Thanks for sharing.
I think I will have to give it another try to Signal. I watched episodes 1 and 2 back then, but dropped…

My Ajusshi – Number 1 in Best and Favourite!

Thank you for all your time and effort!

Great! It’s a very different list from my own favorites so that deserves thought on my part, and thanks for all the work it took to do the whole poll!

I’ve seen 7 out of 10, not bad..

unfortunately, this specific gesture has been considered cute in one too many dramas. My understanding is that the use of utensils like forks and knives is not common, so a little help goes a long way.

Hold on – are you actually watching this drama now?

Did you watch DDSSLLS? The destruction wrought by the ending is beyond the reach of BoH, I think.

LOL I watched this by proxy when my sister watched it. Did not regret not watching it myself.

But that scene when SSK was falling off a building and NJH jumps out of a window to save her is one of the worst scenes to grace my screen yet SO HILARIOUS- we couldn’t see the wires holding SSK, but we might as well have. That directing was soooo bad, it was funny 😭😭😭

If anyone wants to have a good laugh (starta at 1’45sec): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NxENoakwXs4

The only thing this had going for it was pretty. Pretty set, a few pretty people, pretty color palette.

Another supposedly romantic gesture I find bizarre is tying your partner’s shoelaces, but I can see that it’s perceived as an expression of care/consideration. I would personally feel infantilised. However, I love it when others prepare fruit for me (esp. oranges because I am lazy), so I’m clearly in no position to criticise!😆

When this was airing I was particularly jobless so I watched all the episodes, and even while it was airing I couldn’t tell you what it was about or more importantly, why I was watching it. (2017 me needed to do a lot of self-reflection lol)

Heavens, why are you watching this? It’s so bad! Thinking of it, I recall a feeling of torpor.

Ahhh the things i endured for NJH.

Come again? 🤣

OMG I’m remembering…. she was a horrible character. I wanted to punch her. That’s probably why I stopped watching to save myself the agitation.

The CGI directing is really laughable. I don’t know why they were bothered to make this adaptation. I was a fan of the manhwa and was super disappointed when it was released. I didn’t get pass ep 4 😀

People are stupid! Yep!

I’ve read somewhere that people who can’t accept that other people can have different opinions are those with low self-esteem.

Merry Christmas!
¡Feliz Navidad!

Merry Christmas! 🦌🎅

Merry Christmas!

Merry Christmas!

I had not heard of this movie, so I looked it up. Sounds Christmassy 😄

Enjoyed this!!! And even though I was just watching the show, I rooted for LMH, like I would any candy perusing his/her indifferent soulmate!

Always time for one more act of madness (e.g. Heirs). Any good candidates?

What a wonderful way to place the period at the end of 2020!

☀️💎🌟 Shiny!

I loved this.

Yayyyy! It’s great and thank you for doing all the work it took!

Thanks so much for doing this.

Huh, I agreed with the majority on only one category.

You could go pick a fight on the Sisyphus (Park Shin Hye) post.

Wonderful! Thank you for all your work.

Reminds me –
#2020Roundup
Day 10 – The drama beanies convinced you to watch and you can’t be grateful enough.
Sky Castle. Your write up is spot on.

Thank you for your dedication!

Considering taking one sparkle from your soon to be track suit because a certain wonderfully wacky trope filled mess of a drama is not on the list.

Great poll – thanks @LT!

Absolutely agreed on the top three:
1. My Ajusshi – BEST drama by any standard!
2. Forest of Secrets – It will be a long thesis to dissect if FoS1 or FoS2 is better but the total package is an indisputable winner.
3. Misaeng – A drama I intend to rewatch over Xmas and also the one drama I ask my new and younger staff to watch.

Signal, IMHO, doesn’t age that well with many newer similar dramas doing also well, notably Life on Mars, but deserves a spot in top ten as it’s the one ahead of the game to start this time-travel / parallel universe genre.

Lastly, Healer, TIMFL, and IANR are probably for the list of Favorites rather than Best in my book.

Truly appreciate your efforts to run the poll and the write-up!!

Quite a lot of punching 🤣

Rooting for you! Fighting!

Which recap section are you going to reinvigorate? Or, if you haven’t watched Memorials/Into the Ring, you could start there. Delightful is the word I would use to describe it.

4 antibeans here.
I need to be more strict on what I watch.

Pretty sure I generated far too many antibeans. Not sure if it was the dramas or my mood.

I think I have at least 4 antibeans 🤦🏻‍♀️: born again, the game, chocolate and the world of the married. Thai “A gift to the people you hate” deserves 2 antibeans.

And as always I’d like to thank the Discord crew and especially @pickleddragon who devoted a lot of time and energy to coordinating this year’s poll

Thanks for doing this, LT!

Thank you for doing all this work!

Thank you for this. After last year’s, I just can’t.

