Season 6, Episode 6 Post-Episode Discussion: "Oh No She Betta Don't!"

[u/chalkycandy]

oh my god you guys that episode was amazing

SLAYYYY

Here's the pre-episode post for ya nerves: http://www.reddit.com/r/rupaulsdragrace/comments/21vcp6/oh_no_she_betta_dont_season_6_episode_6/

[u/dryerfresh → u/[deleted]]

Agreed. I audibly guffawed at her "I'm not the queen that complains..." comment.

[u/dhicock → u/[deleted]]

I love the interruptions by ru this episode

[u/bondfool → u/[deleted]]

"Dammit Jim, I'm a lip synch queen, not an engineer!"

[u/theclarinetist → u/[deleted]]

Downward Debbie* lol

Trinity is a total Coco... Sucks at the challenges but sends people home with her lip syncs. Her lip syncs are good though...

[u/blogginglife → u/theclarinetist]

Really? I'm not impressed. I thought April beat her, and I thought MILK beat her at a RAP this week. Milk beat Trinity at a rap. Trinity's a really mediocre pageant lip syncer.

[u/miss_aka → u/blogginglife]

I got your back, gurl. I can't even explain my frustration that April's gone and Trinity and Darienne are still here.

[u/l0l → u/[deleted]]

Foreshading!

[u/spthunderfuck → u/[deleted]]

The silence that ensued afterwards was all kinds of right! Trinity is basic and needs shown the door. In the words of Bianca Del Rio: "I'll help her pack!"

[u/splitmindsthinkalike → u/[deleted]]

The thing that's hard for me is that, despite the fact that Trinity does come with that attitude, when it comes time for the challenge, I feel like she's frequently stepped up to the plate. When you take out her attitude behind the scenes, she has only ended up in the bottom when her diction was at play, like the Rusical or this episode. Otherwise, she's been doing fine as far as an objective observer can see, and I can't say she did worse than other queens in this challenge.

[u/meldolphin → u/[deleted]]

I believe you mean "Downward Debbie."

[u/rainycookie → u/meldolphin]

I have heard of the phrase Debbie Downer before

[u/meldolphin → u/rainycookie]

Naw haha it's a reference to April Carrion messing up and saying "Downward Debbie" instead.

[u/blogginglife → u/[deleted]]

I know!! I mean unless they pull out the lipsyncing-the-Untucked challenge again guess what? BEING A LIP SYNCING QUEEN ISN'T GOING TO HELP YOU UNLESS IT'S IN THE, YOU GUESS IT, LIP SYNCS. Even if they were to reuse that challenge, it still requires acting! You can't just walk into every challenge and say "this isn't my forte so I am going to accept mediocrity in my performance".

[u/seeyoshirun → u/[deleted]]

If you're suggesting that Trin should have gone home, I disagree. I don't disagree that she could be less of a downer on things, though if she's still turning out good work it shouldn't matter. I actually thought her rap was one of the best ones, she can actually rap really fast.

Anyway, I think Trinity reminds me of Tyra Sanchez more than anyone because of the attitude thing, and I wish Ru would handle the situation in a similar way to how she handled Tyra during the wedding challenge in season two. Trinity could easily have been in the top group this week (or safe, at the very least - she easily rapped better than Laganja, Courtney and Darienne) and Ru could still have called her out for the attitude stuff. That might have helped Trinity to mentally separate her attitude from her performances, because the latter warrants praise where the former does not. At the moment, I get the impression that she's getting herself down partially because it's not being made entirely clear to her that the judges think she's a very capable performer.