Subtitles

I have some friends who are about twenty years younger than I. And I've noticed that they like to turn on the subtitles on movies and television shows that are in English. 

And I'm not sure why.

My problem is, when the subtitles/closed captioning are on, I pay more attention to them than to the action on the screen.

I do know it's sometimes hard to understand the dialogue and turning on subtitles helps with that (I did it on Deadpool & Wolverine briefly when I missed a joke). But I still find it distracting.

And I wonder why younger folks might turn on subtitles. Maybe it's because they were available through DVDs and closed captioning when they were younger.

When I was younger, you just watched the program and hoped you heard everything correctly. You couldn't stop the television show or movie and hear it again. You just had to hope you heard it right the first time. We only had broadcast television or we could go to the movies. And the DVR hadn't been invented yet. Yes, I'm old!

I still don't like subtitles on English programming. How do you feel about it? Do you turn the subtitles on? Let me know in the comments below.