Small things that really annoy you in media

[Rapesputin]

What does this mean?

indexing as in keeping the trigger finger on the frame of the weapon as opposed to inside the trigger guard when not actively firing the weapon. Great for on-set safety, but not so great for suspension of disbelief.

 

[EmperorAardvark]

This is a very small thing, but it always midly annoys me when a character in a movie or show will shine a flashlight directly into the camera. Get that light OUT of my face bish!! You see this in countless movies and shows during investigations of some dark area, and very rarely I've seen mercy shown to me where they'll shine a light but avoid the direct lens, so I know it's possible to just not do it.

 

[Paper Machete]

That slight fish eye look and darker corners thing a lot of newer shows do pisses me off to no end. I think Shogun did this and it made it nearly unwatchable for me despite everything else being pretty good. Also always being so up in character's faces. A lot of shots are unnecessarily close in everything it seems. Hate, hate, hate.

 

[Feels Badman]

I hate when writers attempt to replicate early modern English but get the declension wrong for pronouns, like using “thee” when they should have used “thou,” or "thy" when they should have used "thine". Or worse, they just add “-eth” to the end of every few words, regardless of conjugation or part of speech, because they have no idea how early modern English worked and they’re just trying to make it sound archaic. Worse yet is when they throw a present-day slang word into old-fashioned dialogue in a pitiful attempt at humor.

“I verily thinketh that thee are uncool. Thy eye is verily glaringeth at me.”

Any one of those things kills the immersion for me instantly.

Did you mean Toby Fox? He does this in Deltarune with one of the characters and it's so annoying.

I can never keep straight in mind which word is which, but for those that don't know, the whole thee/thou/you/whatever thing is a case of English having once had (like most languages still do) the informal and formal you. In Spanish, for example, you learn in formal classes that you use "tu" in the presence of people like friends, family and social inferiors, but "usted" in the presence of strangers, social superiors, etc.

Thee and thou aren't different pronouns, they're the same pronoun but "thee" is the object and "thou" is the subject. In Spanish, the equivalent would be "ti" (object) and "tú" (subject — the accent is important, since "tu" with no accent is the possessive "your"). Modern English uses "you" as both subject and object, which is why its speakers get confused about which word to use, unless they grew up reading the King James Bible.

 

[Ughubughughughughughghlug]

Did you mean Toby Fox? He does this in Deltarune with one of the characters and it's so annoying.

Thee and thou aren't different pronouns, they're the same pronoun but "thee" is the object and "thou" is the subject. In Spanish, the equivalent would be "ti" (object) and "tú" (subject — the accent is important, since "tu" with no accent is the possessive "your"). Modern English uses "you" as both subject and object, which is why its speakers get confused about which word to use, unless they grew up reading the King James Bible.

So thee/thine/thy/thou is a grammatical clusterfuck of informality, while you was the formal you and got politeness inflated into the only you we use anymore, right?

 

[Feels Badman]

So thee/thine/thy/thou is a grammatical clusterfuck of informality, while you was the formal you and got politeness inflated into the only you we use anymore, right?

I think it's the other way around.

 

[Cave Fisher]

I'm not a fan of whenever there's a shootout with a bunch of bullets flying around and the protagonist flips over a cheap wooden table that just acts as some impenetrable barrier. It can be fun choreography, so I don't really mind, but still.

Did you mean Toby Fox? He does this in Deltarune with one of the characters and it's so annoying.

I think it's done well there because the character doing it clearly has no idea how to actually talk like that.

 

[G.G. A-Log]

So thee/thine/thy/thou is a grammatical clusterfuck of informality, while you was the formal you and got politeness inflated into the only you we use anymore, right?

Thee and You are a confusing situation. The actual, very rudimentary distinction is that “Thee” is singular and “You” is plural. At some point, “You” came to indicate formality/politeness and “Thou” came to indicate informality/familiarity. My schizophrenic uneducated take is that it has to do with the Royal We, but that’s neither here nor there.

Edit: Fun fact, “Thou” is not pronounced “Thow” but like “Thew”, or like “You” with a “Th” instead of a “Y”.

I’ll chip in to the topic and say I despise when any show has people eating food unrealistically loudly. It doesn’t make it more intimate or uncomfortable, it’s just disgusting.

 

[The greater a'tuin]

When unrelated plot points are lazily welded together. It makes the world smaller when a series-driving mcguffin is abruptly revealed as some established minor character's doing all along.

 

[OtherLastTrainHome]

white women implied to be in relationships with black men. it bothers me how prevalent this dynamic is. almost every commercial is interracial. my bank shows service advertisements to this day with visually stereotypical black men holding dark skinned babies with white women. it's never, ever white men with black women - one out of fifty instances of this demoralization fetish will have a white guy with a black chick, but you get the idea.

but, perhaps what's demoralizing for me is how much i started to notice this is pretty common irl. i manage a store in one city and help in another as needed, the latter store being in the ghetto. i have seen strung out white women having to wrangle black kids quite a few times. they are also covered in ridiculous tattoos.

idk, it really irks me. it is an abnormal state of living, if you ask me. and yes, i am extremely racist on this topic.