Haha Katya is a gem. Sooooo likable and funny. I actually liked more queens this season than past seasons. Pearl, Trixie, Max, Violet, Miss Fame, Katya and I think the real problem this season has been the editing, judging, putting untucked on youtube, so many acting and group challenges etc. It took so long to get to know the queens and then they weren't judged the same bc they were part of a group or flopping thru those horrible challenges. Just feel if their was more time spent in the work room or more queens were given attention on the main stage viewers would feel differently about this batch of girls. As for the top three Pearl has me in stitches bc she is funny but unaware of it. I don't feel she is over it but you are supposed to think that bc Ru told her to wake up. Ginger is funny but it is nothing we haven't seen before. Bianca and Jinkx were better and I don't think another comedy queen is winning. Violet is fierce, has shown a willingness to change, she is confident and her fashion os amazzzing! Plus the demos for this show is 18 to 30 so it makes sense one of the younger queens would win. They can carry the torch for much longer. I don't think Ru would crown someone who was part of the bitter bitch click until the end. Who roots for that? And the fan vote leans to Violet or Pearl. I want Violet to win but I can see it being Pearl esp based on editing!
What I actually like this season is that Untucked was taken over my WOW productions rather than LOGO. The youtube episodes have been in gorgeous HD and I've seen more details on the queens I did not see before. And then the one thing I really love is that I feel Untucked is unedited because there are no stir-the-pot games with that pink box and no sound effects the majority of the time to sway what the emotions of the viewer. I felt the show presented the queens at their most organic. The queens still threw shade, had breakdowns, broke off into their own groups to talk T and shade. It felt more real.
As for my opinion of Pearl, Ru did not help me decide that she was over it. Her interviews and interactions with other queens made me form my own opinion over the season.
For me that is just how it was.
I feel like despite the targeted demo, a genuine personality with unique presentation and vision wins the season. Had Katya been top 3, winner would have been decided right then and there. She was the biggest threat with talent, quick wit, warmness, and charm. And she's 33. And Bianca was 38.
Maybe there is something to those group challenges being an obstacle to knowing the queens a tad. So fair point. Usually Untucked was where we would see the real meat of tension and hate between the queens. I guess since Logo has not continued with that show perhaps they thought a good way to mine any entertainment footage was to keep giving challenges like that. To counteract this perhaps WOW should have aired an hour long version of Untucked each week. The filming per episode, as I understand it, takes place a little under a week. There's enough footage.