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roxy206 · 2 years ago

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CVSTW time

3 for 3 with the elimination picks wow

Aww I love how it seems like Vanity is so comfortable this season!

Again, Icesis &/or Ra’jah easily could have been in the top last week. Absolutely

“influencer quick drag” oy vey

Ra’jah 😂😂😂

“my other dad!”

🎵 oH mY gOd🎵

Omg if Icesis hadn’t gone over time she really could have won that CDR 2 roast

I love Icesis so much ☹️💔💕

😭😭😭 [me wondering why I have a crying headache then remembering I watched this episode]

Omg not Victoria’s reaction 😭

I’m so glad Icesis made the decision she needed to make & I hope she’s doing okay 💕💕💕

I just SOBBED so I need someone to be incredibly funny in this roast please

Lmao okay Victoria 👏👏👏

VICTORIAAA

Victoria & Silky or Victoria & Vanity are the top 2 for me this week

VANITY THE CLUELESS RUNWAY YESSS

Ohhh Victoria’s runway look

If we’re taking runway into consideration too I think Victoria & Vanity are my top 2 this week

Vanity did rely on her notes but she was still funny

Also Victoria’s eye makeup is so gorgeous

I mean I’m here for Victoria & Silky being the top 2 again

NOOOOO not Ra’jah & Vanity both in the bottom!!

I bet this is going to be the time where the elimination choices would not be the same

This is going to suck so much ugh

Lmfao Rita sitting alone in the VIP

I’m already getting upset at the thought of Vanity possibly being eliminated

GET YOUR PICTURE FOR THE MEET & GREET 😂

VICTORIA TAKING OFF THE RINGS omg that’s perfect

Okay but Victoria won this, it’s all so well thought out

Oh thank fucking god there’s no elimination!!!!!

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I’m sorry I love Rita, but the hand production had in this bottom two. I was SO PISSED when I thought there was going to be an elimination, because based on the progress of the season this would be the time for Rita to be eliminated & tbh based on the episode too. So initially I was like they’re keeping her around to have a Canadian in the cast still. But then when there was no elimination, clearly they wanted the drama of Victoria & Silky having to pick between Vanity & Ra’jah. Absolutely one of the two of them should have been in the bottom, but it should have been one of them with Rita. And I’m saying this having gone into the season rooting for Rita to do well & not having seen either of Ra’jah or Silky’s prior seasons before

#kimmy watches #cvstw #spoilers #canada vs the world #canada’s drag race #icesis couture #victoria scone #vanity milan #ra’jah o’hara #silky nutmeg ganache

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preternatura-aa · 2 years ago

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Canada’s Drag Race: Canada VS The World Review

This post has spoilers for Canada VS The World and CAST spoilers for Rupaul’s Drag Race All Stars 8, also take this as a general spoiler warning for the franchise as a whole.

So I’ve been working on a huge Rupaul’s Drag Race review project where I review episodes based on specific criteria and I figured I’d post my ratings of the most recently finished season as well as share some of my thoughts on the vs the world series and the eventually the wider franchise. I’d like to use this review to introduce and demonstrate the rate system as well as provide some cool write-ups.

I rate each episode in four categories, 1-5 for each. These are the basic categories I believe make a good episode of Drag Race:

Funny - Self explanatory

Fashion - I consider only official runways, seeing as challenge outfits are usually supposed to be silly and it’s hard to judge the two things at once

Fun - I usually consider the actual structure of the episode in terms of production for this, are the challenges interesting, was the runway category a good idea how did the contestants act on the episode in response to these things, etc

Fierce - Rated based on emotional resonance. This can mean storylines, lip-syncs, drama, narrative/production decisions, other contestant behavior. Kind of an “X-Factor” category.

My Canada VS The World Rate Table

I found Canada VS The World to be pretty disappointing overall. Only 2 seasons into the VS The World franchise, WOW has announced Rupaul’s Drag Race Global All Stars. Based on that info, it seems to me like VS The World is over. It was an interesting experiment but it may be too tall an order to continue to fill. It must be borderline impossible coordinating different production studios in different countries and contestants allegedly straight up refusing to be on non-RuPaul hosted seasons. Then again, who knows.

I won’t lie, I was excited for Canada VS The World. After the glorious dumpster-fire of UK VS The World I was genuinely interested in how the contestants would react to the season ruiningly cut throat gameplay of the franchise’s first entry. Unfortunately- they reacted in the most boring way imaginable.

All in all, both production and cast decided this season needed to be insanely positive. To be fair, this may have been the safest decision with the way the season played out. Storylines and werk room chatter usually center around somewhat surface-level discussions of mental health and social justice topics. Do not get me wrong, I’m not some kind of edge-lord idiot that can’t handle those kinds of themes- the thing is, there was just very little else going on. The issue is that it was often the only thing anyone was interested in talking about.

Here’s the thing- reality television is hard to make. I’m not saying the contestants should have had stupid fights and fought each other all the time or that production should have caused conflict. I just think there weren’t many interesting narratives present at all until the end. There’s an element of this that is kind of just random. A lack of interesting narrative in the real world during filming just happens sometimes and that’s fine, but it doesn’t mean the season is going to be interesting to watch. It’s a lot of people talking about their “truth” and their “journeys” (Icesis specifically did this a lot). Maybe this is just a me thing but over-reliance on pop-health/wellness language like this usually annoys and bores me. Especially when it’s in service of branding and marketing.

