Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-1255374-20151024145123/@comment-995426-20151101230813

This show being for young children may have always been part of the problem. It's about teenagers, which they tried to make more realistically like teenagers in season 1. Perhaps a show like this should have been for teenagers. I don't care if a show for young children sells more toys. If the writing's crap&mdash;and fast moving romances without consequences are crap&mdash;then the show will be crap.

That said, I know it's not impossible for a show for young children to have good writing. It's just easy to fall into the trap of writing increasingly dumbed-down plots when you keep trying to keep target an age group made up of young people who keep aging out of that age group year after year. If the show's writing irreversibly suffers as a consequence of the drive to target ever younger, then it really needs to be cancelled and put out of its misery.

And 37-going-on-7 isn't any better a target audience either&mdash;it's even worse, because most normal 7 year olds eventually grow up, and 37 year olds who still act like 7 year olds are incapable of growing up.