RPDR Edgic

Hello everyone!

I did gain a little bit of a following on here (not much but still), and tumblr is basically dead since the nsfw ban, but I thought I’d post this anyway.

I won’t be watching drag race this year, or doing anymore edgic charts. Drag race has become a show that’s so predictable for me, it’s obvious to me that the producers have such a heavy hand in who stays and who goes, and you can practically tell who the winner will be based off their style alone. It just no longer brings me joy, it feels more like a chore.

You can disagree with me, and that’s ok! I’m glad that there are still so many people who enjoy drag race and who find it exciting and more and more people discover it every year. I’m happy that it can bring others the joy it once brought me! But for now, that has been a bit burnt out.

Wow this is late I’m so sorry! I just graduated on Saturday and I’ve been busy moving home since then, so I’ve been a bit busy!

Anyway! This year’s finale was slightly different, it took a lot of time to focus on the final four. It was like a weird, positive Maury kind of introduction? It was very confusing. I personally didn’t like it, it felt like they were just trying to fill the hour and a half time slot. Also like, we already knew who the constants were and a lot about them? I don’t see why we needed more? Oh well.

I said last week that I thought Brooke would win, but I wouldn’t be surprised if Yvie did, and I still stand by that. I’m not surprised Yvie won, it was pretty even between the two through out the whole season, so the win seems justified and fair.

Drag race has especially focused on finding new and different queens, queens who are unique and unlike any other to find for their winners. I think Yvie fits that perfectly. Brooke is a great queen, and she IS different but still to similar to other queens. Yvie is SO different from any other queen we’ve seen before, and I think that’s what pushed her to the win.

Apart from that this season was SO boring. There were no stand out characters apart from BASICALLY 3 out of the top 4, (yvie, brooke, and silky) and Nina and Vanjie got bit of screen time too. With 15 contestants, that fairs well for the 5 who run the show, but leaves a lot of other constants with just, nearly nothing, and it gets really old and boring. I wish that there would have been a little bit more done with the personalities on the show, because a lot of them were great (like Shuga, Plastique, Scarlet). It’s seriously made me question if I still watch drag race because I enjoy it, or if I watch it because I feel like I need to to keep up with the gay community. I’ll keep watching All Stars, and I have a friend who’s been trying to get on the show so I’ll hope to watch it when she does. But apart from that I don’t know what this show’s future holds.

This episode was pretty typical of a “pre finale”. All of the contestants got a good edit, and it makes it appear as if the race to the finish is an even one, like they all have a good chance. As usual, I listed the top 4 in my winners picks in order of who I think has the best chances to win.

Silky - there’s no way. She was the obvious villain this season (kinda like an Alexis Michelle on steroids, no one really likes her and shes annoying and she just does not understand why).

A’Keria - kinda the same as Silky? But at least the bitch was polished.

Yvie - I don’t think Yvie is going to win, however, that being said, I wouldn’t be surprised if she did. She had a very interesting story through out the entire season, and you saw here grow and mature and come into herself as a fully rounded drag queen. Plus, she’s different, and she’s something the show has NEVER seen before. Yes, we had Sasha win, but her drag of “different” was on a completely different scale than Yvie’s is.

Oof! I... LOVED this episode!! There was so much drama and so much tension!! Amazing!!!

It really is Brooke Lynn’s game to lose at this point. She has pretty much secured her position in the bag as winner. If I could, I would compare Brooke and Yvie to Shea and Sasha in season 9. Shea had the most wins, she turned it out every single time and was consistently at the top of the game, but the producers decided she wasn’t anything “new”, so Sasha won, but it was still a very well deserved win. It’s the same thing. Brooke is clean, polished, kicking ass the whole competition, but it really is up to the producers on if they decide it’s good enough or not. Yvie has been getting a GREAT edit, and has obviously been doing well in the competition as well. I think Brooke will win, but I can see Yvie winning as well.

Silky has also become the main villain of the season, and it seems as if A’Keria is her side kick. Everything they do is just to call people out and cause drama, and it’s been this way for A WHILE. I’m really not sure what this means for the final four lipsync.

This episode was good I thought! Once again, I didn’t agree with the bottom two, but that’s just how it be!

I think it’s time to appropriately dissect all of these girls! They each have enough of a cohesive edit where I can actually speak about them.

A’Keria - A’Keria is getting the “pageant girl” edit. She gets along with all of the girls just fine, but it’s obvious she’s not really bonding with anyone and everyone is also her “enemy”. Her edit is very focused on being better than the other girls, and wanting to show her shot. I COULD see her making top 4, but she’s not gunna win.

Brooke - she’s getting the obvious winner edit. You see her struggles, you see her grow, you just see everything complete about her. There’s nothing about her to question.

