User blog comment:William Rane/Creators Should Change Their Target Audience/@comment-24.87.48.133-20111126055315

Technically, this isn't a kids show, it's PG (which is still "Kid-Friendly", in a sense; but it's still a hell of a lot darker than Teen Titans). The writers have said several times that there will be character death, which hardly happens in children's shows, that they aren't opposed to LGBT (which NEVER happens in kid's shows), and overall the show has some mature humour/themes and references to many things (Harry Potter, the Battle of Waterloo, theories in science, etc.) something many kids WON'T get and the writers aren't putting them in there for children to think, they put them in there for the teenagers and adults who WILL get the references, without even thinking about it.