Episode Discussion: Super Troopers

[keeper-of-stars.livejournal.com]

Super Troopers

Welcome back, squirrel friends! It’s time for the next leg 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

[ian-exclamation.livejournal.com]

Logo is having issues with the episode. It wasn't uploaded for a while and then it WAS uploaded...but only the first 10 minutes of it =\

I (along with dozens of other crazy people) tweeted them about it and they got back to me and said they were checking it out. They even RUpologized for it haha

So yeah, just a heads up to people.

[zestyzorra.livejournal.com]

This episode just reinforced how classy Jinkx is. She was never judgmental or harsh to her partner, and she was incredibly sensitive to his needs. I also love how she never shit-talked him in the confessional, unlike some people *coughRoxxxycough* Plus, I think they really turned it out. I think the judges were a bit too harsh on Alaska & Nebraska (amazing names!). The padding was horrible but everything else was flawless, IMHO. At times when they walked the runway, I could barely tell them apart! I adored the catsuits and the wigs and the guns & $ bags. Such love.

Also, ding dong the bitch is gone. Bye Coco, bye gurl~~~ Hope to see you never. That face WAS busted. She should have been "so angry" at herself for letting him down, rather than at the judges for reading her for it.

Now Roxxxy needs to go, and I'll be happy.

[emily-goddess.livejournal.com]

I kinda wish Clinton had brought more to the judges' table. He can be so snarky on WNTW.

[thethicket.livejournal.com]

Jinkx: Perf, as usual. I wanted to hear more of her boy's Judy Garland stories. I could've had an entire episode of wacky Judy Garland stories and would've been happy.

Alaska: I love that even when Alaska is coming for Jinkx, she's still likable about it, rather than being a total bitch. That's why I love Alaska.

Detox: I am generally "meh" about her, and this week isn't any different. If Ru's decision had been made based on lip sync alone, I think Coco would still be around.

Coco: Horchata's makeup was hideous. Poor thing. And I loved, loved, loved Santino's dig at Coco. BAI GURL. See you at the reunion, where I'm sure you'll be spewing venom everywhere.

Roxxxy: Now that Coco's gone, it's her turn. I don't care how good she is with padding, watching her every week is unbearable. Though "there's a fuel under my ass" made me laugh. She's practically as oblivious as Alyssa.

[kapvik.livejournal.com]

OMG the mini-challenge trainer was gorgeous and totally my type. Too bad I'm all into these fitness-minded guys, and I am the total opposite of that, so we never have anything in common. Also, the fact that he had a total fake/stage name was annoying. "Storm." Bitch, please. If you're not a wind-riding mutant chick from Africa who controls the weather, you better get your ass a real name.

Is it terrible that I was amused that Roxxxy couldn't even get off the ground to do a single jumping jack? I'm also surprised Coco didn't do better at this since she has all those East German Women's Wrestling Team muscles.

I'm glad Jinkx showed as much compassion and sensitivity to Fortuna, but I'll be blunt: she got the old dude. As per Raven in Season 2, there was no way she was going home; her gay vet was way too sympathetic. And yikes that his HIV meds mutated his body like that. It's just too bad he got painted to look like a cartoon Mexican domestic.

Alaska's pads on Nebraska did indeed look like flan in retrospect. But other than that her gay vet's transformation was off the chain, and she totally should have won. Robbed!

It's just a pity that Detox's look is so severe, and thus Beth Adone (hee!) also had to look severe, which made him more mannish in drag than he should have been. And while I understand that most of Detox's plastic surgery is reconstructive, I have to wonder: did she have the accident before or after she did porn? Because I always assumed the way Detox looked in her porn pics were pre-surgery. And that's weird because that means she never looked like either her mother, her father, or her brother. If Detox wasn't a twin, I'd swear she was adopted.

Roxxxy, IMO, got the easiest job because Isabella was also tubby and Hispanic, or could at least pass for such. So *of course* everything Roxxxy had already fit her. All she had to do was shave the guy. This win was cheap.

