I am currently watching Futurama on my telebox, but for some reason I am watching it with subtitles. Now I am a fan of subtitles, I find them endlessly amusing, I like the random things that it points out in brackets; like in Futurama hardly any of the music was subtitled then randomly (Irish Music). I like the idea of a deaf person formulating their own Irish music in their head to go with the episode and I would like to have heard their version. I am also a huge fan of what could be seen as subtitles for the blind, audio commentary. Now audio commentary is fantastic, I once watched Casino Royale with audio commentary and it made the film even more intense; instead of just looking at Bond staring at Mathis (or whatever his name was) you get "Bond's piercing blue eyes stare at Mathis". I enjoyed this experience so much I went so far as turning on subtitles for hearing impaired and audio commentary to give myself the ultimate film experience. Also it was an experiment into wether blind and deaf people could watch movies if you combined these two features: they can't. So after this amazing scientific experiment I eventually come back to some point in this blog.
The point in this blog, yes it does have one, is that subtitles should be more precise. Deaf people get a raw deal with subtitles, films lose there wit and lose all sense of time, for example somebody in futurama said evening and the subtitle said night. This is the kind of pointless change which would annoy the hell out of me if I was deaf, I know the deaf don't realise but that is no excuse. i expect quality tv with and without subtitles, why do the deaf and hearing imparied have to miss out on somewords in sentances; which are usually the funniest ones. So I believe that the people that do the subtitles should kick themselves up the backside and then put that same backside in gear AND MAKE SOME PRECISE SUBTITLES!
Too conclude, blind and deaf people can't watch films -it's ok they can't read this-, subtitles and hearing impaired audio commentary is awesome but please make sure it's precise and make lots more additions like 'Irish Music'.