so heartwarming that the president of the US has always his mind on the real and serious problems of the country

I think this lipsynch battle was (yet another) stroke of genius from Ru's side to revive a lukewarm season.

Frankly, I think winning is a bonus at this point. Queens want to be in the show because of the visibility and, if they go forward enough and don't misbehave too much, they can have a huge boost at their careers regardless of how they end up. Winning is the cherry on top but not the most important thing.

Adore wouldn't have deserved to win her season. She was surely the breakthrough of the season but far from the crown.

A prop in itself doesn't do you anything good, like when queens do splits randomly during a lipsynch for their life. Another completely different story is to use a prop to -enhance- your performance, which means that must be used intelligently at key moments of the song to convey a specific meaning.
This was the case…

In my view a drag superstar should be exactly that: someone going beyond the standard exercise associated with drag queen which is the lip synch.
It is a nice throwback to the tradition in the lipsynch for their life of the bottom 2, but to crown a winner? hmmm

did Valentina really co-opt the rose as symbol of her fans? *roll eyes*

frankly, what counts is the crown… Besides, she was never in the B2 and many times in the top 3, so globally she shone through the whole competition. I don't think her lack of individual wins can be used against her final result.

you could hear it though, there was a boom when she entered

I much prefer Trinity to Peppermint but oh how she lost that lipsynch.

I'm not convinced that a lip-synch battle is the way I want to see ALL the queens from now on being crowned. A lip synch focuses on very specific talents and not all-encompassing like a next drag superstar should have. I'm afraid it would get unbalanced.

I don't know… I can see how social media enhanced the situation, but something must have simmered during the competition.
Maybe the edit wanted to make us like Valentina so that her shock elimination would have shocked more?

agreed

with the difference that Willam is much more upfront in her behaviour (and I think she actually plays with that)

I hardly believe that some of the issues that came out in the reunion didn't come out in the episodes too, which makes me even angrier by the editing that the season got. If Valentina got Miss Congeniality is also in large part the show's responsibility.
People vote according to what is presented to them.

eheh

I agree that's a very irritating posture - a very American one I might add.

I'm less ruffled than the reviewer about a Native American look or about the lipsynch on a man voice (Macho Man is such an iconic gay song that it doesn't really matter who sings it, at the end of the day), so for me the episode was definitely better than a B-.

I saw untucked, they really didnt tell her to shut up, they just rolled their eyes in exasperation after Nina started yet again about not wanting to lipsynch. Actually, the conversation that followed went relatively well.

First of all, this was a great episode! Probably the most delightful of all. Last week had the shock value, but let's face it, the challenge was not that great, and without the Valentina fumble it would have been quite the mediocre episode. This one had a fun challenge, good editing, great secondary characters in the…