Nina - Nina is getting a very positive edit? I’m not sure she’ll make top 4 anymore, but I do think she’ll get Miss Congeniality.

Shuga - she’s gunna go next week. She’s not really doing that much, so I’m surprised she’s even made it this far.

Silky - I’m not sure what kind of edit Silky is getting. She’s kinda the villain, but like kinda not? She’s just a very over the top personality. I think she’ll make top 4, and the producers are gunna milk her feud with Yvie as much as they can.

Vanjie - vanjie is getting a VERY similar edit to Shangela in season 3. You can tell she’s grown, but she hasn’t grown like as much as she should. I don’t think she’ll make top 4, but like, she’ll get that edit where she still looks good.

Yvie - Yvie has a very CREATIVE edit. It reminds me a lot of Sharron Needles, I don’t think that we’ve seen anything like Yvie since Sharron Needles. The only difference is even though Sharron was also a bit of a bitch, she was still edited in a positive light. That’s why I moved Yvie down this week. I’m getting less and less sure that she’ll win, and I think she’ll just be like a favorite.

Snatch game wasn’t as AMAZING as it has been, but it was better than a few previous seasons! There’s a theory that whoever sits in the top left corner always wins snatch game, and I thought it was funny that it was proven again with Silky winning this episode!

Top 4 is going Brooke, Nina, Silky, and Yvie. If the producers want Yvie to win, they’ll find a way to sabatoge Brooke’s lipsync. That’s the tea sis. But honestly, it really is between Brooke and Yvie at this point, I can’t seem to tell a difference and I think that’s the point.

I just wanna say that I am VERY happy that Plastique FINALLY got what she deserves in her edit. She’s been one of my favorites this competition, and I felt like this was her little rudemption episode. I still don’t think she’ll make top 4, but this episode help.

I struggle keeping Silky in my winners picks, the only reason I did keep her is because she hasn’t given me a reason yet to boot her out, but I’m not sure she’ll win. Here’s my prediction. Brooke will win if the producers want a polished queen, Yvie will win if they want a progressive queen. Right now, I can’t see an outlook, but oh well.

I also wanna say to any doubters all there, the final 4 Lipsync for the Crown, is just another way of the producers making the show interesting. It obviously doesn’t come down to who does the best performance, it’s about how the editors can make the competitor who is the decided winner look the best. The producers have also been known to sabotage competitors lipsync for the crown so they don’t make it. I don’t know details, but there’s tea on how the producers influenced both Asia’s failure of a lipsync, and Shea’s underwhelming lipsync. So, take that as you will.

This one was TOUGH. We’re getting to the point in the competition where we’re really starting to weed out the mediocre players.

I have STRONG opinions about some contestants, and if you REALLY wanna know you can message me about them but I’m gunna be CLASSY and keep it PROFESSIONAL in my posts. Yvie was hard, because she had an OTTN edit at the top of the episode up until when the challenge really started getting going, and then I thought maybe it would change to a CPM edit because she talked so much about how she was struggling. Then I realized the talk was ONLY about her disability, and the edit was made to make us the viewers feel bad for her, which is an OTTP edit. Ultimately, I decided to go with OTTM because that felt more appropriate.

I can pretty much confidently say Brooke is gunna win.

Scarlet was VERY difficult to try to put into one cohesive edit, because her edits have kinda been all over the place. I felt a little uneasy giving her a CP edit even, but I didn’t know what else to do to be honest.

Finally, I gave A’Keria a MORN edit because although she won, we really only saw her complain throughout the whole episode, and that says more N to me than a win does.

Yvie is for sure going to be in the top 4, but I’m unsure of her winning chances. I think they are high, but I’d still place my bets on Brooke.

Hi, there was SO MANY PROBLEMS with this episode! Plastique deserved to win, Michelle just hates her, Nina should’ve been in the top, Ra’jah should’ve been in the bottom, Silky did not deserve to be in the bottom, Ariel shouldn’t have even gone home, Shuga only had one really bad look, whatever I was OVER IT!!! Imma keep this post short and sweet because there’s nothing really new.

Nothing really special about this episode, but it wasn’t bad either!! It’s like, PAINFULLY obvious who’s gunna be in the top, I feel like I had to be super objective to include a fourth winner’s pick. But like let’s go

I couldn’t justify Plastique anymore. She’s been in the background too long, and even though she was received well in the first few episodes, she would be getting a better edit by now if she was going to be in the top 4, so I just had to take her out of that section.

So as far as my winners picks, it is PAINFULLY obvious Brooke and Yvie are going to be in the top 4. I don’t know if they’ll win, but they’ll obviously be in the top 4. Silky is slowly working her way into that spot, and I think she will be, I have a very strong feeling she’ll be included in the top 4. Scarlet... has been doing well? So I would like to see a few more weeks of her, but as of now there’s a good chance she’ll be top 4.

