#other ones just cant do it and their actors dont have the chemistry or skills like these ones maybe cdrama of the year. super late entry

[wanghedi]

Finally a cdrama with adults acting like adults and making normal adult decisions and scheming and having crazy sexual tension with each other oh my goddddd finallyyyy cdramas usually are so sexless most of the time its like fairytale land children storybook type romance and im siiiiick of it

[ace-pervert]

Ive finished watching eleven seasons of rupauls drag race and now feel I am ready to briefly review each season

S1: A good start though it must be said, ONGINA WAS ROBBED! Also there was favoritism.

S2: Not a bad season but at least somewhat ruined by Rupauls rather overt favoritism towards Tyra and dislike of Pandora. While I didnt like Tyra on the show his callout of the entire drag community after leaving drag has given me massive respect for him and feels like karma for RuPauls rather blatant self promotion and attempts to turn himself into some kind of rolemodel. But aside from the callout and Jujube, and Pandora the season is unmemorable.

S3: The top three were all highly skilled and the winner seemed to deserve it though that was later put into doubt after it came to light that Raja had worked with RuPaul before the show aired, and lets be honest Manilla Luzon was much more talented.

S4: One of the best seasons in drag race history, has the best music video, and Sharron Needles is hands down the most influential and versatile queen in drag race history. The only bad part, aside from the editing against phi phi, is Latrice Royal, who, and I feel this needs to be said, wouldnt have been in the top four had Willam stayed, and certainly wouldnt have made top five if Alaska had been allowed to join, mostly because she kept showing a similar outfit, her not being a particularly good actor, being thrown off really easily, and quickly relying on a shtick.

S5: Good season, but I feel that Roxxxy really did end up in the top three only because Visage and Ru love drama and the Jersey Shore look that was at the time Roxxxy Andrews trademark look, and the Coco Alyssa drama was really dull, neither deserved to be as high as ended up, and ultimately both queens are unmemorable.

S6: Not a bad season but i'm not a fan of Courtney Act or miss Lake, mostly because I think they both get away with looks that really they shouldnt have gotten away with, though arguable so did Bendelacreme. Though it was nice that there wasnt any drama, and Bianca del Rio is really funny.

S7: Ive tried to come up with words to describe this season, I cant, its just that bad. No not bad just dull, really dull and awkward, and the worst part is that its not the queens who drag the season down, the queens themselves are fine and Pearl stands out as being a particularly interresting person when not on drag race, its RuPaul being a tool off camera and coming up with challenges that play to the queens weaknesses rather strengths.

S8: Unfortunately I found Bob the Drag Queen so attractive out of drag that I stopped caring about what he looked like in drag with the end result being that I have no idea if hes a good drag queen. But ignoring the moments where I was drooling over Bob it was a good season with some truly great outfits,and a good Snatch Game, that wether for good or bad did very quickly become the Bob the drag queen and Kim Chi show, making it in hindsight the second most plann

S9: The season started off with an appearance by Lady Gaga , whose reviews of the outfits consisted of little more than name dropping and not much else, unintentionally setting the tone for a dull and awkward season with a cheerleading challenge that causes one person to crack a rib and another to almost permanently lose their ability to dance, a Reality Star Rusical that is well just dull, painfully bad lipsinks, uninterresting outfits, and perhaps the blandest wierd drag queen in the history of the competition. Its also in this season that introduced the lipsink for the crown format that I personally despise as it takes the power away from the viewers and puts it back in Rupauls hand.

S10: Solid season, mostly focused on returning contestant Eureka but the other contestants are given enough focus that it feels natural. The challenges are interresting to watch, the snatchgame is funny, and the dresses are well made. The top four are all stars in their right and the winner of that season could have easily been any of them, making this the only season where a lipsink for the crown made sense.

S11: Starts off strong with people like Miss Vanjie, Brooke Lynne Hytes, Nina West and Yvie Oddly revealing a high degree of skill both as actors and as dress makers. Unfortunately the blatant favoritism of Rupaul, the judges, and the producers towards Silky Nutmeg Ganache (honestly they seem like a nice person in real life, but on the show they just seem like a tool), unimaginative challenges, distracting and irritating cameos by former drag race contestants including by Bianca whos dull and unentertaining appearance shows exactly why contestants shouldnt return at all, a rusical so god cringeworthy you'll pray for death (Trump the Rusical), the worst snatch game in drag race history, and painfully predictable twists result in a terrible season, with the only interresting things being the romance between Vanjie and Brooke (they broke up four months after the last episode before the reunion due to conflicting schedules), Miss Vanjie being well himself, Nina Wests acting, and Yvie Oddly's outfits .

