MDL's 2023 Watch Challenge

Starting date: 07.04.2023

Completed date: 19.12.2023

Link to your Drama list: My List

Progress Habitat: 4/4 Complete

completed: 13 k-dramas, 2 j-drama, 2 c-dramas, 3 movies [my 2023 watched]

Taxonomy 

In the following habitats your mission is to find essentials that according to type or genre. 

1. Type		Progress: 5 / 5
Choice of Route	Essentials	Notes	Completed
Web Series OR  TV SHOW* *at least 5 episodes		Watched all   12 ep; I don't keep track of TV Shows on my MDL watchlist	★
MOVIE OR DRAMA SPECIAL		-	★
Co-Produced  OR  Starring an Actor/Actress in a project from a country NOT on MDL		Thailand x       South Korea	★
Anthology  OR  Omnibus		-	★
Adapted from a manga / webtoon / manhua / manhwa / Comic Or Adapted From a Novel / Book		-	★

2. Is it True?		Progress:  5 / 5
Choice of Route	Essentials	Notes	Completed
Advertisement  OR  Educational (tries to teach viewers something-not the same as the school genre)		-	★
Independent Film  OR  Propaganda		-	★
Documentary Genre OR  Mockumentary		I like the maturity with which they talk about intimate scenes in the  series	★
Adapted from Folklore  OR  Inspired by Real Events / Real Person		There is also a full series The Promise	★
Historical Fiction  OR  Historical genre  + tag Based on True Story		-	★

3. All About the Gen(r)es		Progress: 5 / 5
Watch a title from one of the following genres Choice of Route.	Essentials	Notes	Completed
Historical  OR  Sci-Fi		-	★
Comedy  OR Tragedy		-	★
Thriller OR Romance		-	★
Youth  OR Political		-	★
Action  OR Life		-	★

Time is Relative

In the following habitats your mission is to find essentials that have something to do with time,  in the first habitat you are instructed to find essentials that started airing  between certain dates, in the second  and third one  you get to dig deeper in to the concept of time 

4. Year of Origin    Tutorial		Progress:  5 / 5
Choice of Route	Essentials	Notes	Completed
in 2023 OR 1940-1959		-	★
1990-1999 OR the year a member on this page joined MDL (link to the account/challenge form)		Joined April 2023   this is em challenge	★
2000-2010 OR the month (not necessarily the year) you were born		I'm a December baby!	★
year generated by this website OR 1950-1969		It generated a date in the year 2014	★
2017-2022 OR 1970-1989		Aired in 2019	★

5. Duration of The Hike Tutorial		Progress: 5 / 5
Choice of Route	Essentials	Notes	Completed
Short Length Series  OR  Short Film		6 ep x 5/6min	★
DRAMA with 20-30 minute episodes  Or DRAMA with  30 episodes or more.		8ep x 20min	★
DRAMA with 30-40 minute episodes OR MOVIE that lasts 90 minutes or longer.		1h 51min	★
DRAMA with 40-50 minute episodes OR MOVIE that lasts  180 minutes or longer.		8 ep x 45 min	★
DRAMA with at least one episode that last over 60 minutes OR DRAMA with 8 episodes or less.		4 ep	★

6. Time Can Be Confusing		Progress: 5 / 5
Choice of Route	Essentials	Notes	Completed
Full second season of a DRAMA OR  Only 1 episode of a DRAMA		-	★
Different Timelines   OR  Time Loop		There are at least 3 different timelines	★
Time Skip  OR   Time Travel		Kiew travels from 1995 to the present	★
Winter  OR  Summer		Bigger part takes place during winter and Christmas holidays	★
Fall   OR Spring		Inernship starts on september 1st & lasts three months	★

The Chronicles of MDL 

In the following  habitats your mission is to find essentials by exploring MDL, your personal favourites and  those others have awarded or written about. 

