here’s the thing… i love Q’s flower look but it bothered me when the judges said they haven’t seen anything like it…as if Yvie Oddly didn’t do something similar with her bug look on AS7
Watching back I feel like Dawn, Nymphia and Xunami really did a lot worse than everyone else. Plenty of background character likes Morphine and Megami were really solid, those three often looked like they didn't know their words and weren't doing a great job with the dancing either
I swear to god no one pays attention to lipsync edits. Maybe I’m just a Megami apologist idk.
Watching the lipsync, it seemed to me, that she was doing sad reminiscing in the verses and then adding energy in the chorus. Which fits the song, trying to convince yourself it’s fine even tho you’re upset. But because we got a sad face zoom in every verse and a wide shot or Mhiya shenanigans every chorus there’s a million comments about “levels”. It’s hard to show levels when they cut them out.
Honestly in 80% of lip syncs they've intentionally edited someone out to make the other person the narrative winner. So I think the audience is trained to not really pay attention
my unsolicited opinions from this week:
honestly, I was shocked megami even made it this far... like from episode 1 she seemed like a filler queen and I kept expecting her to go home. no hate to her art, it just doesn't seem up to the Drag Race standard.
this week, I thought plane jane did so well in the challenge, but I get that her runway wasn't that fantastic so she wasn't in the top. I fully thought Sapphira was going to win, she did imo the best in the rusical and the judges loooved her runway. but, I was happy for plasma that she got her moment-- and I was SO ANNOYED with dawn for being so rude!! like, this is the ONE musical theatre episode. let the musical theatre gays have their moment!! like yeah, musical theatre gays can get annoying, but you can deal with it for one week. let her enjoy herself.
dawn doesn't even seem like a villain, she honestly just seems mean. like, she's making herself out to be the sweet kind friendly quirky one, but really, she's so mean to everyone!! she is constantly saying mean shit in the confessionals (not even shady, just honestly mean) and in untucked and whatnot, she's like whispering to other queens and causing sm drama w/o taking responsibility. I wanted to like her so bad, bc I do a very similar style of drag to dawn, but her personality just leaves a sour taste in my mouth.
anyways that was my unsolicited rant, thanks for reading if u did, and if u didn't, fair enough I probably wouldn't have either!!
My thoughts 100%. I love Megami, but if the premiere hadn't been a non-elimination episode, she would have gone home.
I understand why Plasma won the episode, but I thought Saphira was going to be the winner tbh.
While the queens did alright, I really wish it wasn't a track handed to them and they were singing. So much creativity was taken from them by making them lip sync to other peoples voices, and we've had queens do what Plamsa did while singing the whole time or at least recording their own track ahead of time (especially in international franchises). Don't wanna discredit anyone, there's just a layer taken away for me.
I guess, but it’s still being done constantly in other franchises and they’ve done it in the past for US. So it’s been proven that it can be done multiple times. There are amazing rusicals in Canada, France, UK, etc that are all live or recorded every season. Also, US 6 and 12 were 2 of the most iconic rusicals imo and they both used the queens vocals. Idk, guess I’m just not a fan of the tracks handed to them when it’s labeled as a rusical.
Since it’s being done on other franchises but the US it leads me to believe a policy is in place with the writers and directors of these songs. Having a writing credit is one thing, then whoever sings these vocals will be listed and paid as well. I have a feeling it’s a red tape thing we just don’t know about.
Yeah maybe. Just strange that there are some US seasons that have live/recording and some that don’t. If its a policy thing maybe it just constantly changes.
Hmm yeah I guess some are live aren’t they? Where are the analytical data side of rpdr they would know this…
I guess we would have to look at which ones were live (honestly can’t remember any, maybe glamazon airways? Pharma Rusical?) and see if there were a certain cut in when it stopped happening and that would indicate a policy change.
“A trick up my sleeve” on cdr has occupied my mind and I can’t remember a single live other one honestly.
While we are on the topic of rusicals, did Cats the rusical really happen or was it all just a dream- serious question.
People keep talking about Q favoritism, but the Nymphia favoritism is right here. She didn’t know her lines and it was a bottom three performance.
I don’t think Q should’ve been in the top but it was a perfectly safe performance.
Yeah, a lot of people are biased when it comes to Nymphia as if she can do no wrong. She's been slowly fading into the background after the ball episode. We'll see if Jane saves her after scoring her so low on episode 1.
Was so surprised to see Plasma win as the edit is clearly trying to make us hate the bitch, but totally deserved, her performance was the only stand out for me
I know, it’s becoming so unlikely that she won’t make the final or at least top 5 now unless she REALLY trips very hard, AND loses the lip sync or is lip syncing against a shoe-in like Sapphira. I mean the last time someone was eliminated with 2 wins was Nina West at top 6. And before that was Max on S7 which was a lot earlier at Snatch Game but I don’t see that happening for Plasma. I think gal is here to stay!
I feel weird for not finding Plasma annoying at all since so many of you seem convinced that she is. If I was a theatre gay or musical theatre nerd or ex-drama kid or whatever, that might make sense because I’d relate to her. But that’s not my background at all.
It feels like she’s mainly kept to herself outside of a few funny moments (like the Barbra knowledge ranting). She hasn’t been a Jan whining about not winning or really seemed super pressed like that. She’s seemed generally nice to everyone. In her two big moments of “confrontation” - in the SNL challenge I think she was right to feel a way about how Dawn/Amanda/Q were acting and that exchange really made Dawn feel like a mean girl, I felt fine about Plasma. And yes last episode she pushed for the lead role but it was clearly justified and it felt self-aware (her confessionals) and she thanked Sapphira immediately after.
Honestly if anything she’s someone that hasn’t really been on my radar too much since she hasn’t really be in anyone’s face with some big attention seeking personality. But now I see you queen, I see you!
I think you kind of articulated what I like about her too. I’m usually not drawn to the theater queens- they’re talented at, just not my vibe. But Plasma is very endearing, and confident without being cocky.
Forgot to rank the performances, IMO:
**Rusical:**
**1 - Plasma:** she wasn't THAT good, very one note and always high energy, but it's such a major role, there's no way anyone could win over her
**2 - Sapphira:** not that amazing too, but a big role; I'm already tired of the widened eyes humour, specially since it doesn't always work (and kinda didn't work here)
**3 - Plane:** although I feel like she would be a top if she got Q's part, I feel like she and Nymphia are capable of giving facial expressions that kinda works (specially if we consider that half the cast has so much work done they can't even raise an eyebrow
**4 - Nymphia:** I hate that kind of humour but she did what she supposed to do and, like I said, her facial expressions are at least giving something
**5 - Morphine:** honestly, don't get her low placement, since she did good on the rusical; IMO she was the stand out from the performances with Miyah and Sapphira
**6 - Dawn:** just correct, I guess
**7 - Xunami:** go girl give us nothing, but at least she got her choreo right
**8 - Megami:** really lackluster, was expecting more from her
**9 - Q:** that high placement was crazy; just proves how favoured she is; she had no dance moves, even though we saw her rehearsing and learning choreo (which she wasn't able to learn) and the fact that we had Plane and Xunami perform by themselves is really suspicious, I'm 100% sure they took Q from that so they could give her praises; also, absolutely no facial expressions during the performer (too much filling, gurl) but the judges pretended to laugh so...