S12: Havent seen it, but lets be honest this season is the one where the star is a sex offender. By now many fans have analysed the season and its become clear that the person who was intended to be the focal point and possible winner was Sherry Pie, which means that editing them out for very well known reasons also makes them the focal point just in a different way than intended. Hell it wouldnt surprise me if this season becomes known as the one with Sherry Pie, not the one where the winner won. Though it might also be the last season that RuPauls on, as there are rumors that hes stopping with drag race.

The Christmass Special: To short for a christmass special, to much like the other episodes to be special, to blatantly commercial to be Christmass, and to scripted, even by drag race standards, to be drag race.

And now for a review of the Judges themselves

RuPaul: On the outside a warm, outspoken, well meaning person whose done things which are truly groundbreaking. But beneath that warm exterior beats the stone cold heart of a businessman. He's calculating, manipulative, greedy, has no qualms about setting queens up for failure, and ultimately hasnt done much that could be seen as groundbreaking. Perhaps the worst part is that its clear that in terms of humor , mentality and fashion hes never left the 70s, which combined with his callous way of treating the enviroment (as shown by his fracking empire) and his history of transpobia, makes him a liability to the show. Even if you manage to ignore all of that, the show is ultimately about the drag queens, not about Rupaul, and Rupauls attemps to make it about him really drag the show down

Michelle Visage: Shes a mother of two teenagers with a stay at home husband pretending to be a bitchy whore on a tv show about drag queens, yeah thats her career. Now in truth thats not the biggest issue, the biggest issue is that shes got hangups and makes the same jokes over over again and that after being on the show for ten years she hasnt developed as a judge so the routine, to paphrase miss Visage herself, has been done to death. In truth the show needs something other than the same damn shtick and same damn comments all the time, and if she cant do it then she should quite so someone else can do it for her. Ok maybe thats the second biggest issue, the biggest is that she kisses RuPaul's ass untill it shines brighter than a mirror.

Valentino Rice: Good judge, and had great chemistry with the other judges.

Ross Mathews: Cute guy, wierdly charming, and interacts well with the others.

Carson Kressley: He comes across as a very tired, very frail, very gay but very very very dull ninety year old man, which makes sense given the fact that his entire career is based on being gay, and hes, well old. Ok hes not really old, hes 50, but on camera he looks and acts closer to 150. And the issue isnt that hes gay, its that hes doing a shtick, a very dull and fairly offensive shtick. Possibly the worst choice for a judge, and the show jumps in quality whenever hes not there.

Now for a few things that just bug me.

Favoritism: Unfortunately one of the biggest issues of the show is that seasons tend to be structured around Queens who are intended to be the winner, or at least the hero, from the get go, which has the advantage of allowing the creators of the show to change the structure and challenges from season to season, but also makes it hard to watch if the season is blatant in its favoritism, if the intended winner isnt that good, or if the winner gets eliminated for one reason or another.

Cameos by former contestants: Cameos are a great way to get people to say "I know that person" which is great in a tv show because you know that the cast wont change in the next episode, but not great in a competition where all it does is take away screentime from competitors and giving it to competitors who most likely did not do well enough to win in their own drag race, and even if they did, the show is not about them, but about the current contestants. As such if Ru wants them to return he should put them in All Stars.

Cameos by celebrities: Add nothing. Its drag race not the red carpet, i'm watching for the up and coming drag queens not famous people trying to boost their careers.

Adding politics to the show: No, just no. Dont do things like Trump the Rusical, dont have steven colbert do a voiceover, theres no way that can go well and it comes accross as virtue signaling. If Ru wants to do something good he should double the prize money and have half of the money go to a charity of the winners choosing, or stop fracking.

Adding politics outside of the Show: Drag queens are celebrities and entertainers, as such are constantly in the public eye and dependent on being in it for their income which means that anything they say in public, wether its gossiping, or discussing politics, needs to be viewed as being some form of self promotion. Now this might make things difficult for them, but it is a well known part of being an entertainer so it can be assumed that they were well aware of this before they joined Drag Race. If they do want to talk about politics without being viewed as self promoting, they are free to make an anonymous account on one of the many sites, like tumblr, where its assumed that no one knows who the other people are.

Family Friendly Drag: Lets be honest its men shoving their cocks up their own asses while dressing up as women, and naking refferences to sex, for the sake of entertainment. Thers nothing family friendly about it. Nor should there be as part of the appeal of drag is that its something that is restricted to adults. Likewise they arent heroes, they are entertainers, not doctors, not construction workers, entertainers no more worthy of praise then a person on a sitcom.

Drama outside of Drag Race: While drama on the show is to be expected and is part of what makes it entertaining, drama outside of the show is different its more personal and something that in truth should not be shared. However by presenting it as gossip on various shows they are saying its part of the show, which is unhealthy at best.

Final note.

While I am critising the Drag Race, I am not doing it because I dislike the show, I am infact a big fan of the show but at the same time I want to get my thoughts out there see how others view these topics.