7. Sharing is Caring Tutorials: 1  2  3		Progress: 5/ 5
Choice of Route	Essentials	Notes	Completed
that has been on your PTW for longer than you can remember OR from the Watchlist of another user doing this challenge		It's the 2nd season, but I didn't know that, so I added this one to my PTW	★
with less than 10,000 viewers OR ranked 1-1000 (if you have seen them all you can go for 1001)		It had 8601 viewers at the time of adding it onto the list	★
DRAMA with the smallest number of episodes in your PTW list  OR DRAMA with the highest number of episodes in your PTW list		It has 13 episodes, everything else on my PTW has either 12 episodes or less	★
mentioned in the MDL Forums Or mentioned in the MDL Feeds (any feeds)		Feeds post  that had me check out the series	★
with the newest release date in your PTW list OR with a release date older than the oldest title in your Watchlist		It was the only 2023 drama on my PTW that I haven't yet watched	★

8. Examined… Tutorial		Progress: 5 / 5
Choice of Route	Essentials	Notes	Completed
on your Recommendations page (add a link to the page)  Or appearing in the first 5 pages of MDL Home Trailers section (add a link to the trailer)		It was on the first page of "out now" when I started it Trailer but it's not update	★
found on a Custom List (add a link to the list). OR found on a Voting List in the list index (add a link to the list).		Best Chinese Dramas	★
from your most viewed tags  Or from your least viewed genres under your profile stats		Tag: LGBTQ+	★
with someone or something mentioned in a Game on MDL (add a link to the game) Or found mentioned in an  Article on MDL (add a link to the article)		Best Korean BL?	★
with over 10 Reviews OR with 0 Reviews when you started watching it		Watched it from the start, but it still had no reviews when it ended	★

9. Your Fanciers and Westminsters For this habitat, we ask you to link to the award/person's page. *List with awards		Progress:  5 / 5
Choice of Route	Essentials	Notes	Completed
Award-winning OR by the same writer as one of your favorites		Inthira Thanasarnsumrit who also wrote the script for Between Us	★
from an award-winning director OR that has one of your favorite actresses		Aye Sarunchana Apisamaimongkol	★
from an award-winning screenwriter OR that has one of your favorite actors		I really like the whole main cast: First, Khao, Neo, Mark, Force, and Book	★
from an award-winning actor OR by the same director as one of your favorite titles		Maya Awards 2017: Star Couple of the Year Krist and Singto	★
from an award-winning actress OR by a director/writer you haven't seen anything from before		Director:   Marut Sarowat	★

Getting up Close and Personal 

In the following habitats you are asked to find essentials that have to do with  relationships and the human experience most of these are tags, but in some cases we have  inclosed a list or used the words features so please pay attention. We would also like to warn sensitive participants , as some of the routes  below are indeed dark. but remember you can always choose a lighter route. 

10.  Kiss, F***, Kill, Exorcism…		Progress: 5 / 5
Choice of Route	Essentials	Notes	Completed
Ex-Boyfriend Comes Back / Ex-Girlfriend Comes Back  OR Exorcism		Ton's ex ends up causing quite a bit of trouble	★
Cohabitation  OR Long Distance Relationship		Third and Khai move in together for a while	★
Fluffy  OR Sexual Assault		TW:  rape   scene is violent and can be hard to watch	★
Contract Relationship  OR Secret Relationship		It goes from secret to public and back to secret	★
Opposites Attract  OR Domestic Abuse		-	★

11. Finding a Mate		Progress: 5 / 5
Choice of Route	Essentials	Notes	Completed
First Love  OR  Nudity: one of the following Nudity/Sexual content | Brief Nudity | Prolonged Nudity | Partial Nudity | Mild Sexual Content | Sexual Content | Extreme Sexual Content		Multiple first love stories	★
Age Gap [Drama Life]   OR  Classmates' Relationship		-	★
features a Heterosexual relationship   OR  Same-Sex relationship		-	★
Enemies to Lovers OR  Love at First Sight		Kang & Sailom and Guy & Nawa	★
Nice Female Lead / Male Lead  OR  Aggressive Female Lead /Male  Lead		-	★

