Post by manofevil on Mar 7, 2008 0:16:56 GMT -5
I'll admit I maybe have seen 6 or 7 episodes of this show and some clips on DC.com, but I have seen enough to notice a trend that I don't like one bit: crimes against children.
We'll begin with Jake and his Grandfather. While most of Lao Xi's lessons are good and fairly standard in martial arts circles, others clearly fall under the heading of degradation and child abuse. The ones I've seen involve Jake licking out a toilet bowl to train his tongue and his trust exercise over a pool of sewage. The only thing I dread about the rest of the episodes is finding out what other indignities the boy has to endure
As bad as these are, they are nothing compared to those committed by the Huntsman and the Huntsclan. Now so far, I've only seen an ocean of kidnapping and seven different flavors of child endangerment, but I'm really not looking forward to seeing what else they've done.
Now my objection is not that these things are in the show. I mean villians are supposed to do terrible things. What bothers me is that no one takes issue with them over it. Lao Xi does these terrible things and No member of the family calls him out over it. Not even Jake's mother. The Huntsclan kidnap an entire school ful of children at infancy AND NOBODY NOTICES!! Kidnapping of babies and child abuse are two of the most condemned crimes in out society today. Only a few a more hated. If these things were happening, especially with what the Huntsclan does, entire branches of the government would be investigating it. I'd like to see an episode where the Huntsclan is forced to go to ground because government agents are getting to close. I'd also like to see an episode where one of Jake teachers or neighbors sees Jake being put through one of Lao Xi's more degrading exercises in human form and threaten's to press charges. It's important that young viewer see that these kinds of actions have consequences. Especially when their committed by adults.
We'll begin with Jake and his Grandfather. While most of Lao Xi's lessons are good and fairly standard in martial arts circles, others clearly fall under the heading of degradation and child abuse. The ones I've seen involve Jake licking out a toilet bowl to train his tongue and his trust exercise over a pool of sewage. The only thing I dread about the rest of the episodes is finding out what other indignities the boy has to endure
As bad as these are, they are nothing compared to those committed by the Huntsman and the Huntsclan. Now so far, I've only seen an ocean of kidnapping and seven different flavors of child endangerment, but I'm really not looking forward to seeing what else they've done.
Now my objection is not that these things are in the show. I mean villians are supposed to do terrible things. What bothers me is that no one takes issue with them over it. Lao Xi does these terrible things and No member of the family calls him out over it. Not even Jake's mother. The Huntsclan kidnap an entire school ful of children at infancy AND NOBODY NOTICES!! Kidnapping of babies and child abuse are two of the most condemned crimes in out society today. Only a few a more hated. If these things were happening, especially with what the Huntsclan does, entire branches of the government would be investigating it. I'd like to see an episode where the Huntsclan is forced to go to ground because government agents are getting to close. I'd also like to see an episode where one of Jake teachers or neighbors sees Jake being put through one of Lao Xi's more degrading exercises in human form and threaten's to press charges. It's important that young viewer see that these kinds of actions have consequences. Especially when their committed by adults.