And when you combined the relatively brief shots of the wounds with the sound effects heard as Negan kept slamming the bat down over and over, it added up to something that probably wouldn’t be a welcome sight to most children.
Not to mention the flashes to other characters getting smacked.
On the one hand, I suppose it’s understandable why the PTC is looking at The Walking Dead with a tighter lens than most shows, since it is definitely at the apex of what cable can get away with, visuals-wise.
While Negan beating Abraham and Glenn’s skulls to smithereens possibly wasn’t as gory or covered with buckets of blood as other deaths have been in the past, particularly Noah’s, there was human sadism on display in Negan’s actions.