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by raphael_l 412 days ago
A bit off-topic, but one gripe I had with some implementations of subtitles is when they’re delivering on the identity of a person before this was exposed. I don’t know why this happens that it would reveal <Name: Dialog> where it should instead be <Generic trait: Dialog>.

So instead of <Phil: Blah blah> it would be <Raspy voice: Blah blah>.

I don’t have examples for this, but it happens regularly that I noticed it as a trend. Might be because subtitles are outsourced and maybe the importance of exposition is not clear to the people creating the subtitles?

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A very few shows are attentive enough to this that the character name will change as plot is revealed within a scene. Most, sadly, are not.