#like s2 is hasnt ruined s1 for me and it’s not GOING to ruin s1 for me

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Ngl I’m a little upset they changed the origins so that Aziraphale and Crowley met BEFORE Eden, when they were both angels. Like that scene was adorable and I get the whole point of it was to set up why Azi thought Crowley would want to go back to Heaven as an angel at the end of s2 but… if your major-cliffhanger-breakup scene only works because of something you shoehorned into the story that wasn’t originally there, does it really even have much value? Plus I liked when Eden was where they first met. It was interesting to see them form their Agreement and relationship and fall in love despite being “hereditary enemies” and coming from two completely different sides of a coin. Plus they were just so… innocent? Is that the right word? in that scene because they were two beings on opposite sides, trying to make sense of the jobs they were given and the plan God had for everything up ahead. Slowly falling in love with the Earth and each other. It was really sweet. But by putting in their NEW “meet-cute,” it changes that, and implies that Azi only fell in love with Crowley because he was previously an angel, not just because he was a “nice” demon and showed him a different side to things. (Also Crowley doing the wing thing just felt VERY on the nose idk how to feel abt that. But it was cute.) Although I will admit you could argue that Azi always saw him as previously an angel since that’s what Crowley, a demon, is by definition. And of course a lot can be said about how Aziraphale has always been manipulated by Heaven, and that finale was just showing how he needs to break free from their hold on him by himself before he can be with Crowley. I mean all in all I don’t have that much of an issue with this change, and it doesn’t even ruin my enjoyment of the series. It just kinda rubs me the wrong way and I don’t know why? Anyways, decisions were made this season and I don’t agree with all of them, but I still had a lot of fun watching it, and I have high hopes for s3 whenever that comes :)

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[ THE MANDALORIAN S2 FINALE SPOILERS ETC ETC ETC ] 

OK DHIGDSFHG i already talked abt this at length on discord w/ friends so im not going to sound very heated, bc im just repeating myself here , but like ... i didnt like it lol and im not saying this bc boba got nerfed hard, i just knew there was no way theyre gonna make that finale good because they set up so many stupid plotlines. i knew it was gonna suck the second i saw bo-katan AHAHAHAAH i was like oh no we ARE doing the mandalore plotline in season finale HUH ??? NICE . 

this entire season all din ever does is meet new people but never form emotional bonds with them. take him and boba for example, lol, as hypocritical as its gonna sound coming from me. the writers/directors for this show KNOW how cool the visual of din and boba standing next to each other is, they milk the SHIT out of their scenes, but that’s all they ever do with them. they just put them next to each other and don’t let them talk. they don’t let them BOND over things they have in common and i know that din was pressed to save his baby etc etc BUT UHHHH APPARENTLY IT WAS VERY IMPORTANT FOR HIM TO HAVE A BONDING MOMENT WITH UHHHHH MAYFELD ?????? WHO THEN PEACED OUT OF THE SHOW AND WASNT EVEN IN THE NEXT EPISODE ?????????????????????????

din doesn’t get to .... bond with the people who are apparently willing to die for this green gremlin baby. when he puts together this whole team , it just feels empty as hell. he hasn’t even said more than two sentences to fennec. what’s the fucking point. what’s the fucking point of frontloading this show with characters if theres no payoff, if there are no meaningful interactions between them ???

the biggest fucking joke of that finale is when they set up this enormous threat of the darktroopers and then a character WHO HASNT BEEN IN THE SHOW BEFORE , DOESNT EXIST IN THE CONTEXT OF THE SHOW, JUST APPEARS OUT OF NOWHERE AND REMOVES THE MAIN THREAT TO THE PROTAGONIST IN LIKE TWO MINUTES AND THEN PEACES OUT, LIKE ???? HAHAHAHA WHAT THE FUCK !!!!!!!!!!!! WHAT THE FUCK !!!!!!!!! WHAT IS THAT !!!!!! IMAGINE FOR A SECOND THAT THE ORIGINAL TRILOGY DOESNT EXIST, WOULDNT YOU FUCKING LOSE YOUR SHIT AT THAT???? ITS SO FUCKING STUPID ???????? 

AND APPARENTLY THE ONLY REASON WHY DIN LETS BABY YODA GO WITH LUKE IS ONLY BECAUSE HE WATCHED THE ORIGINAL TRILOGY AND KNOWS THIS IS LUKE SKYWALKER AS PORTRAYED BY MARK HAMILL AND THEREFORE HE CAN TRUST HIM. im not saying i hate luke or something like that i just think this was executed SO fucking poorly, this is a scene of this show that cannot stand on its own without being propped up by the original trilogy. and the main appeal of the mandalorian s1 was that it DIDNT need star wars, now there are like 15 supplementary materials you need to watch to get all of the nuance and i hate this i hate this i HATE this, OH MY GODDDDDDDDDDDDDD 

