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cmrdgkr OP t1_jdq2nds wrote

Reply to comment by Fabbyfubz in Apple TV's subtitles are awful. by cmrdgkr

That would make sense if it was only subtitles showing up late (lagging) and then blinking out the moment they're meant to go off anyway. But we also have subtitles that appear to show up on time, and blink out immediately. It would also make more sense if the subtitles were showing up randomly late. If a subtitle is meant to be up for 2 seconds, lag would mean it would randomly show up at any point during those 2 seconds. Meaning you wouldn't just see subs blinking on and off, you'd see subs that come on and just don't last as long as they should. e.g. it's a .5 second late so it's only up for 1.5 seconds making it a quick read. These are always blink on and off.

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cmrdgkr OP t1_jdq17eu wrote

Reply to comment by felixsapiens in Apple TV's subtitles are awful. by cmrdgkr

A year and a half ago I reported the issues with Ted Lasso's subtitles. They made a point of having a customer care person or whatever call me. I spent time explaining the issues we had with the subtitles. It's a year and a half later, and it's still a mess.

I've no interest in buying an Apple TV.

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itsShane91 t1_jdpukxn wrote

Reply to Apple TV's subtitles are awful. by cmrdgkr

It's not just Apple, it's every streaming service. As someone who watches everything with subtitles, the amount of times they don't actually match up to what is being said, miss parts off, unnecessarily censor things and give big story spoilers. I'm lucky I only use subtitles for personal choice, I feel bad for people who genuinely need them to watch TV.

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Duck_President_ t1_jdptz0c wrote

Reply to comment by strwht12 in The third season of True Detective was excellent by TheShowLover

Season 2 completely missed the tone and what made season 1 great.

In the first season, our two protagonists fabricate a cover story about their heroic deeds, rushing through gun fire, taking down a machine gun bunker like Captain America, when in reality, they executed someone who was completely helpless. What they did was the antithesis of heroic. Its a clever take on the typical crime genre.

In Season 2, they show the fake cover story, except its not fake, they play it straight and it actually happens. Dozens of cops are mowed down in the street by machine gun while literal bombs are going off. But our protagonists with their detective skills manage to dodge bullets and kill the baddies. You know, something you might see in a typical trashy crime thriller show. That scene was so bad I stopped watching the show after that ep.

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NGHTWNG22 t1_jdptojj wrote

Reply to The Ark is embarrassing! by opiate_lifer

Coming from an engineering background, it is actually physically painful watching the scientific inaccuracies in this show. You either go proper sci-fi a la Stargate, Star Trek etc and maintain a level of consistency and limitations on how the sci-fi elements you introduce work, or you go grounded in reality like The Expanse or The Martian. You don't try and use realistic science then proceed to butcher it up to come up with idiotic and nonsensical macguffins like a magical pressure suit that allows a wearer to wake up and move immediately from cryosleep, or showing a spinning spaceship that magically has artificial gravity everywhere - even where it doesn't spin, or magically coming across comets, asteroids, and f**king entire planetary systems and stars?? for the exact resources they need in the middle of the empty void between Sol and Alpha Centauri which also happens to be the closest star system to Earth by literally several light years.

Exactly what was to be expected from a constantly failing upwards clown like Dean Devlin though to be fair. So don't know why I even bothered watching it.

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