Episode Discussion: The Final Three

[keeper-of-stars.livejournal.com]

The Final Three

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Comments

[panteakid666.livejournal.com]

All I really need to know is if the Finale taping is gointg to be live or not and how I get tickets to it!

At this point I'm fine with anyone winning. I want Roxxxy to win, but after last weeks episode everyone now seems to hate her and think she's a bitch.
My opinion of Jinkx is she's just too much of a character queen for my liking. Alaska I'm not sure about. I never felt she was riding Sharons coat tails, and rather suprised by her performance on the show so far. At this point it's anyone's game and I'm okay with that.

But Like i've been saying, Alyssa is the real winner this season.

[forlornreverie.livejournal.com]

Roxxxy better not win. Bitter, insecure, pageant queen is not a good look for the next drag superstar.

[redhandedjilll.livejournal.com]

I know Roxxxy lashes out when she's insecure, but she really needs to tone it down. It's incredibly immature to fly off at the handle and put people down to that extent just because you can't handle your own shit. It's also incredibly disrespectful to act like comedy is something not worth any merit, which is what she was getting at by saying "not everything is a joke". Comedians are extremely professional and take their work very seriously, and Roxxxy is proof that it's a really hard thing to accomplish successfully. That just bothered me a lot.

[stormkpr.livejournal.com]

I love both Alaska and Jinkx. I've said for a long time that I think that Jinkx will take the crown. With the last few episodes though, I think Alaska has shown us that she could snatch it too.

I'll be happy as long as it's not Roxxxy!!

Is the finale going to air live? I have my tickets for the event (it's May 6 in NYC) and Wikipedia says that May 6 is also the air date for the episode when we find out who wins. So they really are doing it live this time instead of filming 3 endings like they did last season?

[lunafroo.livejournal.com]

Having to wait two whole weeks for the finale will be a very challenging task for sure. Gah!

[nephyr-pariah.livejournal.com]

Looking at the official blogs and whatnot, I've noticed that several people who are rooting for Alaska are also rooting for Jinkx. For that reason alone, I expect Jinkx to take the crown. If everyone who was torn between Alaska and Jinkx decided to pick a side, I suspect they'd be much closer in the voting so far. As it stands, if it's up to the fans, Jinkx is pretty much a lock. Not complaining, I love Jinkx too, just speculating based on observations.

[zestyzorra.livejournal.com]

Ugh, now I wonder if all of Roxxxy's backpedaling and apologizing last week was vote pandering, now that she knows the fans get a say. I hate to be so cynical, but I just think the fan vote has to be part of it. :|

I lol'ed when she said, in her "defending your life" segment, that she was someone people could look up to. Ummm no.

Anyway, go Jinkx and Alaska!

[irveja.livejournal.com]

Roxxxy's apologize was so fake, oh my god, how awful is she? just go away, she should have been announced as 3rd.

I was rooting for Jinkx, but Alaska was way too good in this episode, when she defended her life specially. I hope one of them win. (as long as isn't Roxxxy)

[blacktonguedevi.livejournal.com]

I don`t know why people are even speculating over Roxxxy`s Jinkx-bashing motives, that bitch know`s exactly what she`s doing, just like with the well timed blubber about being left at a bus stop, and with last weeks internet damage control when she realised her hostility towards Jinkx would effect the public vote. The bottom line is that it`s a competition, so throw your marbles down the runway, put powdered glass in the other queen`s rouge, do whatever you need to do to get that damn crown !

The final 3 all have something different but in fairly equal measure, so I don`t really care who gets it. Personally I would have liked to see Llineysha in the top 3 ( even though she did`nt know who Diana Ross was, ) and i`m only looking forward to the finally to get another glimpse of her.

[teacup-werewolf.livejournal.com]

Roxxxy reminds me of this twinky queen that I know in my RP circles. He is catty, and utter tool he has no problem in throwing people under the bus and hold grudges. He's also misgendered me on purpose too. So yeah, Roxxxy reminds me of all the cis-gay men who treat me like shit and she borderline triggering.

I am really rooting for Jinkx but I will settle for Alaska.

[nephyr-pariah.livejournal.com]

A thought has been occurring to me. Roxxxy's a smart lady, I suspect she knows exactly what she's doing. Better to rule in Hell than to serve in Heaven.

