While watching the recently released Marvel movie The Eternals, local film buff Andrea Sanders noted the closed captioning’s overuse of the word “whimsical.” “Pretty much every time there was music, the captions read ‘whimsical music plays,’” complained Sanders, gesturing to the captions of a drawn-out death scene. “All the other movies do it, too! Even, like, the music in depressing civil war documentaries is being called whimsical.” At press time, Sanders reported suspicious levels of captions describing sitar music as “exotic.”

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