Arguably the most satisfying and interesting narrative through-line was Silky Nutmeg Ganache’s story of overcoming her fan-perception from her two previous Drag Race seasons. It’s interesting to hear the contestants talk about the consequences of their appearances on reality TV and I felt like it was a responsible and surprising production decision to focus on it so heavily. Then again- if the best part of a season is based on other seasons... that may not be the best sign. Combined with her clearly improved runway presentations, it was all the more anticlimactic when she did better in the final lip-sync (imo) and still didn’t win the whole thing. I guess production thought Ra’jah D O’Hara was a safer bet. Silky was the star of CVTW for me.

Silky Nutmeg Ganache for the Queen of The World Category

Canada VS The World revealed some innate problems with the VS The World format (originally created for Rupaul’s Drag Race All Stars 2). The Lip Sync For Your Legacy format basically forces the cast to play nice with each other every single week- or face the wrath of both their fellow cast and online fandom. This format can create some pretty insane television moments (see Manila Luzon’s All Stars 4 elimination, Pangina Heals and Jimbo’s UKVTW eliminations, etc). I think the shorter episode counts of VS The World are why it’s not working as well and why the queens of CTVW seemingly refused to play dirty or to play interesting. 10 episodes gives much more breathing room for relationships and conflicts to develop over time, 6 episode season are simply too over and done with for anything that interesting to happen without throwing off the seasons.

UK VS The World’s shockingly competitive gameplay early on ruined the season in the long-run since the finalists who did really well for the first half of the seasons were almost all eliminated, spelling disaster for viewers as the finalists weren’t very many contestants who had actually excelled at the competition. CANVTW has the opposite problem, nobody wanted to repeat the previous season’s mistakes and therefore there’s zero strategy or drama in the eliminations. Basically what I’m saying is this format doesn’t work in these micro-seasons.

Another issue that makes this even worse is Icesis Couture’s self elimination. It felt tonally strange threw the season w a y off as well as eliminated one of the few frontrunners, leaving only a couple contestants who had done very well to be finalists. I’m absolutely not invalidating Icesis’ decision to quit, I think it’s cool as fuck of her, but the season was just so much less competitive after she left- and likely pushed Rita Baga into the top as the Canadian finalist. This effected the my rate of the season pretty negatively overall as I don’t enjoy Rita Baga’s humor or runway presentations.

Rita Baga for the Y2GAY Category

It’s clear to me that there was kind of an unspoken agreement among all the contestants to play the game basically the same way, leading to very few interpersonal conflicts and very little tension as a viewer- the elimination decision each episode was unanimous for god sake (for the first time in Drag Race h e r s t o r y). It just wasn’t engaging and it was hard to care at all in early episodes since the gap between who was performing well and who wasn’t was so wide.

The scrappy fun of the previous the seasons of Canada’s Drag Race felt present for sure, but it was severely missing the teeth that makes reality TV interesting to watch. Boring storylines, over-reliance on sappy werk-room segments, confusing judging decisions and overdone challenges made 4/6 episodes of this season receive below average (below 3) scores. Thankfully the finale episode was a lot of fun and somewhat satisfying despite the absolutely detestable finale format of Lip Sync For The Crown- but I’ll write about that in another post. It was full of nice moments and fun production decisions as well as contestant performances. I loved Monet X Change showing up, I loved Victoria proposing to her girlfriend, I liked when the rest of the cast came back, and I loved the final lip sync.

On the winner: Ra’jah O’hara is the first multinational triple-season complete winner arc, which is unprecedented so far on Drag Race, but I have a feeling we’ll be seeing more of these in the future. Ra’jah was my pre-season pick, but I felt her All Stars 6 showing was more deserving of a crown- and I don’t like wins that feel honorary or based on extra-textual context. They are lame.

Ra’Jah D Ohara for the Plaid Girls Club Category

I feel like I’ve been harsh, so here are some

Things I liked:

- Victoria Scone was great on this season and I’m glad we got to see a lot of her even if I don’t always like her sense of humor.

- The cast was one of the most diverse ever, which is very cool. It’s important for the art form and for the show to showcase as wide an array of points of views and aesthetics as possible, there’s still a long way to go though obviously though.

- The finale episode

- Silky, Ra’jah, and Icesis on the runway

Final Stats:

The lowest possible score is 1, the highest is 5. These averages are calculated from each of my rates in each respective category in each episode.

Funny: 2.5

Fashion: 3.166666667

Fun: 2.333333333

Fierce: 2.833333333

Overall Score: 2.708333333 on a scale of 1 to 5

Afterword:

Those acting challenges are still SO HORRIBLE I don’t even know how they could fix them at this point. It’s just kind of an inherently bad structure for a challenge I think. Also the humor of the US judges is bad but I’m not sure it reaches the soulless phoning in of the Canadian drag race judges. Part of my idea for rebooting the show includes abandoning those stupid fucking runway comments the judges are always making. Genuinely makes the show hard to even watch sometimes. I’ve heard some people watch this on mute.

I don’t think Canada VS The World was very good overall but I guess I’m happy Ra’jah finally has a crown.