should be dealt with whithin the epsiode, meaning, the characters should talk about it, mention it, criticise it and put it into perspective so that the viewer is not left alone with the cruelty they have just seen. For example, as I wrote above, Morgana should have been criticised within the show for tormenting and killing her father in order to show especially the younger viewers that what she did was not common behaviour of society but plain wrong. Morgana's own torment of soul when something happened with her in the missing year with Morgause should have been clarified to express that whatever happened was something unusual and not what is to be desired in real life. Merlin's coldness towards Uther in The Wicked Day should have been criticised by someone within the show to state out that it's always wrong to just sit and watch someone die only because it serves your own purpose. When Arthur killed Caerleon, even though we know that such things happened in those times, should have been dealt with more critically to show the youth that king or not, killing someone in cold blood is not right, no matter how cute the king looks and no matter how hot he is and no matter how much he and Merlin are having fun together.

There are tons of other examples but I think you know what I mean. As I said, what children/teens understand and/or "learn" from the media is often underestimated.