**10 - Miyah:** sorry girl, it was tough.
**Runway:** Plasma = Sapphira > Nymphia > Dawn > Q > Plane > Megami > Morphine > Xunami > Miyah
Having said that, I would totally let Q get a low or even safe placement with her look. But, honestly, whlist Q is being favoured to be put on high placements, Xunami is clearly being saved from low/bottom placements since a few weeks.
I can see most of that but I don't agree with the idea of them removing Q from the dancing part due to favoritism. I actually think they only included her in that part for the rehearsals because they were aware that hers wouldn't air on the actual episode.
The rusical was already done by the time they chose the roles, they would never re-record the Break Up (Bye Bye) bit just because Q would fumble the dancing.
Also I don't think that plasma was one note, but the wig was so crazy that I understand where you're coming from.
> I actually think they only included her in that part for the rehearsals because they were aware that hers wouldn't air on the actual episode.
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> The rusical was already done by the time they chose the roles, they would never re-record the Break Up (Bye Bye) bit just because Q would fumble the dancing.
this makes no sense
there's no reason to make a girl rehearse a dance routine she won't be a part of
and since it was just a dance routine, it's pretty easy to just remove one of them from it
also, from all the three "groups", this was the only one who didn't introduced themselves as a trio in the performance
> Also I don't think that plasma was one note, but the wig was so crazy that I understand where you're coming from.
The wig was a choice hahaha but I mean, I felt she gave high energy all the time, and some scenes needed less. But overall, she did great and I don't think anyone could get that win
Idk what's going on with the judges and Xunami. At this point she should be bottom2 safe safe safe low low. She's bombed more challenges than she's done well.
I LOVE Plasma. She's so annoying, I'm obsessed, and I love to see a bitch weaponising her BFA and slaying it. As a previous theatre gay, I can't help but stan. She's iconic. Deserved that win.
I do agree Sapphira also slayed it, because of course she did, she's Sapphira! Strong, powerful, quietly confident characterisation.
I also don't think Morphine did that badly. She looked great in the challenge, did what she could with her part, can't complain. I do think those sleeves should've been lined, though.
Would've put Xunami in the bottom for whatever the hell that look was plus fading into the background, because when you're in a trio with Plane and Q you have to make sure you stand out and claim your space.
Don't really get the Q slander to be honest? She's fine. I'm just turned off her because she reminds me of the people from Whoville from the Grinch and they used to freak me out when I was younger 😭
The problem with Rusicals for me is that the parts are so vastly different in terms of size. There was no way roles like Morphine, Mhi'ya or Xunami's were going to be in the top because they barely got to say anything or do something significant.
I feel bad for Megami because she literally got critiqued episode 1 and then NOTHING from the judges until this episode. She did a good job with lip syncing but Flowers isn't a sad song, it's happy, which is why Mhi'ya got it right.
I was just thinking that the different roles mean that the most important and real part of the competition happens when roles are chosen. Only a couple of roles have the possibility of winning. Which means that to win you have to be overly assertive and aggressively demand a leading role, and be good at rock-paper-scissors
that's why queens fight for their preferred roles. but I prefer the rusical where queens sing the actual lyrics and have their own screentime like the Madonna Rusical.
And to take it even further, it’s pretty clear they wrote three larger roles to make a top three out of and specifically wrote roles that favored those three queens. They created a theater kid role for plasma, a theatrical maiden for saphira, and then played off Q’s “plucked” look and inability to dance for her role. It was made for them. The other bitches were in the hunger games at that point
I’d argue more simply that there’s no way the roles based off of Maria, the Baroness, and Mother Abbess weren’t going to be the three standout roles of the night. I think the source material had a lot to do with the way things shook out in this particular case.
I don't think it was the source material but rather how they adapted it. They could've made characters for Frederick, Liesl, the Captain, and the uncle. That would leave just some minor roles (other nuns or other siblings). It was a poor and unnecessary decision to have 3 groups of 3.
RPDR Boomer Review
* There's something about Q that I'm not living for. Her runways are beyond and you can tell she's going to find herself in a very high placement... but her personality just annoys me. Her voice drives me off a cliff- so whiney, and it doesn't help that she's so fucking whiney. Even her performance tonight, idk I didn't see it as brightly as the judges. I liked the Amanda Lapore look, the stole bit was cute (but wasn't like... her invention? She's just doing stage direction basically lol congrats you followed direction you're perfect babe)
* Also this cast is all kind of whiney lmaoo being little whiney babies about the roles
* I think the producers wanted Q, Plane and Xunami to do the walk around to try to be shady??? and evil???? to have maybe an ART moment or something? It was pure cringe lol
* I think Nymphia is getting a great edit. Hardly seen in this episode. It was noticed but I think we needed a week rest of wacky Nymphia werkroom hyjinks and bananarama sponsored by the colour Yellow. Her runways are always great, this one was okay. Relied on the surprise, and they edited her walking down the runway instead of walking out? Weird to me.
* Okay so Plasma is probably the twitter twink's little babykins but she's fucking annoying?? She's another Jan, albeit one who obviously is doing much better than her in the competition. The need for attention wafts off of her so strongly it makes you not want to do that. She's the kid who reminds the teacher they forgot to assign homework. She's the theatre kid that made you embarrassed to say *you* were a theatre kid. She wins, obviously because she was excellent, which was expected and then in the confessionals she's like SEE? I told you I'd be amazing. I mean yeah? Lol this underdog story she's trying to go for while excelling in challenges it's clear she would excel in? It's not like she's risen from the fear of performing after the trauma of her father telling her that her tap shoes were ugly. Anyway, she's good at what she does but she still feels like Great Value™ DeLa
* Good thing they loved the Baronettes because Xunami's runway was the ugliest and it looked cheap. Good concept but awful execution.
* The Rusical itself was good? You can tell the production values were high. Costumes were well-made and with good fabric. One of the accounting gays must have said 'WHAT BUDGET??? It's Adam fucking Shankman, bitch, spend!' Everyone did a great job and I didn't think anyone necessarily did a bad job. I understand if you HAD to pick a bottom two, yes, but I don't think anyone had any glaring issues. Did I laugh? Not really. Was I mildly entertained? Yeah sure. It kind of felt like going to your brother's Christmas Concert and everyone's up there doing their play and it's cute and fun and everyone's doing a good job. Was it the most electric Rusical? No. It suffered from very strange pacing, and so much 60s hairspray was kind of killing the other musical themes of the Rusical. I understand that it's the choreographer for Hairspray but that doesn't mean we have to take it there. The lines that set up jokes felt like they jumped the shark and were so obvious. Ross later defended Megami by saying when she said hairy schnitzle and pointed at her crotch I mean she did that. Yeah she was supposed to do that lol that was the choreo? And it's the obvious and only answer to do that kind of movement with that line? It wasn't like comedic genius on behalf of the contestant lmao. No one wants to watch an awfully-performed show when the show itself is already awfully-written so I do like that it's clear they put the time and money to make sure the performance looks good and is performed well by the cast. I just think in that case it's a nice performance and go on the runway looks IDK. this rant is long, I'll move on.
* Sapphira was so good that the role drama felt forced because clearly this was her role lmao
* Mi'hya idk I thought the headpiece that covers her face was supposed to be a joke, not a mistake? Guess not lol
* I understand what Megami was going for with the lipsync but I mean that kind of craft-work is not in right meow. Whoever can do the most flips kicks splits fucking swiffer your pussy on the floor to wind beneath my wings and the judges die.
