ooh and new Ruview is up
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u2i_XGbrXtw
― difficult-difficult lemon-difficult (VegemiteGrrl), Thursday, 30 April 2015 06:01 (nine years ago) link
"Rubber Doll" is surprisingly not bad! Reminds me a bit of "Toxic".
― LeRooLeRoo, Thursday, 30 April 2015 20:47 (nine years ago) link
The lipsynch was shockingly bad. The song selection didn't help things but Pearl, honey... what are those dance moves? At least she was selling it with conviction, which is more than could be said for Fame. Yes, dear, your face is flawless. We know. Yawn.
― gwyneth anger (patron sailor), Thursday, 30 April 2015 21:29 (nine years ago) link
Getting a little peeved at how few good lip sync battles there have been this season. Lotta double elimination missed opportunities tbh.
― Eric H., Thursday, 30 April 2015 21:50 (nine years ago) link
If Drag Race was solely runway, Violet and Fame would be top 2. Thankfully it's not that show lol.
Thankfully it's not season 2!
― A-Hanisi Coates (Leee), Thursday, 30 April 2015 21:52 (nine years ago) link
eric otm, lipsyncs have been super meh. esp this last one
― difficult-difficult lemon-difficult (VegemiteGrrl), Friday, 1 May 2015 01:02 (nine years ago) link
I partially blame the song selection.
― Eric H., Friday, 1 May 2015 01:17 (nine years ago) link
i dislike when the queens have to lipsynch for a pop singer guest judge to the current song they want to promote. the songs are mostly very bad and i mostly do not care. it's boring. i know ru needs to get these checks somehow but it really fucks up the climax of the episode in my damn humble opinion.
but even so! the song was so confusingly out of step for a john waters episode. literally any other song would have been more appropriate
― gwyneth anger (patron sailor), Friday, 1 May 2015 01:43 (nine years ago) link
otm
the only good one for a guest this season was Twist of Fate for ONJ
― difficult-difficult lemon-difficult (VegemiteGrrl), Friday, 1 May 2015 01:54 (nine years ago) link
Meantime, Jinkx's full documentary premiered:
https://www.thestranger.com/blogs/slog/2015/04/30/22141386/overheard-at-the-world-premiere-of-jinkx-monsoons-excellent-documentary-drag-becomes-him
― Ned Raggett, Friday, 1 May 2015 02:39 (nine years ago) link
Last week's was pretty great for the conjoined twins, too. But, yes, this trend of current pop divettes getting some random throwaway song no one will ever know by heart must stop.
― Eric H., Friday, 1 May 2015 06:15 (nine years ago) link
as a gay nostalgia junkie i am v embarassed to admit that this show has introduced me to a lot of mid 80's freestyle pop jams that were maybe Top 10 but didn't necessarily hit #1 and were probably all over the radio at the time but aren't played that much since. I think being born in 1987 gives me a free pass, though.
― gybe horses (Stevie D(eux)), Friday, 1 May 2015 13:59 (nine years ago) link
We'll allow it. THIS time. Next time, be born the same age as the rest of us.
― Ned Raggett, Friday, 1 May 2015 14:39 (nine years ago) link
Was this week's episode a Rucap or something? This thread hasn't been bumped yet!
― Madison Dumbbarfer (Leee), Wednesday, 6 May 2015 17:15 (nine years ago) link
i have not been on my pc this week: stuck on phone cant search waiting for u guys to bump
― difficult-difficult lemon-difficult (VegemiteGrrl), Wednesday, 6 May 2015 17:29 (nine years ago) link
this was a great ep!!
i dont know why trixie thought she was going to win...her & ginger were p meh to me. i looooved violet & katya
― difficult-difficult lemon-difficult (VegemiteGrrl), Wednesday, 6 May 2015 17:31 (nine years ago) link
the untucked was good: unbelievable to me how convinced katya was that she was going home CMON GURL
― difficult-difficult lemon-difficult (VegemiteGrrl), Wednesday, 6 May 2015 17:36 (nine years ago) link
I'm so very in love with boy Pearl
― she started dancing to that (Finefinemusic), Wednesday, 6 May 2015 18:07 (nine years ago) link
trixie's cowgirl thing was killing me, travesty she went home
their dancing was not very good though
― J0rdan S., Wednesday, 6 May 2015 18:14 (nine years ago) link
i realize it's a requisite tool that every drag queen should have but i really dislike the sewing challenges so late in the season. i'm not trying to see these hobby lobby fashions.
