Kate

I mean, you can always drop a show but add a not to it "come back to it later" or something. I did it with few shows, to know these ones were dropped not because they are bad, but because I was simply not in the mood for them :)

I did not try Eternal Love yet, but it is on my ptw hahaha We'll see how it goes for me.
But yeah, I dropped NiF twice and I cannot see myself giving it 3rd chance ever. I lot of people who LOVE this drama love ML, while I truly disliked him. So suffering for more episodes makes no sense for me hahahaha

In the past I was putting dramas on hold too, for future revisit. But since I now use "on hold" list differently, I only can drop shows hahaha

For the "picking dramas"... that depends. First of all, even if I am not in the mood, I quickly get in the mood if I start episode and that helps a lot. I always try to keep up with airing dramas I am watching - new episode, watch as soon as possible.

For the dramas from my ptw lists, I made custom lists for each country. Usually I think what country I want to watch, then scroll through the list - if something catches my attention, I go with that. If not - random number generate next drama hahaha

Well, 114 is not even that many. It's because it took me years to finally start dropping shows in the first place hahahha

I actually really liked first 8 episodes of NiF, but after that I slowly started losing interested and even started to get frustrated hahaha Got to episode 20, coz everyone told me that's the "turning point" lol

Nobody Knows is actually one of the shows I dropped hahaha BUT I dropped it coz I was just not in the mood and I'm for sure on the "excided" side to pick it up again at some point.

It was really dark and emotionally exhausting tho.

Not a problem. I mean, everyone can adjust the rules for themselves. I did what works for me :)

No, it actually is impulsive. If I drop a show 8 minutes in episode 1 just coz I don't feel it, it's definition of being impulsive hahaha

There are some dramas I dropped and will not include in my 2nd chance project (for example if in the cast there is an actor accused of SA etc), but most dramas I dropped on a whim without any specific reason. "insulting you with propaganda, sexist character, laziness and so son" are not the reason I drop dramas most of the time.

Like Project S: Skate Our Souls which I named in the article: dropped it coz at the time I watched it the first time, it was too much for me, after picking it up again it became one of my favorite dramas I have seen in 2020.

If someone drops dramas for specific reason (be it sexist character, poorly written story, any type of triggers) then yeah, not picking them up makes sense. For me it's "nah, I don't feel it at the moment" or "damn I watch to many dramas atm, need to drop some titles".

You won't even know when your dropped list will start to grow hahaha it started with just few dramas for me too hahaha

For me, even the dramas I disliked coz of the plot and characters are big question mark, coz my taste changed a lot. Things I disliked in the past I like now.

I feel you with SKY Castle tho. I had similar "problem" with Save Me. Was on hold for me for 2 years coz it was too intense and I was just getting too angry while watching.

Well, they had Vincenzo with actor who cannot speaking Italian speaking Italian, many people made fun of it. Pretty sure ALL dramas has doubles: for fighting scenes, cooking scenes, and at times dancing. Not only that, in When the Devil Calls Your Name the main actress who acted as singer-song writer did not sing any of the song, and her voice was dubbed for the performances.

At the end of the day, for me, it's better to cast an actor who does not have well trained skill but fits the character, than having someone who slay in said skill, but his performance in portraying the character does not fit. I did not mind the double for Navillera, they filmed it quite well with the limits that the set and skills of the actor set.

Oh, I drop currently airing dramas far more than completed ones, but that's because overall I watch more currently airing ones.

I had a need to give a drama fair chance with few episodes in the past, but now I can give up even few minutes in first episode.

But I kind of understand why you would drop completed dramas more often if we think about the spacing episode up a bit in time :)

Well, at first I wasn't dropping dramas too. Once you start tho, there is no coming back hahaha

hahah be savage! I would definitely read it hahaha

oh, I had a different take on Navillera. For me it was good, but it would be even an amazing character driven show, if they removed like half of the characters and focused with more depth to the few specific ones :)

That's the thing with classic dramas - it's hard to watch them now hahaha

just plain stupid" are my least favorite type os shows, I just cannot take it. I get too frustrated to continue watching most of the time, especially if the show presents itself as smart hahaha

Yeah, I completely stopped using on hold as on hold. Might be why I drop so many. But if I must be honest, I never liked putting dramas on hold, coz I just knew I ain;t gonna watch them hahaha

Same, lately if I drop a show on first episode, I just put it on "not interested" tho.
And for the Signal, I feel you. It might be a bit complicated at first coz we have many characters, different time lines and different cases etc. It's a lot to take.

To be honest, I talked to a friend yesterday and I said that the shows I love right now I would most likely dislike when I was a teen and just got into kdramas.
While I am pretty sure most titles I will pick up from dropped were go back to that list, I think it's worth trying and finding these few gems :D

Filling your ptw and currently watching lists with new shows is quite a popular thing hahaha A lot of people keep starting new shows instead of finishing the old ones.

And I feel you about the last episodes. Even tho I always finish shows if I get to the last two eps etc, I often really struggle with it and watch the eps on 1.5x speed. Coz as you said, a lot of times, all the interesting aspects were dealt with and they are just making stuff up to fill that 16 (or more) episodes format.