Cummon.

There's certainly a lot to unpack with the generational dimensions to this year's crop o' queens. The younger queens all through this season, have landed on the Team Look side of the divide it seems; but moreover, share a pretty common inability to brook even mild critique.

She'd been mentioning in the last couple of Untucked episodes a measure of insecurity over being just "safe". On one hand, there's something reassuring about coasting through the middle stretch. But it's also clear she was quite cognizant that she was falling behind in the win arithmetic, as the season's progressed.

The post-mortem on poor Valentina's departure seems like it's going to go on for awhile. The dismissal is emotional and heartfelt and complicated and confusing. It's clear she's built a generous fanbase, despite having only fleeting moments of 'vulnerability' bubble up through her polished, exquisite exterior.

I get you, I think. I may have been confusing you with the intermittent posts over the season that seem to actively hate on Sasha for a degree of cloistered pretension in her centrality to those workroom PSA moments. Hard to tell from your prior comment.

I was on the fence about placing my reply to you or at @distinguetraces:disqus.

I mean, that negotiation - "I want to do it" versus "I feel I need to do it" versus "I should do it" seem mostly meaningless.

1) As the statistical frontrunner, Shea is certainly in line for that. The difficulty comes up to how the last few challenges line up for her. There are two styling challenges that play into her strengths - makeover and the ball. There's still room for her to choke, but less likely. She could still beef one of the…

I'm probably on the sympathetic side towards Sasha - being an academic, and admittedly very prone to verbiose overwriting myself (can you tell?)

1) In some ways, it's reminiscent of the differences between the groups in this episode's challenges. Even with excellent improvisational talent (itself a learned skill), more and better preparation helps ensure a superior final product. Half the fun of UNHhhh is how effortlessly intimate Katya and Trixie look like…

I might argue the true equilibrium lies in between, but lies perhaps a little closer to @bradythomas:disqus.

Oh, easily. It's probably the season that established some of the character arc tropes that we still refer to through to this season.

It works both ways. There's no particular reason Pepper was more (or less) deserving of getting the v.o. part to herself, beyond just calling shotgun first.

I'm also getting the sense that even with Alexis making nice with Trinity and Peppermint in Untucked - the rest of the queens have more of a sense now of Alexis' competitiveness, but also that she's maybe getting a bit desperate, hungry, and messy.

I suppose I'm getting, like - 30% Ruby Rhod from it, maybe?

Being from Vegas, I imagine she thought the Love Shack was just another meth lab.

1) Oh, totally. She's done a pretty good job at presenting a grade of finish, polish, and confidence that seems to belie that there's some grade of insecurity hiding underneath there. I'd imagine if not for tonight's offing - she'd be top of the list for getting 'vulnerability' critiques going into the homestretch.

I'll admit, even if I agree to a nugget of truth to his point - I'm still very much in agreement that the overriding point should be that Colton Haynes has the freedom to come out on the terms that he, and he alone sets.

1) I totally see what you're saying - but I'm also concerned that there seems to be a particularly concerted lack of effort on the parts of Pete, their director, and Chris & Ron, their editors, to give structure and shape to the bits? Especially in comparison to early episodes, where the randomness at least had a…

Trinity's tennis match faces in the middle of the Shea-Nina throwdown in last week's Untucked were going around as an animated GIF, well in advance of WoW Presents posting it to YouTubbz. That's how you know who's the real essential viewing.