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

This is just awesome

http://i153.photobucket.com/albums/s238/petstarr/Drag%20Race/Drag%20Race%207/pad.gif

Yeah, def the winning team there.

Can I just say, tho, that this was maybe the most bizarre and loosely defined runway challenge I've seen in a long while?

i really enjoyed the elimination challenge this week

i was high but..... the songs were all kinda great???

since i can't really remember who is who this early in any reality show, my lone thought on this season is that it seems to have a higher than normal rate of queens who are cute as boys

also if you can break each season's contestants into 50's queens, big diva queens, comedy queens and young high fashion socialite queens it seems like this year's big diva queens are the most talented of any of the other groups

a higher than normal rate of queens who are cute as boys

About the same, but the ones who are cute this season are reaaaaaaaaaaaallllllly cute. Pearl, in particular.

yeah maybe that's it

Perl is REALLY cute as a girl, too.

Right. If only he had Raja's personality, I'd be in love.

And speaking of:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uEHTdh02UxQ

The KLF joke near the end I did NOT expect...but it's perfect.

Plus yay recap

http://blandcanyon.blogspot.com.au/2015/03/rupauls-drag-race-recap-season-7_12.html

lool Raja's face at that KLF zing

and I love how pissed off Raven was about Sasha Belle. so otm. That wig(s) was sooooo heinous

Perhaps inevitable. Perhaps?

http://www.etonline.com/tv/161083_rupauls_drag_race_debuts_beards_on_the_runway/

Some costume spoilers there but right now I'm starting to think if I have an overall season favorite it might be a tossup between Max and Ginger. But that said...still very early days yet and honestly nobody is totally standing out for me yet as a definite winner. Whole lotta midrange.

Rooting for Max because she's the hometown girl, but I really want her to blow the weird factor out waaaaay further (the same way I felt about Milk tbh).

Guess Willam really was ahead of his time

In that he would've won any subsequent season, yeah.

Katya is still up there for me even after last week's episode. I think (hope) it was just an early mistep à la Raven and she will come back stronger and last until the top 3. She seems polished enough and funny enough to get there. Take me to the intersection of glamour and comedy!

Yeah Katya would be in for my top three too.

Katya def a favorite. I thonk this season's snatch game could be a real hoot given how many comedy/performer queens there are this season

*think

Her tumblr is hilarious too: http://momsgoldteeth.tumblr.com/

Something else about Katya too -- like Alaska and Joslyn, she appears in the first season 3 episode (pre-competition) via clips from her audition tape:

http://www.logotv.com/video/episode-1-season-3-casting-special/1653956/playlist.jhtml#vid=605165

Oh Detox too while I'm thinking of it, via the live casting call.

And Chad too IIRC!

just catching up, watched the first episode.

...why did max make fun of disabled people? the crutches? or old people? wtf? kick her the fuck off, she sucks

aaaand moby just showed up and made fun of homeless people within 3 seconds

ok

This season's Untucked is pretty radical!

It is, really.

And another queen down. Can't say I'll miss her.

yeah she never really lived up to her talk. was hoping for more from the lipsync battle but oh well

max is becoming a consistent favorite

bearded runway was great, so great

It was! Max winning made sense.

A friend just asked if this season seemed a little painful to watch. And I can't say I entirely disagree! There seems to have been a bit of a tone shift I still can't entirely put my finger on.

yeah it's strange

Feels like the last season of The Golden Girls.

Now since you're going there -- I remember the show had been renewed through this season, but hadn't heard anything beyond that. I half wonder if this is all leading to this being...it?

IMO it always takes a couple of episodes to get really going and for me to get attached to the new queens. I think they put a lot of effort in making last week and this week's challenges entertaining and fun. Maybe our expectations are just really high.

Hahah that could be it. And they were fun!

I'm still adjusting to the new Untucked format though. I miss Ru's narration.

I kinda like the new untucked. feels less stagey, a little more natural where they just talk without ALL the edits & sipping and glancing etc

also lol @ jaidynn telling pearl he's hot and that she "might need to ride your face later"

I kind of loved that lol. I understand that it's more real, but I think the old Untucked made me laugh more. (x-post)

Some thoughts about last night's episode:

- Max was a great team leader, so happy that she won. Still top 3 for me.
- The costumes for the main challenge were beautiful. I wonder if they were provided by the production or if they were the queen's own.
- Loved Mama Ru getting all Tyra Banks on team Kennedy's boring ass.
- Trixie's bearded runway looked fucking amazing.
- The lipsynch was limp as hell. I almost thought Ru would send both home.

yeah Kennedy can turn it the fuck out , but she was a total yawn! idk what the hell that was

Max's MTQ video was so terrible, it completely undercut any expectations I had from her, but she's slowly turning me around. Her looks have been gorge, but improv (re: Snatch Game) might be a test for her. (But then the THEATRE background might come in handy.)

To expand on my nu-Untucked == radical comment, I love how it's breaking the fourth-wall right now, which is something that reality tv shows are anathema to. It's not just the stagehands and PAs we see on camera -- when they talk to the eliminated queens who are out of their drag and out of their personas, and given the nature of this show, it *feels* so naked. It's a remarkable technique they've hit on, and has a rather powerful, elegiac effect, IMO. Might not be sustainable, though...

I kinda liked the lip sync! Jasmine particularly, but I'm just a sucker for good dancing.

Love Ginger's unabashed shadiness.
Kennedy loves to talk, which means more dramas, which means I love her.
Hahah loving the bifurcation of the pretteez, Fame is the good pretty, Violet is the evil pretty.
Jaidynn turning out to be a lot of fun, i.e. quotable.

Does anyone notice how Max's absurd 1930's vocal affectations seem to drift in and out like even in the same sentence? It's as if she has to remind herself "oh yeah that's how I'm talking right now, whoops"

totally! it's v strange

Strange as it may sound, it's an Adore Delano equivalent. "I'm fierce! Wait not really. Wait I am!"

I went back and rewatched Raja + Raven's Ruview from the first episode...those two are so good together, I fking love them.