SARA POINTED THIS OUT ON DISCORD TOO, LIKE. THE SHOW IS TITLED ‘THE MANDALORIAN’ BUT IN THE END, ITS ALL ABOUT THE JEDI, OF COURSE IT FUCKING ISSSSSSSSSSSSSSSS AHHH FUCK I KNOW I SAID IM NOT GONNA SOUND HEATED BUT I LIED I LIED IM STILL HEATED ABOUT THAT, ABOUT THE WAY THESE STAR WARS MEN ARE RUINING THE GOOD THING THEY HAD GOING ON BECAUSE THEY HAVE TO REFERENCE THEIR OCs OR WHATEVER OHHHH MY gDODD NOBODY CARES ABOUT THE REBELS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! NOBODY CARES ABOUT THE CLONE WARS, STOP TALKING ABOUT THE JEDI, STOP TALKING ABOUT THE JEDIIIIIII OH MY FOgf hgofhghgfh----

very happy for boba tho. thank you.

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Ive finished watching eleven seasons of rupauls drag race and now feel I am ready to briefly review each season

S1: A good start though it must be said, ONGINA WAS ROBBED! Also there was favoritism.

S2: Not a bad season but at least somewhat ruined by Rupauls rather overt favoritism towards Tyra and dislike of Pandora. While I didnt like Tyra on the show his callout of the entire drag community after leaving drag has given me massive respect for him and feels like karma for RuPauls rather blatant self promotion and attempts to turn himself into some kind of rolemodel. But aside from the callout and Jujube, and Pandora the season is unmemorable.

S3: The top three were all highly skilled and the winner seemed to deserve it though that was later put into doubt after it came to light that Raja had worked with RuPaul before the show aired, and lets be honest Manilla Luzon was much more talented.

S4: One of the best seasons in drag race history, has the best music video, and Sharron Needles is hands down the most influential and versatile queen in drag race history. The only bad part, aside from the editing against phi phi, is Latrice Royal, who, and I feel this needs to be said, wouldnt have been in the top four had Willam stayed, and certainly wouldnt have made top five if Alaska had been allowed to join, mostly because she kept showing a similar outfit, her not being a particularly good actor, being thrown off really easily, and quickly relying on a shtick.

S5: Good season, but I feel that Roxxxy really did end up in the top three only because Visage and Ru love drama and the Jersey Shore look that was at the time Roxxxy Andrews trademark look, and the Coco Alyssa drama was really dull, neither deserved to be as high as ended up, and ultimately both queens are unmemorable.

S6: Not a bad season but i'm not a fan of Courtney Act or miss Lake, mostly because I think they both get away with looks that really they shouldnt have gotten away with, though arguable so did Bendelacreme. Though it was nice that there wasnt any drama, and Bianca del Rio is really funny.

S7: Ive tried to come up with words to describe this season, I cant, its just that bad. No not bad just dull, really dull and awkward, and the worst part is that its not the queens who drag the season down, the queens themselves are fine and Pearl stands out as being a particularly interresting person when not on drag race, its RuPaul being a tool off camera and coming up with challenges that play to the queens weaknesses rather strengths.

S8: Unfortunately I found Bob the Drag Queen so attractive out of drag that I stopped caring about what he looked like in drag with the end result being that I have no idea if hes a good drag queen. But ignoring the moments where I was drooling over Bob it was a good season with some truly great outfits,and a good Snatch Game, that wether for good or bad did very quickly become the Bob the drag queen and Kim Chi show, making it in hindsight the second most plann

S9: The season started off with an appearance by Lady Gaga , whose reviews of the outfits consisted of little more than name dropping and not much else, unintentionally setting the tone for a dull and awkward season with a cheerleading challenge that causes one person to crack a rib and another to almost permanently lose their ability to dance, a Reality Star Rusical that is well just dull, painfully bad lipsinks, uninterresting outfits, and perhaps the blandest wierd drag queen in the history of the competition. Its also in this season that introduced the lipsink for the crown format that I personally despise as it takes the power away from the viewers and puts it back in Rupauls hand.

S10: Solid season, mostly focused on returning contestant Eureka but the other contestants are given enough focus that it feels natural. The challenges are interresting to watch, the snatchgame is funny, and the dresses are well made. The top four are all stars in their right and the winner of that season could have easily been any of them, making this the only season where a lipsink for the crown made sense.

S11: Starts off strong with people like Miss Vanjie, Brooke Lynne Hytes, Nina West and Yvie Oddly revealing a high degree of skill both as actors and as dress makers. Unfortunately the blatant favoritism of Rupaul, the judges, and the producers towards Silky Nutmeg Ganache (honestly they seem like a nice person in real life, but on the show they just seem like a tool), unimaginative challenges, distracting and irritating cameos by former drag race contestants including by Bianca whos dull and unentertaining appearance shows exactly why contestants shouldnt return at all, a rusical so god cringeworthy you'll pray for death (Trump the Rusical), the worst snatch game in drag race history, and painfully predictable twists result in a terrible season, with the only interresting things being the romance between Vanjie and Brooke (they broke up four months after the last episode before the reunion due to conflicting schedules), Miss Vanjie being well himself, Nina Wests acting, and Yvie Oddly's outfits .

