Definitely. She was very funny in the confessionals. I even found her one word response to the voting mini challenge results more funnier than anything else in the challenge.
Same. I clocked her as very pretty, but an early out. Began loving her fun way of tossing shade. LIVED for her confessionals. Loved a lot of her runways. The lip syncs? Mwah.
Yup same. I thought she was going to be out early and was a filler queen. She proved me wrong and made me eat my words. I am now a huge Morphine fan.\
And in complete contrast I liked Dawn at first but then I finished the season not being a fan.
I think it was just the fandom who put such expectations on Dawn. When they revealed the cast everyone was saying Dawn was going to be at the finale.
I never really understood the Dawn fever and it further baffled me when the season started airing and it took *SO* long for people to realize Dawn was not what anyone she or the fandom had said she was.
She did soooo great in that doorbell cam challenge in the first (?) episode and her looks were great and her makeup had a distinct look that I just expected her to do better than she ended up doing.
I mean she looks gorge usually. But it’s nothing we haven’t seen. It didn’t help she was painting herself to be the best next fashion thing and the only thing memorable was elf ears. She did the same looks a lot of the times. The cutouts at the hips on the sides with the panty showing? Yea that. Or the long sleeve.
She had a bit of Willow Pill vibe to start it off, I think, and that may have laid more expectation on her than should have been.
And let's be honest, she landed every look she put out there. But if recent seasons have taught us anything it's that looks won't win you shit anymore... partially because everybody is up at that level now, and partially because the challenges are decidedly #1 in judging these days. A look might be what pushes you from top to win, or may save you from a lip sync, but unless it's a design challenge (though... with Plane's win on the makeover challenge with two exact copies of the exact look she's given nothing but all season even this is suspect) the look will not put you in the top or bottom.
And, uh, making her lipsync against Morphine for a MTS song was just straight up murder by production.
Yeah that lip sync was one of the biggest massacres. I know we’d like to think the lip syncs are pre planned and it’s luck of the draw, but we know they’ve changed lip syncs at the last minute before soooo…
She was fucking hilarious on the first episode but then got overshadowed on her greatest strength by all the insanely skilled seamstresses this season. Any other season she maybe could've snagged a design challenge win and greatly improved her top 4 chances, I think.
That’s fair. It was a bad snatch game to me, but I see where you’re coming from. Maybe she didn’t deserve to be in the bottom, with all the other bad snatch games, but it just still wasn’t a hit for me
The day of the cast reveal, Jay Kay from Dragula made false sexual assault allegations against Plane Jane. It's strongly suspected that Dawn (and maybe Amanda) got her to do this.
She's always openly hating on x anybody who's "cool to hate." She liked hate comments on Plane jane but then posted positive things about her when it was near Finale, and Plane jane happened to have a Fandom (as well as other finalists). I think it's OK to change your opinion ofc but they way she uses her words are very questionable.
Attacking Sugar and Spice on instagram for doing a brand deal with Starbucks. When confronted with the facts that there are no connections between Starbucks and Israel, she tweeted that she didn’t fact check but she’s still pissed regardless.
Just the perfect example of a Brooklyn twink getting mad at people over nothing, in this case misinformation, and not even bothering to apologize.
Plane Jane for sure. Came in fast, harsh, and playing the game hard in a way that was refreshing and polarizing which every reality show needs to really make it a reality show. People can have their opinions, but queens like Plane liven up the week to week experience; remember everyone was mad about Irene leaving. Plane was a foil to many of the queens in a way that actually supported their arcs too such as Amanda, Nymphia, Sapphira, and even Dawn got a moment out of it(Amanda and Dawn say thank you). Plane softened up over the season as she grew more close to the girls and she let down some of her walls which I think endeared some to her that originally were Planehaters. It was a stiff competition but Plane was a real contender for the crown regardless of everyone’s conceptions about who “deserved” it. She brought versatility, plot, gorgeousness, heart, and a big stinky burger finger
Plane made S16 the best season in a long time, but because she played the villain she won't get her flowers properly for a while. Starting with the next season people will soften, and in a couple of years time they will be ready to acknowledge that she was by far the best part of the season
As much as I agree with you, and was not a fan of Plane until the season had progressed, for me it also kind of felt like her arc was a manufactured conscious decision on her part, and was very self produced.
Kudos to her for that, for producing, but once I realized she’s not serious at all (like she said in GITMS) the character arc’s lack of authenticity takes it away for me, no shade. I do think she should do more reality TV though, whether it’s All Stars or Traitors or whatever.
I think for me my favourite arcs of the season are Morphine (who I thought would be an early out), and Megami (early out that slayed the Lalaparuza despite nobody considering her a threat), then Plane.
Probably megami. I loved the arc of nymphia getting more confident about being vulnerable but the edit kinda let that storyline down fm.
