Episode Discussion: Wizards of Drag

[keeper-of-stars.livejournal.com]

Welcome back, squirrel friends! It’s time for the next lap of the race! Bust out your wigs and padding because this is going to be a crazy ride.

Wigs and heels don’t go on for a few hours yet, but let’s get the T flowing now!

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Comments

[kapvik.livejournal.com]

I think I expected more out of a Wizard of Oz makeover challenge. I think what let me down was that it was the "put X person in drag" challenge, which I've never really been impressed by. It takes a certain kind of person to be able to do drag at this level, and so when you see amateurs right next to them, even if they are their drag daughters or otherwise Drag U'ed up, it just makes the amateurs look even more sloppy. It's just not as charming to me as I think it's supposed to be.

I can see why Naomi won by going all fashionista to give her Victoria's Secret Angel realness some street cred, but I wasn't as impressed by it as Ru was. It was her best look to date, but to me that's what Naomi should have been doing from week 1 instead of week 6. Credit, though, for making her drag daughter into little Lady Gaga with the stitched corners of her mouth; that's the exact opposite of what Bob did, and it was smart.

I think Kim Chi should have won this week though; not only were both mother and daughter looks impressive, they could combine into one witch! That was awesome! The awkward Dance of the Brooms must have really hamstringed their final score.

Derrick and Chi Chi both looked like Halloween done cheap in a cheap way, with the Diane Von Fursternberg Award going to Derrick. Though I think Chi Chi let her little woman down more, because I think she got the best one and their look didn't live up to either of their performance abilities.

Thorgy was just okay, but she's done so well in the past that I'm still irked that she's gone so unrewarded. But she did get the short end of the stick with "Emerald City Citizen." I can't imagine why that was a character option instead of the actual Wizard, or a Flying Monkey.

I guess Old Hollywood is also something I just don't get, along with fashion in general. Robbie has never really come off glamorous or "vintage" to me, so much as just old and crappy realness. Like I was surprised Robbie didn't have an enormous faux fur coat with a train, which combined with a Victorian or even old school red carpet dress would have really gone miles as Cowardly Lion drag. Instead she was just someone's furry secretary. And I can't believe she thought that LSFYL was giving it her all; honestly between the weak performance and the wig snatch, Derrick could have fallen asleep on stage and still beat her.

I'm ready to see Derrick go next, though. She's just so one-dimensional. I don't even dislike her, I'm just bored.

This is clearly politically incorrect, and it obviously can't be helped, but I felt so bad seeing the little women walk the runway. It's worse than Kim Chi's walk. ;;;-_- And like the other queens can actually sashay and all, and the drag daughters were just waddling. I cringed.

I was surprised how well everyone did in the library/reading challenge though. Astonishingly, I think Derrick's "so many shades of ashy" towards Bob was my favorite read.

[keeper-of-stars.livejournal.com]

Thorgy was just okay, but she's done so well in the past that I'm still irked that she's gone so unrewarded. But she did get the short end of the stick with "Emerald City Citizen." I can't imagine why that was a character option instead of the actual Wizard, or a Flying Monkey.
Hey now! I am here to represent for all the Emerald City Citizens - I played one in the Wiz in highschool. We are very important and we pay the Wizard's taxes! ;)

The Flying Monkeys would have been awesome. I'd love to have seen that.

[entj.livejournal.com]

1) If there had been Flying Monkeys and ...
2) If I had been a judge and ...
3) If the contestant had rigged a tiny monkey flying out of her butt (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LMIy_KiBpKU) ...

... it would've been an automatic "Shante, you stay!" from me. :D

/silly

*giggles*

[kapvik.livejournal.com]

What if the flying butt-monkey had been the little woman? :p

/yeahiwentthere

[kapvik.livejournal.com]

You know if we're talking about The Wiz, taxes in Emerald City must be ridiculous. Wiz!Emerald City's property values looked cray-cray. XD

[keeper-of-stars.livejournal.com]

You don't even want to know! I had to give the Wiz the green dress off my back. I was left with only my green wedges. :P

[lucifuge-5.livejournal.com]

I guess Old Hollywood is also something I just don't get, along with fashion in general. Robbie has never really come off glamorous or "vintage" to me, so much as just old and crappy realness.

To me, unlike other queens who used Old Hollywood glamour as their "thing" (like Jinkx, Tammie Brown, Ben Dela, and (it could be argued) Violet), Robbie's make-up remained the same. She never softened it or tried to play with it. Therefore, it was weird to see the same face for 1970s Roller Disco Realness to Furry Cowardly Lion Secretary.

[blithelybonny.livejournal.com]

100% agree to your first paragraph!