OOF! Gurl... I am... OVERWHELMED!!!! The... GAGGERY!!! I’m just... oh my god. Gagged gurl. Ok lets dive in

I took A’Keria off the winners picks because now her edit is emerging, and it was NOT HOT. She was getting a pretty neutral edit the past two episodes but still had a positive tone, and I thought that meant good news, but this episode it was CLEAR that it was just not meant to be. Nina and Honey emerged this episode, both for obvious reasons, one of them won the challenge, the other was sent home. I felt a little bad for Honey, but she SUCKED at that lipsync so....

WINNERS PICKS

Plastique - she didn’t do so hot this week, obviously, but I think her edit has been the most consistently positive so far. Please, CALL MY ASS OUT if you disagree, because I’m very worried I’m just favoring her because she’s my favorite, but from the looks of it, things are looking pretty good for her right now. Just like A’Keria, things might change for her next week. We’ll see.

Silky - slowly but surely, growing more as a competitor and as a person. I’m very curious to see where the rest of the season takes her, I can easily see her winning the competition.

Brooke - I was worried about her last week, but I think her edit made up for it this week. So far, she hasn’t given me a reason to NOT think she’ll be in the top 4 (does that make any sense or am I crazy?)

Another kinda “meh” episode tbh. So let’s go.

I decided to give Scarlet and OTTN edit because I feel like her success in the challenge didn’t really shift her negative attitude. Vanjie is being successful so far, and I’m going to give her one more week to see how she performs before I put her in the winners picks. I ALMOST put vanjie in the winners picks this week, but I didn’t because I didn’t think that any of the current queens needed to be booted. Brooke is still holding onto her record from the first episode, and Silky is staying strong on that “aquaria” edit. Let’s talk about the winners picks

A’Keria - I feel kinda crazy having her in my top spot again this week, but I just feel like I can’t put anyone else there. She wasn’t even in the top the past two episodes and she’s gotten overwhelmingly good edit. Notice the difference between “good” edit and “positive” edit. A’Keria is getting a good edit. Fair screen time, showing her doing well in the competition. I just... I feel like I can’t put anyone else in that place as of now.

Plastique - Plastique is similar to A’Keria in that she’s getting a strangely good edit for her performance so far. She has been in the top both times, which is why she’s in second, because it’s more believable for her to be portrayed as doing well. Anyway! I think that she stands a good chance as of now to be in the top 4

Silky - Same as last week, she got that “aquaria edit”

Brooke - Like I said before, it’s hard to tell who’s going to make the top 4 this early on, and as of right now Brooke just stands a chance because of her winning the first challenge. We’ll see if that lasts to next week though.

It’s hard to talk about each individual queen because there’s so many of them, so I’m just going to do an overview and then talk about my winners picks. Also I always felt like my charts were blurry, so I’m tryin a new format let me know if it works better.

Also! as a reminder I don’t look at any spoilers, and I’m just trying my best and having a fun time. If you disagree with me, that’s fine! But don’t be a dick about it.

Let’s talk about this, shall we?

Oof. This episode was rough. Like that acting challenge? Bad. Latrice’s runway? Bad. And the preview? Of course there’s another fucking twist. I’m so mad about it like just pick a fucking format and stick to it!!

The tensions are CLEARLY high in this episode. Trinity feels threatened that she’s not safe in her place. Naomi has a power rush with how well she’s been doing. Latrice is boring. Monique is confident but everyone else doesn’t believe in her. This episode was just... weird. So here’s the main deal. Trinity was painted in a somewhat negative light this episode, but we know it’s because the last elimination SERIOUSLY shook her up. She feels the game has been fair so far and she doesn’t know what to expect now with Manila being gone, more importantly, she doesn’t know what it means for her safety. Monet was being painted in a way where she is just EAGER for that final win. She wants it so badly. I think with THIS edit, right before the final, it puts Monet a little bit ahead of Trinity for the win. Monique is doing so well, and she REALLY got that rudemption arc from when she was on season 10, but I don’t think it puts her in the spot to win. And Naomi got the late season villain edit, so there’s no way she’ll win.

Let’s talk about Latrice. Ru looked SHOCKED, and dare I say, angry, that she was eliminated, but like??? What did she expect??? Latrice has been in the bottom 3 times now and only had one win, Naomi has been in the bottom twice with one win. I just... it made sense to me. The editors did a good job of overall giving Latrice the edit that she still has what it takes to be and All Star (although I personally wasn’t impressed by her overall performance the whole season). And I think we saw growth, but nothing substantial. This is why I gave her a MORP overall edit, because she wasn’t a key part in the series, but she left with an overall good impression.

I’m not going to do a queen by queen breakdown, I’m just going to dive right into things.