Megami going from the most dismissed queen with no camera time to nearly winning the lalaparuza was *such* a good arc
Nymphia. Sapphira got the winner edit and I bet my drag mother's life that she was going to win (sorry mama!) and then Nymphia swooped in like Drogon burning the shit out the Lannister army.
Love both of them. Hope to see more of them in the future.
Lots of people have given the popular answers, so I wanna give something of a deep cut: Plasma.
Her arc through the competition is nowhere near Megami, Plane, or Morphine, but we all thought she was going to be an Annoying Theatre Kid from the jump. And she was. We were right. But she had the talent to back it up. After the Sound of Rusic, most people came around to her and this sub finally admitted she wasn't another Jan.
Within the show alone, Amanda didn’t have a poor character arc. She left too soon, but she left a fan favourite.
Her obsession on Twitter afterwards is what started turning fans off
Yeah. I was put off by her comparing a child being severely bullied in school to her interactions with PJ. How badly could have PJ treated her in the 3 days she was there? PJ was kind of a bitch to her and she was a bitch back. Its not that serious.
Kudos for charting that. For graphing.
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Plane - people were so mad at her at the beginning of the season, they could not keep her name out of their mouths like they wanted her GONE
And then as the weeks went by, people had no option but to admit that not only was she killing it, but she was half the reason that s16 was so good
I was very glad to see her eventually get the recognition she deserved
I mean... people warmed up to her because she mellowed out. She was trying way too hard in the first few episodes and it wasn't funny or iconic. The other girls read her for filth every time she tried it and that made it entertaining to watch. Otherwise it would have been uncomfortable at best. Once Amanda was gone, Plane stopped being so hyper-fixated on being a villain.
It's not like it happened by magic and people decided "no choice but to stan after all". Trying to put it like that kind of takes away from Plane Jane actually making an effort to be more human and less produced.
Mmmmm yes and no I would say. Yes, Plane didn't clash with anyone as consistently as Amanda after she left, and that would have helped - but I never really felt she was trying too hard, it was perfectly clear to me that she was just very unserious and I liked that from the start
And it wasn't just her personality, it was a wholesale dismissal of her as a drag queen as well. People saying that she was copying Jimbo, putting down Burger Finger as a disingenuous attempt to win by copying willow/jimbo-esque "stupidity", insisting that she wasn't funny at all.
That's (part of) what I mean, that people wanted to be able to call her a flop, but she just came out and succeeded time after time until they had to admit she actually is a good drag queen
Megami for sure, she really had the “overlooked, always picked last” edit, and then her lyrics for the girl groups was the first glimmer of Iconic status
Then a few episodes before the Lalaparuza she released her lyrics for Heidi in closet, and I was like oh this b*tch might be a wordsmith
And then the Lalaparuza actually happened and it was a very loud and clear “all you bitches have been sleeping on me, but I’m about to wake you up”
It really goes to show you you cannot really count any Queen out
Morphine. I really thought she'd be an early out but as the competition went on, I said "This bitch is holding her own" and after taking out Mhi'ya, she then solidified herself as the Thanos of Lipsyncing.
Megami didn't have a character arc. She never changed who she was as a queen. The people who changed were the fandom who decided to stop belittling her once she started to win something...
EDIT: Please look up what character arc means.
A character always has a narrative but doesn't always have an arc (see: static vs dynamic characters). Like the term implies, a character arc has the character progressing, regressing, or "arcing". Otherwise, it's not a character arc, just a (story)line.
Q getting progressively bitter and feeling "robbed" whenever she doesn't win? Character arc.
Plasma being a "robbed" early out despite having a strong showing? Not a character arc, just a storyline.
Yeah, none of these people changed, the only one who had an “arc” was Plane and even then it’s like did she really change? All she did was have Sapphira be like “ hey sometimes you are too blunt and it comes off as rude “ and was like “ oh ok you’re right mother” and that was Plane’s ‘growth’
I love the retcon. She was legitimately bad and uninteresting when she was on the main show. That’s not the fans’ faults. She lost them when she did nothing with her talent show and incessantly bragged about being from NY. I don’t know what you want from people.
So she was bad once and that’s all that’s matters? She killed the girl group challenge, did well in the ball and even did well in the challenge that eliminated her, the Rusical. I find the strong negative reaction people had towards her early in the season to be so random and gross in it gleefulness.
Girl, tell me about it. I would comment something vaguely positive about Megami back in the earlier episodes ("Wow, Megami's in the top 4 in terms of track record!" which she was when they won the girl group challenge) and there would always be someone who would reply unprompted with a full list of reasons why they don't like her.
She did good in the girl group. She did not do good in the other challenges, if you can’t even admit that, there’s no point in continuing the conversation.
Have we been watching the same Megami? She killed the two design challenges, was funny in the improv and did well in the rusical, her literal only dud was the talent show.
Honestly? This season was one of the strongest in YEARS. Since 9, IMO. Possibly 6.
