'...and DON'T *bleep* IT UP!' -- the RuPaul's Drag Race thread

Yeah, great stuff for sure! I am fine with it coming down to a split between Jinkx and Alaska for the win (I can't see Roxxy marshalling anywhere near enough support now after that last episode.)

Oh BTW, Jerick aka Jinkx out of costume last night

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

Roxxy's weird rant about all the 'comedy' in the courtroom scene was O_o ... she sounded like a 5 year old way past naptime

....yeahhh, all her saying it was trying to mindgame everyone = I think not! (Besides which, if anything she didn't help herself given Alaska putting the exclamation point on it all; then again she was savvy enough to note where the other two had slipped, so the advantage of going last!)

Thing about Roxxy is that if the two had been contemporaneous Divine would have trashed her attitude completely and played the big girl card hard in return. So, like, fail on Ms. Andrews' part.

It amazes me that Roxxxxy is so stupid as to have no concept of drag's inherent camp value. You're dressing up as an ott fascimilie of a woman, gtfo w yr whole THIS IS V V SERIOUS AND NOT AT ALL PLAYFUL OR FUN bs

Yeah, it's just straight O_o

honestly i can't even bother with roxxxy's complaints, which seem to be about how the competition should have been better suited to her style of drag (looking like a low-rent lainie kazan wearing peel-n-stick eyebrows and a tearaway bedsheet)

<3 <3 <3 that is the best description of Roxxxy ever

both roxxxy and coco had these intense rants about their competition which was basically them projecting their weaknesses and insecruties. it really was like watching a kid or a teen lash out.

A roffle

Girl I am gagging!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qpOl9tld5zg

Recap show tonight; they've got the first part up already:

http://www.logotv.com/video/misc/904099/rupauls-drag-race-episode-13-season-5-countdown-to-the-crown-part-1-of-6.jhtml

Recap show way too busy/staged for me, rather preferred the style in older seasons. Still two moments were keepers:

* the correct pronunciation of 'brocade'

* Dave the veteran's gift to Jinkx

brocade was awesome

alaska's table dance had my attention

think I'm rooting for Alaska. I don't know why, just that goddammit she's fuckin adorable & hilarious

preview of the opening (snicker)

http://www.logotv.com/video/misc/905778/preview-rupauls-drag-race-514-the-beginning.jhtml#id=1700447

roxy looks way too covered up compared to the other 2...her steez is always so Designing Women

Tonight!

Meantime, Jinkx lives the dream:

Peaches Christ Productions Proudly Presents
GREY GARDENS
With The Original Stage-show Premiere of Return To Grey Gardens
Starring JINKX MONSOON as Lil'L Edie and PEACHES CHRIST as Big Edie
The Castro Theatre, Saturday October 12th

wow

that sounds awesome!

And! Ru in an interview with the NYT. Fascinating to see him sans makeup -- he's rocking those freckles!

http://www.nytimes.com/video/2013/05/06/arts/television/100000002210489/the-conversation-rupaul.html

xpost - and yeah, VG, you should go!

I'm seriously considering it.

I'm content.

Ha, Ms. J. herself spoiled it for me, she already posted on FB and I was foolish enough to see an autoupdate. And yeah she just had to win even with Alaska's good finish in the final episodes. But if I can just say right now YYYYYYYYYYEEEEEEEEAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHH JINKXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX. World conquest plz.

Yay! Manila's Instagram spoiled me. Bugger. I'll watch it soon.

Also Ivy Winters as Ms Congeniality = way cool.

And final thing to add -- holy hell did Raja kill it there with her look! Beyond that my other faves were Sharon Needles with the Pee Wee Herman and Detox's black/white approach.

Sharon's Pee Wee realness was amazing

Psyched for Jinks, that's a great ending. Pretty awesome season, this one I thought

I have to do an Alaska tribute though

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xh2CcczSRQI

http://dilettwat.typepad.com/.a/6a017d3f6e48be970c01901b61d8e1970b-800wi

http://media.tumblr.com/5c0c158cf56c6c9f3db76750e366201b/tumblr_inline_mm6c1gIWWs1qz4rgp.gif

http://www.dragofficial.com/uploads/1/9/3/9/19395567/5754235_orig.gif

"HIIIIII!"

Hahah as posted elsewhere:

http://24.media.tumblr.com/36d4fe0db44c1d449964fcf71fbf0b10/tumblr_mmfauqUjOq1rizm6no1_500.png

All hail Queen Jinkx!

http://24.media.tumblr.com/c1208ea22037fd43c017fe39e9ed1484/tumblr_mk7p9hqa441rlbvjno1_500.gif
http://24.media.tumblr.com/3aceceb30fefa2169a53512aa6f6dbf8/tumblr_mk7p9hqa441rlbvjno2_500.gif

http://25.media.tumblr.com/ec8ebc39cea863fc9788bae1fae8cdde/tumblr_mk32wxY4CD1qcw9yjo1_500.gif

aaand drumroll

http://25.media.tumblr.com/302a68305e07776b9d18cf5660565ab6/tumblr_mmept8Zi8p1qacb1no1_500.gif

Feel a little bad for Alaska, who really turned it up by the end, but this was ALWAYS the only possible outcome.

yeah I think she waited a little bit too long to really show her talents. that speech she gave last week I was like WHERE HAVE YOU BEEN

I was just kinda rooting for her because she's adorable

And maybe the smartest in the bunch.

Alyssa aside, overall it was a very sapiosexual season for the show.

true! always nice to see

Happily agreed on all fronts. (I noticed Jinkx graduated summa cum laude from college!)

yeah both Jinkx and Alaska had theater degrees, if I'm not mistaken?

Sounds about right!

Meantime Eric H. weren't you going to do a runway look poll or something when the season was over

also was it just me or was it kind of awkward and weird with the cutways to Jinkx and Alaska's moms in the audience. Like it was cool they were there but hearing them actually say how they felt reminded me SOOOO much of what my own Mom would say while you're kinda half covering your face muttering 'okay stop talking now'

Oh yeah, I still wanna do that even though it will get four total votes.

xpost omg yes please runway poll!

also was it just me or was it kind of awkward and weird with the cutways to Jinkx and Alaska's moms in the audience.

A little but it's also VERRRY RuPaul in terms of happiness/health/moving on. Not a complaint, it's just how he rolls. Also everyone hopes for a little closure, I guess. I was actually bummed they didn't talk to Roxxy's drag son in the audience, or maybe they did but in the final cut they decided to keep the focus on his drag mom Erica Andrews having passed.

The thing about the finales now (thinking last season as well) as opposed to the earlier ones was that the earlier ones were, if just as staged/edited (of course!), then more low key/intimate/isolated, while the crownings were similarly so. The shift to this kind of full-on combined presentation changes that dynamic and I think by default a lot of things are lost that might be more easily talked about in the original way of doing things, but the flipside is just the sheer fun of it all now that a fanbase has built up -- and hey, it's actually live audiences that the queens are most used to presenting in front of, so there ya go.

xpost hmm I didn't think of it that way. That makes more sense now. One of the things I've really loved about the show is the way her genuine concern for the girls comes out every now and then. Like even when there's total bitchfests, it's cool the way she tempers it by being kinda caring and human. I really like seeing that.

And of course we also now know why it's "IVYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYY WINTERSSSSSSSSSSSSSS." I liked how Ivy was happy to finally know herself!

I love that Rupaul was giving LaToya coaching, like "no, it's Edgarrrrrrrrrrr Winterrrrrrrrrrrrrrs"