Drag Race S12: Rank the Top 8.

[Generic Account]

Your Top 8 as of today's episode:

Brita
Crystal Method
Gigi Goode
Heidi N Closet
Jackie Cox
Jaida Essence Hall
Jan
Widow Von'Du

My rank by personal preference:
1. Jackie Cox - I think? She's slowly proving herself to be a bit less clinical and cynical than Cracker, she's funny and witty and good looking and made a House Wives character not annoying.
2. Heidi N Closet - I want her to really excel at something but she's so endearing.
3. Crystal Method - I want her to really excel at something but she's so endearing.
4. Widow Von'Du - Interesting looks, great performer, lip sync in E1 was amazing.
5. Gigi Goode - Great looks, great performer, more likeable than Violet and Aquaria.
6. Jaida Essence Hall - Beautiful, interesting, just a bit wooden on the acting and improv challenges.
7. Brita - She isn't helping herself but I feel bad for the edit they're giving her. I think she has a lot of presence, is funny and has delivered two strong lip syncs. And her looks are hit or miss, but her hits are hits.
8. Jan - Hasn't really done anything to stand out yet but nice and will do well in the Madonna musical surely.

I like them all at this point really.

How I think they'll do, with no knowledge of spoilers:
1. Gigi Goode
2. Widow Von'Du
3. Jaida Essence Hall
4. Jackie Cox
5. Heidi N Closet
6. Brita
7. Jan
8. Crystal Method

 

[ameraal]

like

gigi

sherry pie
(rock m)
jackie
(nicky)

kinda

crystal
heidi
dahlia

meh

widow
jaida
jan
(aiden) (i do quite like the makeup it has to be said)

actively dislike

brita

i quite like a bunch of them as people but not as drag queens (particularly heidi and jan).

 

[RS]

01. Gigi
02. Heidi (for being the most likable)

03. Sherry
04. Jaeda
——————- Crystal
05. Widow
06. Jackie

07. Jan
08. Brita

oh wait I forgot Crystal... so it’s a Top NINE.

 

[AlgoAlex]

1.Jackie Cox
2. Heidi N Closet
3. Gigi Goode
4. Jan
5. Jaida Essence Hall
6. Crystal Method
7. Widow Von'Du
8. Brita

 

[Christian]

1. Gigi Goode - Legs and shoulders above the rest
2. Jaida Essence Hall - Old school but so well done
3. Jackie Cox - Poor man's Gigi
4. Heidi N Closet - sweetheart but not enough SPUNK
5. Jan - Sweet and average
6. Crystal Method - it feels a little CRAFTY
7. Brita – spiteful old bitch but the drag occasionally pops
8. Widow Von'Du - just absolutely zilch of interest

 

[Will]

1. Heidi N Closet
I really hope they keep her around for much longer than she'll inevitably give them reason to.

2. Jackie Cox
This year's BenDeLaCreme. Albeit season 6 as opposed to All Stars 3. Still a good way to finish the competition though.

3. Jaida Essence Hall
The most polished and professional of the bunch - she just needs her Akeria-can-do-comedy moment to propel her into the actual top three.

4. Jan
After this week's Untucked, I'm hoping the judges keep her safe for another couple of weeks, so that her desparation to be validated with praise causes a meltdown. Sorry.

5. Crystal Method
Clearly out of her depth in everything but the runways, but mega adorable with it.

6. Gigi Goode
Obviously the best all-rounder at this point, but low on my personal ranking because she's just not very likeable.

7. Widow Von'Du
There's a lot of simmering bitterness there that's on the verge of spilling over. She should be grateful Brita's there to pull the villain focus away from her.

8. Brita
Rotten to the core.

 

[Will]

Although my top three of the series all in all have been Aiden, Nicky and Rock, so what do I know.

 

[straightorbroken]

Gigi Goode - she does look a little anorexic and vulnerable, but her reference points are proof of the fun she has doing what she does. After Snatch, she's successfully dodged being a Sasha drone 2.0. I think I liked her Coco Peru wig the best.