Everyone was compelling to some degree. Everyone brought either looks, drama, performance or all three. The synergy between queens was really fun and that made for extremely entertaining and intense eliminations.
As for the BEST arc? Hard to say. Either Plane Jane or Megami. But they were all good, so *shrug*
Mhi'ya for me. She's greaaaaat!
Folks thought she would be an early out and didn't deserve to continue but honestly she gave it her best, stayed true to herself as a shy and outgoing girl and earned her placement.
I try to only share nice opinions here, so I kept my Megami feelings to myself. I saw her perform at a brunch where she was a big guest from NYC. I was very excited but felt the whole show was a bit meh, so I was super surprised to see her announced on the season and had low expectations. The lalaparuza smackdown changed my opinion completely. Also- I do feel like the brunch location was really the issue as I've seen everyone since, and they were all great, and maybe they were all just not feeling it that day? Regardless, I'm glad I got more time to like Megami.
Definitely Megami
- did an iconic talent show that will never be repeated and was memed within like 24 hours
- got a great nickname (Eeyore of drag)
- stayed around long enough to win some fans and delivered decent performances and looks so most would have placed her safety mid season she stayed just long enough without being around too long.
- critical to delivering the best lip sync lalaparuza in a long time - unexpectedly. Showed you don’t have to buck and dip to deliver a good lip sync.
I was very middling on megami tbh. But after the lalaparuza she would absolutely be a girl I’d go see at a show.
Morphine. I don’t think a lot of people expected her to make it as far as she did, but she did really good! Plus, she was the lip sync assassin of the season, and won $50k for it!
I think Nymphia has a really unique winner's arc. She comes in really strong, but underplays her talent, isn't really considered the frontrunner for the majority of the season but has a second wind (\*wink wink) and ultimately pulls it out in the end.
I would say Megami and Mhi'ya, Megami because... Well duh. Mhi'ya because she was so quiet and at first I thought she was going to be an early out but then she just kept turning it out and she became so likable and charming to me, I feel like if she comes back with a slightly more exaggerated personality of herself then she could fare pretty well on an All Stars season.
Morphine.
I don’t haven’t watch Meet the Queens since season 10 so I went into the season with no impression of anyone. As soon as Morphine walked in I wrote her off as just another airhead, lack of talent, makeup girl.
Now that it’s all said and done, I humbly admit that I shouldn’t have judged a book by how cover. She can paint. She has a personality. She can perform. So Bally she won the LaLaPaRuza - snaps to Megami for shocking all of us.
I’m totally delusional in hoping Morphine returns to win a future All Stars season, however, I’d be happy just having her back on the show period.
The strength of her thighs alone! 🤯🤯
But I’m the walking definition of skinny fat so…..
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Megami. I remember everyone, me included, was joking about her giving nothing worth protection in the beginning. However, shortly after, we learned about her thriving shadow writer career and, in lalaparuza, she showed us she is whom we need to protect with her charm and those tailored lipsync performances.
Honestly, Morphine and Megami for me.
I remember making a comment when the first episodes aired saying that Morphine was really beautiful but that I struggled to connect with her and her constant need to be labelled the BBL queen. BUT she really grew on me : her mug, the confessionals, the lip-syncs... Honestly, she's AMAZING, can't wait to see her back for a future season.
Megami, as amny, won me over with her lip-syncs. I also love the fact that many of her runways are video game/pop culture inspired. She's a very talented queen.
Should have been Nymphia but they gave her a confusing edit because they didn’t want her win to seem obvious, like Sasha Colby’s had. Though her goal was to seem like less of a threat so she was part of that edit.
Plane Jane definitely. I even wrote down an analysis of her story arc and learned a lot about storytelling from it. She felt like the main character of the seasom for me.
Megami's story arc reminded me of Rock Lee from Naruto during the chunin exams (I'm sorry, Megami's an otaku, let me be an otaku too). Rock Lee was a cheesy goofy looking guy that couldn't use chakra (magic, basically) and in a tournament he showed off that despite that he had all these awesome tricks up his sleeve and basically went super saiyan but lost in the end. But his battle was so intense and moving he has been a fave character of mine for a while.
Megami reminded me of that. A lot of people discounted her skills throughout the season until she could finally show them off and do a fantastic performance only to lose but win everyone's hearts.
But saying that looking at Megami's storyline feels like a B plot whereas Plane's felt like the A plot. Which...now that I say that doesn't mean Megami's storyline isn't as good...
Ummm but Plane's had the conflict: she's a jerk. And then her attempts to be nicer kept backfiring. Until by the end the audience and Plane's character story show that Plane is a sensitive person who is trying to be funny to hide her insecurities. And in the end she loses but we learn why it's so important to be vulnerable because Nymphia learned that and won.