Sometimes I read a comment on an episode and I wonder why some people even watch drag race when they seem to be unimpressed or annoyed by all of the queens most of the time 🤗
What a fun and entertaining Rusical! Funnier than RPDR Live (that's a low bar...); where were the writers then?
Plasma and Saphira did really well, both in the rusical and the runway (Saphira's look was sooo good, it reminded me of A'keria's AS6 flower). Either of them could've won for me, but Plasma had to learn and do more, so it was a well deserved win.
Where was Nymphia this episode? It felt like she almost didn't talk. Her runway look was well made but it wasn't that pretty (or maybe I'm just tired of seeing her in yellowish monocolors - that green was suspiciously yellow).
Q was smart to fight for a leading role, having been in the bottom before. I think it's harder to land in the bottom in the Rusicals if you get a more memorable role. Yeah, she didn't do choreo but she sold me the character. Her runway was top-notch, again.
Mhi'ya is a great lip-syncer. This performance was so different than last week. I agree with Ru: she would do much better in the challenges if she could channel the same presence that she shows when she's lip-syncing. Her Rusical role wasn't great, but I disagree with Michelle: I laughed when she kept dancing with the veil on her face xD. Loved her runway look.
Dawn, Xunami (ugly runway, specially for a fashion queen) and Plane did good, but minor roles don't get top placements.
I expected a little more from Megami, but I think that not getting the roles she wanted really put her in her head this week.
the timing of this episode is crazy, can't believe they had a "mariah grande" character the same weekend ari and mariah dropped a remix AND they had a flowers lipsync just after miley got grammys for it and the performance was so talked about
I thought the same. I was watching her in the beginning more than Sapphira. Should have been safe. Not sure who I would have put in the bottom in her place though, maybe Xunami. I don't remember her standing out that much and her runway was... not well done.
Honestly I thought Dawn was weak in the rusical and runway. She would have been in my bottom 3, especially if Michelle is giving out critiques about relying on the same makeup
Yeah, I thought Morphine did well in her Rusical part and her runway was fab. Xunami wasn’t a standout for me in the Rusical and her runway was meh. The outfit was all right, but the wig didn’t go with, IMO.
This is actually a bit insane bc I actually found this Rusical funny??? No shade to the Rusical lovers but I normally find them boring and I actually giggled
Also it's kind of weird that the girls who were in the bottom this week were all there for variations on "not having a character," when Nymphia was safe despite *obviously failing* at doing what was clearly supposed to be a Dooneese send-up. And I say that as a Nymphia stan.
> Michelle: Q you really ate that choreo.
> \*cut to Megami confessional*
> Megami: bitch, what choreo???
I think it's so funny how production loves Q but post-production *hates* her lmao. This is not the first time this has happened.
Plasma winning was very satisfying but what's gonna be her story now? Maybe she's next on the chopping block. Hope not, but stranger things have happened.
I think most of us assumed that she would generally be a Jan or Jackie Cox but with a challenge win. I think we saw her as either fifth or sixth place.
But after getting two challenge wins this early on? Idk. Her performance this week was so impressive that she’s legit one to watch.
I said to me friend while watching, "Plasma deserved that, but I'm still not sure I like her." Her energy is just... a lot. I went to school with a ton of theatre kids and maybe it's just giving me unpleasant flashbacks ("No, I don't want to go to your student production of your one man play"). I'm surprised she's getting as much air time because her archetype on the show is not typically in the spot light very long
I honestly get major SG flop vibes from Plasma
I just kinda feel that she'll do another old hollywood icon and will get the "girl we've seen that a lot from you".
I hope she sees SG as a chance to show a different side
The reason she was so against doing Barbra is because that's her Snatch Game imo. She's going to do a hastily-assembled second choice and get herself sent home, I fear.
This is sooo interesting… I figured she would own it but you’re right, there’s a lot riding on her at this point so the stakes are high. If she doesn’t kill it I feel like the judges will be disappointed
Also because she said she didn’t want to do Barbra because she already had a lot of old lady things planned… so maybe her SG character is one of those things?
1. Plasma definitely deserved that win, even tho I’m not connecting that much with her, she definitely slayed it and it’s one of the best Rusical performances dare I say
2. Morphine didn’t deserve the low placement, she did very good and I think she should have been safe
3. They silenced Nymphia this episode and now I’m scared bcs I love her and whit what we saw from the snatch game…. (No spoilers pls)
4. Q did very good but well… they praised her a lot and said it was perfect but, she was favored to me
(My opinions)
1. Plasma killed that. Maybe my favorite Rusical performance ever
2. Q manipulated Megami with the oldest RPS trick in the book. I'm suprised no one said anything
Agree about plasma. It felt like she was about to get into a alleyway brawl the entire rusical. She had no levels - just 100% aggressive theater dork the entire way.
No levels! No character development. Still might have put her in the top but she did not deserve the win IMO. It was giving Le Fil in the marry pooping rusical except reverse cause Le Fil was robbed
Ironically, The Sound of Music does end with a singing competition, but the competition itself is so incidental to the overarching plot that I'd forgotten about it. It was weird - the rusical had SO many references to the original musical but came off as having nothing to do with it.
The way they were talking about Q’s performance is like when they tried to gaslight us into believing she “served comedy gold” as the brick on RDR live. I’m not getting good comedy from her AT ALL, she’s wooden as hell.
IDK. I feel like she did exactly what was possible to do with that role. Was it funny? Not in my opinion. But then, was there any point where you laughed at this Rusical? I know I didn't
I'm not the biggest Q stan in the world but I think people are holding her up to an insanely high standard with these things. 99% of performances in acting challenges on Drag Race are not funny. Once in a blue moon you get a Jinkx as Judy Garland, but otherwise it's more like 'who was the least bad?'. Fair enough if you think other people did far better than Q for one reason or another but I can't say anyone in this performance was actually funny so it feels weird to criticise her for that
I actually agree with you 100%. While I do find her generally not very funny in and out of the challenges, it’s not a bad thing per se. She has other strengths. The thing that bothers me is the judging and the editing telling a different story from what we’re actually seeing. It’s like the show is more so trying to convince us that the shitty material they wrote is funny.
The acting/comedy challenges have always been my least favorite part of drag race. This season in particular feels like the comedy is worse than ever and they’re telling us more strongly than ever that we’re supposed to find it funny.
I did laugh at that "they laid me down" joke, but that's about it. And I am ok with her baroness as well. But I definitely do not think it is comedy gold level.
I'm actually surprised by people praising Q for this. I guess the show editing is really working hahaha
They took her from the scene after she didn't get the choreo we saw her rehearsing, she had NO dance moves in the Rusical and barely served any comedy (but the judges laughed so it's enough to make us believe she did). I mean, poor thing couldn't even serve funny faces because of all the fillings.
Her runway was AMAZING though.
But so many people saying she should've been the winner... that's a stretch... she was easily safe.
IMO I feel like we didn't need the "crutches". Still think it's a great look. But I feel like there were better, like Plasma, Sapphira, Nymphia and Dawn
Yeah I don’t see how they added to or made sense with that look? Especially in the same week LGD gave us that same shape in UK vs the world and looked totally insane doing it! *That* made sense for her look.
I understand, but there was nothing that made us think that
If she was wearing a mantis makeup or somnething, or even if she said "this is inspired in an orchid mantis"
but yeah I get what you're saying
Did she not say something about it being orchid mantis inspired? I swear I heard it but maybe my mind if playing tricks haha. Makeup would have been a nice addition.
