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Mama, kudos for analysing that. For dissecting.

In the first moment where Q showed a little bitterness I said to my friend "they'll edge this girl and take her out in the last second" AND BABY I WAS SO RIGHT

Thank you for calling out the fandom for changing their mind about Megami so fast after one episode.

I’m sorry but the drag race fandom of all fandoms calling out people for how they behave on twitter will never not be funny to me

Plane putting Nymphia last in the ranking helped her in the finale l/s. We never saw her LS so it was all new and fresh. It’s what put Sapphira at a disadvantage

I’m still convinced that plane used her immunity on nymphia to jump start her redemption story arc. I called it from weeks prior that plane wouldn’t use the immunity for herself.

The unexpected success of early outs like MIRAGE and Amanda Tori Meating indicates to me that they should consider doing what Hell’s Kitchen did and have a Rookies Vs. Veterans season, where it’s maybe early outs who had a lot of potential but not a full Drag Race run competing against a new cast of DA’s. It could be a cool new themed season to consider alongside the multiple All-Stars seasons.

i clicked so fast that the balloon didn't touch the roof yet

I appreciate that Nymphia didn’t get an obvious winner edit, I truly didn’t know she won until rupaul said her name and thats probably the thing I look for the most in a good season

One thing that threw me with this season is the lip-sync song choices. I mean, Flowers? Made You Look? A chipmunked vocal version of Bloody Mary instead of the original? Even the Icona Pop song they went with is just… why? They made up for it a tiny bit by using Padam Padam as the final lip-sync song, but there were MASSIVE WTF choices this time.

Plane Jane rigging the rate a queen ironically helped nymphia win the final lip sync because she didn’t lip sync the whole season

I feel like rate a queen could have been so much more when they showed the results, like show exactly how the girls voted 😭

When Megami called Dawn buzzlightyear 🫠

Nymphia's was absolutely goth. The mystery is totally part of the aesthetic.

Plane Jane has the most interesting arc. She went from being hated to people loving her because she can back up her words with great drag

The riggory is that they did not air the episode where Megami saved Queer art from Rupaul who has revealed she is actually Mother Rooseberry from the Outlast trials and that the hilarious Ross Matthews is her drill hand puppet. Fortunately, Megami destroyed Rupaul's drag children which contained Mother Rooseberry's power and defeated her.

I got here so quick Ms.Minogue only said the first Padam.

How could they not make a reunion on THIS season!

"I don't know if something fell through last minute" Sapphira has talked about how her initial concept was to be a vampire and wanted to pull out a beating heart as well as blood - The prop was difficult to get together in time and she also didn't want to spill blood all over the stage when that could make Nymphia slip. Basically, she had a concept, but just couldn't see it through, and there wasn't enough time to re-strategize. So that's why Sapphira wasn't giving as much as we normally expect from her

I fully re-choreographed Sapphiras Padam Padam lip sync in my head, it involved her going full Dragula, eating a prop heart, covering herself in blood, and having a glowing stomach that would pulse in time to the music 😂 If i had any sort of talent, I'd make it a reality myself, but alas

i’m sorry but as long as I live, i’ll never forget Plane ending her Power verse with “and if you at the polls, you can catch this box” 💀

This was the strongest, unique, most consistent TOP 3, since Season 3. Each one of those Queens got what It TAKES to DEVOUR This competition, and they ALL deserved ALL the love they got. #TripleCrowning

Welp....you did it again....I knew you would gag when Mayhem Miller would appear as the secret queen after rate a queen. No one knew she would storm the competition winning every challenge after episode 2 Sapphira replaced Rupaul and Morphine Love Dion sent the entire cast home then won the lalaparuza and then miss congeniality with Xunami. Plasma was robbed in the emo challenge after coming out as Elvira's black rose toy.

I think Nymphia’s edit made sense at the end of the season, and it really shows in the episodes she won, like in the ball when Q and Dawn were arguing about who was the better seamstress and then out of nowhere Nymphia ate them up in the challenge, also the storyline for her girl group was that nobody believed they could do well just to end up being the winning team, and in the last challenge when at the start of the episode she says she doesn’t not want a writing challenge just to end up doing really well and also winning, she had the weakest track record of the top 3 which made everyone not have faith on her winning just to end up having one of the best lipsync for the crown and slay the finale to snatch the crown. The edit of the season focused more on other strong contenders putting Nymphia in the sideline just for her slay them at the end, love that for her.

