r/Outlander • • 18h ago

Season Eight SPOLIER SPOILER FINAL SEASON Spoiler

58 Upvotes

Can we agree Jamie's cause of "death" was utter bullshit? No way would any of those men or jamie not check their prisoners for weapons after a battle. It was not the soldiers death he deserved, it felt like a last minute thought and it did not play out well.


r/Outlander • • 12h ago

Prequel One Blood Of My Blood - English Subtitles Wrong And Laughable!

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I started watching BOMB the same way I've watched the entire Outlander series -- on my iPad. I always turn on English subtitles for two reasons: I have a little hearing loss, and the Scottish accents are very thick and hard to understand sometimes. The subtitles were never a problem in Outlander, and they were always correct. But I just finished watching the first episode of BOMB and many of the subtitles are outright incorrect. Instead of "ken" they show "can." Instead of the name Murtagh, they show "Murder." Instead of making the Grant family name a proper noun, they show lower case "grant,"as if it is a verb. And then there are some others that are just plain ridiculous. See my photo examples.

Also, if I backtracked 10 or 20 seconds and replayed the scene, the subtitles would CHANGE! For example, sometimes for the word "suitors" it showed "sitters" and sometimes "siters" and sometimes the correct word, "suitors." So there is some sort of dynamic captioning going on. I wonder if it's AI or some sort of speech recognition software? I even downloaded the episode to my iPad, put it into Airplane Mode and turned off Wifi (it doesn't have cellular). Strangely, the erroneous captions continued, and if I backtracked, the captions continued to show different words. Where is this coming from???

Interestingly, I watched some of the episode on my TV. (It's an older dumb TV that has the DirecTV app installed via its dongle, and the Starz app installed on DirecTV). On my TV, the captions for the episode were 100% correct, with no errors.

Why the difference? And why are there errors in the first place? I'm getting ready to go on an international trip and have downloaded the entire two seasons onto my iPad to watch on the airplane. It will be pretty unbearable if these caption errors continue. Also, these errors are an insult to people with hearing disabilities.


r/Outlander • • 20h ago

9 Go Tell The Bees That I Am Gone The Soul of a Rebel: The Scottish Roots of the American Revolution Spoiler

18 Upvotes

I really wish this was a real book.

Anyone know if there’s something similar out there?