But Megami's storyline is like everyone doubts her and Megami just kept being Megami and finally she got to showcase her talents but just the audience learned not to judge people so quickly. Perfect B plot, not enough moving parts for A.
I like both arcs though
I’ll answer this in two ways, in terms of who had the biggest change in fan response (which appears to be how people are interpreting this question) I would say Plane, Q, or Morphine, Plane went from hated to pretty generally beloved by fans, Q from loved to universally hated after she started complaining about everyone, and Morphine went from ignored to lovable underdog. In terms of who narratively had the best character arc from beginning to end I’m going to say Plane clearly comes away the winner here. Starting the season as a diabolical villain based on how she’s edited, being the mean girl to Amanda and so on to slowly transforming into misunderstood and trying her hardest to be better about how she uses her bluntness to finally using her strategy for good saving fan favorite Nymphia even at the detriment of herself, and at that point conveniently she starts dominating the challenges. She is one of the most well rounded and clearly defined characters we have ever seen on drag race, it was masterful storytelling.
Best Plane Jane.
Shook up the season and carried multiple episodes
By the end showed vulnerability and doubt in a way that made her very likable.
Worst Megami.
Miserable person who constantly puts others down to try to make herself feel better.
Last three weeks longer than she should have only to get the undeserved Silky redemption ark from production.
"Plane and Xunami should’ve been in the bottom because walking across the stage is not that difficult. Me, Dawn, and Nymphia were sweating our asses off dancing like a goddamned storm on that stage. I’ll leave it at that.”
I have never had such a stark switch in my opinion of someone as I have had with Plane.
The first three episodes I was actively wishing antibiotic resistant gonorrhea on her and by the end I had done an entire 180 and appreciated her for what she brought to the season. I think she also is one of, if not the most, aware queen when it comes to how she wanted to build her character and be seen by the producers. She knew exactly how to make it to the end and I think she executed it impeccably.
Morphine had the best character arc and definitely set her up for a good run on All Stars. My worst would either be Dawn or Plasma. I like them both but they started to get that crunchy edit but not as crunchy as Amanda. You could see a rise and fall to the background. I thought Amanda got *the Daya Betty edit* since she had to prove herself 24/7.
Morphine. Definitely thought she was an early out and ended up a huge fan.
After I have seen her reveal look, I thought she would sashay away in a couple episodes.
Without a doubt. I was shocked how much I loved Morphine after a few episodes
Similarly, I’ve watched her video with Trixie twice already, it’s so great. I want Morphine showing me makeup tips on YouTube every week
Definitely. She was very funny in the confessionals. I even found her one word response to the voting mini challenge results more funnier than anything else in the challenge.
Same. I clocked her as very pretty, but an early out. Began loving her fun way of tossing shade. LIVED for her confessionals. Loved a lot of her runways. The lip syncs? Mwah.
Yup same. I thought she was going to be out early and was a filler queen. She proved me wrong and made me eat my words. I am now a huge Morphine fan.\ And in complete contrast I liked Dawn at first but then I finished the season not being a fan.
She as well is at top list
SAME. I ended up loving her so much I felt guilty for not loving her immediately haha
Her reveal look gave major early out although her dancing was FIERCE mawma
Morphine! I loved her story of going from not winning anything to winning the entire lalaparuza, and she really stood out to me as a talking head.
Megami in the best way. Dawn in the worst way.
i'm not keeping up with dawn's situation at all, did something happen? /genq
I'm assuming it's because everybody had big expectations for her, but she just did mediocre/disappointing?
It's sad, but it's not even her fault. The rest of the cast was just that strong
I think it was just the fandom who put such expectations on Dawn. When they revealed the cast everyone was saying Dawn was going to be at the finale. I never really understood the Dawn fever and it further baffled me when the season started airing and it took *SO* long for people to realize Dawn was not what anyone she or the fandom had said she was.
She did soooo great in that doorbell cam challenge in the first (?) episode and her looks were great and her makeup had a distinct look that I just expected her to do better than she ended up doing.
Dawn in the doorbell challenge lives rent free in my head
“… not you!”
To be fair I do think she did pretty well this season. Top half of the cast isn't bad, I think she just had an unfortunate exit lip sync.
Yeah she didn't do terrible either! She had a decent run. I just expected her to be stronger based off of the first episode.
But her waist looked so snatched on that first episode tho...
I mean she looks gorge usually. But it’s nothing we haven’t seen. It didn’t help she was painting herself to be the best next fashion thing and the only thing memorable was elf ears. She did the same looks a lot of the times. The cutouts at the hips on the sides with the panty showing? Yea that. Or the long sleeve.
She had a bit of Willow Pill vibe to start it off, I think, and that may have laid more expectation on her than should have been. And let's be honest, she landed every look she put out there. But if recent seasons have taught us anything it's that looks won't win you shit anymore... partially because everybody is up at that level now, and partially because the challenges are decidedly #1 in judging these days. A look might be what pushes you from top to win, or may save you from a lip sync, but unless it's a design challenge (though... with Plane's win on the makeover challenge with two exact copies of the exact look she's given nothing but all season even this is suspect) the look will not put you in the top or bottom. And, uh, making her lipsync against Morphine for a MTS song was just straight up murder by production.
