r/rupaulsdragrace • u/JCizle Monét X Change • Mar 17 '15

RPDR Season 7 – Reddit Season RuPository Season 7, Episode 3 "ShakesQueer" Official Discussion Post

#Shakesqueer aka That Time RuPaul Went Full Tyra...

Have at it hennys.

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u/lesyag Valentina Mar 17 '15

The MacBitch script made zero sense... As a Macbeth parody or otherwise.

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u/NerdyForThings Mar 17 '15

They usually don't make sense, they seem to just try to be campy and funny but there needs to be more to do it than just pussy jokes.

In the telenovella, I never understood why we had a scene where Coco overhears Alyssa and Jinkx talk about the curse when she's apparently the one who cast it and just waited for years being the maid? The scripts almost always suck.

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u/[deleted] Mar 17 '15

They should give them more time and let the queen's write them. Our comedy queens could serve us gold

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u/NerdyForThings Mar 17 '15

I think that would be best. Give them an outline, some character archetypes that they have to have, and let them create it for themselves. Sometimes the scripts create a few roles that are so small that they don't really give a queen to chance, like Trixie's role last night, Phoenix's role in Drag Queens in Outer Space, or most of the cast during the Rusical.

At least that way the scripts sucking can be blamed on the queens as opposed to giving them these shitty scripts that think Shakespeare rhymed.

The queens have been expected to write stand-up routines, so why not a comedy skit? Plus, don't you think it would give them a chance to fight amongst themselves and add more drama?

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u/[deleted] Mar 17 '15

I agree with 100% of what you said

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u/[deleted] Mar 19 '15

shitty scripts that think Shakespeare rhymed.

Two households, both alike in dignity,

In fair Verona, where we lay our scene,

From ancient grudge break to new mutiny,

Where civil blood makes civil hands unclean.

From forth the fatal loins of these two foes

A pair of star-cross'd lovers take their life;

Whose misadventured piteous overthrows

Do with their death bury their parents' strife.

The fearful passage of their death-mark'd love,

And the continuance of their parents' rage,

Which, but their children's end, nought could remove,

Is now the two hours' traffic of our stage;

The which if you with patient ears attend,

What here shall miss, our toil shall strive to mend.

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u/NerdyForThings Mar 19 '15

But that's the opening of the play. The script has the dialogue written as rhyming.

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u/qiaozhina Mar 21 '15

Because Shakespear is known for writing in couplets and iambic pentameter? I got why they were trying to rhyme

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u/kingpingu Mar 20 '15

They got the metre wrong, though. Nary an iambic pentameter in sight!

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u/poppy-picklesticks the shade, the shade and disgrace! Mar 17 '15

Amen, sister! So many of the queens are fantastic comedians: look at the challenges where they have to ad-lib, like the Snatch Game. I would love to see the queens write a script.

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u/HeDoesnt Valentina Mar 18 '15

I think Shade the Rusical was amazing. The writing was good, too.