12. Laugh it Off or Die Trying		Progress: 5 / 5
Choice of Route	Essentials	Notes	Completed
Slight Comedy  OR Black Comedy	TREAT # 1
Happy Ending  OR  features some type of Doomsday		-	★
Tragic Past  OR  Sketch Comedy		The main characters all share tragic past	★
features a Celebration  OR Mourning		After Tonkhao dies, we see multiple people mourn her death.	★
Healing  OR Suicide		Korn and Intouch commit double suicide	★

13. Seeing is Believing… and some other  stuff		Progress: 5 / 5
Choice of Route	Essentials	Notes	Completed
features a Religious Leader  OR Some type of God		Monk(s) appear a few times as the series takes place at a temple	★
Misunderstanding  OR Character Development		Tian's character growth is amazing	★
Female-Centered Plot / Male-Centered Plot  OR LGBTQ+		Does fit both routes	★
Suspense  OR  Slow Burn Story / Slow Burn Romance	TREAT #2
Popular Male Lead / Popular Female Lead  OR  Discrimination		Khabkluen was the poular student in high school	★

Significant details 

In the following  habitats we ask of you to look for the details in the significant scenes, in the first one (14) we ask you to notice the surroundings, in the other the objects involved (15).  

14. Where Are We?		Progress: 5 / 5
Choice of Route	Essentials	Notes	Completed
On a Field   OR  On a Cliff		Suicide on the cliff; it's the start of the story	★
In the Woods  OR By the Sea		They spend a lot of time talking about them and their plans by the sea	★
In a Jungle  OR  On a Rooftop		The conflict resolution scene takes place on a rooftop	★
On a Mountain  OR  On an Island		Pretty much the whole series happens on an island	★
In a City  OR In a Small Town		The whole story takes place in a city	★

15. Humans Have So Many Things		Progress: 5 / 5
Choice of Route	Essentials	Notes	Completed
An Umbrella OR A Backpack		Multiple scenes (including the cover scene)	★
A Truck   OR A Sports Car		Si picks Jaojay in a red sports car	★
A Smartphone  OR A Phone Booth		Yim's character is caught taking a photo of Tutor's character	★
A Suit /Dress  OR A Hoodie		Lom is wearing his suit when he gets the letter	★
A Book  OR A Crossbow		One of the first scenes between Vee and Mark takes place in a library	★

The Main Attraction 

-In the following  habitats your mission is to find  essentials where one of the main characters  (listed as a main) either is ..., gets a... has a...  Each route will either include a a tag or a link to a list with more detailed instructions. 

16. Who Are We?		Progress: 5 / 5
Choice of Route	Essentials	Notes	Completed
Child Actor/Actress  OR  Veteran Actor/Actress	TREAT #3
Idol actor/ Idol actress  OR Former Child Actor/Actress		Kim Jae Han and S hin Ye Chan are both k-pop idols	★
Trans gender identity  (different than the gender assigned to them at birth)   OR Cis gender Identity   (same as the gender assigned to them at birth)		-	★
Able Bodied  OR Living with a disability		Veekit has  face blindness; there is also a person with Alzheimer's	★
Public Figure   OR Hidden Identity		Mr. Lue	★

17. Camouflage?		Progress: 5 / 5
Choice of Route	Essentials	Notes	Completed
Athlete  OR  Artist		Gu Bu Xia and Jiang Chi are on the basketball team	★
Glasses  OR Tattoos		Gene wears glasses	★
Identity Swap  OR Body Swap		Win and Lin swap bodies	★
Cop Female Lead/ Cop Male Lead OR  Criminal Female Lead/Criminal Male Lead		It has both a cop and a criminal maind lead(s)	★
Superhero Male Lead/Superhero Female Lead OR Antihero/Antiheroine	TREAT #4

