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Oh no, we don't have problems with nipples or swearing, we're waaaaay less touchy about that stuff down here. Ru needed to talk more about it being ill fitting and less about the nipples, I think. Also, not exactly refuting those green screen rumours, yiiiiikers.

The issue I personally have with lip syncs is that the finale seems to always be to some big bombastic number or an iconic pop anthem, but not all queens are suited to that kind of LSFYL - but obviously at a live finale a torch song/Broadway mashup final lip synch would be gonzo (but also maybe awesome?!) so I don't know what the answer is either! I think Jinkx beat Shea - I don't think she won against Monet. I thought the same with Raja, that she won her first but that Yvie won the second, but that if you're going off the overall season, then yes, the right two queens won their 'divisions' but that Yvie won NO money? That's unreal to me.

I was at this show!!!!! - also lucky enough to have purchased a ticket in Nov 2019 for this show that then got postponed twice due to a pandemic and then the night it was on, was the night Jinkx Monsoon won All Stars. It was an absolute DELIGHT being there to celebrate Jinkx - after that vid ends, Dela explains that tonight they've decided to throw away their normal show and instead she took a total backseat and let Jinkx drive. She did some torch songs she hasn't done in ages, talked about being on Allstars and they just gabbed about their friendship. It was incredibly gracious of Dela and the most wonderful show of sisterhood, I didn't know I could love them both more.

Yeah, Viv had no light and shade in her comedic timing for me, it was all at 100, so I wouldn't have given her a top 2 spot. I really thought maybe Shea was going to be top two with Raja's take on Nancy from the Craft - Shea did a really great job with the timing in the 'straight' role of the Final Girl, Sydney from Scream trope and her runway made the entire judging panel gasp, so I really didn't get that judging outside of Ru wants the final 4 to be who she wants it to be (why she doesn't want Shea there, I don't quite understand, but you do you, Ru . . . )

I've had tickets to their upcoming tour here in Australia since Sept 2020, it was postponed to Sept 2021 and then again to Sept this year, so fingers crossed they actually make it over this year - PANDEMIC BE GONE.

I love Jinkx SO much, but watching her season is painful, those Queens are fucking awful to her - so to watch her be so embraced and celebrated is just delightful. What a genius pair of performances, retire Snatch Game now Broom!

I thought Ella won the signature, Nurman the technical and Aaron the showstopper and that it was honestly one of the closest and even finals Bake Off has had. I also don't love the winner from a viewer pov as much as Nurman or Aaron - I think she had more peaks and troughs - all those technical wins vs that terrible showstopper of basically a pile of macarons as an example, but she is clearly very talented (I mean the boobs from the first ep!!) so it's fine. It was a lovely season and just the nice tv I needed with *gestures at EVERYTHING* that's going on.

This is the right final three, although I was concerned for Aaron there at the end. I honestly think it's anyone's to win, depending on what they have to do in the final - they all have strengths and weaknesses and it's going to really come down to what they have to bake. I'm happy with either of them winning but I'd rather it be Aaron or Nurman personally . . .

I legit don't understand the judging on this show sometimes - Aaron had decent first bake, came second in the technical but was one of the two names they said was in trouble going into the showstopper? Makes no sense to me at all. Sad to see Jawin go, if only because I will miss his puns dearly.

I'm also watching - I think at this stage it's a fairly obvious top 2 of Ella and Aaron with that third finale spot wide open. I did think Carmel had it locked down until this week - I'd LOVE Jawin to get in there, his flavours seem amazing.

Every time anyone says Ashley 'stole' that money, ends with me screeching at my tv because NO. She was given an option to share the prize money or keep it and she kept it, that's not stealing his money, it was only his money if she chose to share it, it was her money to do with what she wanted, so I haaaaaate when anyone uses that as an excuse to call her untrustworthy or a snake like they did in this ep. Even when CT was saying it wasn't a reason to vote her in, he still said she stole it, I'm just sick of that narrative being part of her storyline every season now. Having said that, I'm all for the Devin plan to vote out past winners, I love watching CT and Smashley play, but I'd like to see someone else win the money (not you, Nany, although she is working much harder for it this season than previous).

I assume that as part of the outfits they were told to bring was something 'blue collar' and not specifically that it had to be blue AND that most of them thought it would be part of a mini challenge because some of those looks were very low key . . . (not you Eureka, that crossing guard was STUNNING.) But the final looks that Ra'Jah, Trinity and Scarlett put together were excellent - I was quite surprised that Scarlett wasn't in the top with that gorgeous gown with Ra'Jah and Eureka.

