Hey guys and gals!

I was wondering how you feel about - and deal with - really dark tv shows? I’m talking about dark in the context of light emitted, not feelings ;-)

I’m watching See, and while I do appreciate blind people not having a lot of lights turned on at all times, I’m finding it almost unbearable to watch because of how dark it is at times.

I’m having to bump my TV settings up - which is kind of a hassle as I had it really nicely calibrated (damn I love oled by the way) - just to have to turn it back down (and hope to remember those settings) not to get blinded when I watch anything remotely normally illuminated.

I remember this being a topic in the last seasons (or season) of Game of Thrones too - but back then I had an old TV with bad contrast anyway, so I wasn’t hit that hard by it.

How do you feel about too dark tv shows and movies? And how do you deal with it?

  • albatros@kbin.social
    2·
    1 year ago

    I hate it… I don’t know if it’s because they made shows thinking it will be seen on a perfect screen, or because they think it’s “realistic”, but it makes lots of things unwatchable.

    If you watch the Daredevil serie from 2015, most of the action scenes take place at night or in dark rooms (since main character is blind), but you can still perfectly understand what is happening.

    There is really no need to make the person watching feel like they are blind too…

    • Roberto@toast.ooo
      2·
      1 year ago

      Same happens with sound, they mix it thinking you’ll watch it using some fancy sound system, well guess what, I want to be able to watch your shitty movie on a regular TV.