― gwyneth anger (patron sailor), Wednesday, 6 May 2015 18:15 (nine years ago) link
boy Pearl is <3
― difficult-difficult lemon-difficult (VegemiteGrrl), Wednesday, 6 May 2015 18:41 (nine years ago) link
To some degree I've danced all of the partner dances (I need to learn to vogue!), and Katya and Violet had the most technically demanding choreo and still managed to execute it the best, very well-earned win for them. I would've put Pearl/Kennedy in the bottom, though maybe because I actually do Charleston and did not like what I saw from either of them. I did agree with Carson(!) about Kennedy's energy level. Trix I thought had more energy than Ging, but that couple had a better performance since their choreo had more camp in it.
― Madison Dumbbarfer (Leee), Wednesday, 6 May 2015 19:17 (nine years ago) link
Travesty that Trixie went home? No. What's the opposite of travesty? That's what that was. What really irked me is that her boy side was so incredibly undercooked. Each of the other 5 got that the boy side had to be just as stylized as the girl side. Trixie literally half assed it. So much schadenfreude that she was literally the only one in Untucked that felt she had probably won.
― Norse Jung (Eric H.), Thursday, 7 May 2015 02:13 (nine years ago) link
Is next week a makeover challenge? They sort of already had that this season, no? I think Minj and Katya are looking pretty safe for the top 3 now. Third spot is a crapshoot.
― Norse Jung (Eric H.), Thursday, 7 May 2015 02:15 (nine years ago) link
Maybe Violet will turn it, who knows. It's getting interesting. I actually really like the whole top 5 this time
― difficult-difficult lemon-difficult (VegemiteGrrl), Thursday, 7 May 2015 02:18 (nine years ago) link
I like the whole top 5 too, but my top 3 is Katya, Violet and Ginger.
I thought Trixie looked better than Ginger and their lipsynchs were equally great, but I knew Ginger wasn't going home. Trixie was put in a difficult position trying to live up to huge expectations and probably feeling a bit disconected after missing several weeks of the competition.
Pearl in a tuxedo looked like Justin Timberlake. Also, flazé-dah!
― LeRooLeRoo, Thursday, 7 May 2015 20:52 (nine years ago) link
I fully expect violet to be in the top three because she has the tidiest season-long emotional arc and Ru loves to dramatize that shit. ("i'm mostly a bitch but i'm learning how to let people in."; see also: Bianca del Rio)
― gwyneth anger (patron sailor), Thursday, 7 May 2015 21:20 (nine years ago) link
I agree I'm probably being manipulated but it's working! I've always been impressed by her looks though.
― LeRooLeRoo, Thursday, 7 May 2015 23:54 (nine years ago) link
Sorry, didn't comment earlier this week -- about to move and things are busy! But yes, great episode for sure. RuView fun as always.
― Ned Raggett, Friday, 8 May 2015 02:21 (nine years ago) link
fla zay dah looool
― difficult-difficult lemon-difficult (VegemiteGrrl), Friday, 8 May 2015 02:38 (nine years ago) link
What a weird season.
― LeRooLeRoo, Tuesday, 12 May 2015 02:55 (nine years ago) link
yuup
sigh
― difficult-difficult lemon-difficult (VegemiteGrrl), Tuesday, 12 May 2015 05:52 (nine years ago) link
Such a weird challenge for so late in the season but oh well. Violet's look was great!
Dont dispute Kennedy & Katya being in the bottom, and Kennedy's lipsync was THE HOUSE DOWN BOOTS etc
V sad to see Katya go though. Fking love her so much, like Bianca levels of awesomeness. Wish she could have brought more of her amazing improv to the stage, judges needed to see more of that.
Really wondering abt the top 3
― difficult-difficult lemon-difficult (VegemiteGrrl), Tuesday, 12 May 2015 21:38 (nine years ago) link
Well ... shit.
Katya got Ben De La Creme'd.
