Watching a CM marathon, and I just noticed:

[krait]

Criminal Minds is supposed to be appropriate for ages fourteen and up!?

Maybe 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, children being held hostage -- I really would not want fourteen-year-olds watching this. o.O

This sort of disturbingly emphasises my prior suspicions that most of the FF.Net authors writing CM fic are between the ages of 12 and 14. It's somewhat alarming that the show says it's okay for fourteen-year-olds; it's a much more disconcerting feeling I get when I realise that they appear to be a significant segment of the audience!

Comments

[kurokaze-89.livejournal.com]

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.livejournal.com]

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!

[kurokaze-89.livejournal.com]

LOL you're right!!

[fer-de-lance.livejournal.com]

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!)