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Tendai
Mar 16, 2007

"When the eagles are silent, the parrots begin to jabber."

Grimey Drawer
I love Ginger :neckbeard:

And for some reason I just adored Michelle's "MEH" during judging.

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Tendai
Mar 16, 2007

"When the eagles are silent, the parrots begin to jabber."

Grimey Drawer

Not Today Satan posted:

Hahaha, during that entire conversation I couldn't help but imagine that in Ginger's mind she's probably thinking "Oh Jeez, just stop talking, you sound like an rear end in a top hat" because it was written all over her face. I don't think the tone was meant to sound chiding or abrasive, it just happened that way. It's also really early on and most of the contestants probably still have their guard up due to it being a new experience and still getting to know each other. Hoping over the course of the season that drops a bit.

That's just what I'm guessing, anyway.
This is the feeling I got from it as well just in the way Ginger looked and was talking. "Oh god drat it that's not how I meant to say that just shut up and save yourself!"

Pearl is amazing looking out of drag. I mean, goddamn.

Tendai
Mar 16, 2007

"When the eagles are silent, the parrots begin to jabber."

Grimey Drawer
Man, this episode gave me a much deeper appreciation for Max beyond "wow, looks awesome." He was really cool during the challenge, he performed well and his runway was just fabulous.

Jasmine, go home. Just go home. Hooray!

Kennedy, meh. :visagemehface: Get your poo poo together.

Pearl, mehhhhh.

Katya's drag Lincoln was just great.

"Who doesn't love a hairy box?"
"My husband."

I remain disappointed that Mathu Andersen wasn't a guest judge.

Tendai
Mar 16, 2007

"When the eagles are silent, the parrots begin to jabber."

Grimey Drawer

Not Today Satan posted:

She does get props for finding a loaf of bread to use during the mini-challenge though. Like seriously, where did she find that? That's pretty much the only nice thing I have to say about Jasmine.
RuPaul's Drag Race 2015: Where did you find a loaf of bread?

Tendai
Mar 16, 2007

"When the eagles are silent, the parrots begin to jabber."

Grimey Drawer

Nihonniboku posted:

There is an older queens alliance consisting of Kennedy, Kasha, Jasmine, and Ginger. They hate the younger queens.

Max's team did fairly well. Jayden had a breakdown, but Max talked her through it and pulled it off.
I am disappointed in Ginger for this though she seemed waaaay less serious about it than the other cranky older queens.

Jayden and Max were just great. Jayden for getting her poo poo together and Max for being such a cool person and helping.

Tendai
Mar 16, 2007

"When the eagles are silent, the parrots begin to jabber."

Grimey Drawer
Pearl, go home. You're pretty but you're boring. And whiny.

I still love Max and Katya.

"Glamour toad" for words of the year.

What even is happening with this elimination? REALLY?

Excuse me, I'm going to go bitch to the cat.

Tendai
Mar 16, 2007

"When the eagles are silent, the parrots begin to jabber."

Grimey Drawer

criscodisco posted:

This is embarrassing to admit, but I had never watched "Willam's Beat Down" before, mostly because it had started when I was very ill and I usually can't be bothered to turn up the volume on my laptop and watch videos. That changed about 4 pages ago in this thread when somebody posted the newest one and, holy poo poo, I can't stop watching. I'm roughly 2 hours in, and have not breached the second season. This poo poo is genius. I want to win the lottery just to fund her life. It's like tosh.0 except funny.
This is exactly how it happened for me too, I never bothered with it till people in the last thread pushed it so hard, then I buzz=sawed through it in an afternoon.

Also I'm rewatching season 4, and this read from Sharon to Jiggly still just makes me lose it: "You're such a fat slut, after sex, you smoke hams!"

Tendai
Mar 16, 2007

"When the eagles are silent, the parrots begin to jabber."

Grimey Drawer

DapperDinosaur posted:

The best thing about tonight's episode was Miss Fame talking about her chickens.
Seriously, that was just amazing when I watched it this morning. "It's eight in the morning and I'm watching a drag queen do a chicken impression."

Nihonniboku posted:

I honestly think that it's because the queens are all pretty much on the same level this season. In previous seasons there were always a few obvious duds who were definitely going home the first couple episodes. Then a several middle of the pack girls, and then one or two absolute standouts. Really, since season 3, pretty much every season the ultimate winner was getting a winner's edit the entire season. Raja, Sharon Needles, Jinx Monsoon, Bianca del Rio, I don't think any of us had any doubt that any of them were at the very least for sure going to be in the final three.
Honestly this is kind of what I thought when I was watching the critiques and such. I didn't agree with the winners or the elimination but just in terms of looks, they are all pretty amazing. There's no Raja just slamming it in terms of runway looks or what have you over everyone else, no one just monopolizing challenges. It's a much more even playing field it feels like, at least now that Jasmine is gone. My idea of who might be in the top three eventually keeps changing each week.

