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Message: <blockquote data-quote="WizarDru" data-source="post: 1210814" data-attributes="member: 151">Ummm....yeah.  See that over there?  It's the point.  I think you missed it.  Did you notice I'm the one who started the thread?  I wasn't claiming it was too adult....just too much to show 3 year olds.  There is a difference.  I LIKE the mature direction...it's just now graduated to the same class as Angel, in that I don't want my kids watching it.  And here we illustrate how you don't have kids.  The answer is simple: Why wouldn't he be?  Batman, Superman and Wonder Woman are COOL.  They have super powers, cool gadgets and get to be powerful, iconic beings: all of which make them very attractive characters for kids to emulate.   If you mean, how do you explain Batman's origin (which is what I think you were getting at), that depends.  On one level, no explanation is needed: He's Batman because it's COOL to be Batman.  Putting on a costume and fighting bad guys is what superheroes do.  When the topic comes up, it's usually handled pretty delicately, such that a younger audience can understand it.  A 3-year old doesn't grasp the concept of death.  A 6 year-old does, but not in the same way an adult does.  Besides which, it's not the concept that's troubling, it's the presentation, in that case.  The idea that Bruce becomes Batman so he can protect people from bad guys, because bad guys killed his parents, is easy for kids to understand.  Depending on the kid, it may be scary or a non-issue.  But that's not the same as Superman killing Lois Lane with his heat vision.  Another example: Hawkgirl being buried alive in a coffin is scary enough, but her claustorphobic screams of terror while Dr. Destiny piles on the dirt, and the accompanying shots and music....that's terrifying to a child (and pretty scary to me, I might add).  Hawkgirl's reaction and the presentation are what make it too intense for children, not the simple act itself. All of which is irrelevant, since the show isn't aimed at children that are my kid's ages.  It's aimed at teenagers to adults, and it works great, there.  I don't want them to change it all.  I was just lamenting the fact that I can't have my kids share it, yet, is all.</blockquote>

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