Shaun |
13-04-2019 05:37 AM |
:worship: that Untucked
YET AGAIN Yvie was the one that instigated everything and then got to play victim and it's working, playing right into the teenage fandom and their "omg she's so different!!!!" buzz.
1) The Silky thing was almost 50/50 but if you watch Untucked, Silky is making childish comments / predicting Yvie will be in the bottom 3. Yvie then decides to bring it up, of her own accord, the second they get backstage and reveal who the tops and bottoms are ("I have to get something off my chest", etc etc etc) and makes it completely confrontational. Again.
2) Silky did come across as an asshole though, making the same verbal contracts again about wanting to be in the B2 with Yvie to send her home, saying America will love her :skull:
3) HOWEVER, Yvie was 100% in the wrong with the Vanjie argument. Vanjie offers an olive branch and tries to quash their "who said who should go home" nonsense, and admits that her reasoning was silly and she had no reason to say anyone, but Yvie completely goes off the handle and starts calling her a fake friend, saying she doesn't care, yadayadayada. I absolutely got my life the second Vanjie exploded at her, and I hope Yvie shat herself a bit.
4) Ra'Jah's accusations about Plastique lying about her family are uncomfortable but I'm not going to jump in and immediately say she's wrong, because the impression from the workroom interaction with RuPaul was incredibly along the lines of "I am all alone, I have no family :( help me mother Ru :(" and the message from home did indeed contradict that somewhat. I fully appreciate Ra'Jah took it too far and was out of line, but it got me thinking...
5) The episode itself was a HUGELY-EDITED mess in favour of Plastique. I refuse to believe that getting in Alyssa when they knew she was Plastique's drag-mom was a coincidence, especially since she was only drafted in to "teach them how to walk". Runways are something Alyssa...isn't really that famous for on Drag Race. (Attach clip: Santino calling her dress the ugliest of all time). And most telling of all, that workroom moment was an absolute goldmine for RuPaul, Michelle, and their whole spiritual mambo-jambo "we must make these girls worship our line of thought and make them go on our journey!" It's also prime Emmy-nomination fodder, and makes the show/Ru look saintlike and is lucrative emotional-capital, this whole "queen breaks down, exposes her vulnerability, wins the challenge!!! woww!!!!!! turnaround moment!!!!"
Anyway that's my long-ass overanalysing of some drama and I'm still gonna appreciate itf for what it was. My opinion lowered of Silky a bit, but I still think they're really delivering good TV now and I'm enjoying it a lot. Ra'Jah was a great queen for the show, and obviously this is all super-edited, extremely stressful for all of them, a competition, and silly, and they're all 3D, real people deserving of respect :clap2:
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