Sinbad on Sky

[CurlyhairedAssassin]

Can anyone tell me what age group this is for? We sky plussed the first episode for us to watch as a family. Our sons are 6 and 8. Thought it was going to be a swashbuckling adventure type thing but the first scene was a full blown fight ending up with one of the characters dead. I was a bit but let it go. Then a scene later on Sinbad was in prison with his brother and their captor decided that the most suitable punishment for Sinbad was to watch his brother die so the brother had his throat slit in front of him! I was a bit taken aback - I thought that seeing as it goes out at 7pm that it would be family viewing but I think it was too much for a 6 year old. He was adamant he wanted to carry on watching but we ended up turning it off when a monster made out of water appeared and he said he found it a bit scary.

I googled it to see if the rest of the series would be ok for my 8 yr old but ep 2 shows a photo with Sinbad in bed with some seductress all naked etc and the explanation "once Sinbad has satisfied her blah blah"

I just don't think the whole series sounds suitable for little eyes and ears so why is it going out at 7pm? Or are my kids too innocent!?

I thought it would be ok for kids but having seen the first episode on my own, I don't think it is suitable for that age group.

i thought it was more aimed at teens and adults

I agree with your comments about the throat-slitting scene - we'd been anticipating some swash-buckling but not a close-up cold-blooded throat-slitting of a relatively sympathetic character. We've seen trailers describing the show as "for all the family", it's on at 7pm and I don't think they warned for violence before the show last week. Before tonight's show there was no warning of violent scenes either.

Our girls are slightly older (9 and 7) and pretty robust so they weren't too upset but I think a lot of more sensitive or younger kids would have been upset by the show. I think Sky should (1) not describe the show as 'for all the family' and (2) have a spoken warning beforehand that it contains scenes of violence.

DH actually complained to Sky about the first episode; they phoned him and made sympathetic noises, but can't have listened too hard - how difficult is it to add a spoken warning before the show, when they have proper warnings for so many other programmes?

Glad to see I'm not on my own with this. My boys are not VERY sensitive souls - they love all the Star Wars films and aren't bothered by the scene where Anakin/Darth Vader falls into the lava and gets horribly injured. But yes, I really do think this should have had a warning about the graphic scenes and certainly not scheduled for what I call family viewing time, 7pm.

My 8 year old said he wanted to see the rest of them but I could tell he looked quite unsettled and seemed quite relieved when I said that possibly it wasn't a suitable thing for him to watch.

So they won't be watching it but dh and I will no doubt.

We watched the first episode last week as a family. DD's are 10 and 8. I not only thought it was not family viewing but poorly scripted and acted to boot.

The throat slitting scene was totally unnecessary IMO. We got the idea, they didn't need to show it at 7:30.

Very disappointed.

Thinking about it, i do think it's easy for children to accept death and violence during battle scenes in stuff like Star Wars - the science fiction element of light sabers and laser guns etc used as weapons means that there is no obvious connection between what they are seeing on the screen and what they know in real life.

With Sinbad, it was a bare knuckle fight to the death between 2 normal looking humans, an ordinary "nice" human character getting his throat slit with an ordinary knife etc. Too much there for kids to connect it immediately to things and objects they know in real life. Hence more scary for them.