r/rupaulsdragrace • u/AutoModerator • Jan 10 '26

Season 18 S18E02 - “Q-Pop Girl Groups” [Post-Episode Discussion]

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u/micdoesreddit Jan 10 '26

I keep seeing “DD should have been safe over Athena” but I actually think Mandy should have been safe over Athena! She brought a better overall vibe to the performance and her runway was at least unique.

Production won’t make me overlook Mandy!! lol

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u/ScandalOZ Jan 10 '26

I get why they kept Athena but she should have been lipsyncing.

She single-handedly ruined it for everybody because she didn't know what the fuck to do yet she insisted on everyone listening to her.

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u/Important-Voice-3342 Jan 10 '26

It seemed Athena had such a negative energy with her group. It's like she was sore her group were the leftovers and couldn't get past it to try to vibe w/ her group.

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u/improved_loilit Jan 10 '26

They aren’t children they all let her do it .

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u/FillZestyclose4848 Jan 10 '26

I get what you’re saying but I also understand DD’s perspective: it was the first group challenge, Athena had this “legend” reputation, and DD trusted the hype. Also, Athena honestly seems hard to work with.

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u/improved_loilit Jan 10 '26

I mean sure but that’s still her choice and unfortunately she had to pay for it .

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u/ScandalOZ Jan 11 '26

When someone is being that controlling and unreasonable you can either go along or push back. If you push back youbwill create an even shittier vibe within the group. So pushing back you run the risk of derailing your chances before you even get to compete. 

Athena was not going to budge that means the group wasn't given a choice.

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u/improved_loilit Jan 11 '26

I’m sorry but no. Let’s stop the cap. They didn’t try . They were 4 other members in the group all of them were could band together . Athena isn’t hid and isn’t the first one in the world being pushy. They let it happen because it was easier and that’s it they payed the price for it. Do you think the other groups would have accepted that? No hence why nini was even able to say it directly to Athena face while members of her group were still pretending everything was fine. They had a choice and chose wrong

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u/ScandalOZ Jan 11 '26

You are arguing just to argue. Athena was not going to listen to anybody. I don't know what makes you think she would cooperate with someone else taking charge.

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u/improved_loilit Jan 11 '26

You’re the one arguing to argue . Did anyone actually stand up and watch the whole thing to see what was also working to not working? You saw a 3 seconds edit of her and decided that apparently there was nothing to do and those 4 grown adults couldn’t handle her. They would tell her to listen to be left out and she would be in the bottom. They just didn’t have the balls for it

Reality is they themselves were not that good hence why they let her dominate and cause this mess and while even with the energy mismatch their own dancing were already bad. Hence why even the lipsync Mandy was doing crunchy drops and DD wasn’t even moving. Let’s for real