It seems like that's a problem every LGBT-centered representation on TV has had to contend with, right?

I suppose I'll offer the counter-argument, even though I've made very similar arguments in the past.

For years, our lil' city's gay bars were kinda notorious for holding nothing back when it comes to the severity of their pours. I mean - hard-drinking lesbians are not an easy crowd to appease.

I'm pretty proud of our lil' RPDR community here at The AV Club. Disagreements are par for the course, but the overwhelming bulk of it remains reasonably civil and thoughtful, with just the right amount of T and shade.

If we're still talking about Valentina - her Club Kid outfit she got eliminated seemed to be very sourced from matador traje de luces; the montero most notably.

In fairness, the popularity contest dimension of RPDR has not been an unknown dimension of how we approach this show, the queens, this competition - or even pop culture at large.

The point I'm trying to make is that it's not simple; you're absolutely right.

No small part of what makes affective disorders so complicated to contend with is their ability to color a sufferer's entire view of the world. At this point, I think it clear to everyone that some order of mental illness is certainly part of Nina's makeup and character. As ingrained as that disorder is to who she is,…

Awww, you're too kind, hon.

Get a room, you two.

At the risk of going HAM on some racialism - it's not full telenovela-grade drama until the most irrational choices are the things engendering the most impassioned responses.

I feel like this is pretty much the most accurate description of the evidence we've been presented.

I'm wondering if there's precedent for a Top Three (as long as we don't know the winner by the time of the reunion, so the first three seasons don't count, unfortch) being even eligible? With Pepp being essentially part of the finale grouping, the Top Four this season may have been the lynchpin in that.

I'll always prefer to remember Alaska for packing a fake prosthetic leg to throw at the AS2 reunion.

I've been wondering for a bit - Valentina's edit during the season was so goddamn saintly, it's possible to imagine that it was even more crystalline and angelic than even she was shooting for or expecting. It's the kind of thing that editors might hearken to, which makes her elimination that much more dramatic.

One gets the sense that queens, even as they progress through being very established, and communitarian - are more than willing to offer workshop critiques of each others aesthetics. Raja and Raven's 'Fashion Photo Ruview' series is predicated on that premise.

I mean - I don't think either is fundamentally incongruous with what we've seen from Shea. For the general supportive sisterliness we've seen Shea direct towards Nina, Sasha, Alexis among other queens - we've also seen her draw stark boundaries with Nina's neediness; with Sasha approaching choreography…

One fears that the relatively sedate 'Pageant Nice' affect of so many queens this season might signal that the social media post-Race has come to override so much of what we appreciate about the show. It seems like in his moderation of this Reunion - Ru recognizes it as a factor, but also recognizes that he's not…

There's definitely a smart incisiveness to Aja, that the Linda Evangelista remix seems super prescient for. There's a fantastic amount to unpack there, not just about these queens, but also the lens and artifice of reality television and this show in particular, about celebrity and the nature of drag.

I mean - so much of this show really comes down to taste and preference in a subjective way that so many of us are willing to just - sort of settle to agree to disagree. What I do try and approach in a slightly more objective manner, winds up feeling like Captain Obvious sometimes - in a way that Oliver dissects…