Why they chose to put shows on there that still ran into the following year is beyond me and Beanies were not getting it.

Done.
I voted best clam only by references. I hope I do justice to the comments I read.

I didn’t get to vote for More Than Friends in any of the categories 😂
It didn’t have the best romance, it wasn’t THAT underrated, and it didn’t have a great* villain… but it was just so damn entertaining, I don’t know.

*Unless the characters sabotaging their own lives counts?

What

Here’s the blog post in case you don’t want to click through.

Lee Tennant’s Theory of Antibeans and the Continued Existence of the Drama Universe

There remains debate on the existence of antibeans: the negatively-charged partner of the beans collected by Beanies over the year. As of the 2019 drama year, many beans are observed each year, but no antibeans have yet been seen.

So how do we know that antibeans exist?

For each basic particle of matter, there exists an antiparticle with the same mass, but the opposite electric charge. The negatively-charged electron, for example, has a positively charged antiparticle called the positron.

Thus, particle physics tells us that for each bean produced when we complete a drama, some sort of negative equivalent must be produced. We call this negatively-charged drama bean an antibean.

This means that for each calendar year of drama watching, both beans and antibeans are produced.

As we all know, when a particle and its antiparticle come together they annihilate each other, transforming their mass into energy.

We’ve seen such explosions this year such as, for example, when Arthdal ended and people realised it was only season 1. The resulting internet meltdown was a direct result of the sheer volume of beans and antibeans produced colliding and resulting in the white hot energy of outrage (although some suspect that the rogue Netflix particle may have been involved as well).

The question then becomes: how does Dramaland exist at all without being transformed violently into energy from the production of beans and their associated antibeans?

Because if each drama produced both one bean and one antibean then Dramaland would ultimately cease to exist.

The answer must be that the quality of a drama determines the number of antibeans created for each bean generated. Since each drama completed by a person in each annual period produces one bean then the amount of antibeans produced must be a proportion of the bean produced.

For example, one could posit that a show like the Crowned Clown, where I enjoyed 8 episodes out of 16, would result in the production of one bean and one half of an antibean. Or a brilliant but slightly flawed show like Graceful Family would produce one bean and a very small number of antibeans, such as 0.1 (10%) or 0.2 (20%), (mostly for the transgender plotline we’d rather forget).

Thus the number of antibeans produced within an annual period by each viewer would be a fraction of the beans produced. If a person produces 20 beans then the number of associated antibeans would be less than or equal to 20.

Thus while it’s not possible to produce more than one bean per completed drama per calendar year it is also not possible to produce more than one antibean.

But how do we estimate the number of antibeans produced by a drama when they can’t be detected?

As we all know, there’s a subjective nature to the observed reality of quantum mechanics. Schrodinger didn’t really put a cat in a box. As such, that subjectivity must be reflected in the antibean calculation. That is, the nature of observing a drama produces both beans and antibeans but also impacts the number of antibeans produced.

While any antibean calculation would merely be an estimate based on flawed observations, it is nonetheless one that can be justified mathematically. Good dramas produce beans but not antibeans. Bad dramas produce beans and a certain amount of antibeans, proportionate to the bean and the level of enjoyment of the drama.

It is possible therefore for a drama such as Sky Castle, Children of Nobody or Be Melodramatic to produce no antibeans but also for one such as Vagabond to produce both a bean and nearly a full associated antibean. This means that Vagabond both exists and yet doesn’t exist at the same time. Which, frankly, explains a lot.

The theory of antibeans therefore states that antibeans are produced along with beans during the act of watching (and completely finishing) a drama. Since a bean is not produced until a drama is satisfactorily completed then it stands to reason that the proportionate production of antibeans also doesn’t occur.

1 completed drama = 1 bean = 1/n antibeans

with the antibean production being related to the subjective perception of the drama by the observer.

This was the accepted theory of antibeans until this year when we observed that Bell’s Theorem appears to apply also to Dramaland. For the first time, we’ve observed that the act of not watching or not completing a drama can still produce antibeans even without the associated bean. This has only been observed in dramas judged collectively by observers to have few redeeming qualities.

This kind of ‘spooky action at a distance’ has meant that Dramaland’s collective awareness of the existence of a drama such as Melting Me Softly or Abyss is sufficient to generate antibeans (although the volume of ones produced under these circumstances is so far incalculable).

We can only conclude that Dramaland is quantum entangled and that any increase in the production of bad dramas could ultimately lead to the destruction of the drama universe itself.

However, for now, the state of the universe remains in balance with more beans than antibeans produced each year.

How may antibeans did you generate this year?

I….
okay….

This is too scientific for my harassed brain. I like the idea, though.

🤯

I watched Men are Men. I put this in the same level as Forest.
I’m going to count my antibeans and let you know ASAP.