Hace algún tiempo ya se venía comentando que la última temporada de Lost se emitiría simultáneamente en España y EE.UU., pero finalmente se están emitiendo con una diferencia de una semana. Sin embargo, hace unos días salió la noticia de que el último capítulo de Perdidos (el próximo 23 de Mayo) podría emitirse simultáneamente en Estados Unidos y en España subtitulado.
If confirmed, this would set an important precedent in terms of the immediacy of broadcast of the series, but I do not know if the experiment would be successful for several reasons. The first of them is that if it were broadcast at the same time, in Spain it would be 3 in the morning, a rather unfavorable time: Do you really want to watch the twilight of this sleepy series? The second is that the subtitles will surely be those that are embedded in American TV, that is, **in Latin. I am sure that many people will not care about these aspects and would watch it without hesitation, but if I were a Cuatro programmer, I would broadcast the episode early in the morning for those who wanted to get up early, and then in the afternoon/evening again for those who could not see it in the morning. Yes, that “Y” is in capital letters on purpose for a reason, and that is that if fans are used to choosing when they watch the series from the beginning, what less than giving them the option to choose between morning/afternoon. Furthermore, this would give the translators time to “Spanishize” the subtitles.
I am totally convinced that if they did this, people would not download it and watch it on Cuatro swallowing all the publicity they threw at them. At least I would.**