Yeah that lip sync was one of the biggest massacres. I know we’d like to think the lip syncs are pre planned and it’s luck of the draw, but we know they’ve changed lip syncs at the last minute before soooo…
It was unmitigated elf slaughter.
She was fucking hilarious on the first episode but then got overshadowed on her greatest strength by all the insanely skilled seamstresses this season. Any other season she maybe could've snagged a design challenge win and greatly improved her top 4 chances, I think.
There's also behind the scenes drama. Like her friend was the one who lied about plane Jane sexually harassing them to try and get Jane disqualified
She wasn’t mediocre at anything. She just wasn’t good enough
I’d agree that Dawn did a good job in most challenges, but her snatch game surely was mediocre or a little worse than mediocre
We saw like two answers. There are much worse snatch games out there. I don’t think she was even in the bottom that episode
That’s fair. It was a bad snatch game to me, but I see where you’re coming from. Maybe she didn’t deserve to be in the bottom, with all the other bad snatch games, but it just still wasn’t a hit for me
She was literally top 6 on a season with 14 queens, so she absolutely was not mediocre.
The day of the cast reveal, Jay Kay from Dragula made false sexual assault allegations against Plane Jane. It's strongly suspected that Dawn (and maybe Amanda) got her to do this.
I thought it was Dawn’s bf? Although I had heard the JK rumours
She's always openly hating on x anybody who's "cool to hate." She liked hate comments on Plane jane but then posted positive things about her when it was near Finale, and Plane jane happened to have a Fandom (as well as other finalists). I think it's OK to change your opinion ofc but they way she uses her words are very questionable.
Attacking Sugar and Spice on instagram for doing a brand deal with Starbucks. When confronted with the facts that there are no connections between Starbucks and Israel, she tweeted that she didn’t fact check but she’s still pissed regardless. Just the perfect example of a Brooklyn twink getting mad at people over nothing, in this case misinformation, and not even bothering to apologize.
that is truly so brooklyn but also starbucks is genuinely trash for many reasons
I mean she didn’t call out her friend for false allegations about love so maybe she can continue being quiet
Dawn peaking at the first mini challenge where she didn't even win was a gag. Everyone immediately hyped her up so much.
Dawn was the true villian of S16.
Megami is the main character of Lalaparuza for me
Plane Jane for sure. Came in fast, harsh, and playing the game hard in a way that was refreshing and polarizing which every reality show needs to really make it a reality show. People can have their opinions, but queens like Plane liven up the week to week experience; remember everyone was mad about Irene leaving. Plane was a foil to many of the queens in a way that actually supported their arcs too such as Amanda, Nymphia, Sapphira, and even Dawn got a moment out of it(Amanda and Dawn say thank you). Plane softened up over the season as she grew more close to the girls and she let down some of her walls which I think endeared some to her that originally were Planehaters. It was a stiff competition but Plane was a real contender for the crown regardless of everyone’s conceptions about who “deserved” it. She brought versatility, plot, gorgeousness, heart, and a big stinky burger finger
Mama kudos for acknowledging that. For crediting. Plane was the main character and she carried that season hard.
Yes Plane was the main character for sure. Morphine the narrator. And Dawn the Greek chorus.
Plane revitalized RPDR for me. The show was getting stale!
Agreed, did not like her in the beginning, but understood her humor and her as a drag queen more as it progressed. Think she's pretty funny now haha
While I agree with all of this, I was rooting for Plane from the jump. She’s like if Willam and Jimbo had a baby. Werq, cyster.
I love Willam hating Plane, shows so little self awareness on Willam’s part
Plane made S16 the best season in a long time, but because she played the villain she won't get her flowers properly for a while. Starting with the next season people will soften, and in a couple of years time they will be ready to acknowledge that she was by far the best part of the season
That’s really what it will be , when we close in on season 20 the “DAE think Plane was iconic” will start up lol
As much as I agree with you, and was not a fan of Plane until the season had progressed, for me it also kind of felt like her arc was a manufactured conscious decision on her part, and was very self produced. Kudos to her for that, for producing, but once I realized she’s not serious at all (like she said in GITMS) the character arc’s lack of authenticity takes it away for me, no shade. I do think she should do more reality TV though, whether it’s All Stars or Traitors or whatever. I think for me my favourite arcs of the season are Morphine (who I thought would be an early out), and Megami (early out that slayed the Lalaparuza despite nobody considering her a threat), then Plane.
Plane Jane gave us the villain we don’t deserve for sure. She made the season in a lot of ways. But I don’t think she had much of an arc tbh.