[deveharrington]

To: The anon who is sad about Deadbeat Ducookie (theoretically) being a two timing (and maybe three? four? five? etc? timing lmao) piece of fucking shit during the Gillovny revival era (~2016 onwards??): don’t be sad :-)

Be happy: this situation (if true) is only sad IF you legitimize David’s current “situation” as being anywhere near on the same plane as Gillovny, or any normal human relationship for that matter. 

Even if I do not support Gillovny anymore, there is no comparison to the obvious chemistry, rapport, way of interacting that exists between D and G. So, again, do not legitimize D’s current situation because how much more evidence do we need that it is bullshit (I don’t mean that it is not “existing”, I mean that it is a fucking fantasy, exploitation, manipulation, lie, deception, coercion, transaction etc.) and built upon a foundation of bullshit (D’s fantasy world. More concrete evidence: this guy actually thinks he is a legitimate rockstar* so… that should give you some insight on his grasp on reality). 

So, probably the only evidence we need that its fake bullshit (perfect for David :-) ): that age gap. 

I’ve said it before: Gillovny is too real for David, he can’t handle legitimate challenges in life and I’m pretty sure he can’t handle any relationship/“situation” that is not about his stupid male dominant fairytale ideals that he saw in one too many outdated movies, songs or books. The guy can’t create anything original, he can only follow, so don’t even be surprised that he’s embodying the midlife crisis nonsense to a T. Even his constant deflections and excuses for himself are as predictable as clockwork - we know his arrogance, his self consciousness, and his pattern of doing everything he can to conceal those things by now. lmao. 

Gillian did all the work for him so let’s be glad that she’s rid of the dead weight. 

So: again, don’t legitimize David. Don’t legitimize his judgment (how much evidence do we have or need of his superficiality? poor decision making skills? poor impulse control - thanks to another anon for pointing this out?), don’t legitimize his one million excuses that he makes to others and to HIMSELF (notice how all of his excuses always occur after the fact of his poorly executed behaviours? conclusion: he doesn’t put any fucking thought into his actions which is fucking reckless, even dangerous just to begin with), don’t legitimize his shitty views on women in any way, including by being sad that Gillian is now free of him :-) D is always projecting, but he’s the one who cannot survive without cheap validation. Gillian does not need that and she does not need him :-) Actually, her career flourished after being rid of that 200lbs (or w/e) of pure bullshit. 

More: David is so many shitty things but basically he is so incredibly disrespectful, and, as normal human beings, do we put up with disrespect in relationships? Would you put up with being hidden? having your “partner” always walking ahead of you, ignoring you? Never talking about you? separating you from their family and kids? 

The thing is, David WILL put up with disrespect, its an anomaly but it comes from him disrespecting HIMSELF, or perhaps not knowing himself nor setting boundaries for himself (maybe this is why he violates the boundaries of others so much). He WILL put up with disrespect, and actually this is nearly impossible for anyone to fathom if they respect themselves, but try to see it his way: imagine if you hated yourself so much you didn’t care how others treated you. 

To illustrate: Imagine if you hated yourself so much and ALSO COULD NOT TRUST YOURSELF to such an extent that there was nothing you could say to yourself to make yourself feel better so you decided to “tour” the globe just to stand in front of a crowd and make a damn fool of yourself JUST TO HEAR A CROWD CHEERING while at the same time knowing that people are only there because you were in a successful T.V. show in THE NINETIES. AND, IMAGINE YOU ARE AN ACTOR, AND YOU DIDN’T EVEN HAVE ANY SUCCESSFUL T.V. shows/movies w/e in the present!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAH

More on disrespect - he cannot respect the opinions of others: notice how he cannot address situations where he feels that he’s been slighted (its all in his head btw) without lashing out, insulting others, trying to change history etc. etc. He’s a child. 

So, most importantly he will put up with disrespecting HIMSELF, so if he will not trust himself then why should we trust him? Again, don’t trust or legitimize what he does, its not real. 

If you can see and admit that the rockstar bullshit is just that: bullshit (it’s bullshit but it still carries on like some morbidly limping machine because of too many enablers around D), then see and admit that the sexy irresistible jobless arrogant jerk “dating” someone around the same age as HIS OWN DAUGHTER bullshit is also bullshit (again, it’s bullshit but it still carries on like some morbidly limping machine because of too many enablers around D). 

Do we really want that kind of person around Gillian? 

Please learn from me: don’t sweat over him!!!!!!!!!! Though, I’m still trying to learn this. Let’s learn together :-) Be happy and laugh with me :-) HAHAHAHAH;K;AHAHAHAHAHALAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA 

BECAUSE: 

*I recently watched an interview from 2018 (!!) where David said that people were coming to his “concerts” for the “music” and not for his “celebrity” “status”…. LMAO ya’lls this guy is DELUSIONAL!!!! I can’t LMAO I swear he honestly believes this for real! He said it straight, he didn’t use any self deprecation in that statement there were no jokes but it was probably the most hilarious thing he’s ever said HAHAHAHAHAHHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHHAHAHAHAHA

[poseidqn]

Well, got has officially become the worst show ive ever watched..