I could see SO MANY of these girls not only slaying future All-Stars seasons, but I could see multiple winners come out of them, kind of like S9 did

I feel like producers wanted Sapphira in the end game and knew she was going to make it there regardless so they kept picking other queens over her for wins. Then all of sudden they realize that there’s not many chances for her to snag a win left so they decided to on the giving her the power point win out of nowhere. It gave me Sasha winning the interview challenge vibes.

36:40 We have to take into consideration that Michelle told Dawn she was bored of the elf ears, and I think that is what made Dawn go for the alien thing.

Nymphia not being saved for the Snatch Game, but Aura Mayari being saved because of her runway is true camp. We love to see it, mother.

Not many can say that they’ve been unrigging with you for 3/4 years but here I am!!! So thankful for you derek you really are the full time detective of rpdr!

As a goth I want to say Nymphia and Dawn's looks WERE goth. I think non goths only think of trad goth when there is so much more than that. Nymphia and Dawn's looks are great examples of romantic goth. I don't think Q's look was a good representation of any branch of goth hence why a lot of us goths think the win should have gone to Nymphia.

the thing with nymphia is for every rigged saved that she gets, there's an equal rigged "not winning" placement so i feel like it balances out 😭

I honestly thought Morphine’s “Oop - drag queen flopping!” was kinda funny 😂😂

My plane Jane immunity potion theory is that production asked her to use it on Nymphia so that she wouldn’t be on stage when they asked everyone if they were registered to vote. My guess is that Nymphia isn’t registered since she’s from Taiwan and they didn’t want her to mess up everyone saying they’re registered

For ep 9, I actually don’t agree : Dawn and Nymphia Wind were representing the Gothic theme the most, with Q landing on a more Punk theme. And with Nymphia’s veil covering her face, it’s a nice trick for the Wednesday theme that you were talking about : She’s the scary one you worry about, who’s an angel in reality. This is the reason why people think so much that Nymphia should have won this challenge (and I’m apart of them!)

In the middle of making my daily bagel, and couldn’t find anything to watch. Thank you for saving my breakfast drag detective!

Got my lunch and I’m SEATED!

Q didn’t deserve the high in the rusical, all she did was walk here n there, like no.

i completely agree about megami her run is so underrated. her ball design look was amazing, she won me over with the girl groups and then i think she should have been high in the doll design look instead of plane. happy that she received her recognition now with the lalaparuzza but i wish people appareciated her more during her run. like she showed she could write and design and be funny her shade was amazing

Not that Dawn was gonna make top 3, but I feel like she was overlooked and set up for failure this season. I think she could've won the Doll challenge (which I think she did) and the Goth challenge (which for me was more a Nymphia win). But it was really clear that when she got paired up with Mhi'ya and Nymphia that they just wanted her gone. But on the other hand she might have been too reserved or too much in her head. She would make a great All-Stars queen. The bathroom challenge should've been judged in teams. Where Dawn would probably still go against Nymphia. But I do think that Q and Morphine should've been in the bottom, mostly because they brought nothing new to the challenge. It was just rehashing all their previous acting challenges. Q should have won the stand-up challenge so they could finish her story and have her leave the competition at the bathroom challenge.

I clicked faster than Morphine eliminating Dawn

It always baffles me when a queen from a “losing group” wins. Like you didn’t succeed in the teamwork aspect of the challenge? Especially in the power point challenge where the win clearly could have gone to Plane and Q

tbh i think they saw nymphia as a fan favorite and someone that they wanted to go far which is why she was kept from the bottom, but tbh i don't think they wanted her to win, only because usually if theres a challenge where two-three queens do well, they'll usually give the win to the one they wanted to push further where as nymphia had at least one or two times where she could have one (not rigged she didn't) but instead they gave the win to someone else. For example if they wanted nymphia to be a viable winner they could have given the win to the gothic design challenge but they didn't. So i think they liked her but I honestly think when filming and editing this season they saw plane and sapphira as potential winners.

One of my biggest problems with the season was the song choices for lip syncs lol, Shower, Bloody Mary (tik tok wendesday dance version), Made You Look, Miss Me More, i feel like we got quite a few interesting and very tame choices, maybe a lot of the song budget went to Break My Soul and Padam Padam lmao

The Saphira win on the prezi challenge felt like - Ginger winning the table talk - and Juujuu winning the hotel challenge

Damn am I the ONLY one that likes emergency??? It’s such a fun draggy song lol

hey, queen! girl, you have done it again, constantly raising the bar for us all and doing it flawlessly

Been Team Plane , Sapphira & Nymphia since the premiere 🎉 Season 16 has really revived the franchise to the good. Also big shoutout to MIB for bringing the shade back.