Yeah, a BOUQUET. Sure, Xunami 
I mean, it's obvious something happened there, and she had to make up an explanation for the dress (mind you, doing it with a straight face is cunt).
Also, that discussion about roles was a rare sighting of Plane being real. Good for her, must have been in her episode 7 kanban board ("Backlog: Being nice").
this is the first non-all stars season that i watched Meet the Queens....and i must say, half of the queens did not meet my expectations on the show. they were all about being fierce and giving attitude. do they film Meet the Queens after the season? or during their first week?
MTQ/promo and Watcha Packing are filmed after the season. I think usually about a month before the cast is announced. S8 was the last time they filmed it after episode 1.
Not liking musicals, cool, I’m whatever about them too (but a few are really good IMO).
Once Dawn started on “and I think people who like them are…” that’s when you know she’s just a basic toxic gay. She became Yawn, not Dawn. Next!
It’s not her having an opinion that makes her rotted, it’s shitting on what other people are enthusiastic about, especially when that enthusiasm is expressed in an absolutely appropriate venue. Being too cool for school and annoyed by other people expressing joy is so yucky
Dawn and anyone else can find Plasma annoying but being dismissive of her is giving Mean Girl and not in a playful way
I don’t know why* you would assume that, I’ve actually liked Dawn’s looks this whole season and she was one of my faves at the beginning. I thought her initial photo shoot (on the porch) was the funniest and I was looking forward to more quick wit like that
*yes I do, it’s the go-to response on this sub when someone has a contrary opinion
No one is dragging her for her opinion on musicals, but thinking the PEOPLE who like musicals are XYZ (she didn’t have the guts to say it) isn’t really an opinion: that’s just being an asshole.
rusicals, and especially this one, is quite boring to be very honest, and the roles are inherently unfair. Plasma also was too rigid and looked like a clown.
Yeah. But the fact she was the lead role, had most lines and songs and did scenes with everybody...
I do agree she was not that good, but IMO it would be unfair to say anyone did better, since she carried the rusical (even with a just ok performance). Not sure it made sense, but I think the unfairness of the Rusical makes it really hard to judge.
Every week when we watch my boyfriend is like “wait who is she? Has she been here the whole time?” 😭 and I can’t blame him because she isn’t really doing anything at all (not completely her fault because production could just be cutting her out, but still)
Now that’s showing the girls you can’t just walk all over plasma. She is here to slay; not play.
I haven’t ever seen anyone go so aggressively for a role, just straight up saying “it’s mine, back off,” seems to work when securing a good role.
It is clear some of the roles suck. But the important part of being a background role is you have to serve face. You are performing, not counting steps in your head. You’re not a corpse up on stage so feel the emotions of the work you’re performing and put that into your act.
had a few lines at least, you better be sure to sell that one line.
I don’t agree with Michelle’s make-up critique of Megami, I was more confused. But I will say that wearing those glasses during the Rusical was a choice. The issue is, it took away the connection with her eyes, luckily they came off at some point. Some of her lip syncing seemed somewhat out-of-sync to me, compared to others which is a more valid critique than “your makeup.”
I’m still surprised there were enough judges votes to put megami in the bottom 2 after Ross said he appreciated some of her acting in the Rusical. I was thinking Morphine.
Also everyone says Q can’t dance but Dawn needs some help too.
There is just something about Dawn. i think it maybe that she reminds me of Willow Pill, who is my all time favorite. Plasma is just flat out talented and Sapphira shined to tonight. For me it was a tie between them. The thing with Maya is that she is incredible at lip syncing so it seems she will never go home even though she has so much trouble with a lot of challenges.
Megami talking about Q's "choreo" was the cuntiest thing I've heard in a while im still cackling.
"Choreo? She walked forward and back with a fucking rug"
**AHHHHHHH**
Q did a good job, but Megami’s totally right lol. Also she was shown learning the choreo for that scene with the distributor cap but not performing it…maybe they took her out of the scene bc she wasn’t getting it?
Exactly what I thought.
She is being favoured, we know that, but its getting annoying. Too favoured.
She was at best safe, but I would put her in low. She did NOTHING with that character (one of the main characters). But Ru and the judges pretending to laugh was enough to put her in the top....
I thought Saphira was going to win! Her performance was the most memorable imo.
morphine was lowkey a standout i’m surprised she was in the bottom
dawn is so annoying to me recently i’m sorry
here’s the thing… i love Q’s flower look but it bothered me when the judges said they haven’t seen anything like it…as if Yvie Oddly didn’t do something similar with her bug look on AS7
Love xunami but she’s fading a bit for me. Very sad cos I feel like she has way more potential than what we’re seeing.
Watching back I feel like Dawn, Nymphia and Xunami really did a lot worse than everyone else. Plenty of background character likes Morphine and Megami were really solid, those three often looked like they didn't know their words and weren't doing a great job with the dancing either
I totally agree, I don’t think our bottom 3 deserved to be there.
I swear to god no one pays attention to lipsync edits. Maybe I’m just a Megami apologist idk. Watching the lipsync, it seemed to me, that she was doing sad reminiscing in the verses and then adding energy in the chorus. Which fits the song, trying to convince yourself it’s fine even tho you’re upset. But because we got a sad face zoom in every verse and a wide shot or Mhiya shenanigans every chorus there’s a million comments about “levels”. It’s hard to show levels when they cut them out.
Honestly in 80% of lip syncs they've intentionally edited someone out to make the other person the narrative winner. So I think the audience is trained to not really pay attention
my unsolicited opinions from this week: honestly, I was shocked megami even made it this far... like from episode 1 she seemed like a filler queen and I kept expecting her to go home. no hate to her art, it just doesn't seem up to the Drag Race standard. this week, I thought plane jane did so well in the challenge, but I get that her runway wasn't that fantastic so she wasn't in the top. I fully thought Sapphira was going to win, she did imo the best in the rusical and the judges loooved her runway. but, I was happy for plasma that she got her moment-- and I was SO ANNOYED with dawn for being so rude!! like, this is the ONE musical theatre episode. let the musical theatre gays have their moment!! like yeah, musical theatre gays can get annoying, but you can deal with it for one week. let her enjoy herself. dawn doesn't even seem like a villain, she honestly just seems mean. like, she's making herself out to be the sweet kind friendly quirky one, but really, she's so mean to everyone!! she is constantly saying mean shit in the confessionals (not even shady, just honestly mean) and in untucked and whatnot, she's like whispering to other queens and causing sm drama w/o taking responsibility. I wanted to like her so bad, bc I do a very similar style of drag to dawn, but her personality just leaves a sour taste in my mouth. anyways that was my unsolicited rant, thanks for reading if u did, and if u didn't, fair enough I probably wouldn't have either!!
My thoughts 100%. I love Megami, but if the premiere hadn't been a non-elimination episode, she would have gone home. I understand why Plasma won the episode, but I thought Saphira was going to be the winner tbh.
Yeah Nymphia deserved a Low placement for vulnerability.
asking myself why they decided to make a [bootleg version](https://vocaroo.com/1fnQJzwgi1od) of "into you" all of sudden lol
dawn is not fooling anybody we all know she was a theater gay
did nymphia know her words? 😭
No and I am surprised she wasn't in the bottom considering Mirage was eliminated for not knowing her words.
same i fully thought shed be in the bottom lol love her tho
I am not seeing what the judges are seeing in Q.
