Ok, so my partner (36F) and I (36M) have been married for 11 years….our biggest fight has been because of Subtitles on Netflix, I want it, she does not….
My reasoning, I follow the story so much better when it is on, her reasoning…it is distracting. I said that when I decide on something we need to have it on, but it does create some friction still. AITA?
I’m impressed she can hear what they’re saying. I watch everything with subtitles since sound mixing has gotten so bad.
I forgot to add a judgment. NAH.
Agreed. Back in “the day” I used to be anti-subtitles (mainly watching cable when the subtitles were in the huge black box, took up half the screen, week 2 seconds delayed and incorrect lol) but for the last 10 or so years I’ve required subtitles to watch, otherwise you have to baby the volume and adjust it every 2.5 seconds.
I was thinking about this the other day. Like I can’t hear without subtitles now, but back in the day they were so annoying and I didn’t understand what changed. I forgot TVs were small and subtitles had that annoying black box.
The issue is now everything is recorded in dolby sound 5.1 at least 7.2 in some cases. unless you have a very good Soundbar or stereo system witha good center speaker you can’t hear shit with speakers anymore.
That along with unfamiliar accents.
Right?! My boyfriend and I need subtitles cause whenever any talking happens, it’s sooo quiet and hard to hear, then you turn the volume up only for the scene to switch to a really loud action scene with explosions and gunfire or even just music that wakes up the whole damn neighborhood!
Subtitles is a game changer, I can actually follow what’s going on. Movies/Shows now are so quiet during conversation but loud AF during action so it’s hard to find the balance. Subtitles do the trick.
See if the opposite, with subs I’m reading a book and can’t see what’s going on because I’m reading the subtitles
Slow reader. We’ve been using subtitles for a decade for same reason as OP. I hated it. But now it’s just so nice because it’s not like I’m only reading subtitles the whole time, the brain actually just uses them when it realizes it’s missing a piece of context. Like, my eyes flip down for a heartbeat to skim some of the words and then back to watching. It’s a learned skill.
Its says alot to me if someone cant accomodate for something like this. My wife prefers subtitles. Ive gotten used to it. Because I am not fighting over something so trivial.
This! My husband immediately got on the subtitles bandwagon when we first started dating. He never had a problem with them even though he never used them before me. Now he watches with subtitles even if I’m not around.
This is such a non issue.
If it’s YOUR show = subtitles
If it’s HER show = no subtitles
Neutral show = flip a fucking coin
Sorry, I’m 💯 for subtitles. They’re easy to ignore but if I miss a line, I’d rather read it than miss it.
Edit : NAH Thought this was a throwaway comment that didn’t need judgement. My bad.
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