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Did anyone else notice that Tatiana's runway outfit was literally just a black version of Katya's entrance outfit? My first thought was 'Girl, this is All Stars. Don't wear a less distinctive copy of something another contestant has already worn'. Which also gels with Michelle's critique, that it is probably a fairly off the rack basic latex dress form(which she didn't even have modified to something more notable like Katya's soviet version).

I don't really get the idea this was a super bad snatch game. It wasn't one of the best, but season 2 and 3 had terrible Snatch Games(where in both cases the cast didn't entirely get the concept of impersonation, IMO). Season 4's was only saved by Willam, Sharon and Chad, the rest were some of the worst the show has had. Season 5's really only had Jinx, Alaska and Roxxy, Season 6 and 7 were anomalies in having a lot of people who clearly worked on their character and had a lot of back and forth between them.

I feel kind of bad for Thorgy that the point where she really loses the lip sync completely is when Chi Chi's pearls break and she stops to make sure Chi Chi is okay, they try to edit around it but you can see her fussing with Chi Chi just barely in frame and before she does the cartwheel it's clear she's collecting herself back to performance. So even if she did lose the lip sync, she's a great person who cared more about the other person on stage than winning.

While a good number of his models are hung, being porn stars, go go boys and nude models, Andrew Christian also sells a line of underwear padding.

Given that the makeover challenge is generally a make up first, everything else second challenge I think Robbie hit the bottom two because his make up has never really been good and when translated to another person, still not good. Usually the queen to go in this kind of challenge is either one with questionable make up skills(Joslyn, Jaidynn, Pandora) or who's make up looked /horrible/ on their companion(Coco, Carmen, Kenya).

I think everyone did. Chi Chi is in the weird place of not really having a hook, she's not a comedy queen, look queen, pageant queen, fishy queen or genderfuck queen. There is a definite feelin that she hasn't coalesced what her drag is yet. And most of those kinds of contestants aren't very strong and go early. But she's very smart and adaptable and it's kept her head above water so far. Though so far Acid Betty going so early was the only real shock for me, since Dax, Laila, Naysha, Cynthia and Robbie all hit me as people not long for the game.

I'd agree that the lip syncs haven't been great this season, but I wouldn't put them anywhere close to season 7(seriously, i'd put most of season 7's lip syncs around the same level with Dax and Laila).

I wouldn't say that is a bad idea for a queen with very limited budget but ability to hand create looks though. Making looks when you come on the show means you have access to a lot more material and tools than you otherwise have, all for free. It does mean your looks aren't going to be the most fabulous thing ever, but in this case if you can't afford a good cone bra or lingerie set making your own is going to be at least on par with the cheap stuff.

IIRC, they know all of the runway themes beforehand so they know what to bring to the show.

So looking at those..

The pictures they see don't include the queen's make up. The only reason they know about Bob's head drip is that they were informed about it.

Yeah it was a extremely tacky time to make that comment, even though I do think Trixie is one of the worst make up jobs on the show(I understand the transformation she is trying, it's just flat and powdery and doesn't work at all).

I have to say I don't really see why Alec would be attracted to Magnus. When Alex was telling him off for being very pushy in a very shitty way while fully aware of the difficult position Alec was in I was like 'Yeees! Tell him off!'. Magnus's pushiness and lack of boundaries would be understandable to some degree if they were in a relationship of some kind before everything started, but they're not even past the vaguely flirting stage and Alec hasn't even shown attraction to him.

While I think Chi Chi could have been more part of the team and tried to up lift it.. at the same time I think her deciding to distance herself from it is understandable. She's the most talented of her group, but they were looking to exclude her ideas because she doesn't have as expensive clothes as them which clearly means she doesn't know what she's talking about. But then if you're teamed with Derrick and Naysha the first thought has to be 'fuck, we're in the bottom', because really even if Chi Chi had worked together and turned her pussy all the way up there is no way she could have compensated for Derrick and Naysha. I imagine at best with Derrick's Britney we're going to get a Coco's Janet. That is a pitch perfect but completely uninteresting rendition of them as a pop star. At worst we could get a Alyssa Edwards as Katie Perry where all the references just bounce off without a bit of humor. But given how Derrick is almost robotic in his lack of effect, emotion or humor on the show so far, i'm not expecting him to be able to turn it out for Snatch Game.

While I think ChiChi can conceptualize looks well(her looks in the first two episodes and the Empire challenge were all perfectly fine), her last two runways were really bad on pure concept/craft staging, like how her bra in the roller skate runway was a good 3-4 inches too high. You can totally get away with re-wearing the same clothes and shoes and wigs week after week(just look at season 7), you just need to know how to conceptualize it well. Now how Derrick Berry gets away with clothing just as badly conceptualized but more expensive i'll just file under 'Rupaul wants this bitch to stay like Pearl and Fame'.

