Watching a CM marathon, and I just noticed:

[fer_de_lance]

Criminal Minds is supposed to be appropriate for ages fourteen and upMaybe I'm overreacting -- and I definitely feel like a curmudgeon -- but given what I've been looking at in the last few episodes -- a murdered and sexually abused six-year-old, photos of a woman who's been tortured to death, a man's arm that was dissected down to the bone,

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[claudine]

DDD:
Def. not suited for fourteen year olds.

Granted, when I was fourteen I was already doing more than that - but there's stating your demographics and actually trawling around the web to find stuff!

[fer_de_lance]

Yeah, there's... well. I guess I draw a line between reading material and viewing material. I probably read things that were almost as horrible, when I was that age, but even with my vivid imagination, that's a long shot from watching those things -- and, unlike a novel, watching pretty much nothing but those things, for 30 minutes to, well, a multi-hour marathon!

[claudine]

LOL you're right!!

[fer_de_lance]

I hope so? :D

At least when reading about horrible things, there were large parts of each novel not about horrible things at all. (Plus, a novel you can also put down and wander away from and have ice cream -- or a fortnight in another country, whatever you need -- if it gets to be too much or goes in a direction you weren't prepared for!)