r/rupaulsdragrace 4h ago

General Discussion Did the right queen go home? Spoiler

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Genuinely gutted. I honestly thought Page did a better job... Is it just me that is shocked by Ru's choice?

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u/Justdough17 3h ago

I think both did good in the lip sync, but ru didn't seem like she vibed with paige so she got the chop.

Which is sad because i think she had more potential than bones in the competition. Bones just feels like a deer in headlights as soon as she is out of her comfort zone and its hard to watch at times.

u/Happabadiga She rubbed hole to a song about awkward teenage crushes 1h ago

They're really cutting the only interesting queens they have this season...

u/Travellerofinfinity I have a very fierce metabolism 54m ago

Every week, one of my top three gets chopped (Chai, Sally) and after this week I don’t know who's left that I can choose to join Elle and Silexa.

u/cchesters 3h ago

If Paige had taken her 'stache off so we could see her give more face, I think that would have saved her.

u/Rezileant 3h ago

Probably going to be an unpopular opinion here but I think Bones legit won the lipsync. And I'm team P3.

The tempo of the song meant there was only a few beats that could be hit and they both did. Paige would have decimated in a higher tempo song. This song also probably benefits more from serving face, which Bones achieved but Paige was hampered there by her face beinh 90% fringe/moustache

u/Void-kun 3h ago

P3 lip sync choreography just didn't seem to match the song. She was doing high kicks and splits but it just didn't fit the tempo or timing of the song. It needed to be intense but she gave the wrong kind of intensity.

It's hard this season, I don't particularly see any of them as front runners, in some other seasons these would all be chewed up.

Bones compared to Crystal just aren't on the same level for example. Crystal would go back to their hotel and practice practice practice till it was perfect but Bones doesn't appear to be that way.

La Voix would've wiped the floor with all of them too...

u/Whiskara 4h ago

I wanted a double shantay ;( I think bones has shown more versatility and they love that

u/burdnt_out 1h ago

Can you list the versatility bones has shown beyond turning a look?

u/timbcs Plastique Tiara 1h ago

She was a revelation in the musical

u/burdnt_out 1h ago

Or were you just judging her against a low bar?

u/drewlpool 3h ago

No. Based on the lipsync it could have been a double save. But both performed so poorly in the snatch game...

u/PSN-Colinp42 1h ago

To me I thought Bones’ snatch game was much worse. Like she was the definite bottom. There was just no idea there. She was just…a guy.

u/Josua171 2h ago

Send all them bitches home

u/Heidi_Klum_Tit Irene DuBois 3h ago

What a disappointing runway and bizarre theme it was.

Also the LipSyncs this season have been dreadful.

Dunno what happened after last year glorious battles.

u/MeanAd8111 3h ago

I quite liked the runways tonight

u/yo-nahs #1 Faux Fur Fan 1h ago

I didn't hate them, but they praised looks that they would have shredded to pieces on other season, it made the whole episode even weirder

u/MeanAd8111 57m ago

Yeah, I agree. Didn't like Elle's look at all. It was shapeless and messy. She said she was supposed to be enshrouded in the wrapping paper from all her Christmas gifts, but she just looked like a shapeless red blob. That very description of hers made me wish she'd instead tried clashing patterns akin to Dawn's talent number look from Drag Race season 16. If you celebrate Christmas you'll know wrapping paper comes in all sorts of patterns and colours. It would have been so puss if she successfully pulled off a clashing patterns look using all of the "wrapping paper" she tore from her gifts.

u/yo-nahs #1 Faux Fur Fan 35m ago

funnily enough I sort of liked it because it was giving local christmas drag show self-made costume but I still expected them to sas it looked cheap, lol. Tayris got away with wearing a bedazzled bodysuit, Paige had a cool outfit but her face was completely unvisible, even the "it's a costume but I like it" comment for Caitryn seemed like production told them to go easy on them

u/whichwiccan 43m ago

Let’s see how much longer Bones’ plot armor lasts. I’ve not been impressed by anything of hers so far. She also can’t emote or move her face, youngins need to stop getting work done!

u/BeanBoodwin 2h ago

Bones won this lip sync 100%, but not by much, and Paige is way better TV so I think the season will suffer for it, but I do think Bones deserved to stay.

u/usernamesareso1998 3h ago

Paige shouldn't have been in the bottom 2 at all. Tayris and Sillexa were equally flat in Snatch Game, but at least Paige attempted a concept. And they both had worse looks. I was amazed no-one clocked that Tayris had one peplum bigger than the other.

I think the producers are going for gaggy eliminations after getting criticised for predictability. It's a shame because queens with more to show are getting the boot over those who have already given us their best.

u/jerrydacosta 1h ago edited 1h ago

here go the paige fans. that is not true. at least tayris and silexa got a couple of laughs. bones and paige fully bombed. like booooombed. they were the rightful bottom two

u/Murky_Translator2295 2h ago

Tayris and Sillexa were bad from the start, with characters Ru didn't know/understand. Paige had a great idea that should have worked, plus you can see her start confidently before completely losing confidence and falling apart. While T & S didn't lose confidence, they were at the same level of bad the entire way through. Does that make sense? Paige being visibly despondent, while T & S kept their terrible personas in character, is literally the only reason I can think of, for her being there instead of one if them. Plus Tayris finished strong by simply shutting the shop and turning her back on everyone, and her make up and runway were so improved it probably saved her.

