I completely agree with the standing in front of someone during a lip sync. That was messy. But I don't agree about not going after a strong competitor. The difference in set up between All Stars and normal Drag Race I think allows for it. To me seizing the opportunity and picking a strong competitor's lipstick when they're in the bottom is a perfectly valid strategy in All Stars. I don't see it as shady. It's the name of the game, gotta set yourself up to win. Just my two cents.
That’s the thing, though. Y’all are thinking in terms of competition, and that’s really narrow. A lot of people who are involved in reality competitions don’t understand that there is an entire life waiting from them outside of said competition; they get tunnel vision and think stuff like “if I eliminate this super fierce competitor, it’ll be easier for me to win!” Which is true, of course. But then comes the fallout when the show airs, and the internet turns on you because you eliminated the wrong person because it never occurred to you to think that, hey, maybe the general population/audience won’t like underhanded tactics like this, particularly when you do them to a popular contestant.I’d argue that it being All-Stars makes it a lot LESS acceptable, personally, because in a regular season you never know how the audience is gonna react to the people you’re competing with. In All-Stars? You KNOW those queens have HUGE followings and a strong fanbase. Taking Gia Gunn out of the equation isn’t realistically the same as eliminating Valentina, particularly in a situation where she clearly didn’t deserve to go home over Gia. A lot of these queens sometimes don’t think about this, and then have to deal with the fallout and it isn’t pretty. Phi Phi O’hara is a perfect example, and not in season 4, but in her clash with Alyssa in All-Stars 2.