[myswtghst.livejournal.com]

So, while I obviously am a Jinkx fan (though I ♥ Alaska too!), the thing that's bugged me the most about Roxxxy isn't her overt nastiness to her competition, but the fact that a lot of the shade she's thrown could easily be seen as disparaging / insulting Mama Ru. She has consistently refused to own her shortcomings / failures, blaming them instead on the challenges - but Ru is the one who comes up with (or at least approves) the challenges she's whined about. Clearly Ru wants someone versatile, or she wouldn't have included all those challenges focused on more than just a look, and Roxxxy doesn't seem to get that just because something isn't her thing, it doesn't mean it's without merit. It also bothers me that when another queen has a specific talent (like comedy), it's schtick, but when Roxxxy has a specific "talent" (her look), it's "part of what makes her versatile".

I appreciate that Roxxxy apologized and owned her shade, without trying to put all the blame on the editing, and I'm glad she and Jinkx have apparently patched things up, but I still am not sure if she really sees the big picture, and when you combine that with her inability to take criticism, I just don't think she's the next drag superstar.

[kapvik.livejournal.com]

So I figure this can go either one of two ways. Either they're just going ahead and stamping "Winner's Edit" all over Jinkx and she wins, or it's not Jinkx - in which case, please, O God-Appearing-As-Cher let it be Alaska - and this is just the biggest mindfuck the show's ever done.

I don't know how many ways I have left to say "Boxxxy Obnoxxxy Rolodex doesn't know what the frak she's talking about" at this point. The judges too, for that matter. SHE'S a well-rounded performer? I didn't know "well-rounded" now meant "one-dimensional drag stripper who loves tearaways and thinks that the entirety of drag is trying to look pretty". Curse you, New English. She's the complete fucking opposite of everything she says she is. Boxxxy Obnoxxxy Rolodex is probably the stalest drag queen I have ever seen. Her entire act is *the* drag queen cliche. No wonder everyone was critical of her and she was about to quit drag; her drag act is lame. And when the competition makes it evident that she's lame, it's the competition/challenges/Jinkx's/comedy's fault. Like myswtghst said, her whining is effectively insulting RuPaul, who comes up with the challenges and demands that success in the competition be predicated on being someone who can do more than just dress up like a woman and be pretty. This chick is the fat Rebecca Glasscock, and I hope she winds up in the same dumpster of obscurity after all of this.

Oh Alaska. You stopped trying again in that video shoot, and that's genuinely my one complaint about you. But hot damn did she ever do her best to make up for it with the rest of the challenge. That runway and that lip sync? THAT is how you do Lady Gaga. And I feel proud to declare that Alaska is the Ant to Sharon's Dec. I still don't know who Tamar motherfucking Braxton is, but I sure as hell know Alaska Thunderfuck.

I think what I loved most about Jinkx in the last challenge is that she insisted on having the hippie flower crown in her last runway look; in my head, it's as far as she would ever go to giving the fashion-backward criticisms the finger.

Did Mathoo Andersen fall asleep under a tree for a whole year after Season 4, and they just woke him up in order to shoot this episode and didn't let him groom himself? And on a lesser WTF note, I'm still trying to figure out why Michelle Visage was wearing a flash drive as a necklace in the workroom.

[lucifuge-5.livejournal.com]

Otoh, I'm glad we've got two more eps for the season. Otoh, though, WHY couldn't you just make up your mind, Mama Ru?

Boxxxy Obnoxxxy's mindgames were beyond irritating. I don't really understand why she'd want to be SRS BIZNESS thespian for a RPDR skit. Like, really? Her attitude about comedy being less than pageant made me eyeroll so much I got dizzy. She's a Tyra Sanchez, only one that's incredibly hateful too. >:( I truly do hope that Mama Ru takes into consideration Roxxxy's lack of popularity with the RPDR fen. *crosses all the crossables*

Jinkx did pretty good overall. The one exception was her last runway look. It was...pretty but tremendously underwhelming. She killed it in the skit AND the video too so yays! I'd be happy if she won. However, in a way, I kinda feel like she's the one who's the sure winner so I don't think I'd be as excited about her winning the crown as I'd be if it was Alaska

Alaska might've stumbled (and then some) during the video shoot but she did really well in the skit and her 'Defending Your Life' speech was en pointe. In all truth, she's the queen I'm rooting for. Not only because then she'd be part of the Royal Couple (ooooh!) but also because she's got a good balance of comedy and style, hunty! To me, she's the queen who people took for granted (because of her relationship with Sharon as well as the multiple times she applied for the show). Being so close to winning, though, has grounded her and made her fight for the win in her own 'Lasky way. ^_^