Talk:Descendants/@comment-24756150-20140624220004/@comment-1672596-20140816221040

"@Disneyfanatic900: "So in the end, don't take the whole naming thing seriously just remember it's for kids."

I'm not trying to be rude, but I loathe when people use "It's for kids" as an excuse. Just because you're making it for kids doesn't mean that you shouldn't care. For example, the Disney Sequels were "for kids", and we all know how most of those turned out. *gag* Disney is famous for making a movie that can be enjoyed by all ages, not just kids too stupid to know better. For an opposite example, My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic was made for kids, but they made it intelligent and logical. I don't have the exact quote from the guidebook, but the creator, Lauren Faust, said something along the lines of, "Little kids like glittery, pretty stuff. But if that's all you give them, without intelligence or logic or something that takes them seriously, they're going to think that that's all there is, and it will stem their imagination." And how far has MLP:FIM gone? It's got a huge adult fanbase, as well as children!

So in conclusion, nothing should be "just for kids." Do you get my point?"

Agreed fully (though to be fair, Aladdin's sequels did include some parental bonuses, and there were some darker elements in some other sequels, so it's not like they were exclusively for kids. Plus, I heard that allegedly Return to the Sea was written by porn writers). Heck, Pokémon right now is suffering from the exact problem you just listed, and its bad enough that kids everywhere (and I don't mean simply those who grew up with the show, I mean the intended age demographic) are actually being driven away, resulting in a loss of ratings. What's worse is that the direction taken during at least Johto, certainly AG and beyond was not the direction Takeshi Shudo even wanted it to go, and at least in the case of May and Dawn, they basically created the girls solely for eyecandy/sexual fanservice, which is bad enough when their only point is basically to tittilate the audience, it's even worse when you take into account that they are 10 years old.