Well he is the first case of the show really having someone who is a celebrity impersonator as their entire career without being a drag queen outside of it on the show. He's probably the most mainstream contestant the show has ever had(which feels weird to say about a poly drag queen). And well... he's a pretty boy who is paid to be professionally pretty as a girl and IMO, has a lot of traits I find pretty typical in professionally pretty people.

My favorite lip syncs are probably Dida Ritz/The Princess because both were doing it so strong but Dida just absolutely killed it on every level, Dida Ritz/Latrice Royale, because that was just perfect in every way and Monica Beverlyhlls/Coco Montrese, because it's one of the stronger cases of both people playing to the song really well and knowing how to work it. Oh and special mention to Latrice Royale/Kenya for just how embarrassingly bad Kenya was dancing around Latrice while Latrice just stood in one spot and owned the entire stage.

I think it was just a bad attempt at that '70s giant layered mane. Doing that takes time and some real hair styling skill.. which I just don't think Robbie has so he ended up just hairspraying a bunch of ugly hair bumps into the wig instead of that properly layered look. The old Hollywood style side wave he tried to do in the premiere was at best a partial success as well. I can give him that he's not totally just wearing a wig out of the box without any styling, like Adore or Katya, but geesh he just doesn't know how to work 'em.

Now what really would have been hilarious is if Bianca and Acid Betty were there together, since reportedly they hate each other. I could easily see it descending into complete madness.

Definitely. It doesn't help that last season we had like five or six queens who specialized in old Hollywood glam as well and in the very first episode we got a straight up 'wearing the same clothes and hairstyle' comparison between the two. He needs to bring something fresher with it.

I'm pretty sure she was talking about the quality of the wig itself, not the style. And maybe it's just me, but i've noticed since the first episode that Robbie Turner has possible the worst collection of wigs the show has ever seen, they all look incredible dry and ready to fall apart. Plenty of queens have had really cheap ass wigs on the show, but Robbie is the first instance where every time there is a close up i'm just like 'Girl, you need to toss that wig and buy a 3$ Walmart wig'. From what I remember from interviews, the Queens are given a huge list of songs they have to make a lip sync to before the season even begins and they have no idea which it will be until the day of judging. So I think it's pretty likely that except for the times when the lip sync directly comes from the episode, like when it's a guest judge's song, that the songs are picked to highlight the contestants on the bottom.

Chi Chi: That wig just looked like a poopoo *bleep* pile. The rats was sucking on that wig, *sucking sounds*

Maybe they will soon have a episode that will really show Derrick as talented and a real contender, but right now he's kind of like Courtney Act without the more endearing qualities, a less expensive wardrobe and without the Rusical to show that they're really damned talented. I would have to agree. At first I was okay with it as something different but having seen it many times now.. it just looks bad. It doesn't really reshape her face, it's so powdery it doesn't blend at all and the shapes it tries to create just don't work. Kim Chi has similar heavy make up, but done so much better(watching Kim Chi talk and do stuff in her make up can be unpleasant as well, but IMO that is more Uncanny Valley of something that looks not quite right as a human face more than the make up itself looking bad). Maybe they will soon have a episode that will really show Derrick as talented and a real contender, but right now he's kind of like Courtney Act without the more endearing qualities, a less expensive wardrobe and without the Rusical to show that they're really damned talented. I would have to agree. At first I was okay with it as something different but having seen it many times now.. it just looks bad. It doesn't really reshape her face, it's so powdery it doesn't blend at all and the shapes it tries to create just don't work. Kim Chi has similar heavy make up, but done so much better(watching Kim Chi talk and do stuff in her make up can be unpleasant as well, but IMO that is more Uncanny Valley of something that looks not quite right as a human face more than the make up itself looking bad).

Bob is very good at putting on the actual /act/ of being a woman, that is when in drag I wouldn't be able to tell him out of a crowd of black women, which is a fairly difficult skill to manage. Plus the specific type of woman he portrays isn't contoured to hell and back, or even very make up intensive(his performances on youtube run from being very make up heavy to having practically none depending on the look he's going for).

It's really surprising. In a usual mix of talent on the show, the Naomi, Chi Chi, Robbie and Cynthia equivalents would be complete non-entities while the Kim Chi equivalent would only be notable for that one look and be the person you just know is going at Snatch Game. But this season they're all distinct and fairly talented, a huge shift from last season which really didn't have a great deal of distinction between the queens until you got into like top 6. This season if the top 3 were Chi Chi, Naomi and Kim Chi I wouldn't consider it that surprising(okay, I would, mostly because Bob, Acid Betty and Thorgy almost seem a lock for top 3).