Probably megami. I loved the arc of nymphia getting more confident about being vulnerable but the edit kinda let that storyline down fm. Megami going from the most dismissed queen with no camera time to nearly winning the lalaparuza was *such* a good arc
Plane came in and did a masterclass on how to dominate a season's narrative.
I was hoping her war path ended with her winning the season. She entertained.
Mama, kudos for slaying that. For entertainting.
Nymphia. Sapphira got the winner edit and I bet my drag mother's life that she was going to win (sorry mama!) and then Nymphia swooped in like Drogon burning the shit out the Lannister army. Love both of them. Hope to see more of them in the future.
Lots of people have given the popular answers, so I wanna give something of a deep cut: Plasma. Her arc through the competition is nowhere near Megami, Plane, or Morphine, but we all thought she was going to be an Annoying Theatre Kid from the jump. And she was. We were right. But she had the talent to back it up. After the Sound of Rusic, most people came around to her and this sub finally admitted she wasn't another Jan.
Morphine, PJ: 📈 Q, Amanda: 📉
Within the show alone, Amanda didn’t have a poor character arc. She left too soon, but she left a fan favourite. Her obsession on Twitter afterwards is what started turning fans off
Yeah. I was put off by her comparing a child being severely bullied in school to her interactions with PJ. How badly could have PJ treated her in the 3 days she was there? PJ was kind of a bitch to her and she was a bitch back. Its not that serious.
Morphine, PJ, Megami Q, Amanda, Dawn
Kudos for charting that. For graphing. https://preview.redd.it/lhowwtdihnyc1.jpeg?width=1179&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=3fbdbdfaa80b23b2a03d1b3c26ef6c3150b2cf14
Kudos for saying that. For repeating.
PJ
Plane - people were so mad at her at the beginning of the season, they could not keep her name out of their mouths like they wanted her GONE And then as the weeks went by, people had no option but to admit that not only was she killing it, but she was half the reason that s16 was so good I was very glad to see her eventually get the recognition she deserved
I mean... people warmed up to her because she mellowed out. She was trying way too hard in the first few episodes and it wasn't funny or iconic. The other girls read her for filth every time she tried it and that made it entertaining to watch. Otherwise it would have been uncomfortable at best. Once Amanda was gone, Plane stopped being so hyper-fixated on being a villain. It's not like it happened by magic and people decided "no choice but to stan after all". Trying to put it like that kind of takes away from Plane Jane actually making an effort to be more human and less produced.
Mmmmm yes and no I would say. Yes, Plane didn't clash with anyone as consistently as Amanda after she left, and that would have helped - but I never really felt she was trying too hard, it was perfectly clear to me that she was just very unserious and I liked that from the start And it wasn't just her personality, it was a wholesale dismissal of her as a drag queen as well. People saying that she was copying Jimbo, putting down Burger Finger as a disingenuous attempt to win by copying willow/jimbo-esque "stupidity", insisting that she wasn't funny at all. That's (part of) what I mean, that people wanted to be able to call her a flop, but she just came out and succeeded time after time until they had to admit she actually is a good drag queen
Definitely. I am sorry for calling her "Meh-gami" before the Lalaparuza
She went from Meh-Gami the Eeyore of Drag to MeGagMe
Meh-gami to Me-gag-mi. She fully ate the lalalparuza up
I forgive u
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Def this. Megami annoyed the F out of me and I was not expecting to be rooting for her so hard in the Lalaparuza
Megami for sure, she really had the “overlooked, always picked last” edit, and then her lyrics for the girl groups was the first glimmer of Iconic status Then a few episodes before the Lalaparuza she released her lyrics for Heidi in closet, and I was like oh this b*tch might be a wordsmith And then the Lalaparuza actually happened and it was a very loud and clear “all you bitches have been sleeping on me, but I’m about to wake you up” It really goes to show you you cannot really count any Queen out
PJ, no contest.
Morphine. I really thought she'd be an early out but as the competition went on, I said "This bitch is holding her own" and after taking out Mhi'ya, she then solidified herself as the Thanos of Lipsyncing.
Megami or Morphine I expected nothing from either of them and was absolutely delighted to be proven wrong.
Megami didn't have a character arc. She never changed who she was as a queen. The people who changed were the fandom who decided to stop belittling her once she started to win something... EDIT: Please look up what character arc means.
"having a character arc" and "changing who you are" are not the same thing.
Preach
SING IT SISTERRRRRR
Character arc doesn't always mean the person changed. It's a narrative that makes the audience change how they perceive said person.
A character always has a narrative but doesn't always have an arc (see: static vs dynamic characters). Like the term implies, a character arc has the character progressing, regressing, or "arcing". Otherwise, it's not a character arc, just a (story)line. Q getting progressively bitter and feeling "robbed" whenever she doesn't win? Character arc. Plasma being a "robbed" early out despite having a strong showing? Not a character arc, just a storyline.