I like Kita fine, but man alive, I haaaaaaated every single thing she wore except for the week of family resemblance challenge. This was clearly going to be a Scarlet win but the online backlash about her history changed that and rightly - she should never have gotten on the show in the first place - without that, I don't think Kita had a chance to win up against Scarlet's looks and challenge wins. If there's a next time, can we have judges who get that drag here in the Antipodes is quite different, please? Imagine not knowing that a crowd in Geelong watching Art stuff a whole meat pie into her gob, wouldn't be in fucking hysterics, that was TALENT. Michelle understands Drag in the UK because of her time there and it was just painfully apparent the whole season that no one 'got' Aussie or Kiwi drag and they wanted them to be like the US or even the UK, which it really isn't*. (*I can only speak to the drag I've seen here in Australia, but I got the impression drag in NZ is just as camp and daggy, both good things!!)

'Better The Devil You Know' is classic Kylie, not Danni - but yes, it's so very strange that when covid stuffed up their opportunity to have the Minogues PHYSICALLY in the room with the Queens or Judges, that they then also shunted songs by both to different episodes.

Oh Christ, I know we JUST watched this season but who the hell is (nvm, I remember now and WHOOOOO BOY does my brain just immediately discard contestants names and faces once the season is done!)

No reunion show! The family at IC was done last year but it was the first time (?) they let them be at FTC which I thought was MEAN to whoever lost. Pia DESTROYED that FTC and I loved every minute of it. I especially enjoyed her not taking any of Dave's shit about being a goat. Harry to me looked like a villain from a silent movie, about to tie some poor lady to some train tracks.

The emotional blackmail in this episode made me FURIOUS and glad that they voted Luke out. I find it hard to move past the fact that he's so worried about providing for the daughter he LEFT 6 weeks after she was born to go on a reality tv show. And I get it, it's a very sad situation for his family, but that doesn't mean he's OWED the win or that anyone owes him a vote (which to be fair, I think the SHOW was playing up waaaaaaay more than Luke actually was and likely making him talk about his family during confessionals etc, still doesn't make me enjoy or like him as a contestant). I also hate that the reaction on twitter was to a) blame Pia, b) ask the show to allow viewer voting to give him money and c) the NINE different Go Fund Me's that were set up in his name (but again, I don't begrudge him that money as long as he actually gets it). I've liked Pia this entire game and I've wanted her to win since the merge and I think she has a really good chance here. I'd be disappointed if it was Harry because he's a bit of a smug douche but he's played a decent game, even if it did take him 4 tries to get out Janine! Baden though, just doesn't have the 'resume' to back up a win. But hey, we've seen juries do stranger things.

Good lord, I dislike David so much he's making me like LUKE and I haaaaaate Luke. Also, the way he treated the spilled popcorn was disrespectful to the rest of the tribe and then somehow also grosser than what happened with the nachos last season and the nachos thing was fouuuuuuul. Luke crying while eating ice cream though? We've all been there . . . right?!

So if Aubry is the player who comes back - if that's what happens next week - does she still have her idol and extra vote?

Biased Australian Opinion but I can't believe that Christina's gorgeous little jacket combo wasn't in the top and didn't win - it was perfect travel wear, it was cute as hell and you could sell it so easily. Irina's dress was much better than last week's awful piece but for the second week in a row I do not understand the judges choices.

Benji RUINED nachos for the entire continent of Australia, they're banned here now.

Outstanding thread title work @SnideAsides !! I'm THRILLED Shane won, mostly because she was fun to watch, enjoyed the hell out of the whole thing, was sneaky when it was needed, lied blatantly when it was required and also because it was fucking AWESOME to see two women in the final tribal (suck it Benji and Robbie, you have to vote for a woman to win) and that they were both what I think most casts would consider older women as Sharn isn't under 30. To see the oldest woman on the show win was icing on the cake. Like Matt, the thing I took away from this season was ; don't fuck with Shane Gould.

I am perplexed as to WHO the show is referring to when they said we'd see the BEST END GAME EVER. I mean, maybe Sharn, but other than that, I'm at a loss. If they think it's Shonee, then . . . no. Flipping on your alliance because your bestie got shanked is fun for us because it means Brian can't surely win from here but a great end game, it is not. She just started playing the game now. It has to be Sharn they mean, right? Also @PepperMonkey Shonee is in HR, the chryon has said that at times and it's on the official AusSurvivor site as her profession but I'm not going to lie, the Pro Skaters Wife thing has had me offside with her from the get go. I find her vapid and uninteresting and frankly, totally spoilt. When she admitted to never having done anything around camp, it just solidified it for me. Also also, the IC being fire based made me laugh SO FUCKING HARD. And that Sharn and Shane were the ONLY two to even get a fire started? Spoke volumes. For that alone, I want one of those two to win.

My tables did a sigh of relief that ep. Honestly, well played PG, I didn't think he had it in him. I'm with most of you, Shonee is the only one left who I would dislike seeing win.

I swear to god, if this Greatest End Game In The (Short) History Of Australian Survivor comes from FUCKING BENJI, I will flip ALL THE TABLES.