Solaris said:
I'm surprised. Samurai Jack felt like an awesome kid's show that still was able to get adult themes across when it wanted to. A great show for everyone.
Kind of sad kids won't be able to view it anymore.
Why? Because it's on AS? Kids watch AS all the time.
Well, an six year old might not, but any kid over about ten or eleven can usually find a way to check it out. Most parents don't care after a certain age, and that's not really a bad thing. Most tweens are mature enough to handle pretty much anything on AS, and yes I'm well aware of the type of programming they show. The kids who have parents that overprotective are usually far more screwed up than normal kids in my experience.
It's just overprotective fundies that might take offense to most of what they show. I've yet to meet a twelve year old who doesn't have psychotically backwards parents who isn't allowed to watch AS level programming. Not all the time, and maybe not the whole block as it runs kind of late, but most parents are chill enough to allow them to watch something like Samurai Jack even if it is kind of bloody and dark.
Now, a parent that lets a kid that age watch something like Claymore or Berserk...that's another story entirely. That kind of shit can traumatize a kid that age, but there's no way Samurai Jack is going to be that level of pitch black mindfuck.
To be honest, ratings these days are more legal disclaimers for media producers than the gateway to prevent younger viewers from accessing them they were originally intended to be. Media saturation and access to things like the internet and streaming long did away with that.