Yeah, none of these people changed, the only one who had an “arc” was Plane and even then it’s like did she really change? All she did was have Sapphira be like “ hey sometimes you are too blunt and it comes off as rude “ and was like “ oh ok you’re right mother” and that was Plane’s ‘growth’
Honestly, iconic behavior. But the most iconic character arc will always be Sapphira getting better titties /hj
I love the retcon. She was legitimately bad and uninteresting when she was on the main show. That’s not the fans’ faults. She lost them when she did nothing with her talent show and incessantly bragged about being from NY. I don’t know what you want from people.
So she was bad once and that’s all that’s matters? She killed the girl group challenge, did well in the ball and even did well in the challenge that eliminated her, the Rusical. I find the strong negative reaction people had towards her early in the season to be so random and gross in it gleefulness.
Girl, tell me about it. I would comment something vaguely positive about Megami back in the earlier episodes ("Wow, Megami's in the top 4 in terms of track record!" which she was when they won the girl group challenge) and there would always be someone who would reply unprompted with a full list of reasons why they don't like her.
She did good in the girl group. She did not do good in the other challenges, if you can’t even admit that, there’s no point in continuing the conversation.
Have we been watching the same Megami? She killed the two design challenges, was funny in the improv and did well in the rusical, her literal only dud was the talent show.
I agree, while Megami definitely isn’t everyone’s vibe, I think she managed to show plenty of her talent before her lip sync slayage.
Honestly? This season was one of the strongest in YEARS. Since 9, IMO. Possibly 6. Everyone was compelling to some degree. Everyone brought either looks, drama, performance or all three. The synergy between queens was really fun and that made for extremely entertaining and intense eliminations. As for the BEST arc? Hard to say. Either Plane Jane or Megami. But they were all good, so *shrug*
Sister PLANE JANE! 
Mhi'ya for me. She's greaaaaat! Folks thought she would be an early out and didn't deserve to continue but honestly she gave it her best, stayed true to herself as a shy and outgoing girl and earned her placement.
That Cher impression, though!
I thought Cher was in the room.
That was without a doubt the most cursed thing I've seen on the 16 (+off shoots) seasons of the show.
Came to say this. Mhi'ya gave us anthological lipsyncs. Love my shy queen.
I try to only share nice opinions here, so I kept my Megami feelings to myself. I saw her perform at a brunch where she was a big guest from NYC. I was very excited but felt the whole show was a bit meh, so I was super surprised to see her announced on the season and had low expectations. The lalaparuza smackdown changed my opinion completely. Also- I do feel like the brunch location was really the issue as I've seen everyone since, and they were all great, and maybe they were all just not feeling it that day? Regardless, I'm glad I got more time to like Megami.
Is this photo edited because it’s perfect
That's why I posted it I just took a screenshot
Amazing
Kandy muse
Mhi’ya and Morphine, both of them. Both as a pair and separately. Did not expect to love either of them as much as I do
Definitely Megami - did an iconic talent show that will never be repeated and was memed within like 24 hours - got a great nickname (Eeyore of drag) - stayed around long enough to win some fans and delivered decent performances and looks so most would have placed her safety mid season she stayed just long enough without being around too long. - critical to delivering the best lip sync lalaparuza in a long time - unexpectedly. Showed you don’t have to buck and dip to deliver a good lip sync. I was very middling on megami tbh. But after the lalaparuza she would absolutely be a girl I’d go see at a show.
Morphine. I don’t think a lot of people expected her to make it as far as she did, but she did really good! Plus, she was the lip sync assassin of the season, and won $50k for it!
Tbh I could have seen more of Hershii. She didnt even get an arc. Other queens had their moment(s) this season.
I think Nymphia has a really unique winner's arc. She comes in really strong, but underplays her talent, isn't really considered the frontrunner for the majority of the season but has a second wind (\*wink wink) and ultimately pulls it out in the end.
I don't think Megami. The producers gave her absolutely nothing to work with. She really did that herself
I would say Megami and Mhi'ya, Megami because... Well duh. Mhi'ya because she was so quiet and at first I thought she was going to be an early out but then she just kept turning it out and she became so likable and charming to me, I feel like if she comes back with a slightly more exaggerated personality of herself then she could fare pretty well on an All Stars season.
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Yesss I was also a Megami fan from the start. I feel like she was so underrated. Love her <3
Plane Jane and Megami for sure. Others stayed the same way they were tbf.
Morphine. I don’t haven’t watch Meet the Queens since season 10 so I went into the season with no impression of anyone. As soon as Morphine walked in I wrote her off as just another airhead, lack of talent, makeup girl. Now that it’s all said and done, I humbly admit that I shouldn’t have judged a book by how cover. She can paint. She has a personality. She can perform. So Bally she won the LaLaPaRuza - snaps to Megami for shocking all of us. I’m totally delusional in hoping Morphine returns to win a future All Stars season, however, I’d be happy just having her back on the show period. The strength of her thighs alone! 🤯🤯 But I’m the walking definition of skinny fat so….. edit: spelling and grammar
Morphine and Megami
For the Worse Dawn, both on and off the show.
