I've seen a lot of discussions (whether sarcastic or real) about various different parts of Deep Breath and the character traits of Vastra and Strax being unsuitable for children.

Is it me or do some adults really miss the point?!

The biggest one is Vastra eating people, yeah OK so if you scrape the top layer off of it it is grim. But people are worried that it'll confuse kiddies having a good guy do bad things. Thing is we are looking at Vastra through human eyes and trying to find sense in it. There isn't any sense to it because her species aren't real. Kids are more likely to see that and pass it off as her being different from us.

Then again I just think its silly thinking we need to shade kids from this kind of shade of grey in either Vastra or the Doctor.

For example my 5 year old niece watches Monster High and the whole point of half the plots is that so and so does something bad and the rest of them need to sort it out. Like when Cleo went out of her way to start a "war" she didn't really believe in with the Normies. Now Cleo isn't a bad guy and she should be seen as a bad guy and my niece doesn't think of her as a bad guy because she isn't. She did something naughty yes but even at 5 my niece can see the difference between making bad decisions and being a bad person. She also isn't impressionable enough that she'd start a war with black haired people (lets call them normies) because she's ginger (because she's a monster). 

It is a story, and like all stories they SHOULD challenge the kids view on what good and bad are. They should widen their imagination and not stifle it by just having good guys and bad guys. I might not be a parent but having a kid watching a adult drink/smoke or watching a sci-fi program where a different species eats humans but can still be considered genuinely a good guy doesn't seem like a bad thing.

We can question what right Vastra has on being judge of these people and wonder if she ever got anything wrong. I don't think kids care though. I missed the line in this episode anyway so I doubt many children will have noticed a throwaway line.

As for the Doctor, the man that last season killed Solomon, nearly killed Jax (or whatever his name was in Mercy) and had a whole story trying to find a way to stop him killing a planet full of people HIS OWN people... I don't think people really understand the Doctor at all. He might say one or two things but he doesn't follow any of his "rules". 

And before anyone points out that he possibly NEVER blew up Gallifrey because the events of Day always would have happened.... He still THOUGHT of it and was going to DO it. The War Doctor never EVER came up with a plan before the events that could have changed the day it took three of him and two companions to change his mind on it. My point is that was a planet full of innocent people that he was willing to blow up for the greater good of the galaxy. The Doctor isn't a good guy because he's perfect and does lots of great things he's a good guy because he generally does great things to save innocent people and most of the time gets things right. He doesn't go out of his way to harm people and his moral compass and way of life are very similar to a humans therefore it is easy for us to project our own beliefs and stuff on him.

Vastra on the other hand isn't anything like us so projecting anything onto her is silly to begin with.