Heidi N Closet - highly favoured and favourited, just not highly original. Her personality is winning, but at drag she's at a loss. And yet she's my 2nd favourite.

Jan - I root for this basic bitch even if it looks like the poor thing has struggled to reach her potential again in the new Madge challenge. She's a little wholesale.

Jackie - a little vanilla, but she's a constant and thankfully has the sense not to get on the slippy self-doubt slope edit that contestants can't get back from on this show.

Widow - some awesome flashes, but she's frequently on the vile side and that bull in a china shop lip sync really put me off her. Still, she's made some incredible silhouettes with her body and no other big girl has managed it with the same aplomb before, and with acting she could harness what she has and been a proper threat.

Jaida - the smugness provides the same unwanted talking head tone as Trinity, but I'm a fan of her runways when she delivers.

Crystal Method - she's like the cute puppy with only 3 legs (and in her case, 3 cuts of fabric).

Brita - rotten. Only the flash of a hairy muscled chest could convince me back.

 

[lolly]

Gigi
Jackie
Heidi
Widow
Jan
Jaida
Crystal
Brita

 

[VoR]

1. Heidi N Closet - Not the most polished by any means, but the funniest, most natural and the clear heart and soul of the season

2. Jan - I don't really understand the Moopy hate at all, but then I loved Bendelacreme a lot more than most here and I get similar energy (though she's obviously not at that level)

3. Gigi Goode - The clear frontrunner and deservedly so, but she's not giving me much as a personality. The robot act was inspired but also kind of apt I feel.

4. The Widow Von Du - A grumpy old cow but a great performer with an interesting, if very hit and miss, visual aesthetic

5. Jaida Essence Hall - Stunningly beautiful but that's about it so far

6. Jackie Cox - seems nice enough but MEH.

7. Brita - The delusion/desperation makes her easily one of the more entertaining queens despite the complete lack of likability or talent. I hope she stays until close to the end.

8. Crystal - Utter filler.

 

[lolly]

I think Brita will be gone pretty soon. She's going to need a fair wind to avoid the bottom two, because talent is unlikely to keep her out of it based on what we've seen, and I don't see her as earning the title of lipsync assassin by surviving three of them.

I think she could possibly only survive a lipsync against Heidi (because she's already been bottom two), or probably Crystal Methyd, just because she's the one who feels most expendable.

 

[VoR]

If she can't redeem herself in a Madonna challenge she's on a hiding to nothing. Beyond that, it's hard to think what she'd excel in that she hasn't already failed at. God forbid they do another roast.

 

[VoR]

Just noticed Sherry is missing from most rankings, mine included.

A YouTube recap I watch (Moviebitches) made the good point this week that the invisible queen edit also creates a weird imbalance in that you don't get a sense of how the other queens feel about her. At this point, all things being equal she'd be the clear frontrunner, not GiGi. Are the other queens threatened by her? Who are her allies? Is she being as cunty to perceived 'lesser' queens as Brita is? We JUST DON'T KNOW.

 

[K.C.]

1. Gigi Goode - Pretty much better at everything than everyone else. I love that her drag seems to be the product of legitimate hard work and creativity, not just "love yourself" and "let yourself shine" nonsense.

2. Jan - Love her positivity and drive. I like that she's experimental and I think she's a really solid competitor.

3. Jackie Cox - I'm finding her kinda overrated but she's definitely got chops. She also gives some of the best confessionals.

4. Heidi N Closet - Her personality was MADE for drag. But the creativity is lacking.

5. Jaida Essence Hall - Her confidence seems to fill in a lot of the gaps, but ultimately she's more or less a clothes horse for me.

6. Crystal Method - Likeable but rubbish.

7. Widow Von'Du - Mediocre and annoying.

8. Brita - Unlikable AND rubbish.