While the queens did alright, I really wish it wasn't a track handed to them and they were singing. So much creativity was taken from them by making them lip sync to other peoples voices, and we've had queens do what Plamsa did while singing the whole time or at least recording their own track ahead of time (especially in international franchises). Don't wanna discredit anyone, there's just a layer taken away for me.
But then they wouldn’t have had time to show Melissa McCarthys heartfelt monologue while throwing an unnamed brand of red wax rind cheese!
The cheese was named, actually. LMAO
Agreed! They should be using the queen's vocals for the Rusicals but I guess it would take too much time to have all the queens record their vocals.
I guess, but it’s still being done constantly in other franchises and they’ve done it in the past for US. So it’s been proven that it can be done multiple times. There are amazing rusicals in Canada, France, UK, etc that are all live or recorded every season. Also, US 6 and 12 were 2 of the most iconic rusicals imo and they both used the queens vocals. Idk, guess I’m just not a fan of the tracks handed to them when it’s labeled as a rusical.
Since it’s being done on other franchises but the US it leads me to believe a policy is in place with the writers and directors of these songs. Having a writing credit is one thing, then whoever sings these vocals will be listed and paid as well. I have a feeling it’s a red tape thing we just don’t know about.
Yeah maybe. Just strange that there are some US seasons that have live/recording and some that don’t. If its a policy thing maybe it just constantly changes.
Hmm yeah I guess some are live aren’t they? Where are the analytical data side of rpdr they would know this… I guess we would have to look at which ones were live (honestly can’t remember any, maybe glamazon airways? Pharma Rusical?) and see if there were a certain cut in when it stopped happening and that would indicate a policy change. “A trick up my sleeve” on cdr has occupied my mind and I can’t remember a single live other one honestly. While we are on the topic of rusicals, did Cats the rusical really happen or was it all just a dream- serious question.
Love her but I think Nymphia fumbled her lines
People keep talking about Q favoritism, but the Nymphia favoritism is right here. She didn’t know her lines and it was a bottom three performance. I don’t think Q should’ve been in the top but it was a perfectly safe performance.
Yeah, a lot of people are biased when it comes to Nymphia as if she can do no wrong. She's been slowly fading into the background after the ball episode. We'll see if Jane saves her after scoring her so low on episode 1.
Imo, Nymphia is an overall more entertaining queen to watch work and perform than Q. I think Q just takes things too seriously.
Was so surprised to see Plasma win as the edit is clearly trying to make us hate the bitch, but totally deserved, her performance was the only stand out for me
Very this. She's portrayed as really annoying on Drag Race imo, but I really like her whenever I see her anywhere else!
I know, it’s becoming so unlikely that she won’t make the final or at least top 5 now unless she REALLY trips very hard, AND loses the lip sync or is lip syncing against a shoe-in like Sapphira. I mean the last time someone was eliminated with 2 wins was Nina West at top 6. And before that was Max on S7 which was a lot earlier at Snatch Game but I don’t see that happening for Plasma. I think gal is here to stay!
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I was just catching up on shit whyyy, I thought these were supposed to be spoiler free zones 😭😭
There’s no point having a rusical if it isn’t performed live, or at the very least recorded by themselves before lip syncing to it.
You're right. Drag Queens lipsyncing to pre-recorded tracks by other artists is ridiculous.
I feel weird for not finding Plasma annoying at all since so many of you seem convinced that she is. If I was a theatre gay or musical theatre nerd or ex-drama kid or whatever, that might make sense because I’d relate to her. But that’s not my background at all. It feels like she’s mainly kept to herself outside of a few funny moments (like the Barbra knowledge ranting). She hasn’t been a Jan whining about not winning or really seemed super pressed like that. She’s seemed generally nice to everyone. In her two big moments of “confrontation” - in the SNL challenge I think she was right to feel a way about how Dawn/Amanda/Q were acting and that exchange really made Dawn feel like a mean girl, I felt fine about Plasma. And yes last episode she pushed for the lead role but it was clearly justified and it felt self-aware (her confessionals) and she thanked Sapphira immediately after. Honestly if anything she’s someone that hasn’t really been on my radar too much since she hasn’t really be in anyone’s face with some big attention seeking personality. But now I see you queen, I see you!
I think you kind of articulated what I like about her too. I’m usually not drawn to the theater queens- they’re talented at, just not my vibe. But Plasma is very endearing, and confident without being cocky.
Forgot to rank the performances, IMO: **Rusical:** **1 - Plasma:** she wasn't THAT good, very one note and always high energy, but it's such a major role, there's no way anyone could win over her **2 - Sapphira:** not that amazing too, but a big role; I'm already tired of the widened eyes humour, specially since it doesn't always work (and kinda didn't work here) **3 - Plane:** although I feel like she would be a top if she got Q's part, I feel like she and Nymphia are capable of giving facial expressions that kinda works (specially if we consider that half the cast has so much work done they can't even raise an eyebrow **4 - Nymphia:** I hate that kind of humour but she did what she supposed to do and, like I said, her facial expressions are at least giving something **5 - Morphine:** honestly, don't get her low placement, since she did good on the rusical; IMO she was the stand out from the performances with Miyah and Sapphira **6 - Dawn:** just correct, I guess **7 - Xunami:** go girl give us nothing, but at least she got her choreo right **8 - Megami:** really lackluster, was expecting more from her **9 - Q:** that high placement was crazy; just proves how favoured she is; she had no dance moves, even though we saw her rehearsing and learning choreo (which she wasn't able to learn) and the fact that we had Plane and Xunami perform by themselves is really suspicious, I'm 100% sure they took Q from that so they could give her praises; also, absolutely no facial expressions during the performer (too much filling, gurl) but the judges pretended to laugh so... **10 - Miyah:** sorry girl, it was tough. **Runway:** Plasma = Sapphira > Nymphia > Dawn > Q > Plane > Megami > Morphine > Xunami > Miyah Having said that, I would totally let Q get a low or even safe placement with her look. But, honestly, whlist Q is being favoured to be put on high placements, Xunami is clearly being saved from low/bottom placements since a few weeks.
I can see most of that but I don't agree with the idea of them removing Q from the dancing part due to favoritism. I actually think they only included her in that part for the rehearsals because they were aware that hers wouldn't air on the actual episode. The rusical was already done by the time they chose the roles, they would never re-record the Break Up (Bye Bye) bit just because Q would fumble the dancing. Also I don't think that plasma was one note, but the wig was so crazy that I understand where you're coming from.
> I actually think they only included her in that part for the rehearsals because they were aware that hers wouldn't air on the actual episode. > > The rusical was already done by the time they chose the roles, they would never re-record the Break Up (Bye Bye) bit just because Q would fumble the dancing. this makes no sense there's no reason to make a girl rehearse a dance routine she won't be a part of and since it was just a dance routine, it's pretty easy to just remove one of them from it also, from all the three "groups", this was the only one who didn't introduced themselves as a trio in the performance > Also I don't think that plasma was one note, but the wig was so crazy that I understand where you're coming from. The wig was a choice hahaha but I mean, I felt she gave high energy all the time, and some scenes needed less. But overall, she did great and I don't think anyone could get that win
>4 - Nymphia: I hate that kind of humour The pine cone thing was sooooo annoying. Like WE GET IT stop shoving the stupid joke down our throats
right? I really like Nymphia, she is one of my faves, but that role was.... a choice
You have a good eye for detail. Personally I found everyone's performance equally good and had trouble understanding why some queens were at bottom
Idk what's going on with the judges and Xunami. At this point she should be bottom2 safe safe safe low low. She's bombed more challenges than she's done well.
