This. And maybe talk to your children before and after. My media intake was mostly unsupervised because my parents both worked shift, so I often couldn't talk through stuff. I actually haven't watched Alien since I was a kid, and back then it was scary but exciting, especially since I could tell it was supposed to be a scary story just from the cinematography. I have definitely more mental scarring by watching Plague Dogs which was shown on a Sunday morning because look at the cartoon dogs! Look at them suffering through animal testing and being hunted down. Yay, they are going to drown trying to reach the island that's probably not even there. Or coming across Grave of the Fireflies on the French/German culture channel as a kid one evening. Oh, look! Anime! ... about a boy and a girl after the bombing of Tokio! Awww, the little girl is starving to death. It's not just Amazon, actually. Since 2007 cigarette vending machines have to control the age of the buyer either by your government ID, your drivers licence, or information from the chip card of your debit card.
With kids it just depends. Each child has their own sensitivity and fears. A friend of mine could never watch Home Alone as it would cause nightmares. Me and my siblings had no issue. For me, it's more about being involved as a parent. If I'm watching something with my kids then I have watched it before and know their sensitivities. I am fine telling them to close their eyes or skipping scenes. Star Trek is no different.
It depends on the show up here. Sometime a TV-MA show in the US is 18A in Canada, and sometimes a TV-MA show in the US is TV-14 in Canada. PIC is considered TV-14 in Canada. However, there was a time when ENT was considered TV-14 during its airing, and outside of light cussing (no f-bombs or s-bombs), a certain Trip/T’Pol scene in “Harbinger” that got censored in the US because of brief nudity, and Archer blowing up Commander Dolim in “Zero Hour,” and Archer shooting an Augment, nothing was really TV-14. ENT is considered a PG show now.
I remember watching og trek .. As like 4-5 year old.. And tng at 8.. Except for the remick scanners boom .. It was all good. As for this.. Disco and now Picard.. I wouldn't show it to a kid under 10.. Heres the thing.. It Doesn't Need It.. !!
I remember watching Star Wars at 8. Now, the new Star Wars, I would watch with my kids. It's OK. Things change.
I was pretty damn sensitive about things that I considered scary or just plain weird when I was in my single digits, but by the time I was 12, I was watching old Universal horror flicks and The Twilight Zone.
I saw far more graphic things on Cable and in Movies when I was 12 and I certainly heard far more salty language at school when I was 12
Ironically, I spend less time comforting my son over the horrors shown in contemporary television and film than feeling bad about the things he likes because a bunch of adults have started flying off the handle. Why should he feel badly about liking "Last Jedi" because men in their 40s and 50s start talking about traditions that are being destroyed and disrespected? What right do they demand that he hate it because the protagonist happens to be a woman? A small amount of gore is easy to deal with: the line between reality and media is very clear. These men complaining about every little detail at the highest volume are simply modeling poor behavior.
I hope so for my sake. I'm embarrassed to say that there were times when I expressed opinions too loudly and too forcefully. I regret how it made him feel. I'd rather be a good model than have Star Trek made to my desire.
Kids and people might see worse in real life, agreed. I used to work in a refugee camp. One of the women (the people were mostly from Syria and Iraq) supposedly saw one of her children being killed in a battle zone - right in front of her eyes. So now here we see show scenes where you know that the actor remains unscathed after filming a horrible scene. A child being shot can't be brought back to life. So yes, I agree. There are bad things children could see. Some of them keep on living, other suffer from post-traumatic stress disorder.
My kids watch shit on YouTube that should be illegal at any age. And no parent control app seems to block it, nor do I want to (which i can do easily enough.... 127.0.0.1 youtube.com ) because they are morally stable and they should not be blocked from things that they want to see.
I watch it with my thirteen-year-old daughter. I watch it first without her to be sure of the content... but I'd be watching it multiple times anyway, so that's not terribly inconvenient.