S12: Havent seen it, but lets be honest this season is the one where the star is a sex offender. By now many fans have analysed the season and its become clear that the person who was intended to be the focal point and possible winner was Sherry Pie, which means that editing them out for very well known reasons also makes them the focal point just in a different way than intended. Hell it wouldnt surprise me if this season becomes known as the one with Sherry Pie, not the one where the winner won. Though it might also be the last season that RuPauls on, as there are rumors that hes stopping with drag race.

The Christmass Special: To short for a christmass special, to much like the other episodes to be special, to blatantly commercial to be Christmass, and to scripted, even by drag race standards, to be drag race.

And now for a review of the Judges themselves

RuPaul: On the outside a warm, outspoken, well meaning person whose done things which are truly groundbreaking. But beneath that warm exterior beats the stone cold heart of a businessman. He's calculating, manipulative, greedy, has no qualms about setting queens up for failure, and ultimately hasnt done much that could be seen as groundbreaking. Perhaps the worst part is that its clear that in terms of humor , mentality and fashion hes never left the 70s, which combined with his callous way of treating the enviroment (as shown by his fracking empire) and his history of transpobia, makes him a liability to the show. Even if you manage to ignore all of that, the show is ultimately about the drag queens, not about Rupaul, and Rupauls attemps to make it about him really drag the show down

Michelle Visage: Shes a mother of two teenagers with a stay at home husband pretending to be a bitchy whore on a tv show about drag queens, yeah thats her career. Now in truth thats not the biggest issue, the biggest issue is that shes got hangups and makes the same jokes over over again and that after being on the show for ten years she hasnt developed as a judge so the routine, to paphrase miss Visage herself, has been done to death. In truth the show needs something other than the same damn shtick and same damn comments all the time, and if she cant do it then she should quite so someone else can do it for her. Ok maybe thats the second biggest issue, the biggest is that she kisses RuPaul's ass untill it shines brighter than a mirror.

Valentino Rice: Good judge, and had great chemistry with the other judges.

Ross Mathews: Cute guy, wierdly charming, and interacts well with the others.

Carson Kressley: He comes across as a very tired, very frail, very gay but very very very dull ninety year old man, which makes sense given the fact that his entire career is based on being gay, and hes, well old. Ok hes not really old, hes 50, but on camera he looks and acts closer to 150. And the issue isnt that hes gay, its that hes doing a shtick, a very dull and fairly offensive shtick. Possibly the worst choice for a judge, and the show jumps in quality whenever hes not there.

Now for a few things that just bug me.

Favoritism: Unfortunately one of the biggest issues of the show is that seasons tend to be structured around Queens who are intended to be the winner, or at least the hero, from the get go, which has the advantage of allowing the creators of the show to change the structure and challenges from season to season, but also makes it hard to watch if the season is blatant in its favoritism, if the intended winner isnt that good, or if the winner gets eliminated for one reason or another.

Cameos by former contestants: Cameos are a great way to get people to say "I know that person" which is great in a tv show because you know that the cast wont change in the next episode, but not great in a competition where all it does is take away screentime from competitors and giving it to competitors who most likely did not do well enough to win in their own drag race, and even if they did, the show is not about them, but about the current contestants. As such if Ru wants them to return he should put them in All Stars.

Cameos by celebrities: Add nothing. Its drag race not the red carpet, i'm watching for the up and coming drag queens not famous people trying to boost their careers.

Adding politics to the show: No, just no. Dont do things like Trump the Rusical, dont have steven colbert do a voiceover, theres no way that can go well and it comes accross as virtue signaling. If Ru wants to do something good he should double the prize money and have half of the money go to a charity of the winners choosing, or stop fracking.

Adding politics outside of the Show: Drag queens are celebrities and entertainers, as such are constantly in the public eye and dependent on being in it for their income which means that anything they say in public, wether its gossiping, or discussing politics, needs to be viewed as being some form of self promotion. Now this might make things difficult for them, but it is a well known part of being an entertainer so it can be assumed that they were well aware of this before they joined Drag Race. If they do want to talk about politics without being viewed as self promoting, they are free to make an anonymous account on one of the many sites, like tumblr, where its assumed that no one knows who the other people are.

Family Friendly Drag: Lets be honest its men shoving their cocks up their own asses while dressing up as women, and naking refferences to sex, for the sake of entertainment. Thers nothing family friendly about it. Nor should there be as part of the appeal of drag is that its something that is restricted to adults. Likewise they arent heroes, they are entertainers, not doctors, not construction workers, entertainers no more worthy of praise then a person on a sitcom.

Drama outside of Drag Race: While drama on the show is to be expected and is part of what makes it entertaining, drama outside of the show is different its more personal and something that in truth should not be shared. However by presenting it as gossip on various shows they are saying its part of the show, which is unhealthy at best.

Final note.

While I am critising the Drag Race, I am not doing it because I dislike the show, I am infact a big fan of the show but at the same time I want to get my thoughts out there see how others view these topics.