Not only did Coco fuck up Horchata's face, she aged herself a bazillion years again. She was bringing present day Natalie Cole realness, wrinkles and all. And Michelle Visage was being nice; Horchata didn't look like Frida Kahlo, she looked like a Frida Kahlo motherfucking painting, the makeup was so bad. Horchata's face looked like it was made of pure Sherwin Williams, and her eyes were more lopsided than Phi Phi on her worst day! I have to believe everyone was trying to preempt a Coco tantrum on Untucked, because the judges were being kind with their critiques and Coco is delusional if she thinks that looked good.

I'm actually surprised that "It Takes Two" hasn't come up for LSFYL earlier since Michelle has been on the show so long now. I loved that song back in the day, before it got unfairly drowned out by Rob Base and DJ E-Z Rock's version. But that lip sync was just okay. Coco was looking far too desperate and stopped lip syncing partway through, and Detox still seemed like she was barely trying. Detox is just lucky she kept lip syncing through the whole song and that Coco completely forgot how she beat Alyssa last week.

Also, I had to go back and look at old Seduction videos, because to this day I still can't remember which one of them was Michelle Visage. Can you believe that at one time she both looked and sounded like Gwen Stefani? Did MV smoke or something?

[stormkpr.livejournal.com]

I don't have much to add beyond what others have said except for one thing. Has Detox had a crappy life so far or what?? Creepy stalker boyfriend who dies and she somehow sees the dead body (did he crash into her house?), horrible car accident of his own and hospital stay where he's covered in bandages like a mummy, estrangement from 'phobic father, father now non-phobic but may be battling life-threatening illness, mother abandoning him (though then she comes back and everything's ok?), plus lots of plastic surgery and pornos.

Granted, none of the queens have had it easy but damn girl! No wonder she looks older than 27.

[bodacioussylph.livejournal.com]

Roxxxy: I will grant that she truly transformed her vet and for that she earned the win. But she sure was unpleasant on her way to that transformation. I wish they'd picked more of a stripper name for the vet...Isabella is just girl Izzy.

Jinkx: She approached this challenge in exactly the right way: we're a team, let's make this work. And her enthusiasm for hearing Dave's history and her willingness to work with him clearly let Dave trust her with the truth of his "medical condition." Loved Fortuna's little heeled oxfords--great solution to the shoe dilemma! I noticed that Jinkx was smart enough to choreograph their flag routine to fit their abilities (and that a couple of the other contestants were all "we're making it up as we go along!"). There was something a bit off about Fortuna's makeup. The name Fortuna is a nice parallel to Jinkx.

Alaska: And once again, picking the "pretty one" backfires. Not as badly as it did for Kenya, but still. Shame she couldn't get the hip pads nice. Nebraska's face was stunning. Liked the name too.

Detox: Definitely benefitted by having the most into-it vet--but then she pissed away her time having fun with him. Detox's face does not work as well on someone who lacks the various structural additions she has. The name Beth Adone is genius.

Coco: Her vet had the second-best bone structure (after Alaska's), and she just abjectly failed at painting him. Though I love the name Horchata, very clever!

In general: it was nice that all the vets were into it; no one was all grumpy and sour and made me wonder why they even signed up to be on the show.

[(Anonymous)]

"It's just too bad he got painted to look like a cartoon Mexican domestic".

That never happened.

http://twitpic.com/ciebmg/full (http://Fortuna Judy)

http://twitpic.com/cidvn1/full (http://Fortuna Flag)

[ali goria (from livejournal.com)]

"It's just too bad he got painted to look like a cartoon Mexican domestic".

That never happened, tho.

http://twitpic.com/ciebmg/full (http://Fortuna Judy)

http://twitpic.com/cidvn1/full (http://Fortuna Flag)

[entj.livejournal.com]

I just found this post from Jinkx's veteran:

Dave talking about why he decided to do RPDR (http://www.davelara.com/davegun2/The_Blog/Entries/2012/7/31_Aver_-_Gla_and_Reality.html)

I would've liked to hear more of his story on the show, but I'm still glad he decided to do it.