LONG ASS RANT WITH SPOILERS AHEAD!!

Daenerys x Jon is the most forced relationship i have ever seen in a tv show (and ive seen a shit ton). The chemistry is completly off between the actors, ive never been a huge fan of Kit’s acting but seeing him with Emilia is a damn nightmare. I don’t know what happened to Emilia’s acting skills either, like I could have understood the initial reaction to see V. Die before her eyes as shock, but even then it was so wooden (and it doesnt even look like shes looking in the right direction). The boat scene is a complete disaster to me, its badly acted and written even worse. The whole thing is so damn rushed and such a mess. I cant help but cringe every damn time theyre next to each other. And the fact that Davos & Tyrion have to insist on their new “romance” : “i see you starring at her good heart “ “jon snow is in love with you” is just fucking bad writing and they know it. If their actors + writing were good enough in a scene together the viewer wouldnt need someone to point out the damn obvious, thats a cheap way to confirm the relationship and its just fucking lazy. They just put 2 hot white people standing next to each other and expect us to believe its the best romance of the century. Also theyre aunt and nephew, I dont care if people ship them, you ship what you like, but the show have been shitting all over Jaime & cersei but now wants to give us Daenerys & Jon? And I dont care if its common use for the Targaryens, incest is incest, you cant criticize it on one hand and idealise it on  another.

((Btw l understand that most of Jon’s fan are calling him a traitor to the north for bending the knee, but at this point Daenerys gave him all her dragonglass + came to their rescue, losing her “child” in the process + promised to fight for him ; lending him her army + other dragons. What else should he do then? Not bend the knee? Thats not how political relationship works. That just makes sense. (Not the “my queen” cringy shit tho, no need to go to thats extend damn)))

V.’s death has close to zero impact to be honest, as someone who watched the show originally in most part for the dragons, I was surprised and disappointed by the lack of sadness his death is treated with. If they had given him a tiny bit of personnality instead of giving everything to Drogon it would have had some meaning then. Thats really not helped by Emilias acting, or the pace of the scene, or the music or the writing, he just sinks. Also his death is literally Jon’s fault, everybody was on the dragon already, but he had to be the manly hero™ and just pulled some bullshit long enough to get V killed. What a waste. And Daenerys is not even pissed at him too? Wtf.

The entire expedition was such a mess too and so unnecessary, the rythm is either too rushed or too slow (that shot of several seconds on Kit’s face after his conversation with jors is so damn long (WE GET IT HES GONNA HAVE  A KID WITH DAENERYS SHUT; THE; FUCK; UP; ABOUT IT ALREADY DAMN), its litteraly a bunch of dudes admiring each other’s manly skills + the skills of the men they knew. Really no talks about Arya (Gendry + Jon + The Hound) or Sansa?! Also that damn sword doesnt belong to Jorah but to Lyanna, the one who stood for Jon when no others would, and thats it. No one brought some fucking dragonglass too for some reason. .

The Sansa + Arya dynamic is a fucking mess. Even Maisie who ive always thought to be an excellent actress is so lost in her lines. The writers make a bunch of dudes who are not supposed to get along (if we look at their backstories) just bound over some dudebros action but they cant write a goddamn relationship between sisters right? The other day i was rewatching the battle of the bastards episode and it makes me so damn glad Rickon is dead, now they cant fuck him over  too.

On a side note: Cersei & Jaime’s characters have literally been murdered. Jaime has lost all type of substance. What the fuck happened to my queen Yara? Euron’s is just one more blood thirsty villain like ive seen billions of times already (at least Ramsay was interesting). Why is little finger not dead already? Like im certain that the stark sisters are playing him but still why would he still be around? Where is ghost? Tyrion has been reduced to literally nothing. Same thing for Bran, the fucks wrong with him. Rhaegal is reduced to a fuckboy and Lyanna just destroyed (what a surprise, another woman shitted on on this show). The timeline is completly fucked. I thought the 5 & 6 seasons were bad but this is worse.

Anyways; my random thoughts for the final season: Daenerys & Jon have a baby, he rides Rhaegal & she rides drogon during the war against the knight king. Cersei aint gonna give  a shit so she wont take part in the fight. Many characters die at least: Tormund, Jorah, Beric, melisandre & Davos. Jaime kills cersei. Yara dies. daenerys either goes mad or dies, but some shit is gonna happen to her so Jon can sit on the iron throne, with the baby he has with daenerys as the heir & sansa becomes the lady of winterfell. Arya possibly dies, so does Bran. Theon has an heroic death (probably saving one of the stark’s lives).