― Norse Jung (Eric H.), Wednesday, 13 May 2015 03:40 (nine years ago) link
I do see how the gears are turning, tho. If they've been building to a Ginger win since basically episode 2, then they had to deep six the only one who could give her a run for her money in acting challenges.
(Tho, if I'm to be totally honest, I think everyone's quite literally sleeping on Pearl's comedic skills. I had to rewind her Madonna Hello Kitty monologue three times to get it all from laughing so hard.)
― Norse Jung (Eric H.), Wednesday, 13 May 2015 03:42 (nine years ago) link
But really, starting to worry for Pearl. If they want a top 3 that hits on all points, there's only room for one drop dead gorgeous, thin, couture, runway-stomping glamour queen, and they've been giving Violet the redemption buildup something fierce the last few eps.
― Norse Jung (Eric H.), Wednesday, 13 May 2015 03:45 (nine years ago) link
Kennedy's kinda surprised me this whole time. (In a good way!)
― Ned Raggett, Wednesday, 13 May 2015 04:12 (nine years ago) link
Apparently I'm always going to be a little bit biased against girls with default boring runway looks. She's likable and can clearly lip sync the house down, but ... meh.
(Her John Waters performance, I'll admit, was impressive.)
― Norse Jung (Eric H.), Wednesday, 13 May 2015 04:14 (nine years ago) link
Anyone else hoping that that was Shangela under the HK costume?
What was it that Violet yelled out after the lip sync? I didn't like Kennedy's performance, btw -- way too much manic/desperate energy for that song.
― Madison Dumbbarfer (Leee), Wednesday, 13 May 2015 04:30 (nine years ago) link
Same, not just for this week but quite a few times this season. Her Snatch Game is criminally underrated.
If not for Katya's elimination, this could've been my favorite season.
― Madison Dumbbarfer (Leee), Wednesday, 13 May 2015 04:32 (nine years ago) link
Also was underwhelmed by Violet's runway, definitely preferred Pearl this week.
― Madison Dumbbarfer (Leee), Wednesday, 13 May 2015 06:15 (nine years ago) link
When did you know that drag was something you really could, and should, do?I think it was the first time I did it as Katya. I was in art school, and I hosted my senior video show as the character. The makeup and the costume were absolutely terrible, but the character was fully formed and there. It got such a great reception. I was gonna try to go to grad school to teach foreign language. A philosophy teacher of mine was at the show, and she's like, 'No, you've gotta do this. This is really cool.' She's like this Yugoslavian, intelligentsia, freedom-fighting philosophy woman. And for her to say, 'You should do drag?' I think she would be so happy for me now. If not for that, I'd probably be dead, in jail or a French teacher in Sudbury, Mass.
http://www.chron.com/entertainment/tv/article/Katya-talks-RuPaul-s-Drag-Race-elimination-6264218.php
― Madison Dumbbarfer (Leee), Friday, 15 May 2015 00:08 (nine years ago) link
we need to make her president or something
seeing raven & raja loose it over her Hello Kitty Russian best friend character made me so happy, she is really something else & i hope she does amazing things
― difficult-difficult lemon-difficult (VegemiteGrrl), Friday, 15 May 2015 01:31 (nine years ago) link
Untucked was at turns elegiac, silly, and heartbreaking.
― Madison Dumbbarfer (Leee), Friday, 15 May 2015 05:32 (nine years ago) link
Especially this part: http://imgur.com/gallery/EAAQLPH
― Madison Dumbbarfer (Leee), Friday, 15 May 2015 20:26 (nine years ago) link
liked when katya thanked the camera guy for panning down her catsuit
― difficult-difficult lemon-difficult (VegemiteGrrl), Friday, 15 May 2015 20:29 (nine years ago) link
I thought that was a very real moment too.
― Norse Jung (Eric H.), Friday, 15 May 2015 20:31 (nine years ago) link
Loved that in the RuView.
― Ned Raggett, Friday, 15 May 2015 23:51 (nine years ago) link
well i was not expecting that elimination. i watched at a bar last night and the crowd sounded as surprised as i was
― gwyneth anger (patron sailor), Tuesday, 19 May 2015 13:15 (nine years ago) link
I didn't expect it either since Ru kept her many times when she had done worse than last night, but I think her speech condoned her.
― LeRooLeRoo, Wednesday, 20 May 2015 00:25 (nine years ago) link