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Originally Posted by Roiffalo
Things that were more psychological rather than visually disturbing. Like in 'Cuckoo Clock of Doom', the kid practically kills his sister. Not directly, but he didn't do anything to fix it. 'Be Careful What you Wish For' the lead character ends up giving her wishes to a girl at school who bullies her, KNOWING that she's going to get screwed over in the end. Another case of indirectly leading to ending a person. 'Calling All Creeps', the lead kid in the end does basically the same thing as my last example, but rather than screwing over one bully, he lets the whole school have it.
Now granted these episodes (Calling All Creeps especially), were some of my favorites. It pushed limits and made you wonder if you'd do the same thing in their situation, even though you know it's wrong. When I was reading 'CAC' I remember loving the ending because I was bullied in school too. I thought those bastards got just what they deserved. But do you really want kids to have those kinds of thoughts?
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Yeah, you're right, but the censors here in America don't really care what we show kids as long as there's no blood or boobs.
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And to answer your question, it's to entertain a certain audience. Sex crazed teens driven by Twilight lust only give a shit about one thing. Or at least so the writers think, so that's what they deliver. Sympathetic monsters made overly sexy, with too much angst, bad story, and toned down blood.
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True, but this actually leads me into something I've been thinking about a lot lately: Could the problem with the tween/teen demographic be a self-fulfilling prophecy? We seem to really deride anything that's targeted at them, with all the good filmmakers either doing stuff for children or stuff for adults, and so all the products for them are focus-group friendly corporate trash...and then we blame them for liking the only products that are even targeted at them.