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I'm the same way. I love subtitles _but_ they degrade some of the experience. I had to turn them off because they will spoil the moment. Good example is King
by robswc 3y ago
I'm the same way. I love subtitles _but_ they degrade some of the experience. I had to turn them off because they will spoil the moment. Good example is King of The Hill. The I'll see the punchline before the delivery and I feel like it spoils the scene/joke.
I'll run them on other things (and they're amazing otherwise!) but when I sit down to watch something good, I have to turn them off or I'll get distracted/spoiled.
More power to the people that enjoy the subbed version though.
- autoexec 3y ago> I'll see the punchline before the delivery and I feel like it spoils the scene/joke. This I'll agree is a major problem with subtitles. It's not even just the jokes. I've seen the names of characters shown in subtitles (because they were speaking off screen) long before that character's name was revealed to the audience by the script. Another major distraction is the trend companies have these days to refuse to provide subtitles and give only closed captioning with all of its extraneous information about sound effects or the highly subjective descriptions of whatever music is playing. It's so obnoxious.
- dfxm12 3y agoI forget what I was watching. It might not have even been anime, but the subtitles had blanks in them, until it was time to reveal the word, when that key word would appear. In this way, they didn't spoil the punchline, or who was being talked to. It was a little bit jarring the first time, but by the second time it happened, I had already adapted and was thankful for it.