Just finished watching the first episode, and came here to leave a similar comment about the language choices! I think it's mostly great that more TV and movie productions in recent years are giving us characters speaking in the actual languages they'd use instead of accented English, but it's very strange and immersion-breaking when onl…
Just finished watching the first episode, and came here to leave a similar comment about the language choices! I think it's mostly great that more TV and movie productions in recent years are giving us characters speaking in the actual languages they'd use instead of accented English, but it's very strange and immersion-breaking when only one foreign language in the story gets that treatment.
EDIT: I think the early scenes with Blackthorne and his crew are supposed to be in Dutch, too -- he's the only Englishman on-board -- but the dialogue is instead presented in English like the Portuguese is. Such a weird choice.
Really good point! A subtitled (...speaking in Portuguese...) could help a little to acknowledge it at least.
Maybe the rule is that in each scene where they don't acknowledge the language switch amongst the Europeans we can assume that both characters speaking can understand English and Portuguese or English and Dutch. 🤷♂️
Just finished watching the first episode, and came here to leave a similar comment about the language choices! I think it's mostly great that more TV and movie productions in recent years are giving us characters speaking in the actual languages they'd use instead of accented English, but it's very strange and immersion-breaking when only one foreign language in the story gets that treatment.
EDIT: I think the early scenes with Blackthorne and his crew are supposed to be in Dutch, too -- he's the only Englishman on-board -- but the dialogue is instead presented in English like the Portuguese is. Such a weird choice.
Really good point! A subtitled (...speaking in Portuguese...) could help a little to acknowledge it at least.
Maybe the rule is that in each scene where they don't acknowledge the language switch amongst the Europeans we can assume that both characters speaking can understand English and Portuguese or English and Dutch. 🤷♂️