Small things that really annoy you in media

[TATE MOOOOOOOOOOOOOOODE!!]

Buffy/Ferris post

I can give slack to 80s and to lesser extent 90s stuff. Shit, I never thought too much about Blair's super computer dumping out plot exposition in The Thing and even with it pointed out to me now it's fine.

It's at least subtle.

But by the mid 2000s, it's just outright retarded:

 

[Jimjamflimflam]

Listening to a instructional video with headphones and the presenter pops their p's

Fucking rage inducing.

 

[The_Gam3]

Pop music during fight scene, chase etc. I get what they are trying to do, but the music choices always fell uninspired or annoying.

 

[IDontLikeLiberals]

Commercials in general but modern commercials especially

 

[⋖ cørdion ⋗]

Commercials in general but modern commercials especially

"Lmaoo japanese ads so wacky!!!", yeah cause they try to be happy, life-motivating and enchanting. What part of some fucking celebrity half nude in a shirt at the end of a wind tunnel talking about "le toilette" something or other, is gonna make me want to buy a perfume? Unironically have him run around on a beach with his kids, kiss his wife and go "SHE DIDN'T STAND A CHANCE ". Cringe? Certainly would be more effective.

 

[Safir]

1. "if everyone was rich, no one would need to work"-tier economics. In Dragonlance, which is on my mind cos I'm reading a book from the series, the unit of currency through the ages is the steel coin. Because, you see, in a war-torn world, gold is worthless and steel is precious. In most books, economics is just as retarded.

2. Lib morality in apocalyptic settings. "No, we can't kill this faggot, we need to give him a proper trial and shit". What proper trial? Muhdemocraticsociety doesn't exist, you're the only agents of The Law in the world. Are you going to roll into a village of dirt farmers on a plasma tank and say, "this faggot attacked us and killed two of our guys, do you think we can execute him?" How are the dirt farmers supposed to investigate if you're telling the truth, and what are they supposed to do if you aren't? Nigga please.

 

[Oh Sugar]

I hate it when some reference to the existential threat of global warming or climate change is brought up in a story where it has no relevance to the plot. It’s especially perverse when the target audience is children.

 

[PandaChai]

 

[P. Barnes’ THOT 2.0]

Whenever western media wants diversity it’s always an Indian or Pakistani or something a never East Asians. NEVER

 

[Mechanical Pencil]

Shitty audio balancing ruines things for me real fast.

 

[Squawking Macaw]

Late but this is the perfect thread for this small thing that grinds my gears: stories with animal protagonists where they call each other by their scientific names.

It sounds specific but I've seen it happen a couple of times. In Legend of the Guardians, the Zack Snyder movie based on a book about talking owls, the barn owls consistently call themselves "Tytos", and in Small Saga, an indie game about talking rodents where the protagonists are all commie faggots (do not recommend), the characters consistently call large predators like cats and foxes "felidae" and "vulpes".

Why? Are they calling a fox a "vulpes" just for the sake of being different? They're woodland critters, not scientists, having them use scientific terminology to refer to themselves breaks whatever immersion the writer was going for.

 

[urr13 account]

I cringe a bit whenever a movie or series references "reddit" or "4chan".

 

[skykiii]

People exposing their backs in sword fights.

On this note, in general any time swordfights have someone twirling their sword or doing that "spin around and slice" thing. Any half-competent idiot would stab the guy and it just makes them look like a tard, but for some reason movies and TV are convinced this is badass.

Also that one scene in the first TMNT movie where Michelangelo and that one foot soldier showed off their Nunchaku moves, Michelangelo's final is to just.... twirl one end around, and that somehow impresses the guy enough to run. Like, I could do that. Why is that hard or impressive? What did I miss?

 

[The Last Stand]

Established characters in sitcoms that have conflicts or drastic life changing events that work themselves out right at the end of the episode.

 

[Safir]

Spelling vs pronunciation (mostly in books).

- A character say a phansii mizspelll't name that's pronounced normally, and everyone else naturally understands how it's supposed to be spelled (and it goes into the book).

- A normal English word is capitalized and newly introduced in speech as a (stupid) in-universe term. Somehow the audience hears the capitalization, whereas in reality the sentence would just sound retarded in context.
e.g.
"I'm a Hunter!"
"..oh that's cool I guess, I'm a carpenter, I also crochet sometimes"

- A central plot twist that relies on people not understanding that a word they only heard spoken might be spelled slightly differently. Bonus points if it's supposed to be an ancient or otherworldly language (e.g. an Ancient Greek prophetic riddle that somehow relies on current year English wordplay). All perpetrators should be granted a honorary community college degree in creative writing.

 

[Phalanges Mycologist]

Any time welding is shown in a TV show, or a general shop environment. Its always just guys with angle grinders making sparks on steel. It looks cool for the camera, but they aren't actually doing anything, it just makes the audience think they are.

One that get's me as a Smith is when Swords an to a lesser extent other weapons are "Cast" big offender is LOTR for this they show sword blanks being cast, massive fucking nope you don't cast swords or armour or anything else really other than projectiles it requires painstaking work at the forge an then fettling with a file then a stone to put the final edge on it and that's after a fuck load of heat treating an tempering that you have to get right an before modern Heat Treat kilns it was very much a try, retry an try again process based on how well you could read the colours of your iron or steel an how fast you could react.

I fucking hate walking and talking. It's everywhere, they do it all the time. I especially hate it when they walk and talk with a loud soundtrack playing that isn't properly mixed so you can't hear where the characters are saying.

I think the west wing popularised that, yes there are situations you have to give updates too on the fly, yes there are developments that need to be given to the guy in charge, yes people walk an talk about stuff all the time but for important info dumps people tend to stop talk an listen because that's how language an informational weight works, people need time to be told it clearly and to process it and the more weight that information has and the clarity his has to be given with requires everything else to stop unless it's a dire emergency or a instant situational need.

 

[Day of the Cope]

Any time welding is shown in a TV show, or a general shop environment. Its always just guys with angle grinders making sparks on steel. It looks cool for the camera, but they aren't actually doing anything, it just makes the audience think they are.

Well, given the amount of retinal raping light most welding tends to produce, it's understandable.

 

[Squawking Macaw]

When a retelling of a fairy tale sells itself as the real version of the tale, like with Maleficent.

 

[𖦹Junkpop𖦹]

When they have a token gay couple thats interracial, it’s always white and black. Always.

 

[Ughubughughughughughghlug]

I haven't watched any TV in years, but I fucking hated, and still hate, sitcom laugh tracks.

It may help if you keep in mind the original purpose of them. When TV first came along people were used to watching plays and movies with a live audience; cinematography was also total shit, too, a lot of shows are like watching a stageplay. They thought that audiences would need a simulated audience for it to feel right. It's a convention of the medium that just never died out.