Borderline tinfoil-hat worthy conspiracy theory in fact, but bare with me for a second here.
So I truly believe All Stars 2 was created and has been set up from the beginning for the only purpose of crowning Alaska. She’s RuPau’ls protegé/prodigal child etc etc and they were handing her all the chalenges on a silver plate and igoring her missteps. You can read more on that here.
(For Ep7, when Alaska finally flounders, they also forced Alyssa on the bottom when she didn’t deserve it and was still one of the strongest in the competition. Basically during filiming they just changed the bottom 2/bottom 3 routine depeding on what was better to frame Alaska as the uncontested winner)
BUT the spoiler debacle happened and that changed the game.
For those of you who don’t know, before the season even began airing, there was a huge leak of spoilers that predicted everything that happened in this season to a T. Extremely specific things like the elimination order, the Rolaskatox + Katya top 4, Tatianna’s return, even Adore quitting. The rumor running around town is that Alaska -who based on the spoilers, wins the season- leaked all that info to his boyfriend. Then they broke up and the guy leaked all that info to the net as revenge.
If this is true, then Alaska broke her NDA and that’s a big deal and could be held accountable. Now the proucers couldn’t do anything about changing the actual filming that was literally just handing Alaska the crown for free, but what they can do is deconstruct Alaska’s edit to make her a villain so people won’t like her anmore and maybe Ru would be forced to crown another queen. And that’s how we get these last two eps:
The constant pummeling on the “she lent me this shirt” excuse. They showed Alaska saying that at least four times. (Alaska, of course, didn’t help her case with Tati’s unfair elimination, but maybe she thought the shirt/friendship excuse wouldn’t give her so much heat. I’ll talk about that in another post)
Close-ups to RuPaul’s shocked/disappointed reactions when Tati and Alyssa were eliminated
The episode preview focused on how Rolaskatox would “conspire” against Katya (they didn’t)
Shady music when Alaska calls Katya “Adore”
Followed by shady music when Katya says “party”
Even MORE shady music when Alaska has her meltdown
Actually showing Alaska’s attempted bribe of Detox.
The latter two are especially important. This close to the end, showing such a bad side of Alaska is terrible if they’re trying to make her winner. They could’ve easily cut those scenes out, or put on lighter music on to make it seem like she was joking. I’m not even sure if the bribery thing was for real or not, maybe she was joking, but the producers certainly didn’t frame it that way (there’s a video floating around of Alaska watching the episode and reacting to her tantrum, but I haven’t seen it and can’t find it. A lil’ help?). Even the much loathed Tyra Sanchez got a nicer edit in the final episodes. They could’ve made this about the seemingly flawless Alaska showing some vulnerability to make her more likable, but it’s the other way around.
So what I’m getting at is that, if the rumours about Alaska being the source of the leak are true, maybe the editing in these episodes is some sort of damage control to reduce Alaska’s popularity in preparation for giving Katya the crown.
Basically it’s still super rigged for Alaska, but if she was indeed the source of the leak, then there’s still a good chance to see Katya crowned, and judging by WOW’s tweet/polls, these last two episodes have managed to sway the public opinion in her favor HARD.
You can give me my tinfoil hat now, thanks
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