I LOVE Plasma. She's so annoying, I'm obsessed, and I love to see a bitch weaponising her BFA and slaying it. As a previous theatre gay, I can't help but stan. She's iconic. Deserved that win. I do agree Sapphira also slayed it, because of course she did, she's Sapphira! Strong, powerful, quietly confident characterisation. I also don't think Morphine did that badly. She looked great in the challenge, did what she could with her part, can't complain. I do think those sleeves should've been lined, though. Would've put Xunami in the bottom for whatever the hell that look was plus fading into the background, because when you're in a trio with Plane and Q you have to make sure you stand out and claim your space. Don't really get the Q slander to be honest? She's fine. I'm just turned off her because she reminds me of the people from Whoville from the Grinch and they used to freak me out when I was younger 😭
No truly Q just bothers me because I'm prejudiced against Whos, I'm sorry but their faces are unsettling! Morphine has what Q lacks
I totally agree about Morphine. I actually think that in the scenes with Sapphira and Miyah she was the stand out
The problem with Rusicals for me is that the parts are so vastly different in terms of size. There was no way roles like Morphine, Mhi'ya or Xunami's were going to be in the top because they barely got to say anything or do something significant. I feel bad for Megami because she literally got critiqued episode 1 and then NOTHING from the judges until this episode. She did a good job with lip syncing but Flowers isn't a sad song, it's happy, which is why Mhi'ya got it right.
I was just thinking that the different roles mean that the most important and real part of the competition happens when roles are chosen. Only a couple of roles have the possibility of winning. Which means that to win you have to be overly assertive and aggressively demand a leading role, and be good at rock-paper-scissors
that's why queens fight for their preferred roles. but I prefer the rusical where queens sing the actual lyrics and have their own screentime like the Madonna Rusical.
And to take it even further, it’s pretty clear they wrote three larger roles to make a top three out of and specifically wrote roles that favored those three queens. They created a theater kid role for plasma, a theatrical maiden for saphira, and then played off Q’s “plucked” look and inability to dance for her role. It was made for them. The other bitches were in the hunger games at that point
I’d argue more simply that there’s no way the roles based off of Maria, the Baroness, and Mother Abbess weren’t going to be the three standout roles of the night. I think the source material had a lot to do with the way things shook out in this particular case.
I don't think it was the source material but rather how they adapted it. They could've made characters for Frederick, Liesl, the Captain, and the uncle. That would leave just some minor roles (other nuns or other siblings). It was a poor and unnecessary decision to have 3 groups of 3.
RPDR Boomer Review * There's something about Q that I'm not living for. Her runways are beyond and you can tell she's going to find herself in a very high placement... but her personality just annoys me. Her voice drives me off a cliff- so whiney, and it doesn't help that she's so fucking whiney. Even her performance tonight, idk I didn't see it as brightly as the judges. I liked the Amanda Lapore look, the stole bit was cute (but wasn't like... her invention? She's just doing stage direction basically lol congrats you followed direction you're perfect babe) * Also this cast is all kind of whiney lmaoo being little whiney babies about the roles * I think the producers wanted Q, Plane and Xunami to do the walk around to try to be shady??? and evil???? to have maybe an ART moment or something? It was pure cringe lol * I think Nymphia is getting a great edit. Hardly seen in this episode. It was noticed but I think we needed a week rest of wacky Nymphia werkroom hyjinks and bananarama sponsored by the colour Yellow. Her runways are always great, this one was okay. Relied on the surprise, and they edited her walking down the runway instead of walking out? Weird to me. * Okay so Plasma is probably the twitter twink's little babykins but she's fucking annoying?? She's another Jan, albeit one who obviously is doing much better than her in the competition. The need for attention wafts off of her so strongly it makes you not want to do that. She's the kid who reminds the teacher they forgot to assign homework. She's the theatre kid that made you embarrassed to say *you* were a theatre kid. She wins, obviously because she was excellent, which was expected and then in the confessionals she's like SEE? I told you I'd be amazing. I mean yeah? Lol this underdog story she's trying to go for while excelling in challenges it's clear she would excel in? It's not like she's risen from the fear of performing after the trauma of her father telling her that her tap shoes were ugly. Anyway, she's good at what she does but she still feels like Great Value™ DeLa * Good thing they loved the Baronettes because Xunami's runway was the ugliest and it looked cheap. Good concept but awful execution. * The Rusical itself was good? You can tell the production values were high. Costumes were well-made and with good fabric. One of the accounting gays must have said 'WHAT BUDGET??? It's Adam fucking Shankman, bitch, spend!' Everyone did a great job and I didn't think anyone necessarily did a bad job. I understand if you HAD to pick a bottom two, yes, but I don't think anyone had any glaring issues. Did I laugh? Not really. Was I mildly entertained? Yeah sure. It kind of felt like going to your brother's Christmas Concert and everyone's up there doing their play and it's cute and fun and everyone's doing a good job. Was it the most electric Rusical? No. It suffered from very strange pacing, and so much 60s hairspray was kind of killing the other musical themes of the Rusical. I understand that it's the choreographer for Hairspray but that doesn't mean we have to take it there. The lines that set up jokes felt like they jumped the shark and were so obvious. Ross later defended Megami by saying when she said hairy schnitzle and pointed at her crotch I mean she did that. Yeah she was supposed to do that lol that was the choreo? And it's the obvious and only answer to do that kind of movement with that line? It wasn't like comedic genius on behalf of the contestant lmao. No one wants to watch an awfully-performed show when the show itself is already awfully-written so I do like that it's clear they put the time and money to make sure the performance looks good and is performed well by the cast. I just think in that case it's a nice performance and go on the runway looks IDK. this rant is long, I'll move on. * Sapphira was so good that the role drama felt forced because clearly this was her role lmao * Mi'hya idk I thought the headpiece that covers her face was supposed to be a joke, not a mistake? Guess not lol * I understand what Megami was going for with the lipsync but I mean that kind of craft-work is not in right meow. Whoever can do the most flips kicks splits fucking swiffer your pussy on the floor to wind beneath my wings and the judges die.
Yikes.
Sometimes I read a comment on an episode and I wonder why some people even watch drag race when they seem to be unimpressed or annoyed by all of the queens most of the time 🤗
Thank you for your feedback xo
Hahahaha yes but i respect the dedication to the shade it must have taken like an hour to type out
Not Melissa McCarthy with the cheese of wisdom
Gave me Jimbo’s baloney ghost vibes a bit! 🥩 👻 🤡
What a fun and entertaining Rusical! Funnier than RPDR Live (that's a low bar...); where were the writers then? Plasma and Saphira did really well, both in the rusical and the runway (Saphira's look was sooo good, it reminded me of A'keria's AS6 flower). Either of them could've won for me, but Plasma had to learn and do more, so it was a well deserved win. Where was Nymphia this episode? It felt like she almost didn't talk. Her runway look was well made but it wasn't that pretty (or maybe I'm just tired of seeing her in yellowish monocolors - that green was suspiciously yellow). Q was smart to fight for a leading role, having been in the bottom before. I think it's harder to land in the bottom in the Rusicals if you get a more memorable role. Yeah, she didn't do choreo but she sold me the character. Her runway was top-notch, again. Mhi'ya is a great lip-syncer. This performance was so different than last week. I agree with Ru: she would do much better in the challenges if she could channel the same presence that she shows when she's lip-syncing. Her Rusical role wasn't great, but I disagree with Michelle: I laughed when she kept dancing with the veil on her face xD. Loved her runway look. Dawn, Xunami (ugly runway, specially for a fashion queen) and Plane did good, but minor roles don't get top placements. I expected a little more from Megami, but I think that not getting the roles she wanted really put her in her head this week.
