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

Or whatever her name was! The one with the beak!

Ahh, Milk!

Darienne never really got on my bad side; if I hadda guess, her brand of humor has a snarky streak, which is easily manipulated into seeming like a b-word. But to me, she was always funny, the smoother Swiss to Bianca's sharp Jack.

I have a lot of ~ideas~ about the emotion pr0n on this show.

No not Milk, I was good with Milk -- the one with the contoured-to-hell nose, went out in one premiere episode.

I mean I know I could look upthread BUT THAT WOULD BE EASY.

I'm pretty certain you mean Milk!

(Magnolia Crawford, if you're dying to know, as I'm sure you are.)

Thank you that was it.

I don't see Courtney's vapidity as airheadedness, I see it more as just playing on a certain level of cultural unawareness and a teeeeeeeeeny bit of elitism. Like that innocent wide-eyed 'oh REALLY? that's how you do that/that's what you're going to wear//you said that?' is a form of judgement akin to 'we don't do things like that back home'

and that's where 90% of her shade comes from. everyone else is gauche and emotional and laying it all on the table - she got to be a 'drag superstar' in her home country without having to do that and she's not about to start here.

like if you really think she meant what she said in untucked about Darienne being on top this week, then you have fallen for Courtney's Act :) hook line and sinker

she never gave two shits for anything Darienne did and still doesn't, but since she knows Darienne's going home she's going to play emotional good samaritan and send her a way with a good feeling in her heart about sweet little courtney act. It's COMPLETELY two faced.

Maybe I'm overanalysing but I really think that courtney's accent and her look does 90% of the work for her of creating this kind of, idk, 'glamor' in the magicking terminology that she can hide behind. she can get away with all the shady bullshit of the other queens without ever being called on it because no-one actually HEARS what she's saying

but I'll leave the last word to Alaska

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eLGif8ZAkVY

xp Well when you put it like THAT.

:)

Courtney is completely two faced! I LOVE ADORE

I love all the shit she can do with her eyes, like she can go from 0 to fierce in .01 seconds

I'm not going to judge her sincerity/lack thereof, but the backhanded elitism bit is spot on, probably because I'm pretty much the same: That is a very good analysis, for a girl!

http://31.media.tumblr.com/983d5051ee4a369d807c150d796f3f57/tumblr_n3s9c0mnz41t1rvzco1_500.gif

I can't stand how they film all three people "winning" and then reveal the winner by editing the episode, and so you're not actually watching the queen win, you're watching her pretend to win, and it comes off as totally flat and totally performative and inorganic and it is just the WORST.

http://31.media.tumblr.com/7604db5031f1eb6bdb7fd175eb088828/tumblr_n57p4ir9rX1r3jqyco6_250.gif

xpost yeah I've always been disappointed by that, it's kind of a bargain-basement way to end it

I'm the last person to jump off the Laganja train, so don't mind me or anything! :D

I have a problem with it too, but given the entire show is very near a satire of reality TV conventions, I'm not sure a truly genuine reaction is appropriate for the moment in the first place.

true

It was either that or the old way, which was a genuine coronation in a eerily empty room.

Yeah for me the real coronation moment now is when you see the three watching the actual broadcast. Last year's was intense!

Yeah here it is:

http://www.logotv.com/video/misc/906532/rupauls-drag-race-winner-reaction.jhtml

oh god Eric otm...the old way was hella weird

I'm not sure why they couldn't do a combination of both the pre-taped special and then split-screen the last segment with something like that video, Ned -- the queens watching the pre-taped live but allowing the audience to experience both simultaneously.

Courtney is completely two faced! I LOVE ADORE

― homosexual II, Wednesday, May 7, 2014 11:06 AM

Quoting this because this reminds me that h II correctly pointed out on Facebook this important fact -- Adore quoted Phoebe Cates in Lace!

I'm not sure why they couldn't do a combination of both the pre-taped special and then split-screen the last segment with something like that video, Ned -- the queens watching the pre-taped live but allowing the audience to experience both simultaneously.

Doubtless true! But also they don't have to worry about FCC violations or whatever in the moment doing it the way they do, so.

that video was cool, ned

apropos of nothing, am I the last person to find out that Sharon & Alaska split?

I thought FCC violations didn't apply to non over-the-air channels.

Eric -- sorry, that's my point! IE, no broadcast split screen live of the thing. Also it would RUIN THE ILLUSION, MAN.

VG -- I thought you talked about that upthread already! The breakup that is.

...

and that proves that my brain would make a perfect colander

I never see the satire! The show is self-aware to a degree that's exceptional for the genre, and funnier than almost all of them, but RPDR is fundamentally a part of that genre. I almost think reality tv is impossible to satirize without an actual script, a la the Onion's "Sex House."

I thought FCC violations didn't apply to non over-the-air channels.

I think that a lot of cable channels, although they aren't bound by FCC regs, self-censor for the sake of advertisers.

Ha, I see a little more clearly now, I took 'non over-the-air' to mean web clips/livestreams

PS I think Ru's got the Ozzie accent down because his longtime companion is an Ozzie cowboy.

Ha, that's right, I'd forgotten that.

is RPDR the Mary Hartman, Mary Hartman of reality television programming?

I'll settle for that.

Untucked as the Fernwood Tonight?

Read all the way to the end for five-alarm Willam burn:

http://37.media.tumblr.com/d67dc0036e742a43756c0e262bee81ca/tumblr_n586ywgVZN1qmuh8yo1_1280.jpg

And I can just hear his voice saying ALL that.

loool

Doing the Lord's work: http://dragracelipsync.tumblr.com

LIVING

And we all saw the Conchita victory in Europe, yes?

No :( But I saw your tweetfest, haha!

awesome

To think she would've been kicked off RpDR the very first week.

PS I think Ru's got the Ozzie accent down because his longtime companion is an Ozzie cowboy.

the what

Georges Lebar, originally hailing from Perth