I’m glad you brought up the track record. Not that the LSFTC format—which I’m tired of—ever meant it matters at this point, but they really could have set Yvie up better than only one win (and a co-win, at that) with the last episode. It’s not like she murdered the lip synchs like Sasha in S9, and even then it caused…

I actually preferred the movie montages compared to the longer on-stage interviews, which were always awkward. I thought it allowed the queens to have more fun rather than a bunch of “I’m just going to leave it all on the stage Ru”-like answers. 

“Sometimes that works out (hey, Inside Out, Coco, and the first 10 minutes of Up), and sometimes it definitively doesn’t (hey The Good Dinosaur, and the other 86 minutes of Up).”

I don’t think that’s entirely true. There are plenty of claims online of people losing their entire bank after their subscription lapsed. You apparently have a set period of time to renew or withdraw, but past that time they can be deleted. TPC has never given details on how long for whatever reason.

No he wasn’t. For both Obergefell (and Windsor, for that matter) it was Anthony Kennedy.

I think my least favorite are all the people who got caught up in being #TeamSomeone and apparently invested all their enjoyment of the show into what they want for their favorite character(s). Like you, I can’t say if GoT is the first fandom this has happened to, but I know I don’t like it.

I don’t think *nearly* as many people care how Walking Dead ends. The last season of GoT has pulled in around twice as many viewers over their respective final two seasons or so...

It seems like there was a decent enough time jump between Jon killing Dany and Brans election to king that winter decidedly ended. Not only was it sunny with no snow in Kings Landing, but they hinted at it more with grass growing even on the other side of the Wall.

Wasn’t there a discussion in an earlier untucked episode about that? And then Raja turned it into “actually skinny girls are discriminated”? I might be misremembering how that went. 

Seasons 6-8 had a top 4 music video and then cut the bottom person (after everyone “lip synched” to a Ru song) and the top 3 declared safe.

I would argue that there just wasn’t any need for a lip synch other than to milk the Branjie storyline. Previous top 3/4 cuts have been done just based on Ru’s whim, and Vanjie clearly had the worst overall track record and consistently negative critiques this week.

I’ve been sleeping on Yvie with her recent flops, but this was a great time for her to come through again. She should have been given a win this week to even them up heading into the finale.

I can only speak for my experience doing public union work in a southern “right to work” swing state. And in a part of the state that’s somewhat representative of the Obama-Trump mindset, these are local reps that have been voting for Republicans at the state or federal congressional level before Trump became a thing.

Just like we’re seeing education as a major driver of partisan leaning (at least for white people), I’d hazard to guess it’s the same for large unions. Anecdotally, I know that more “blue collar” trade union reps tend to be the ones pushing for regional/state bodies to endorse Republicans in primaries. Sometimes…

“You braggy breeders” made me spit out my drink because it is not a line I would ever expect on prime time TV 

Silky was my preseason fave too, but what she’s presenting is not nearly as pageant refined as she acts. I thought maybe after last week she finally understood the point of the critiques, until then she was acting brand new when Ru questioned what she planned to do with her padding...

For me it’s that despite knowing it’s a reality show, I totally tune out whenever they clearly manufacture drama out of thin air. The whole wig thing was stupid the first time it came up and all it did tonight was snowball into another Yvie vs Silky shouting match. By that point I couldn’t care less who was initially…

I’ve become a big Nina fan (and Silky has been “meh” at best despite her being my preseason fave), but to be fair, Ru did show Nina a bit of favoritism week one...unless that was just production talking in her ear. It’s not an unpopular opinion to say Silky’s big personality has helped justify production keeping her…

But there’s five of them left? If it’s another Top4 LSFTC then next week would be the last competitive episode.

That lip syncs was...YIKES. TLC done dirty.