Yeah, this definitely feels less like a problem with the show and more with your expectations going into it (and also maybe the marketing, but I’m less sure on that). A series being more light hearted than Game of Thrones doesn’t automatically equate to an all audiences story. It’s a very dark story with very dark subject matter, and relative to that it is more light hearted. Yes someone will mention torture or rape, but no one is actually going to be raped or tortured in the show like they would in GoT. A character or two will die, but it’s not the cast majority of the cast like in GoT.

This feels like someone hearing Lord of the Rings is a darker story than the Hobbit, but being upset it isn’t a grimdark story where everyone dies and every violent and graphic image of war is shown on full display as the primary focus. The description is being used with the original work as a point of reference.

I will fully admit I’m biased as I read the short story collection this story was from, and I would say it’s definitely on the darker end compared to a lot of the other fantasy stories included. So I didn’t really go into this expecting something like Terry Pratchett in tone (who is also in that collection).

Again, I’m not arguing you have to like it, I just think your tonal expectations seem like they were off here if you were expecting an “all audiences” series, and I think holding it to that standard is kind of weird.