User blog comment:ElectricMayhem/Ultimate Spider-Man "Review"/@comment-4966483-20151005061423

The Spectacular Spiderman, Abengers:EMH, Star Wars: The clone Wars and Transformers:Prime, my four favourite cartoons of all time. All quite smart shows, some quite dark, all cancelled to be replaced by a dumbed-down show.

Unfortunately kids TV is never played in-order, making the complex shows with story arcs only viewable in order either when it airs or online. Other than that it's just a mess of everything at once, loose, monster-of-the-week style episodes which are easy to establish everything a kid might need to know if he/she has never seen it before. They don't need to start at episode one as everything is so simple anyway.

But yeah, kids are not as stupid as people think. Sure, maybe I'm not qualified to say this, not actually being a kid for quite a time now, but when I watched kid's TV this is how it was.

Also with phones, apps, games all battling for small kid's attention, TV shows really like to up the action to hook people in. Thus, simpler, stupider jokes and simpler, stupider action.