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Hi Ugly!
It’s me, Bussy and welcome back to HOT Or ROT!
And today we’ll be reviewing episode 9 of Rupaul’s Drag Race All Stars Season 6.
Our queens were challenged to create drag tot characters to test their skills in costume
design, voice acting and script writing.
As it turns out, cartoons aren't just for babies anymore.
“MAMA!”
We’ll be breaking all of that down and then at the end of today’s video, we’ll be
investigating the question: Is this the closest season of All Stars…Ever?
I did the math and the results might surprise you.
Or not.
Guess you’ll just have to stay tuned until the end to find out.
Now let’s hit the playground.
First up it’s Trinity K Bonet.
The drag tot character she’s created tonight is called Fierce Furlecia the Feline and her
powers are posture, poise, pettiness and apparently alliteration.
So Trinity had a really unique approach to this challenge.
She was the only one to I think really think outside the catbox with her character.
You’ll see as we go on that most of the other queens kept their drag tots relativity
humanesque, and I guess that was one thing that was kind of ambiguous for me was like,
were they really supposed to make something outlandish or just make it a representation
of who they were as a drag queen?
Either way though, Trinity found a way to do both of those things successfully.
And the biggest victory tonight I think for Trinity was sounding super animated as her
character.
Like I really believed her full feline fantasy.
And the only critique that I had for Trinity tonight was I was a little bit confused at
her dedication to keeping her mouth closed on the runway.
I guess the cat had her tongue.
But, you know all I’m saying is like a smile or two wouldn’t have hurt during the presentation.
That said, her p[___] was on FIRE tonight.
This was HOT!
Next up, ain't she just the cutest little thing you ever did see?
It’s Teralynn!
Teralynn!
TERALYNN! *explosion and hysterical laughter* But everybody just calls her Terabelle.
Which of course is short for Teralynn Dubois Deberough Belle Junior the 3rd.
Her special power was that she wanted to teach the power of communication and I guess that
she was carrying a parasol of poise as she called it.
In terms of character creation, I think Ginger was one of the weakest tonight.
She pretty much just came out on the stage as herself and she was hilarious.
The writing and voice acting was perfect, like, the way she inflected her voice and
delivered jokes was unmatched by anyone else tonight.
And even though I do think her character was a bit weak, the actual costume she created
for this southern belle fantasy was really well-made and I think looked great on her.
And my other critique for ginger tonight was that some of the writing felt a tad adult
for what they were doing.
For example, she made really funny jokes about drunk dialing her ex and like what to do when
kids on the playground think that you have the voice of a 50-year old man.
But then again full disclosure I’ve never actually seen the TV show so I’m not sure
if the jokes are meant to actually be more in the adult or children space.
So I’m gonna go ahead and give Ginger a ROT on the character creation but overall
her tot was HOT!
Next up, what up though?
It’s Rajah Ohara.
Her character name is Iseeya Queen.
Her powers include the ability to change the mood, find your groove and twerk her way into
a new dimension.
*Giggle* That’s pretty iconic.
I must say.
Concerning the costume that she made for this character, I feel like it was overall a little
bit haphazard which left me a little disappointed because I mean she did win the blue ball of
this season.
I just wanted a little bit more technical finesse and maybe a better integration of
the eyeballs and googly eyes throughout her outfit.
For example, I loved the integration of the eyeballs on the palms.
She was giving me like family-friendly Pan’s Labyrinth tease but the rest of the eyes felt
like they were glued on at the last second like she just kinda like saw them and was
like “oh I should put those on my costume so I’ma put them here, here, here, here,
here, here and here!”
There just kind of needed to be I think a little more method to that madness.
You seeing what I’m seeing?
Her writing and voice acting tonight though were top tier.
She’s here and she made it clear that her character was all about changing your perspective
and you know looking at the positive sides of things.
She put those googly eyes on and she said “demons I see you but I’m not going to
look at you.”
Tonight I saw Rajah and a character on the stage.
This tot was HOT!
Next up it’s Eureka and the character she has created tonight is called Alexandria McQueen.
She did something very different from everyone else.
Instead of making I guess like a positive, light superhero type of character she went
to the dark side.
She became a villain.
Her powers were toxic gas, a death stare and dropping it like it’s lukewarm.
The gown she created for this character is I think one of the best looks on the runway
and I love the camp factor of the castle towers being wrapped around her head like that; however,
I think this gown was also her downfall.
She didn’t leave enough room in it to let herself have fun on the stage to perform this
like spoken piece that they were kind of pantomiming.
Something I really loved about the character she created also was that she turned her negative
superlatives that she got from earlier in the episode like gassiest and bossiest into
something she could use but I do think it’s difficult to make a villain lovable and I
think that’s where she struggled the most.
Like the combination of her jokes about toxic gas and the huge ego that her character had
left me with a bad taste in my mouth and nose.
This was another half rot half hot situation for me.
The delivery needed a little something extra but overall the character was cool.
And finally are you feeling baaad?
Because Kylie is!
Tonight she is Miss Behave.
She created this witchy drag tot character that has the ability to read you with her
glasses and then also hear tea that’s being spilled from miles away.
Kylie I think without a doubt had the strongest idea and costume for a character.
Like I was gagged by the broom that was standing up on it’s own, the spellbook that she created
to go along with this look, the witch hat, the dress that literally made it look like
as Charli XCX pointed out that she was levitating.
Like there were just so many great costume design details in what she did tonight.
However I do think she maybe had some of the weakest writing of the group.