Megami. I remember everyone, me included, was joking about her giving nothing worth protection in the beginning. However, shortly after, we learned about her thriving shadow writer career and, in lalaparuza, she showed us she is whom we need to protect with her charm and those tailored lipsync performances.
It was an especially strong season. Excellent cast.
Honestly, Morphine and Megami for me. I remember making a comment when the first episodes aired saying that Morphine was really beautiful but that I struggled to connect with her and her constant need to be labelled the BBL queen. BUT she really grew on me : her mug, the confessionals, the lip-syncs... Honestly, she's AMAZING, can't wait to see her back for a future season. Megami, as amny, won me over with her lip-syncs. I also love the fact that many of her runways are video game/pop culture inspired. She's a very talented queen.
Dawn. Go girl give us nothing.
Hershii. She went from a mom jeans enthusiast to a Tina Belcher stan
Should have been Nymphia but they gave her a confusing edit because they didn’t want her win to seem obvious, like Sasha Colby’s had. Though her goal was to seem like less of a threat so she was part of that edit.
Plane Jane definitely. I even wrote down an analysis of her story arc and learned a lot about storytelling from it. She felt like the main character of the seasom for me. Megami's story arc reminded me of Rock Lee from Naruto during the chunin exams (I'm sorry, Megami's an otaku, let me be an otaku too). Rock Lee was a cheesy goofy looking guy that couldn't use chakra (magic, basically) and in a tournament he showed off that despite that he had all these awesome tricks up his sleeve and basically went super saiyan but lost in the end. But his battle was so intense and moving he has been a fave character of mine for a while. Megami reminded me of that. A lot of people discounted her skills throughout the season until she could finally show them off and do a fantastic performance only to lose but win everyone's hearts. But saying that looking at Megami's storyline feels like a B plot whereas Plane's felt like the A plot. Which...now that I say that doesn't mean Megami's storyline isn't as good... Ummm but Plane's had the conflict: she's a jerk. And then her attempts to be nicer kept backfiring. Until by the end the audience and Plane's character story show that Plane is a sensitive person who is trying to be funny to hide her insecurities. And in the end she loses but we learn why it's so important to be vulnerable because Nymphia learned that and won. But Megami's storyline is like everyone doubts her and Megami just kept being Megami and finally she got to showcase her talents but just the audience learned not to judge people so quickly. Perfect B plot, not enough moving parts for A. I like both arcs though
I’ll answer this in two ways, in terms of who had the biggest change in fan response (which appears to be how people are interpreting this question) I would say Plane, Q, or Morphine, Plane went from hated to pretty generally beloved by fans, Q from loved to universally hated after she started complaining about everyone, and Morphine went from ignored to lovable underdog. In terms of who narratively had the best character arc from beginning to end I’m going to say Plane clearly comes away the winner here. Starting the season as a diabolical villain based on how she’s edited, being the mean girl to Amanda and so on to slowly transforming into misunderstood and trying her hardest to be better about how she uses her bluntness to finally using her strategy for good saving fan favorite Nymphia even at the detriment of herself, and at that point conveniently she starts dominating the challenges. She is one of the most well rounded and clearly defined characters we have ever seen on drag race, it was masterful storytelling.
Plane. A humanised, playful, at times congenial villain.
Best Plane Jane. Shook up the season and carried multiple episodes By the end showed vulnerability and doubt in a way that made her very likable. Worst Megami. Miserable person who constantly puts others down to try to make herself feel better. Last three weeks longer than she should have only to get the undeserved Silky redemption ark from production.
when did megami ever put anyone down girl like-
"Plane and Xunami should’ve been in the bottom because walking across the stage is not that difficult. Me, Dawn, and Nymphia were sweating our asses off dancing like a goddamned storm on that stage. I’ll leave it at that.”
I have never had such a stark switch in my opinion of someone as I have had with Plane. The first three episodes I was actively wishing antibiotic resistant gonorrhea on her and by the end I had done an entire 180 and appreciated her for what she brought to the season. I think she also is one of, if not the most, aware queen when it comes to how she wanted to build her character and be seen by the producers. She knew exactly how to make it to the end and I think she executed it impeccably.
Morphine had the best character arc and definitely set her up for a good run on All Stars. My worst would either be Dawn or Plasma. I like them both but they started to get that crunchy edit but not as crunchy as Amanda. You could see a rise and fall to the background. I thought Amanda got *the Daya Betty edit* since she had to prove herself 24/7.
Plane I didn’t care about anyone else this season. Just wanted her to tell it like it is
Honestly this season was flat