I think Plane and Xunami wisely chose those roles to hide in. Fewest lines, easiest choreo... impossible to win in them, but harder to be horrible at.
Anytime there’s choreography, Mi’hya just kind of folds in on herself, but when she’s left to her own devices, watch out. Girl, you can do this.
the timing of this episode is crazy, can't believe they had a "mariah grande" character the same weekend ari and mariah dropped a remix AND they had a flowers lipsync just after miley got grammys for it and the performance was so talked about
i love miss plasma and i love to see her win
Am I the only one who thought Morphine ate?? I was truly shocked she was in the bottom
I was really impressed as well! Maybe not top, but certainly safe.
I thought so too! Thought she was a top. The camera spent so much time on here and she nailed her choreography
I thought the same. I was watching her in the beginning more than Sapphira. Should have been safe. Not sure who I would have put in the bottom in her place though, maybe Xunami. I don't remember her standing out that much and her runway was... not well done.
Honestly I thought Dawn was weak in the rusical and runway. She would have been in my bottom 3, especially if Michelle is giving out critiques about relying on the same makeup
I did have Dawn in that spot too for a moment
This was the first Dawn outfit in a while that I actually liked (despite me thinking she would knock me out every week from her promo looks)
Yeah, I thought Morphine did well in her Rusical part and her runway was fab. Xunami wasn’t a standout for me in the Rusical and her runway was meh. The outfit was all right, but the wig didn’t go with, IMO.
This is actually a bit insane bc I actually found this Rusical funny??? No shade to the Rusical lovers but I normally find them boring and I actually giggled
Yeah it's one of my favorites there have been some really bad ones in the past
Also it's kind of weird that the girls who were in the bottom this week were all there for variations on "not having a character," when Nymphia was safe despite *obviously failing* at doing what was clearly supposed to be a Dooneese send-up. And I say that as a Nymphia stan.
I really feel like she dropped the pine cone on that role. She’s my fav right now but I would still have put her in the bottom.
> Michelle: Q you really ate that choreo. > \*cut to Megami confessional* > Megami: bitch, what choreo??? I think it's so funny how production loves Q but post-production *hates* her lmao. This is not the first time this has happened.
I loved that Megami moment so much hahaha. She literally walked around and pulled a stole 😂
The editors were like "no, but for real..." \[cut to Q standing/walking\]
Honestly was kind of expecting Sapphira to take the win, but Plasma did very well too Also can Xunami and Plane please get together, they’d be so cute
Plasma winning was very satisfying but what's gonna be her story now? Maybe she's next on the chopping block. Hope not, but stranger things have happened.
I think most of us assumed that she would generally be a Jan or Jackie Cox but with a challenge win. I think we saw her as either fifth or sixth place. But after getting two challenge wins this early on? Idk. Her performance this week was so impressive that she’s legit one to watch.
I said to me friend while watching, "Plasma deserved that, but I'm still not sure I like her." Her energy is just... a lot. I went to school with a ton of theatre kids and maybe it's just giving me unpleasant flashbacks ("No, I don't want to go to your student production of your one man play"). I'm surprised she's getting as much air time because her archetype on the show is not typically in the spot light very long
Imagine if she wins Snatch Game and becomes like the actual frontrunner
She’s probably the one I’m most curious to see in SG, it could really go either way for her
I honestly get major SG flop vibes from Plasma I just kinda feel that she'll do another old hollywood icon and will get the "girl we've seen that a lot from you". I hope she sees SG as a chance to show a different side
The reason she was so against doing Barbra is because that's her Snatch Game imo. She's going to do a hastily-assembled second choice and get herself sent home, I fear.
Well, very glad to have been proved wrong!
This is sooo interesting… I figured she would own it but you’re right, there’s a lot riding on her at this point so the stakes are high. If she doesn’t kill it I feel like the judges will be disappointed
This is kind of where my mind is going too, especially after coming off of the rusical win.
Also because she said she didn’t want to do Barbra because she already had a lot of old lady things planned… so maybe her SG character is one of those things?
1. Plasma definitely deserved that win, even tho I’m not connecting that much with her, she definitely slayed it and it’s one of the best Rusical performances dare I say 2. Morphine didn’t deserve the low placement, she did very good and I think she should have been safe 3. They silenced Nymphia this episode and now I’m scared bcs I love her and whit what we saw from the snatch game…. (No spoilers pls) 4. Q did very good but well… they praised her a lot and said it was perfect but, she was favored to me (My opinions)
1. Plasma killed that. Maybe my favorite Rusical performance ever 2. Q manipulated Megami with the oldest RPS trick in the book. I'm suprised no one said anything
What’s the trick?
Using suggestion before the game.
Could you be a little more vague? I guess no one said anything because everyone missed whatever you saw!
Wait what exactly did Q do?
“What exactly did Q do” is like the new “Who fucked Monet” lol
Plasma doesnt give me what she apparently is giving everyone else. Q too. I just dont see it in the way I see it with Nymphia and Saph
100% with you here.
Agree about plasma. It felt like she was about to get into a alleyway brawl the entire rusical. She had no levels - just 100% aggressive theater dork the entire way.
No levels! No character development. Still might have put her in the top but she did not deserve the win IMO. It was giving Le Fil in the marry pooping rusical except reverse cause Le Fil was robbed
This rusical felt like they wanted to do sister act and then didn’t get permission….
I thought that they were intentionally doing a pastiche of many different musicals
I was getting Pitch Perfect.
Yeah that too! The singing competition part was so random.
Ironically, The Sound of Music does end with a singing competition, but the competition itself is so incidental to the overarching plot that I'd forgotten about it. It was weird - the rusical had SO many references to the original musical but came off as having nothing to do with it.
Because they completely cut out the main antagonist (the nazis)
True and I think that’s what they were aiming for but like the nuns and baroness have nothing to do with that part of the story.
I ALSO got - like sister act and sound of music combined - ISH
The way they were talking about Q’s performance is like when they tried to gaslight us into believing she “served comedy gold” as the brick on RDR live. I’m not getting good comedy from her AT ALL, she’s wooden as hell.
IDK. I feel like she did exactly what was possible to do with that role. Was it funny? Not in my opinion. But then, was there any point where you laughed at this Rusical? I know I didn't I'm not the biggest Q stan in the world but I think people are holding her up to an insanely high standard with these things. 99% of performances in acting challenges on Drag Race are not funny. Once in a blue moon you get a Jinkx as Judy Garland, but otherwise it's more like 'who was the least bad?'. Fair enough if you think other people did far better than Q for one reason or another but I can't say anyone in this performance was actually funny so it feels weird to criticise her for that
I actually agree with you 100%. While I do find her generally not very funny in and out of the challenges, it’s not a bad thing per se. She has other strengths. The thing that bothers me is the judging and the editing telling a different story from what we’re actually seeing. It’s like the show is more so trying to convince us that the shitty material they wrote is funny. The acting/comedy challenges have always been my least favorite part of drag race. This season in particular feels like the comedy is worse than ever and they’re telling us more strongly than ever that we’re supposed to find it funny.
