I completely hear you. I miss when kids shows used to be able to show violence and death, but those tragedies changed so much about the culture and how kids' shows are produced. It's little wonder few shows for kids on TV are any good nowadays. I've been watching "History of the Power Rangers" and looking back at the original seasons, it's hard to imagine half of those episodes being shown with all the buildings that end up destroyed. *sigh*

If there's one thing I hope for in whatever afterlife there is, is that there's a special circle of Hell for censors that involve the most painful torture in the universe. It would be nice, if nothing else.