Nymphia, Sapphira, Morphine using Amanda’s purple mug for the Power Point will forever send me when they screamed in horror 😂😂😂😂 Nymphias accent and mannerisms was hilarious!! Idc what the judges say

I genuinely think Plasma could have won against Mhi'ya on the original version of the song.

If you call everything iconic does it actually make it iconic?

this season was amazing the best part is that every queen really got to showcase a lot of their talents and thats amazing!

yea we never got the vibe that plane and nymphia were good friends so that potion was shocking. from their appearances together and how they interact with each other outside of the show it clearly shows that they are good friends. i think she even went to taiwan with nymphia, so now the use of the potion was very understandable. they might have had to eliminate Q before the finale because they didn't have enough time to squeeze in one more lip sync because sasha was performing. could be they opted to keep sasha's performance over a second lip sync battle. sapphira was the fav from the edit of the season. i pegged her to win from episode 3 cause it was giving me sasha colby edit. there were episodes where nymphia had no spoken word at all, not in the work room and no confessionals. there's no one else in the season they did that to. did they ever do that to anyone on any season? but they probably took fan votes into account this time, unlike the disaster they had on uk vs tw 2 when they didn't.

did we watch the same bathroom hunties challenge?? upon multiple rewatches i really don't think nymphia was consistently bulldozing dawn and talking miles a minute like you said she was lol, dawn had instances with michelle and carson there where she couldve had funny moments

Soooo here for the Megami redemption*. I wasn't really a Megami *fan* per se during the season (but still liked her!!) because she wasn't given a proper chance to shine during the show and I am SOOOOOO glad that mama was finally able to show Drag Race fans what she's capable of during the Lalaparuza. *plz, she didn't need "redemption" but she def stuck it to the DR fans who wrote her off during the season

nymphia genuinely has the worst winner edit of all time 😭 like it could have been a sickening edit but they did an absolutely abysmal job

You saved Aura just last season for an amazing look in the same challenge but not here with Nymphia? Hmm. Choices.

It’s been bugging me so much that the immunity potion expired on a non-elimination episode. Like just make it expire the next episode or the one before, it made the whole immunity potion feel like nothing (but I guess that’s how immunity potions go, i liked your point about throwing a ton of them out there until one creates a moment) hopefully we see immunity twists kinda like this one in the future that still gives power to the queens to pick (instead of default immunity for winning a challenge)

15:15 no mention of Megami wanting us to protect queer art? *Gay gasp* diva...

36:30 Michelle told Dawn in the previous episode to lose the elf ears and give glamour

This video is the queer art megami wanted us to protect

Watching drag race with spoilers is wild to me

me going straight from the intro to ep1

What’s funny about DAWN and Q is that they’re connected to two DA’s who were on Dragula Season 5, which aired right before this. Q is the drag sister of Cynthia Doll, and DAWN is best friends with Jay Kay. In fact, when DAWN mentioned they had a friend that they get really annoying with on the mic during performances, it was Jay they were talking about (Jay even confirmed that).

This is kinda like season 9 where the placements are not really rigged because whoever did the best and the worst is so obvious. Besides maybe some lip sync results, nothing big really changes. It's obvious the queens are getting prepared for the challenges now and the sewing abillity of these queens are really high. They should start changing up the challenge structure now.

“And she made him look like Gothy Kendoll” No but I died wtf 😭 I also kinda agree, Plane convincing that hot man to shave his body hair is why she deserves the win for that episode

Despite her edit, I do feel bad for Q. I don’t agree that the top 3 were “clearly” the best of the season. Q had SEVERAL high placements, 1 uncontested win and one that was still completely justified, was open about personal issues like her HIV Status, one win she was “robbed” of with the drag presentations challenge, and a moment of vulnerability when she lip synced before getting her win. On paper she literally had every single piece it took to get to the finals on any other season, but those pieces just never fit together. Her attitude and her survived lip sync being against an “underdog” in Amanda really soured people against her, and that sucks. This being the first time there were intentionally 3 finalists since season EIGHT just makes me feel bad for her at the end of the day.

I always thought it was kinda delusional to act like Amanda mopped the floor with Q. Neither performance was particularly good.

