Netflix Soapbox and commendations.

OK – so we love our Netflix streaming into the Xbox 360. Hardly miss having Television with a DVR at all actually because of it. But I have found a couple of things that open up doors that were more easily shut with TV. Like, for instance, Voltron.

I love me some Voltron, and it’s not that I’m like anti-voltron a lot, but I think it’s probably more appropriate for Little-J than it is for Little-M. Also – another sidebar about Voltron I forgot – ever noticed that the monsters Voltron fought had gigantic metal nipples? I didn’t realize this when I was a kid. Perhaps it was my limited robot anatomy knowledge…

The second thing is that they have a ridiculously high amount of non family friendly “children and family” shows in the “Children and family” section. Like for instance “Peter and the Wolf”, or Piotrus i wilk as it was called in Russia when it was clay-gi’d. Which starts up very darkly, and I finally shut it off after some kids threw Peter in a dumpster with a head wound and he was threatened with an AK-47 by a soldier. While I know these things are happening around the world, my 6 and 3 year old can’t process that. And that’s not “kids” material. Bleeding heads should not be labeled “family friendly”.

HOWEVER! much to my surprise, when I called netflix at 9 o’clock at night, I got a human in America, who pretty much agreed with me and forwarded my issues on and a manager responded back to see if it could get pulled from the family queue on xbox.

In all I’m digging it, but I see I can’t let the kids have free reign.