RuPaul's Drag Race: Season 7

dUb said:
I mean IT'S A THOUGHT ISN'T IT

Anyone else weirdly into the bit where Ru mouths "You don't" and shakes her bangles?
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Oh yes indeed. TO BOTH :disco:

It does feel a little weird to see that all the recording of the next season has clearly been and gone but I suppose this is business as usual. How on earth to avoid spoilers? I'll just have to NEVER go online again
 
Over on REDDIT, they're counting up the number of outfits queens are seen in in order to take a stab at an elimination order. I mean why would you BOTHER.

Kennedy Davenport, who's only glimpsed once I think
 
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Yeah I think it was filmed ages ago. They're doing launch parties for the season which means the first episode or two will leak before the actual date.
 
it was filmed last june/july i think? weird to think the final three has already been decided for months/a year ahead.

also i don't get those reddit folk, it's that level of hardcore fanship where it moves on from just enjoying/loving the show to needing to know every little detail you can and in the process totally ruining the show. their conspiracy theories and overthinking is quite something to behold midway through each season.
 
Stop giving fucking spoilers please! They show up automatically on Tapatalk and Forum Runner! :angry:
 
Kalabaliken said:
Stop giving fucking spoilers please! They show up automatically on Tapatalk and Forum Runner! :angry:
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Hi Kala,

I suggest you browse the forums another way

In the meantime I will continue to post spoilers using the appropriate tags
 
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"I really could die, I'm giving you realness bitch" :disco:
"I'm sorry, I just want this so bad" :D
 
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Inspired by a mention in another thread about another artist, I decided to watch
Kylie Minogue's 'I Was Gonna Cancel'
video and according to an interview with Ru, it will feature as a Lipsynch For Your Life later this season :zombie:

Seriously? From *that* back catalogue you choose *that* song to showcase?
 
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I'm sure they can't afford the actual hits.

Untucked is now on iTunes it seems, not sure how long after they're on YouTube for but it's there.
 
Good article about S7 that a few of the queens have been sharing.

https://us.beamly.com/tv-news/2015/..._content=a:w:f58dea7f4afdea4595c0f9fa2b373eb7

Maybe the Queens Aren’t the Problem with ‘Drag Race’

Last night’s installment of Snatch Game on RuPaul’s Drag Race started with a video message from the one queen who best exemplified the spirit of the Snatch: Bianca Del Rio. Talking to the queens before RuPaul’s introduction of the challenge, Bianca said pointedly, “I’ve got one tip for you. You’re a Drag Queen. BE FUNNY.” Somebody’s been bitching backstage…

Which brings us to the biggest critique of this season so far: These queens ain’t funny. They’ve been botching lines in acting challenges, missing jokes on the runway, and just generally struggling to give us the tongue-in-cheek camp we’ve come to love from the show. It’s been a lackluster season so far, and no reintroduction of an eliminated queen can make up for that.

But can we really blame the queens? Sure, there are no lovable underdogs like Adore Delano this season. And there are no unintentional characters like Alyssa Edwards, or joyfully clueless foreigners like Yara Sofia. But these queens don’t suck, guys. Ginger is a pro, Katya is a one-liner factory, and Kennedy is unexpectedly hilarious. Her quip about Max’s “dusty ass, gray ass wigs” comes to mind.

And Snatch Game was, miraculously, not a total train wreck. Adele, Little Richard, and Suze Ormand were all expectedly great, and Pearl’s Big Ang was a welcome surprise. “I had a rough childhood, okay? I wasn’t watching fucking Batman & Robin.” Ru: “What’s your bra size?” Big Ang: “It’s a medical mystery.” OKAY, PEARL! I SEE YOU, PEARL!

Even Violet Chachki pulled off a hat trick, not realizing that she had a spot-on perfect Alyssa Edwards impression sitting in her back pocket. She wasn’t especially clever or quick, but credit where it’s due: she had the manic ticks of Alyssa down pat.

Yes, there were a few clunkers in the bunch. Miss Fame, bless her heart, was never gonna pull a clever line or creative take on Donatella out of that chicken head of hers, Raven Symone was one good idea stretched thin and beaten into the ground, and Max’s Sharon Needles was honestly just terrible and completely off the mark. It was Beetlejuice meets Leave it to Beaver, and Max deserved to go home for it.

But there are always three or four clunkers in the gang, so when you think about it, this was a pretty good, or at least perfectly average showing for Snatch Game. SO WHAT THE HELL IS THE PROBLEM WITH THIS SEASON?? Allow me to float a theory:

The producers of Drag Race, along with the editors, are trying to recreate the glory of past seasons. In the course of doing that, they completely missing the different crop of queens they have in front of them. They’re trying to shoe-horn these queens into performance challenges, haunted by Shade: The Rusical, but there are no Courtneys or Adores to make that material sing.

They’re trying to muster up drama from constant team challenges, but there’s no amazing history a la Coco and Alyssa to make that pay off. They’re trying to awkwardly feed one-liners to Ru and the other judges at every available opportunity, but they’re funnier when they come up with them on their own. I’ve listened to the podcast, okay?! I know Ru and Michelle are hilarious without a team of crap writers constantly referencing old catchphrases from their own show!

Essentially, they’re taking all the humanity out of the show in favor of quotable lines and over-the-top, hastag-able moments. It hit me when I was watching Katya break down about her insecurities to Miss Fame. That was a beautiful moment of connection, and one that finally showed Katya for who she really is, not just how she may or may not fit into the idea of a Drag Race Queen.

Why can’t we have more of that?

Maybe if the producers stopped trying to cram these girls into a formula they obviously assume is fool proof, and instead cut the show around what these specific queens are good at, we’d all have a much better time. I remember reading that Jasmine Masters brought along three suitcases full of food. WHY in God’s name would we not get to see that on the show?! Is it really more fun to see her being nasty and cutting than silly and genuine? Why can’t we have more challenges where the queens have to get creative, drawing on their own experience and skill, rather than reading cheesy script after cheesy script?

Kitty girls, Drag Race is an institution at this point. It was trending on Facebook last night, for God’s sake. But the show became a mainstream pop hit in the first place because it was a fun slice of life of a community many viewers had very little information about. Well, now we know what drag is about, and we love it, so keep showing us something new. If Ru and Crew really want to make this show last, they’re gonna have to stop “resting on pretty,” as Michelle would say.
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Oh yes...

Ru: “What’s your bra size?” Big Ang: “It’s a medical mystery.”

That was probably my favourite line.
 
Am I right in thinking in Untucked, the red drinks are alcoholic and the clear ones aren't? That seems to line up with the Sober girls in recent episodes.

However, I've just been re-watching the first two episodes on the train back to Leeds and both times Katya took the red drink. :eyes: (this is before her sobriety narrative kicked in).
 
Adore's reaction to Pearl here is pretty fun (2:15)

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Joslyn Fox's Hey Qween appearence at DragCon was surprisingly great. It made me wish she'd gotten a whole episode to herself.
 
This is fun

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Trixie and Katya are currently doing revisiting the show on their podcast. (Plus bitching about And Just Like That).
 
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