81 Minutes wow we are being FED!!!!!

Apparently Sapphira was supposed to have a beating heart prop in the final lipsync that ended up not working out (also think she may have just given up after winning Miss C because after that I think she and everyone watching knew they weren't gonna crown her)

i think your read on plasma is wrong.. i don't think production ever planned for her to go far, they gave her 2 wins just to create a shocking elimination because they know the fandom was getting tired of the rigging and predictability. The fact we got so many design challenges was not random, they knew the bottom would be mhiya and plasma and mhiya would serve

not everything that was good is iconic

Dawn definitely gives me Trixie season 7 energy to be honest. Where if she utilizes her fans she could build a great thing outside of Drag Race.

i may be insanely biased but i truly believe that amanda beat q in that icona pop lipsync

The Plane Jane stan in me both destroyed by her loss but unbelievably happy that we probably have her for 2 more AS seasons in the future ❤

its funny how the top 3 had some relation to the immunity potion

"so what's your favorite movie?" "The riggory of drag race season 16"

thank god, a video to get me thru the last hour and a half of my workday

tbf when i was watching this season i had the feeling that a big part of why dawn wasn't doing amazingly was because that super cluttered elf fantasy iconic look of hers (which i absolutely adore) just isn't something the judges were likely to be obsessed with and i think she knew that, like she was sort of trying to work around the expected reactions from the judges. then in terms of comedy i think she just didn't end up with any challenges that let her showcase how funny she is past the first mini challenge which sucks but it happens lol drag race comedy challenges are such a dice roll

No Tea no shade but a weakness of this season was the amount of filler queens and obvious front runners. It was so painfully obvious that it would be between Sapphira and Nymphia. Plasma, Dawn and Q all great queens in their own right but you just knew none of them would win due to their drag aesthetic

Sapphira didn’t change the lyrics of the song. She just put the translation into a different context.

Q should notttt have been top for the Rusical

Preach about Megami! I honestly think she could have been third place in both the Doll Design challenge over Plane and third place in the SNL parody. (Mostly coz I was not a big fan of Q’s brick) The way her doing well was getting dismissed by other people was really weird. Like, she redeemed herself and got the win in the girl group, what do the fans want from her?

Lady Bunny is so old she reuses her “teeth! how do you think I make so much money” Xunami it was that easy 😭

straight up called me out about the teenage girls loving the quirky weird queens (i am fully 23 years old but im still there)

@55:04 clock that tea. The fans this season showed so much hypocrisy by saying that Mirage and Plasma should have stayed despite losing their lip syncs by a mile

saying that plane’s makeover win wasnt rigged is CRAZY 💀 what happened to your analysis

Planes makeover partner went in as Dawn 2.0 and came out as gothy kendoll in a body suit lol 😂

I strongly feel that the editors/producers did not neglect to give Nymphia a storyline. Nymphia may have not given much in scene and in interview. Can produce or edit what's not there. There's no way WOW is spending all this money to produce this show only to leave the best footage in the edit system.

Megami is one of my favorite queens period. She is so talented and was I championing for her before the season started (we need more cosplay queens). Her biblically accurate angel is one of my favorite runways and I even bought the sticker because I loved it so much. Hated how people treated her after her talent show.

I totally agree with you on watching seasons unspoiled. The one and only season I watched with spoilers was Season 9, and after Maskgate happened I swore off spoilers forever because I wish I had gone into that not knowing what was about to happen.

I don't know why but you saying Plane was telling people that they were ugly and talented to their faces had me cracking up.

babe wake up the riggory of drag race season 16 came out

I’m really annoyed I skipped this season since I let drag race fatigue get to me

Love love love loved this season! Feel like it’s a more recent season that I’d happily go back and watch repeatedly. Thinking about Q, she really did shoot herself in the foot. I feel like producers were rubbing their hands when she was clearly upset at not winning certain challenges. Think if she could strengthen herself, perhaps, and maybe develop different comedy characters she’d be amazing for an all stars.

wdym youu're over itttt, the talent shows are slayy when theyre not all doing the same thing

I miss this cast so much and it's only been a week.

The political rumix was definitely a moment of riggory and wasted potential. Why announce 2 episodes prior that this would be the last chance for Plane Jane to use her immunity potion and continuously remind her all the way up until critiques this episode, just for it to not matter in the end? I truly do believe that it would've been bottom 2 lip sync if Plane had used the potion on herself. But because she didn't do so, the producers had to scramble last minute because they didn't want to risk losing her yet. So they simultaneously saved Plane from the bottom and made the immunity potion entirely pointless. Imagine how great that payoff would've been if we got to see Plane's face crack when she realized she made a terrible decision in giving it to Nymphia.

Truly adored this cast together. So, so good.

i’m so excited to watch this i’ve been saving it for this moment