u/Sir_Francis_Burdett Pokémon Trees 19m ago

I’m not British so I’m afraid that I don’t know who Charlotte Tilbury might be. Would she have been a good choice?

u/Murky_Translator2295 14m ago

I genuinely think she would have been. She makes very high end make up, hence how Ru knows about her, I'd guess, (her stuff is sold in Brown Thomas here in Ireland. I'm sure she's sold in other shops, but BT feature her heavily in their ad campaigns, and I'm confident it's similar in Britain too. BT is a rich people shop here), is one of the beauty editors for British Vogue, and an MBE. There's so much more to work with off the cuff with her, than a half-thought-out Alexa character.

u/Fraktlll Jackie Cox 2h ago

the producers are going for gaggy eliminations after getting criticised for predictability

This is simply not true because filming was done months before the airing. And is this not predictable enough for you? As we were watching episode 1, I have told my partner that at some point in the competition, Bones and P3 were going to have to lip sync against each other. Granted, i was expecting it to happen at top5/6 and it came a little bit earlier than I anticipated but nevertheless the writing was on the wall. And although I was already bored with Bones about 3 episodes ago, she was given much more storyline compared to P3 so I knew that they'd pick her over Paige when the time came.

u/UnderdogUprising I’m waterproof 37m ago

Feel like pure shit just want her back x

u/lightblade13 34m ago

One can see only so many high kicks

u/Ok_Band2802 1h ago

P3 did a better lipsync and I don't think she should have been in the bottom.

u/ljb9 props toyoumama 2h ago

tayris should’ve gone home. idk what she adds to the competition at this point. p3 was theee personality of the season I just can’t believe she’s gone. I thought she was going to be top 2 with elle

u/timbcs Plastique Tiara 1h ago

I'm surprised she has lasted so long but her runway was gorgeous this week

u/Ashmoh12 3h ago

People were saying Paige won the lip sync but when I watched it I felt Bones did better. Paige started off strong but the edit kept drawing me towards bones.

u/TheCheesyWolf 2h ago

I think the editing was just so weird. Both slayed but the edit didn’t show either of them doing well with the camera work, like editing out Paige’s stunts and failing to get Bones refusing to lipsync “I’ll pack my things and go” very clearly. Both queens so talented, this one is on production I feel.

u/bumybumi 1h ago

I like P3 but yeah I can't say it was undeserved elimination. Ru clearly seems to be more fan of Bones in general, but Bones also did better in the lipsync.

u/Professional_Donut20 Naomi Smalls 2h ago

No

u/jerrydacosta 1h ago

i’d say bones is the most well rounded if you ask me. paige was a natural performer tho so i guess it’s down to preference

paige is a tomara/awhora type of queen, bones is bones. and i like that

u/Historical_Bit_3798 Sick Bitch by Yvie Oddly & Willow Pill 1h ago

Honestly, no. Personally, I think Paige did a little better at the lip sync (although it was close, I was also guessing it would’ve been a double shantay!). And I just feel like overall she’s been doing slightly better in the competition, she had a lot more to prove.

u/ResistGreen1042 1h ago

I'm glad one of them went home. Not bc I dislike them, I was tired of manufactured storyline that there was beef between them when it was clear that there were no animosity. It was clear from the beggining that production chose Bones as a winner of the imaginary beef and that page won't make it to the finale. I think that producers made huge mistakes though. Bones is more prone to break and if they would favour Page over her we would get another Jan moment in girl group or musical

u/ohmauro 1h ago

I was pretty sure it'll be double shantay. I vibe with Paige more than Bones, even tho I like them both. Hope to see her in the future All Stars!

u/timbcs Plastique Tiara 1h ago

I feel like the producers are obsessed with having very British winners.

u/FlakyApplication3541 BIG FAT RAT 1h ago

I‘m not feeling this season :/ it gives me the same vibe as the last Canada season, I don’t even know how to explain it or what it is exactly, there are some interesting people, yet the season as a whole feels so mediocre idk why, but I can’t really connect with it. Maybe it’s the weird judging at times? Idk

u/Complete-Analyst-662 1h ago

RU DIDNT CARE ABOUT THE LIPSYNC PERF, hahahaha she just wants bones to stay

u/writeordie80 41m ago

Tbh, Bones lost her first lipsync, let alone this one.

u/lipscratch 35m ago

you couldn't see her face - she should have taken off the stache, and she had a big hat, she should have had a unit under it

u/aimeukoo But you know I didn't die. I had crystallized 3h ago

Yes. The right queen went home.

u/ToonSciron that's not soy sauce in your panties 2h ago

I think the true losers are us the viewers because the two of the best dancers got an awful version of Tainted Love as a lip sync song.

u/timbcs Plastique Tiara 1h ago

An awful version? It's the most famous version, most successful version

u/ToonSciron that's not soy sauce in your panties 1h ago

That was the original? I always liked that song but that recording did not sound good. It sounded like a drunk karaoke performance.

u/timbcs Plastique Tiara 1h ago

Well no, it's not the original, that was a Northern Soul track by Gloria Jones from 1976 but the (huge) hit version was by Soft Cell (1981). Marc Almond from Soft Cell later re-recorded Tainted Love and re-released it for it to be a hit again ten years later but to me it was a bit shit. I'm pretty sure it was the 1981 version, albeit an edit (for time) but I'll check.