User blog comment:LokiIsAwesome/Merlin should get more bloody/@comment-3012002-20120812083149

This was a conversation we were having in my Film Studies 1 class at Uni. Seasons 1-3 got darker as time went on then when season 4 aired it was more darker then 3. I've noticed in Australia, when the show airs on Channel 10, because its a family show and airs at 6:30pm on Sunday nights, the show, regardless of how dark it is, is rated PG but when the show is released on DVD its M rated (except for Season 1). I think rating it MA is a bit extreme seeing as it would have to be aired at like, 9:30pm which is standard on Australian television. I think the show should be rated M to be on the safe side because the show is getting a LOT darker and parents are going to start to complaining if the show is really dark. The show is NOTHING like the axed show Camelot which recieved an MA rating because of the strong sex scenes. I know that most the kids who have watched the show from the start would be at least 13-14 or older now but there are parents who would put in complaints about the rating system like they did in 2004 with Harry Potter and Prisoner of Azkaban which originally recieved an M rating because of the dark themes and people complained about it then the classification board had to look at it again and re-rate it so that it was 'more suitable' for the viewing audience.