Tendai
Mar 16, 2007

"When the eagles are silent, the parrots begin to jabber."

Grimey Drawer
I agree on the elimination. What even the gently caress.

Miss Fame has been weird for me. Like 90% of the time I'm pretty much "meh" but then she has moments like the chicken talk last night and little hints that there's more there. Actually that's been the case for a lot of queens this season for me. There's a lot of stunning looks but I don't think there are as many huge personalities, or maybe they're not being edited to show them, or something. Drink a Red Bull, Pearl, this is a goddamn drag competition and it is no time to be chill.

Tendai
Mar 16, 2007

"When the eagles are silent, the parrots begin to jabber."

Grimey Drawer
That's it kind of. No one's done anything to make me go "aww" or "that bitch!" in any particular way. Some of them seem like neat people and many of them have gorgeous looks but it's kind of just not making me pull for anyone in particular. I'm definitely coming around on both Fame and Max though, Max started when he was so cool with Jaidynn during the acting challenge.

Tendai
Mar 16, 2007

"When the eagles are silent, the parrots begin to jabber."

Grimey Drawer

the escape goat posted:

anyone else bugged by Ginger's wig choices? she seems to do the same thing Alexis did where everything is a hairpiece simply attached to hair she already has. not sure why, but that just really grates on me.
well, that and her shady "compliments" to the other girls and bluntly (in a non-funny way) saying that she wants the girls to head home. it's just weird.
Ginger has been a disappointment to me, so far, in terms of what I expected. Looks, attitude, all of it. Just kind of not doing it for me like I thought she would.

Tendai
Mar 16, 2007

"When the eagles are silent, the parrots begin to jabber."

Grimey Drawer
Something something throwback Thursday (gently caress, it's Friday) but ANYHOW Manila has a new video and it is just great:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2hpCWS0t-0M

Tendai
Mar 16, 2007

"When the eagles are silent, the parrots begin to jabber."

Grimey Drawer
Max at the start all "they're so vulgar" when they're talking about sex -- you are in a drag competition, get over yourself.

Katya was just fabulous this week. Even if it had just been the shark alone, she would have been fabulous. Fame continues to grow on me despite my initial reservations. I feel like she's trying hard and that's more than I can say for some people.

Pearl... floated under the radar this week for me? Which is better than the last few weeks where I just wanted to shake the poo poo out of her till she showed some life and expression. She kind of typifies the "looks amazing, sorta meh personality-wise" thing they seem to have this year.

Hearing the stories of queens who are really young whose families are lovely is always kind of depressing to me. I keep wanting to believe that we've moved past the whole "denying my kid is gay" thing, but, no. I wanted to give Jaidynn a hug after that workroom chat.

Tendai
Mar 16, 2007

"When the eagles are silent, the parrots begin to jabber."

Grimey Drawer

Speed Crazy posted:

Kennedy's crystallized bloody flaming chicken horse (?????) runway look might be the worst outfit to ever walk the RPDR runway. I'm so glad next week is Snatch Game so she can't coast along by the strength of her teammates anymore.
Yeah I was kind of sad they won because I really wanted to see the judges tear into... whatever the hell that was supposed to be.

Tendai
Mar 16, 2007

"When the eagles are silent, the parrots begin to jabber."

Grimey Drawer
Yeah, I kind of felt it when one of them was saying "another goddamn acting challenge?"

Tendai
Mar 16, 2007

"When the eagles are silent, the parrots begin to jabber."

Grimey Drawer

Capsaicin posted:

Like, I know the Jinkx documentary is probably very artsy and a "good" movie, but holy poo poo, I just want a camera to follow Katya around for a few days and make a Truman show.
This, basically. I finally started following her on Twitter/etc and holy poo poo.

Tendai
Mar 16, 2007

"When the eagles are silent, the parrots begin to jabber."

Grimey Drawer
Only five minutes in and I'm reminded of why I love Katya :allears: "IT'S A MAN. Snatch ... vagina." Actually all through this episode Katya was fantastic. Fame was really cool in that workroom moment, too. Ru encouraging Fame to be more competitive and Fame going "gently caress it, I'm down!" was a pretty great moment. Ru was stirring poo poo pretty magnificently in that workroom walkthrough, actually. I still feel like Fame is coming into her own and despite her mediocre Snatch Game performance, she's growing every week.