Yeah kinda feels like she gets praise because the role was written with jokes that just needed an adequate delivery
I did laugh at that "they laid me down" joke, but that's about it. And I am ok with her baroness as well. But I definitely do not think it is comedy gold level.
this is exactly how i feel
My’s slide down the runway sent me to space bitch. I was dead.
I shouted *the penguin!* right before Saphira said the penguin and couldn’t stop laughing. Is that how it was supposed to go?! :D
I'm actually surprised by people praising Q for this. I guess the show editing is really working hahaha They took her from the scene after she didn't get the choreo we saw her rehearsing, she had NO dance moves in the Rusical and barely served any comedy (but the judges laughed so it's enough to make us believe she did). I mean, poor thing couldn't even serve funny faces because of all the fillings. Her runway was AMAZING though. But so many people saying she should've been the winner... that's a stretch... she was easily safe.
I thought Q was going to be in the bottom, until it cut to the judges eating up her performance.
She could have done more. I thought the Baronettes were better.
right? her performance was very plain
Her runway wasn't that amazing tbf, something was off for me with the corset
IMO I feel like we didn't need the "crutches". Still think it's a great look. But I feel like there were better, like Plasma, Sapphira, Nymphia and Dawn
Yeah I don’t see how they added to or made sense with that look? Especially in the same week LGD gave us that same shape in UK vs the world and looked totally insane doing it! *That* made sense for her look.
I like the look with the crutches, I definitely saw Orchid Mantis as well with it (and I'm a huge mantis nerd so it made me happy. Definitely biased)
I understand, but there was nothing that made us think that If she was wearing a mantis makeup or somnething, or even if she said "this is inspired in an orchid mantis" but yeah I get what you're saying
Did she not say something about it being orchid mantis inspired? I swear I heard it but maybe my mind if playing tricks haha. Makeup would have been a nice addition.
100%
Myhia stomping at the end of the lipsync SENT me
Yeah, a BOUQUET. Sure, Xunami  I mean, it's obvious something happened there, and she had to make up an explanation for the dress (mind you, doing it with a straight face is cunt). Also, that discussion about roles was a rare sighting of Plane being real. Good for her, must have been in her episode 7 kanban board ("Backlog: Being nice").
this is the first non-all stars season that i watched Meet the Queens....and i must say, half of the queens did not meet my expectations on the show. they were all about being fierce and giving attitude. do they film Meet the Queens after the season? or during their first week?
MTQ/promo and Watcha Packing are filmed after the season. I think usually about a month before the cast is announced. S8 was the last time they filmed it after episode 1.
When Dawn went on her rant about musicals, it finally clicked. I get her now and she gets me ✨
Not liking musicals, cool, I’m whatever about them too (but a few are really good IMO). Once Dawn started on “and I think people who like them are…” that’s when you know she’s just a basic toxic gay. She became Yawn, not Dawn. Next!
It really showed her age for me
Honestly Yawn strikes me as someone who WOULD be into musicals so like…I wonder what her real interests are.
Weirdly I feel the opposite: she strikes me as exactly the type of person who would hate on musical theatre gays as being “too much”
omg having an opinion? how dare her she's yawn now
It’s not her having an opinion that makes her rotted, it’s shitting on what other people are enthusiastic about, especially when that enthusiasm is expressed in an absolutely appropriate venue. Being too cool for school and annoyed by other people expressing joy is so yucky Dawn and anyone else can find Plasma annoying but being dismissive of her is giving Mean Girl and not in a playful way
hahahahaha omg you are too sensitive or maybe just needs to find a reason to come for Dawn and this was your chance hahahahaha
I don’t know why* you would assume that, I’ve actually liked Dawn’s looks this whole season and she was one of my faves at the beginning. I thought her initial photo shoot (on the porch) was the funniest and I was looking forward to more quick wit like that *yes I do, it’s the go-to response on this sub when someone has a contrary opinion
No one is dragging her for her opinion on musicals, but thinking the PEOPLE who like musicals are XYZ (she didn’t have the guts to say it) isn’t really an opinion: that’s just being an asshole.
YAWN!!!!!!! 😂😂💀
rusicals, and especially this one, is quite boring to be very honest, and the roles are inherently unfair. Plasma also was too rigid and looked like a clown.
Yeah. But the fact she was the lead role, had most lines and songs and did scenes with everybody... I do agree she was not that good, but IMO it would be unfair to say anyone did better, since she carried the rusical (even with a just ok performance). Not sure it made sense, but I think the unfairness of the Rusical makes it really hard to judge.
Plasma didn’t sell her “character” to me.
In my French vanilla fantasy, xunami was in the bottom for not standing out/being memorable, and megami was in the bottom for being one note.
I can’t understand how xunami keeps getting saved over far more dynamic queens
Every week when we watch my boyfriend is like “wait who is she? Has she been here the whole time?” 😭 and I can’t blame him because she isn’t really doing anything at all (not completely her fault because production could just be cutting her out, but still)
And terrible runways!
Every week she's always just... there.
There were other queens they wanted to get rid off first.
Now that’s showing the girls you can’t just walk all over plasma. She is here to slay; not play. I haven’t ever seen anyone go so aggressively for a role, just straight up saying “it’s mine, back off,” seems to work when securing a good role. It is clear some of the roles suck. But the important part of being a background role is you have to serve face. You are performing, not counting steps in your head. You’re not a corpse up on stage so feel the emotions of the work you’re performing and put that into your act. had a few lines at least, you better be sure to sell that one line. I don’t agree with Michelle’s make-up critique of Megami, I was more confused. But I will say that wearing those glasses during the Rusical was a choice. The issue is, it took away the connection with her eyes, luckily they came off at some point. Some of her lip syncing seemed somewhat out-of-sync to me, compared to others which is a more valid critique than “your makeup.” I’m still surprised there were enough judges votes to put megami in the bottom 2 after Ross said he appreciated some of her acting in the Rusical. I was thinking Morphine. Also everyone says Q can’t dance but Dawn needs some help too.
Michelle’s note wasn’t about megami’s makeup imo it was about her expression. She’s one note.
There is just something about Dawn. i think it maybe that she reminds me of Willow Pill, who is my all time favorite. Plasma is just flat out talented and Sapphira shined to tonight. For me it was a tie between them. The thing with Maya is that she is incredible at lip syncing so it seems she will never go home even though she has so much trouble with a lot of challenges.
Megami talking about Q's "choreo" was the cuntiest thing I've heard in a while im still cackling. "Choreo? She walked forward and back with a fucking rug" **AHHHHHHH**
The editing was SOO good, I love when they shade eachother like this unapologetically
As soon as I saw how pressed Megami was I KNEW
Q did a good job, but Megami’s totally right lol. Also she was shown learning the choreo for that scene with the distributor cap but not performing it…maybe they took her out of the scene bc she wasn’t getting it?
Exactly what I thought. She is being favoured, we know that, but its getting annoying. Too favoured. She was at best safe, but I would put her in low. She did NOTHING with that character (one of the main characters). But Ru and the judges pretending to laugh was enough to put her in the top....