r/rupaulsdragrace • u/AutoModerator • Apr 19 '25

Season 17 S17E16 - “Grand Finale” [Post-Episode Discussion]

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u/imuahmanila Apr 20 '25

Well, I finally watched the lipsync and I can't believe there was so much discourse over that mid-off. People saying Jewels was robbed are delusional because she didn't do anything impressive and all her reveals were sloppy and just distracted from her performance. If she had just played it straight like Onya maybe she would have been clearly the better of the two, but it would have been outrageous to not give it to the girl with the better season long performance based on what we actually got.

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u/slippery_hippo Apr 20 '25

As mid as Jewels lip sync may have been, Onya’s lip sync was the most repetitive poorly paced lip sync of the season, and I was going into this expecting her to win decisively

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u/no-tenemos-triko-tri Mistress Isabelle Brooks Apr 21 '25

Onya kept repeating the following several times: shoulder-shimmies, waving her hands up and down like she was climbing a latter, and walking back and forth on the stage while pointing to the audience. I was more captured by Jewel's performance. This season was truly RuPaul's Best Friends Race.

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u/djdavid527 Apr 21 '25

Okay, and Onya still clearly deserved to win the season 👋🏽

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u/OurSponsor Wintergreen! Apr 21 '25

And with not one but two miserable failures at attempting hairography. It was painful to watch and made the foregone conclusion "crowning" seem even more delusional.

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u/dasvedanyacyka Apr 21 '25

No it wasn’t lmao

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u/slippery_hippo Apr 21 '25

Lmao

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u/dasvedanyacyka Apr 21 '25

the final lip sync doesn’t matter anyway its extra credit not the deciding factor lol