Rachel caught a brief snatch of off-limits TV today.  I should check the parental lock and see what went wrong.

She saw an episode of the tv version of The Little Mermaid.  She's always challenged my condemnation of such stupidity.  So, I let her talk about it with me, so we can determine together what's wrong with it.

This particular show had Ariel responsible for a set of twins.  From what she told me, I pieced together that she lost track of the twins, who went to a ship, something about a shark, and rocks fell down but the twins were safe.

There.  It all ended well, so everything was fine, by Rachel's standards.  I helped her see that the twins weren't really safe, but they were lucky.  That Ariel was responsible for them, and she made a big mistake.  That the show convinces her that it's ok to break the rules (stay away from the rocks). 

She seemed... shocked that all that bad stuff came from a good show.  I know she didn't really understand the whole picture, though.  We've done this before, and she focuses on the particulars of the show, not the whole thing.  I think that will take a few years.  Until then, I have to be resilient in protecting her from evils she can't understand.