I was kind of surprised at some of the people I liked on Snatch Game. I was so thoroughly prepared to clock Kennedy for doing boydrag but then she really did well. And at how some people were a study in mediocrity notthatimeanyoumissfame. Jaidynn it is not a "nude illusion" if it is significantly lighter than your actual skin. It looks like you're wearing nylons with lace pinned to them (oh wait you are). Max congratulations on proving my point about "good looks, no content" queens this season.

The bottom two both deserved to be there so after that it was just sort of "welp I wonder which one it will be?"

Tendai fucked around with this message at 15:38 on Apr 14, 2015

Tendai
Mar 16, 2007

"When the eagles are silent, the parrots begin to jabber."

Grimey Drawer
I finally got a chance to watch the episode and it's what I was hoping for. Trixie came back, Ginger didn't go home, I still love Katya, a lot of workroom time and not a goddamn acting challenge in sight. Thank you lord.

Tendai
Mar 16, 2007

"When the eagles are silent, the parrots begin to jabber."

Grimey Drawer
Untucked this season is just fantastic.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=heaAKxt9sHM

Katya I love you. I also like how honest Ginger was about "gently caress those bitches, why are they coming back?" as compared to all the "omg my sisterrrr might come back."

EDIT: Is it just me or is the old vs. young queens rivalry either being played up more or just existing more obviously this season

Tendai
Mar 16, 2007

"When the eagles are silent, the parrots begin to jabber."

Grimey Drawer
"I love Steven Spielberg! :downs: :neckbeard:" Oh Katya I love you.

Fame's reading made me agree with Kennedy and I don't like doing that but ugh, come on, that was bad. Throughout the episode it feels like she's kind of just falling apart or losing interest.

Ginger deserved the win, Fame and Pearl deserved to be in the bottom two and I was kind of surprised Ru didn't just go "bitches, both of you just sashay, that was terrible" after that lovely lip sync.

This episode was amazing in all the right ways.

Tendai
Mar 16, 2007

"When the eagles are silent, the parrots begin to jabber."

Grimey Drawer

Fresh Like Zafo posted:

Fame taking that mumu off and revealing a outfit underneath it
That's one of the things that made me think she just kind of checked out in general. She's not so dumb that she couldn't have known her performance was bad in both the mini and main challenges so she should have been ready with something loving amazing under that smock-mumu. Even if she was sure she was one of the best she still should have, just in case.

Tendai
Mar 16, 2007

"When the eagles are silent, the parrots begin to jabber."

Grimey Drawer

Nihonniboku posted:

I'm just loving the Ginger and Katya smoking breaks.
This should be the first world of wonder youtube show that springs from this season

Tendai
Mar 16, 2007

"When the eagles are silent, the parrots begin to jabber."

Grimey Drawer

Echo Video posted:

I just really want a show with all the eliminated queens hanging out in the hotel
Untucked-er

Tendai
Mar 16, 2007

"When the eagles are silent, the parrots begin to jabber."

Grimey Drawer

PostsYouCanDanceTo posted:

I would love if we could somehow get Katya to team up with any combination of Guy Madden
I initially read that as John Madden.

Still a great idea.

Tendai
Mar 16, 2007

"When the eagles are silent, the parrots begin to jabber."

Grimey Drawer
Trixie keeps making me swing towards "meh" or dislike on the actual show and then back to like when she makes comments like this one in that reddit AMA in response to gently caress/marry/kill with Katya/Ginger/Pearl:

quote:

I gently caress and Marry katya. We also have two kids and we get married on my Grandma's porch in June. We honeymoon in Russia and then Katya takes me to the Mattel vault and says "pick one, babe." and I pick the Russian Barbie and then Katya cries . And he looks even more beautiful when he cries.

Tendai
Mar 16, 2007

"When the eagles are silent, the parrots begin to jabber."

Grimey Drawer
There isn't a gif mad enough to express how I feel right now :mad:

Tendai
Mar 16, 2007

"When the eagles are silent, the parrots begin to jabber."

Grimey Drawer

caligulamprey posted:

New theory: this is all just to ensure that an Alaska/Katya team-up will dominate All Stars Season 2.

It will be worth it.
Can you even imagine

it would be amazing

Tendai
Mar 16, 2007

"When the eagles are silent, the parrots begin to jabber."

Grimey Drawer

Fantastisk posted:

I feel better about the whole thing after reading this. Katya is amazing and is going to be just fine, and I can't wait to see what she has in store for us. :3:
For a broke-down Russian hooker, bitch is classy as gently caress :allears:

Tendai
Mar 16, 2007

"When the eagles are silent, the parrots begin to jabber."

Grimey Drawer
Raven and Raja both lose their poo poo giggling over Katya's Hello Kitty buddy look this week, it's adorable

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xPmA_9XVRDk

Tendai
Mar 16, 2007

"When the eagles are silent, the parrots begin to jabber."

