I knew EXACTLY what was going to happen since like episode 2 and I'm still gagged to death! I'm sad that my favourite and the best contestant this series has gone but to leave in such an iconic way is soo worth it - and she got another 10 grand out of it

The other queens reactions really pissed me off though? Like making out she's an awful person for giving other people a chance to get their dream because she knows they want it more than her? Thorgy and Aja are clearly just bitter they didn't pick her and she's walking away with 25k more than they are

I should really think through my thoughts before posting like 6 posts after each episode but whatever

As amazing as this episode was, the formatting made no sense? Top 5 queens you win - as a result one of you will go home and someone from the loosing team will get to come back to the competition?
Also Bebe clearly won that lipsync and they all know it but knew what DeLa had done and needed her to win for all the dramz - like imagine if they let Bebe win, she sent someone home and then in the workroom DeLa was like "oh yeah I actually wanted to leave X"

Sad that the leak was right about Morgan though, I like her but Aja deserved to come back :sad:

Dela :love: I've never really been that keen on her but she won me over in this episode

Still sturggling to understand the logic behind Dela's motive for leaving. If it was because Morgan complained about her reasoning for sending her home then she needs to toughen up tbh, everyone got dragged not just her. Shame as she would've been probably the most deserving winner of Drag Race ever.

I think BeBe clearly won that lip sync but the wig removal DQ'd her because Ru hates it when queens do that. A good example of Bebe being old school and reverting to old tricks that used to work once upon a time ago but the show is a whole new ball game now. Plus I agree it was rigged for Dela to win as it would've made for hard continuity if she'd stayed and revealed her lipstick had been changed or whatever.

Lowkey thought the eliminated queens did better than the remaining ones? And if Chi Chi wasn't so defeatist on herself she could've easily won the challenge, I thought her and Aja were the top two from the group and that would've been a KILLER lip-sync too </3 Morgan returning doesn't inspire me as I don't really feel any type of way towards her.

Feel like a Trixie/Shangela/BeBe top 3 is almost guaranteed now. Hoping for a Shangela or BeBe win (Bebe being the Sandra Diaz-Twine of Drag Race would be so iconic <333)

Both teams done well but I defintley agree the elimianted queens done better - I'm assuming that DeLa told producers before the challange thay she wanted to leave and they were like HERES HOW WE CAN MAKE GREAT TV OUT OF THIS (but I usually am far too cynical about the show and believe that no drama or gags can happen naturally)

BeBe will have seen Ben scribbling on the lipstick and tipexing and stuff so she must've known something was up :joker:

in the new Whatcha packin Ben said that she initially declined the offer to be on All Stars 3, and I'm pretty sure she also declined AS2 - so I really do think the whole "the other queens want it more" thing was genuine. She seemed to just want to prove to herself she was a good competitor and she did that so why take it away from someone else when you've achieved that goal.

I'd like to think she had a good episode last night even though I'm 100% sure the next week will be spent enduring "SHE SHOULD'VE GONE HOME :mad:" rants from the same people who think Trixie deserved to survive that Snatch Game :idc: Her composure in explaining to Milk really surprised me, I thought she'd just revert to 'Grumpy Old Man' and tell him to get over it or whatever. I liked all of the resolutions but I think they ate too much into the episode - and as a result Chi Chi and Thorgy, AGAIN, get an invisible edit :(

I do feel bad for Aja but at the same time: she's emerged from AS3 a winner. She's won over a hell of a lot of people, and she'd only JUST gone home, so it made sense for her not to return. She 100% has the best "Rudemption", so throwing her back in just to inevitably fizzle against Trixie/Bebe/Shangela seems unkind.

For the girl group challenges... ok let's just put this out there: the eliminated girls' performance was 100% better, no? Shangela, Kennedy and Bebe all just left me with an impression of "meh" whilst from the losers, only Chi Chi really had a forgettable verse and even she got big laughs for her dick jokes. Thorgy had a good shtick but underplayed it, Morgan was a perfect airhead, Aja killed it, and I even enjoyed Milk! She would've even been a contender for Top 2 to lipsync had their team won. The right two would've been Aja/Morgan though.

Bebe's hold over the judges continues to annoy me and I really wanted to stan her going into this season (bc I read the spoilers; knew she was the 10th queen lol). I've been rewatching S1 and she underwhelms in that, too, tbh, so I don't really think she's being kept for any reason other than "Ru didn't make a mistake crowning her, no ma'am, so she's going far". I mean really, winning for RAKATIKIKITATATA? In that case, Naysha Lopez won the RuCo's Empire episode.

I'm super-conflicted about the outcome of the episode really. Not Morgan, I'm super-glad she's back although I wish it had happened sooner because she really doesn't stand a chance now it's Top 5 (just do it after 3 episodes or something :oh:)... but Dela lipsticking herself.

On the one hand I appreciate it as a genius power-play that sees her emerge as the most successful queen on the show of all time, and sympathise that it would've been near-impossible to eliminate Shangela, Trixie or Kennedy (and I'm grateful there because I know Bebe would've chosen Kennedy). She 100% deserved to win the season and in a way, does, because she's now untouchable.

On the other... well there's lots of other hands:

1) It's going to cheapen the win of whoever does win, and whilst in the case of Trixie or Bebe winning I wouldn't mind that because both are overrated af, it's really not fair on them or the other girls.
2) It was a bit of a slap in the face to the eliminated queens - especially the ones she sent home - that she just willingly gave up on the race. I know there wasn't room for another return (or more) but I'd still be pissed off in their shoes.
3) If you read into it a lot you can really deconstruct it from the major WTF moment it was on camera. They filmed her using the Tippex whiteout, so knew what she'd done. Are we supposed to believe no cameraman, runner, producer, told RuPaul? Are we supposed to believe Bebe just stood there watching her use it, thinking "Oh they must have misspelt Kennedy, how kind of her to correct the lipstick!"? But hey, I'll just take it as a big surprise anyway :laugh:
4) It felt like a cop-out. The pressure of sending a big fan-favourite home (or Kennedy :( ) was clearly too much and it just felt like a way of buckling under the pressure of the fans. This way she gets to emerge as the saint, the self-sacrificing hero, and a whole host of booking opportunities, not to mention the inevitable "she's the real winner, not [Trixie/Bebe/Shang/Morgan/Kennedy]"s.

I know Thorgy's been given the biggest bitter edit of all time but a part of me agreed with her at the end of the episode. There is a hint of desperate congeniality about the whole thing. And the producers are just going to continually discredit Thorgy because she's called them out on the Rigga Morris of the Divas challenge (which is, let's face it, indisputable), so Dela wins there too :laugh:

It's all just a bit frustrating. But also gagging.