18. What Are You?		Progress: 5 / 5
Choice of Route	Essentials	Notes	Completed
Strong Female Lead / Strong Male Lead  OR  Weak Female Lead / Weak Male Lead		Yu Shi	★
Smart Female Lead/Smart Male Lead  OR Naive Female Lead/Naive Male Lead		Rain is very naive	★
Cold Female Lead/Cold Male Lead  OR Clingy Female Lead/Clingy Male Lead		Hia Lian is very cold (at least at the start of the series)	★
Rich Female Lead/ Rich Male Lead  OR  Poor Female Lead/Poor Male Lead		Both rich and poor male leads	★
Killer  OR Healer		Miss Suzy's death was not an accident. She was murdered.	★

Pay attention, it can be gone in a flash

-In the following  habitats your mission is to find essentials  that feature  the following things. Each route includes a link to a list with more detailed instructions. 

19. The Petting Zoo		Progress: 5 / 5
Choice of Route	Essentials	Notes	Completed
Pet   OR  Pest		They share a cat and there is a lizard in the bathroom situation	★
Talking Pet   OR Animal Death		The kids' pet pig	★
Zoo animal   OR Farm Animal		Kamol has two "pet" tigers	★
Veterinarian   OR Animal Control		Shadowing the vet while writing the script for a movie (ep. 9 - 10)	★
Romantic Ride on a Horse   OR Horse Ridden to Out to War		One of the "fantasies" Pun has about Ashi (ep. 5)	★

20. Where the Humans Are…		Progress:  5 / 5
Choice of Route	Essentials	Notes	Completed
Human Turns into an Animal    OR Animal turns into a Human		-	★
Adorable animals  OR  Animal Attack		Khondiao was attacked by a tiger when he was a child.	★
Animal in the Wild  OR Animal in a City	TREAT #5
Pet dressed in Clothes OR  Animal Abuse		Duer in shark costume (ep. 2, ep. 3)	★
Second Lead Caring For Animals  OR  Antagonist Caring For Animals		Vegas has a hedgehog	★

21.Friendly Ways to Live or Die		Progress: 5 / 5
Choice of Route	Essentials	Notes	Completed
Funeral Director  OR Birth care (Postpartum care)		IVF process (Nim)	★
Virtual Reality   OR  Ghosts		Mon can see ghosts, as can Thames while his soul is outside his body.	★
Corruption  OR Teamwork		Fits both. The boys are fighting again different injustices, including corruption.	★
Friendly Game   OR Death Game		They play mobile games and are training for the official tournament	★
Friendship  OR Bullying		Haebom is getting bullied in school	★

22. Who Am I When I Am With You?		Progress: 5 / 5
Choice of Route	Essentials	Notes	Completed
Colleagues  OR Inmates		Mon is working for Lady Sam	★
Bromance  OR  Sismance		The friend group: Khai, Third, Two and Bone	★
Parent-Child  OR Sibling		Leo & Leon; the twins	★
Assailant-Victim  OR Student-Teacher		The student council members have plenty interactions with their teacher, Seo Haet Bit	★
Doctor-Patient  OR Soldier		Patis is a doctor and we see him interact with his patients a few times	★

Name and Cover 

In the following habitats we ask of you to pay  attention to the name and cover of the title.  For the first one (23) your mission is to find titles that have one of the following things. For the second one (24)  your mission is to look at the cover. Each route includes a link to a list with  more detailed instructions. 

23. It's Only Words in the Name		Progress: 5 / 5
Choice of Route	Essentials	Notes	Completed
Celestial Body  OR   Body Part		-	★
Color  OR Emotion		-	★
Object  OR Verb		-	★
Animal OR Number		-	★
Season OR Calendar-related word		-	★

24. Pretty Pictures on the Cover		Progress: 5 / 5
Choice of Route	Essentials	Notes	Completed
Domesticated Animal  OR Wild Animal		There is a drawing of a tiger (and of a dragon)	★
Flower  OR  Building		Rose	★
Light Colors  OR Dark Colors		-	★
Rainbow  OR Door		-	★
Only Words  OR  Geometrical Shapes		-	★

Origin

-In the following habitat your mission is to find essentials from the countries of MDL. You get to choose either watch 5 titles from 5 different countries Or watch  7 titles from 7 different countries. 

