Just watched the episode.
It was an alright musical. I preferred the Pharmarusical and the Bitch Perfect ones but this is a solid third (including the Allstars ones... did AS4 have one? AS2 had the horrific Princess Diana thing, AS3 had the horrific "Thorgy is bottom-two despite doing a solid Stevie Nicks" thing).
Crystal surprised me, I assumed she'd be in the bottom two. Gigi and Jan were the correct top two but I still, for the life of me, can't understand that win... I mean the runway was a STRETCH as it was but to go for an animated video look that a grand total of 1400 people may have watched at one time? It was just... so
blah.
It saddens me that Jan is being pigeon-holed into an Alexis Michelle edit (that "next time" segment at the end of this episode when they try to make fun of her for crying over not winning when it was pretty abundantly clear it was because Brita was her closest friend
) but thankfully the fans are seeing through it and calling her a robbed queen. I don't think she's been KILLING it the whole season, she's often been forgettable... but she's deserved a good track record (on par with, say, Jaida's or Jackie's).
The challenge was hard to judge... I can't help but feel that Gigi got a lot of favourable choreography (I mean she had like 5 lifts when everyone else just had to repeat the same 8 steps). Brita being sent home for the wrong earring is a scream to me
she got a pretty good exit, with everyone being sad for her and a heartfelt farewell. She wasn't really that awful, bless her.
And the runway... I've said it before... since Kimonogate, it seems quite obvious that production have interfered when it comes to these "replicate looks of a celebrity" runways. I'm sure some S9 queens mentioned having to tell in advance which Lady Gaga looks they'd prepare for the premiere. So every time these runways pop up I (yes I overthink these things) just... fear that production bias will just meddle and say "yes Heidi... use that random ****ing poncho look that isn't at all flattering
"
I suppose I shouldn't get too pessimistic about the outcome of the season when it's possible for a Valentinesque lipsync to happen... and with the absence of a live finale there's no real knowing who would win a lipsync vs. who... will someone even be crowned, etc. But with Sherry disqualified I just don't have a queen who's won enough challenges to support
But then Yvie won the season with
one challenge win vs. Brooke's 3, and that was shared with Scarlet Envy, so... (yes she won the music video challenge if that counted but shut up)...