Grimey Drawer
"This is not a sewing competition."

Bitch. Have you ever watched the show?

Oh my goooooood no more old queen bitching. Back in your day, blah blah, shut up. "You are too young to take on this kind of responsibility." Motherfucker it is a DRAG COMPETITION you are not running for president.

As much as I really like Pearl's attitude in general and how she's possibly the most laid-back queen ever to be on the show except for moments when Jinkx was actually sleeping, Violet is winning it for me. She does really awesome looks but more importantly she seems to have grown a lot and she is a lot more likable than she was at the start.

Still, flasaydah, bitches.

rip kennedy, too bad it didn't happen last week

I really need a gif of Violet's pulled-back scrunchface when Ginger was trying to get in her head after the main challenge rehearsal. And Pearl's bored "oh for gently caress's sake not this poo poo again" face when they cut to her. That was just great.

Tendai
Mar 16, 2007

"When the eagles are silent, the parrots begin to jabber."

Grimey Drawer

Not Today Satan posted:

One thing that really bothered me this season was that there was more focus on the opportunity for catch-phrasing and overusage of team challenges. It hit me mid episode that I didn't really see much vulnerability from anyone this season until last-loving-night's episode. I had no idea Kennedy was a legal guardian or that Pearl had such a traumatic experience as a child. It seems like one of the reasons, to me anyway, why this season fell flat is because that's how everyone was painted - completely one dimensional with catchy phrases and an emphasis on the runway. The lack of workroom banter and genuine interest in the lives of the contestants seemed to be the death knell for this season.
This is really right on for me. Kennedy in particular, I wouldn't have had any idea till they mentioned it last night. I wish they would have gotten more into things like that rather than just, like you said, painting a one-dimensional picture of most everyone. Katya's stress was probably the most real emotional poo poo this season.

EDIT: I hope Katya's future WoW Youtube show is some kind of Borat-esque drag hooker comes to America. She could swing it.

Tendai
Mar 16, 2007

"When the eagles are silent, the parrots begin to jabber."

Grimey Drawer
Watching Untucked, it always seems to me that despite Kennedy's old-drag-lady bitterness she occasionally has moments where she seems like an actual human being, like when she and Violet were talking about confidence issues towards the end. Ginger, on the other hand, I always feel like her efforts at being nice are too much "oh poo poo I need to make the other queens/the audience/the judges like me again."

Tendai
Mar 16, 2007

"When the eagles are silent, the parrots begin to jabber."

Grimey Drawer
"The struggle is real" has definitely become part of mine.

Tendai
Mar 16, 2007

"When the eagles are silent, the parrots begin to jabber."

Grimey Drawer

Chaotic Flame posted:

What does "inside girl" mean?
I assume it means she knew or had worked with people who make the decisions about these things, but I could be wrong.

Tendai
Mar 16, 2007

"When the eagles are silent, the parrots begin to jabber."

Grimey Drawer
I really want a show that's just Alaska Wintour 5000. That and Katya + Ginger In A Loading Dock Smoking should be the two new world of wonder shows that come out of this season

Tendai
Mar 16, 2007

"When the eagles are silent, the parrots begin to jabber."

Grimey Drawer

angerbeet posted:

Katya and Ginger harassing people at a bus stop
This feels like something that already happens

Tendai
Mar 16, 2007

"When the eagles are silent, the parrots begin to jabber."

Grimey Drawer

PostsYouCanDanceTo posted:

I still want a show of Bianca and Adore on a road trip performing shows in all 50 states where we meet queens and other members of local gay communities.

But I feel this could be a good fit for Katya. Katya Cross-Cuntry. "Life on the road is such a drag". This fall on Ovation!
Katya and Alaska.

"From Alaska to Russia"

Tendai
Mar 16, 2007

"When the eagles are silent, the parrots begin to jabber."

Grimey Drawer
Bring Raven back to get second place for a third time :downs:

Tendai
Mar 16, 2007

"When the eagles are silent, the parrots begin to jabber."

Grimey Drawer
I never realized that I needed to see drag queens riding around on an adult-sized big wheel, but well

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Tendai
Mar 16, 2007

"When the eagles are silent, the parrots begin to jabber."

Grimey Drawer

Pinwiz11 posted:

This is your reminder that Alyssa Edwards is loving hilarious.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CMbdiNXdy5U
She's one of those queens where when I watched the show on a binge last summer I was like "oh she's alright" and didn't dislike or like her all that much, but in the aftermath, I've fallen in love :allears:

EDIT: In the related links, Joslyn Fox and Katya, I love them both

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O6NXtnxdvlo

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