Kate

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.

do you want to pick them up coz you don;t like to drop shows, or are you just curious how they went in later episodes?

Well... Hyeong Rak kidnapped Yeon Soo to force Jung Hyun to give back the tablet with all the incriminating evidence. Young Geol tries to shoot Jung Hyun, Hyeong Rak gets annoyed and shoots Young Geol. Shit happens and Hyeong Rak falls from the construction site building, and he is barely holding up, asking Young Geol to help him, but he does not. He falls, we thought to his death, but nah he survived. The shit in the tablet involves not only bad deeds from Hyeong Rak, but is an evidence for political scheme involving many different people of power, so they go after them (tho this is never explained).

Both Hyeong Rak and Jung Hyun end up in prison, but the show ends with Jung Hyun getting out (probably short sentence, and his family is there to pick him up, they changed their surnames to Lee, since now he goes by his real name.

I just cannot believe there was not real face off with Hyeong Rak... dude literally fell from the building hahahaha

Here's the thing tho, my ratings are more of "how much I enjoyed watching" and not "hot good the show is". That's why Why R U, even tho awful production, sits at 9.5 hahaha

And I kind of enjoyed ITSAY is a masochistic sense hahaha It's was a trainwreck of stupid kids and I was up for the ride. I was thinking if I should give it 7.5 or 8, but overall... I "had fun". If it was longer show, the rating would drop a lot. Plots like that are entertaining to a certain point, but they cannot be dragged for too long.

That said, even tho I gave it fairly high rating, some people were still not happy/triggered about it, as if it was low hahaha

i see people say they don';t think it's queerbaiting, but damn it's one of the best examples there are lol

This is not a case of crazy BL fans seeing romance where there is none. This is good old queerbaiting. Comparing how scenes and interactions between the two MLs and Yeo Joon and So Bin were filmed and presented... one could easily assume it's a gay romance. Who got the rom-com music? Who got the slow-mo glances? Who got the tense bickering and clearly showing some kind of interest? all that are usually used to set the couple in the first few episodes.

The same interaction the main leads had, filmed and edited differently could truly be viewed as just bromance or friendship. But the way they framed them made it more.

And since you say the webtoon was accused on queerbaiting too, no one can deny the drama does that. Any potentially "romance leading" scene between Yeo Joon and So Bin goes back to Soo Hyun. Bungee jump? We get them "looking" at each other at the end. The fight and So Bin "saving" Yeo Joon? We get Soo Hyun getting involved and them staring at each other and the whole "care for me" stuff.

This whole deal just does not sit well with me :(

I would rather have no hints of anything tbh. Either give me lgbt content or don't give me any. This baiting with no closure and happy ending (or any ending) is just frustrating.

yeah there is a difference between Chinese producers making as close to a lgbt context shows as they can get, while not getting the shows cancelled coz of the media censorship, and Korea not giving lgbt content coz some part of the society is not on board.
One cannot produce gay content coz of the laws in the country, the other just does not want to produce content that might be "controversial" while still exploiting the audience that would be interested in lgbt content in the first place.

the thing is, this goes beyond bromance, at least in the first episode. That's why I am so annoyed.

so like... good old queerbaiting no one asked for?
Producers should know better now: either deliver or don't go vague and hint at all.

He's been murdering people left and right if they were getting close to spilling th tea about his past and then making it look like it was a suicide. To say he was not a mastermind and manipulating everything for years is a bit off. He wasn't just sitting on a chair getting rich. He is a director of intelligence agency after all, above average IQ is a must for it to work.

All characters are presented as smart and skilled, but all the events prove otherwise. So rather than watching for the winner, I ended up seeing who will fuck up less.

not really. If he was able to manipulate the whole freaking country for YEARS, it should be a habit of him to assume and get ready for "the worst". Especially since he knows ML's motivation is not to reveal the truth but to protect his family - hence just revealing the file would not be his move, but rather keeping it "safe" for future.

damn I get triggered when TT is mentioned in a close proximity to Like in the Movies. It's literally like heaven and hell (TT gaining the title of demonic BL for me lol)