Talk:Applejack/@comment-16424758-20130203140832/@comment-5502573-20130203232225

@Leaf Shade: What I mean by maturity is when it involves dealing with permanent death.

MLP is rated TV-Y, which is basically the lowest of age groups (2-6 yrs old) and are not intended to frighten little audiences.

If the show is to go TV-Y7 (above 7 yrs old), then we may start exploring deaths and other 'maturer' stuff. Most cartoons, i.e. Powerpuf Girls, Foster's, Ben 10, Justice League, and etc. are TV-Y7, which include things that may scare younger audiences. Most of these shows has fantasy violence and either show or hint at perma-death.

Granted, these tv ratings are pretty vague, cause I'm sure Lesson Zero might be rather frightening to some and there is violence in the show. They came close with crossing the line in A Bird in the Hoof but alas, the show is too scared to teach kids how to handle death and we get a disgustingly happy ending :P

But back to my point,  even if the show does almost cross a few lines, I cant see it going into TV-Y7. That is not to say it will never happen. While I have never heard of a show becoming more mature, MLP did drop its e/i rating from Season 1. Basically, that e/i rating made it rather mandatory for the episodes to be educational, ergo we got Friendship reports EVERY episode. They dropped that in Season 2 and they got away with not having a friendship report in Super Squeezy Cider 6000, how Applejack said she learnt nothing. Season 3, more so has had episodes without these reports. So I guess you can take that as a small sign of hope

Who knows, I would love the show to go TV-Y7 but only time will tell if we can ever explore perma-death.