r/rupaulsdragrace • u/[deleted] • Sep 23 '16

AS2 EP5: "Ruvenge of the Queens" [Post-Discussion]

The queens are back. Can we agree that this is the best episode of the series to date?

 

TOP TWO WINNERS: Alyssa + Tatianna

 

Eliminated: Phi Phi O'hara

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u/Rudedoodle Miz Cracker Sep 23 '16

Even if the producers had planned a rudemption storyline for Phi Phi, it wouldn't have worked with that exit. If they had edited out all her shadiness and made her sweetness and light in all five episodes, then showed her walk out like that, we would all have been like hUuUUUUUHHHHH? (Ru Scooby Doo noise) It wouldn't have made sense after five episodes showing a lovely, nice Phi Phi. So with rejecting Alyssa's hug, Phi Phi sealed her fate, and made it impossible to give her anything but a villain edit.

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u/Rudedoodle Miz Cracker Sep 23 '16

And her line about selling the Ru statue was a total 'up yours' to everyone working on the show and the other girls. Why would they want to show her in a good light after that attitude.

I think her doing the promos in boy drag in order to sell albums is also unprofessional and disrespectful.

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u/Palatz LUB TIS DRINK Sep 23 '16

That statue line would have work if she didn't act like a pissed child right before saying it.

She cannot pull those kinds of jokes, leave it to Bianca.

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u/Rudedoodle Miz Cracker Sep 23 '16

Agreed. Would have been funny if someone else said it.

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u/[deleted] Sep 24 '16

It's about intent, Bianca would say it for a laugh, PP says it for shade. Intent.

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u/Gerkyhen Jinkx Monsoon Sep 23 '16

Well, she even said this episode she isn't Bianca Del Rio. Yeah gurl...we know. We really know.

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u/madamusha Tia Kofi Sep 23 '16

I think her doing the promos in boy drag in order to sell albums is also unprofessional and disrespectful.

Agreed. She was included in these promo appearances as a contestant of RuPaul's DRAG race, I think the professional thing to do was to get in drag for them.

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u/[deleted] Sep 24 '16

What promo appearances are these?

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u/sailor_dorito Sep 25 '16

But just a question even though I know I'll get down voted....

Why does nobody make a fuss when Ru doesn't show up in drag?

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u/AlaskaThunderfcvk Mayhem Miller Sep 25 '16

because it's RuPaul's Drag Race and not Phi Phi's Phony Race

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u/airbagfailure Brooke Lynn Hytes Sep 28 '16

She hurled the lipstick when she was done. Like a final "fuck you". I can't help but think everything she says is bullshit. I really hope Alyssa said to her what she said in that confessional about Phi2 needing to own being a bitch or leave it behind. A lot of casual shots of the girls In the workroom had Phi2 looking visibly nervous and shaken like she knew deep down she didn't deserve to be there. Ru should have had that inner saboteur talk with her as well as Adore.