Which leads me onto another general thing - that of the old chestnut of kids growing up quicker these days. I may have been pee scared of the Daleks when I was younger, but these days it probably would take a lot more - especially given the gaming content out there that many kids are mucking about with (I'm not passing judgement on whether it's too violent or not, merely that it may have moved the goalposts somewhat.)
The issue about "which is the real..." was one mum mentioned to me - she said she would have been concerned with potentially having to explain that it wasn't Amy being killed to me and me not understanding that and being confused and upset. I can understand that from a parenting point of view it's definitely moved into a different territory because I'm certain when we watched it in the 70s/early80s she wouldn't have had to think about something like that. But again I wonder if it's, in part, because DW was about as scary as it got (at least when I wasn't watching dodgy horror VHS tapes from mates' older siblings...as one did back then.)
The other thing is that we're all adults posting on here - you have the reactions of your kids, but we've got no way of knowing yet how other parents/children felt. I'm positive someone will complain to the RT et al, because someone always does, but that may not even be representative of wider opinion.
I also agree with Keith in that some views re: SM and misogyny are too entrenched.
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Date: 2011-05-30 10:20 pm (UTC)The issue about "which is the real..." was one mum mentioned to me - she said she would have been concerned with potentially having to explain that it wasn't Amy being killed to me and me not understanding that and being confused and upset. I can understand that from a parenting point of view it's definitely moved into a different territory because I'm certain when we watched it in the 70s/early80s she wouldn't have had to think about something like that. But again I wonder if it's, in part, because DW was about as scary as it got (at least when I wasn't watching dodgy horror VHS tapes from mates' older siblings...as one did back then.)
The other thing is that we're all adults posting on here - you have the reactions of your kids, but we've got no way of knowing yet how other parents/children felt. I'm positive someone will complain to the RT et al, because someone always does, but that may not even be representative of wider opinion.
I also agree with Keith in that some views re: SM and misogyny are too entrenched.