That's all still correct, though.

I expect a certain amount of manipulation and exaggeration from the queens. This isn't a competition in verisimilitude. But where Ginger went wrong is when she kept trying to drum up sympathy for herself because of her supposed failings. If she had showed up, never said she didn't know how to sew/dance, we might have…

Don't get me wrong, I really liked Violet's performance. Hers was by far the best. She is clearly a "future of drag" type winner a la Raja, which is awesome, because the last thing the show needs is to keep producing more pageant queens.

Well, no I suppose I didn't need to see her do that exact thing for longer, but it felt truncated in comparison to what the other queens got to perform. Do I think she'd have done better with more time and more incredibly lame song? Not really. But I do think she deserved as much time as everybody else.

Whenever they pair two male dancers up and make them dance-fight it always ends up seeming a lot more sexual than if they just let them be playing boyfriends or lovers. It's something about the obvious sublimation of having a gay choreographer create a piece about a "friend" that he fell out with. It can't help but be…

The whole Katya thing was just Ru fucking with us. Drumming up a little last minute excitement, even if it ended up being nothing. And kind of a tacit acknowledgement of those among us who think Katya should have been top three, or even the winner. I thought it was a lot of fun as it played out, but it seems really…

I've never seen the show, but I'm getting the sense that it basically follows the same template as Sex and the City: start as one thing, gradually turn into the exact thing it once critiqued, then be turned into a bloated self-congratulatory movie.

It just felt like Ginger and Violet got songs that were tailor-made to let them show off, and Pearl got a song that went "sleep sleep sleep sleepy sleep sleep I'm sleepy zzzzz", with music that wasn't particularly energetic. If Ru wanted to give them each a final challenge, give them each something that made them…

I think Ru probably felt like she had another Adore edit on her hands with Pearl, someone who was going to struggle and then persevere, and she probably had a sense that Pearl would be popular for reasons of super hotness, so Pearl basically took Katya's slot in the finale.

I mean, they come up with some memorable songs together. Usually the big single from whatever new album Ru is pushing will get stuck in my head and isn't altogether unpleasant (I guess I would pick 'Champion' as the "best") (No, wait, I just listened to it, and no.) Where Lucien really falls flat are the gimmicky…

I assume Lucien Piane is considered a prolific songwriter because, as far as he's concerned, any random thing can be considered a song.

Well, I'm happy enough that Violet won. She had a nice arc, really seemed to know how to play the game, had amazing looks, and she performed the most consistently. But what makes for a justified win often makes for a boring result. There was no crackle to anything, really, no tension and, as noted, the most…

I'm assuming the songs were brewed up in the Lucien Piane song lab and that the queens had no creative hand in the songs. I mean, Pearl's song did suit her lipsync style, but it also seemed about a minute shorter than both the other songs.

I gave up any hope of Pearl winning long ago, but those final lip-syncs were basically rigged for Pearl to crater. No, she's not the energetic performer that Ginger is, or have the confidence that Violet has, but when you assign one queen an uptempo, gospel infused number with a lot of personality, and another a…

Nigel maybe has a point, as regressive and honestly toxic as it might be, about blatantly effeminate dancers appealing to "middle America" and the straight women and grandmothers who are ostensibly the show's audience. Is it possible that Courtney Barnes making it to Vegas made some people turn off their TVs in…

He's ok with gay dancers, as long as they're 100% butch and never belie their attraction to other men.

I mean, the auditions are always kind of ridiculous. Some dancers get long segments and some get next to nothing, so it's really impossible to get a sense of how anyone stacks up. The judges' critiques have always swung between the poles of surprisingly cogent and complete bullshit, with a lot of weird homophobia and…

I'm not saying they're going to be buddies now. I'm just saying that Sansa needs all the help she can get in her current situation, and Theon being proved as being even 1% less evil than she thought is a step in right direction.

Nope, not that I can recall, but there's still time to develop the idea. I mean, it's only important if they decide to follow through with that cliffhanger. Which, admittedly, they do seem to be setting up. Plus Melisandre seems to be souring a bit on Stannis, and vice versa.

It's probably Mother as in Mhysa. But my expectations are getting raised! Probably only to be dashed! But it's exciting all the same.