Not so impressive if you consider that the only thing that motivated me was getting something long and meaty to read. Nobody else was going to do it for me, so what was I supposed to do? Mope?

Yeah, for most dramas I also don't crave fic. But every so often, you find one where you'd like to read all the fic, and there's very little there. I think with dramas, most fans move on to the next one rather than spend some time in the fandom, since drama fandom is less about the source canon and more about dramas as a whole.