There were really great punny lines like “it’s ok to be a witching queen as long as you’re
in good spirits'', but overall it felt like it was lacking a little bit of substance.
Like maybe Miss Behave should have been Miss Behaven and maybe even some sort of like crazy
spell incantation thing at the end as she was walking away just to really amp up that
camp factor, but there was definitely a transformation in her voice acting.
I think she did a really great job on that as well.
So a rot in the writing department but definitely a HOT in the look tonight.
So tonight Rajah Ohara takes the win and she ends up lip syncing against Kameron Michaels.
And I have one thing to say about this lip sync...
Boom.
ROT!
How are we going to have gay icon and legend herself Charles THE XCX on that guest judging
panel and then not lip sync to something more iconic like Vroom Vroom.
Like girl that in itself was a hate crime.
Boom Clap is a good song but it was a good song 10 years ago like she has changed up
her style so much since then it just boggles me that they didn’t pick a cooler song.
So we’re going to move on from that but if you want to catch my reaction to that lip
sync and the episode as a whole that is up over on my Patreon at patreon.com/bussyqueen.
That’s my members-only website where my patron family gets exclusive member-benefits
like early access to my videos, exclusive videos, access to the Bussy Queen discord
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Click the link in the description of this video to join today!
So Kameron wins and we find out that the group has chosen to eliminate Eureka tonight which
honestly is exactly what I would’ve done too.
Eureka has been excellent this season and I think she has told a story of her character
growth and really proven to everybody watching that she is such a different person than she
was back on seasons 9 and 10, and it’s really been fun to see her journey.
But near the end of the competition I really feel like she has kind of gotten in her head
a bit about not winning and the other queens are seeing that and if she didn't get the
win tonight, when was she going to get it?
And I do kind of feel like that the producers maybe wanted to put everybody in the bottom
just to like give the girls the bait of maybe sending home one of our front-runners but
at the end of the day like it is not worth 100,000 dollars to essentially sabotage your
career in the eyes of the fans by sending home someone that they love just so that you
can you know have a better shot at winning.
Anyways now it’s time for me to show you my special powers.
*haunted gay laughter* SPREADSHEETS!
The question I wanted to answer today was based on track record: is this the closest
season of All Stars that has ever occurred?
Excluding All Stars 1 you know because of the whole like partner twist thing which makes
it impossible to compare across seasons.
And I tackled that question in two different ways - firstly by calculating every All Stars
finale entrance points per episode and secondly by looking at the number of wins each All
Stars finale entrant had and then taking the taking difference between the highest number
of wins and lowest for each season.
And by the way for the first part of my answer to this question I calculated points per episode
loosely based on a formula by the youtuber that now goes by U as follows: If a queen
won a challenge and their lipsync, I awarded them 6 points, just winning got them 5, placing
high 4, safe 3, low earned them 2 points and if they were in the bottom they got just 1.
So let’s start at the bottom and then go to the top.
“Started from the bottom now we’re here.”
In All Stars 2, the queen with the most wins and highest score going into the finale was
Alaska with 4 wins and 31 points per episode.
She bested Roxxxy the queen with the lowest of both of those stats by a total of 3 wins
and 17 points.
In All Stars 3, the queen with the most wins and highest score going into the finale was
Shangela.
She had 3 wins and 27 episode points.
She bested Kennedy who was the queen with the lowest of both of those stats by 2 wins
and 11 points.
In All Stars 4 the queen with the most wins and highest episode points was Trinity the
Tuck with 35 points and 4 wins.
She bested Naomi with the least of both of those by 3 wins and 8 episode points.
In All Stars 5, our top queen going into the finale was Miss Cracker.
She had 3 wins and 28 total episode points and she bested Jujubee the queen with the
least of both of those by 2 wins and 9 points.
And drumroll please...the queen with the most number of wins so far is actually a three-way
tie between Ginger, TKB and Rajah with 2 each, and then the queen with the highest number
of points per episode is Rajah.
The queen with the least is Trinity.
But Rajah and Trinity have a score difference of only 6 points and that three-way tie of
most wins is only one win higher than the queen with the least amount of wins going
into the finale which is Kylie with just 1.
So the answer to our question today is yes on both accounts, at least by how I measured
it.
These four queens have the smallest points per episode and number of wins difference
than any All Stars season before.
Of course I think a little disclaimer here is needed because All Stars seasons 2,3 and
4 both had two winners per challenge which would naturally give more wins to more queens
across the season as a whole but I think the points per episode stat does a great job of
balancing that out.
And the other little twist in our hose tight is that it doesn't seem like we’re actually
going into the finale.
Normally All Stars seasons have their finales in episodes 8 or 10 for a longer season but
I think this season will have like 12 episodes.
And we just saw Rupaul at the end of today’s episode tell Eureka to get ready for the lip
sync of her life so… something tells me that that final 4 could have a little bit
of a switch up and how that will affect how close all these score are I don't know but
regardless going into this episode and out of this episode this race is tight!
And now it’s time for a game within a game!
My hottest TOT tonight is Trinity K Bonet.
I think she was the strongest in three different categories: voice acting, script writing and
character creation.
I also asked my patrons to vote for their hottest tot over on patreon.com and this week
they’ve chosen Rajah Ohara.
But let me know what you’re thinking about this episode down in the comments below.
Who would you have chosen for the win and who would you have sent home given the opportunity?
And do you think track record even matters?
And finally I want to say thanks to you for watching this video and give a special shout
out to Fetchinweiners and Hussam Batshan who just joined my patreon at the HOT!
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Love ya, Bye! *panting*
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