HAPPY TUESDAY, BEANIES!
I just read a delightful article on MyDramaList and felt the urge to share.
The premise: Stages of Dropping Dramas

Hi, guys! I’m Kate, and I’m addicted to dropping dramas.
Giving a drama a fair chance to draw me in and entertain me is not in my current nature. I just could not care less. How I went from never dropping any drama to dropping dramas on their first episode? Is such a change even possible? Yes, it is, ladies and gentlemen. Let me take you on a journey of how my dropping dramas habit evolves.
[quoted from the article]

Ha ha ha ha
This person’s system of dropping is so entertaining and definitely makes me feel better about dropping dramas 1 episode away from the end!

Have a read!
https://mydramalist.com/article/stages-of-dropping-dramas-011015145

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    I didn’t understand how one can drop a drama with one or two episodes left but now that I’ve done it myself, i totally get it.

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      “Hi Bye Mama” was my 1st time dropping a drama with only 2 Eps left. Just couldn’t push through anymore.

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      I still haven’t watched the last episode of What’s Wrong With Secretary Kim and I have no desire whatsoever to watch it.

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        I enjoyed 13 episodes of Find Me in Your Memory, made the mistake of watching the preview for ep 14 which made me not keen on the ending..I still think about finishing it now and then.

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          Find Me in Your Memory sort of stopped being good riiiiight around the time you stopped watching it, yeah. ha ha ha

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        Coincidentally, I dropped Secretary Kim with 2 episodes left!

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          ha ha ha !
          I actually watched that till the end, but yeah, I hear you.

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    My policy has always been to either watch the dramas from my actor/writer list OR look for Beanie thoughts on the show before watching. Option 1 has lead me to some mediocre dramas but never bad enough to make me drop them. Option 2 always has me thinking – why havent I watched this drama sooner??

    I guess that’s a pretty longwinded way of saying, wow, I’ve been so fortunate. Or patient, any of those two. 😂

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      SAME! I look at actor and genre, writers not so much. Beanie recs have given me some amazing dramas that i would’ve never watched on my own. But sometimes i drop dramas cos of time or lost of interest which may or may not be the drama’s fault.

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      Beanie Recommendations have almost never failed me!

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    Thanks for sharing! It was a great read! Really affirming my own dramas graveyard. :3
    I used to feel guilty and very doubtful to drop a drama so early on, because a few do surprise me after the first few rocky episodes. but it’s so rare that that happens tho… So I learned to follow my gut reactions and try to feel no remorse/doubts when dropping a show. 😀

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    I like her bit about revisiting dropped dramas. I’ve revisited the Taiwan drama Miss Rose about six times and I just cannot finish it 😄 I think I should just let it go

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      it pained me a little but I finally had to let go of “Rookie Historian Goo Hae Ryung” and “Romance is a Bonus Book”, and remove both from my plan-to-finish list because, really, I do not plan to finish them at all, no matter how guilty I feel.

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    I’m still in the stage of not dropping dramas. 😛

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    I used to push myself and just finish the drama for the hours that I’ve invested in watching it but after doing it for the first time, it gets easier the second time😄

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