Note:  You must  gather essentials from all 7 countries in every environment if you wish to get to the next stage (environment) of the challenge.  You may not use treats in the international habitat if you wish to get the TIGER badge.

25.  Countries of MDL		Progress:  7 / 7
Route	Essentials	Notes	Completed
China		-	★
Hong Kong		-	★
Japan		-	★
Philippines		-	★
South Korea		-	★
Taiwan		-	★
Thailand		-	★

Treats

This is where you  gather  treats, to use whenever you wish to avoid the paths given in a habitat. You come up with the treats  on your own, they may not cover anything mentioned in this challenge (but you may use previous years' prompts for inspiration). Every time you start a new stage, you will be awarded a new number of treats according to the table below. 

My Treats!		Plains Used: 5/5	Forest Used:  /4	Mountain Used:  /3	Space Used:  /2	Black Hole Used: /1
Route	Essential		Substitute for		Notes	Completed
Watch the title with the largest number of letters in the title on your PTW list			Habitat 12 - Slight comedy // Black comedy		It has 28 letters in the title	★
Watch the title with the smallest number of letters on the title in your PTW list			Habitat 13 - Suspense // Slow Burn		It only has 4 letters in the title	★
Watch a title  where the  main focus is  Someone famous in the music industry			Habitat 16 - Child actor // Veteran actor		-	★
Watch a title that completes a block in a different challenge			Habitat 17 - Superhero lead // Antihero		Completed the blush section in The Color Challeng	★
Watch a title  whose genre  is Music			Habitat 20 - Animal  in the wild // Animal in the city		-	★

Taxonomy 

In the following habitats your mission is to find essentials that according to type or genre. 

Time is Relative

In the following habitats your mission is to find essentials that have something to do with time,  in the first habitat you are instructed to find essentials that started airing  between certain dates, in the second  and third one  you get to dig deeper in to the concept of time 

The Chronicles of MDL 

In the following  habitats your mission is to find essentials by exploring MDL, your personal favourites and  those others have awarded or written about. 

Getting up Close and Personal 

In the following habitats you are asked to find essentials that have to do with  relationships and the human experience most of these are tags, but in some cases we have  inclosed a list or used the words features so please pay attention. We would also like to warn sensitive participants , as some of the routes  below are indeed dark. but remember you can always choose a lighter route. 

Significant details 

In the following  habitats we ask of you to look for the details in the significant scenes, in the first one (14) we ask you to notice the surroundings, in the other the objects involved (15).  

The Main Attraction 

-In the following  habitats your mission is to find  essentials where one of the main characters  (listed as a main) either is ..., gets a... has a...  Each route will either include a a tag or a link to a list with more detailed instructions. 

Pay attention, it can be gone in a flash

-In the following  habitats your mission is to find essentials  that feature  the following things. Each route includes a link to a list with more detailed instructions. 

Name and Cover 

In the following habitats we ask of you to pay  attention to the name and cover of the title.  For the first one (23) your mission is to find titles that have one of the following things. For the second one (24)  your mission is to look at the cover. Each route includes a link to a list with  more detailed instructions. 

Origin

-In the following habitat your mission is to find essentials from the countries of MDL. You get to choose either watch 5 titles from 5 different countries Or watch  7 titles from 7 different countries. 

Note:  You must  gather essentials from all 7 countries in every environment if you wish to get to the next stage (environment) of the challenge.  You may not use treats in the international habitat if you wish to get the TIGER badge 

Treats

This is where you  gather  treats, to use whenever you wish to avoid the paths given in a habitat. You come up with the treats  on your own, they may not cover anything mentioned in this challenge (but you may use previous years' prompts for inspiration). Every time you start a new stage, you will be awarded a new number of treats according to the table below.