I feel like Ru is making All-Star seasons more of an actual Reality TV competition show (like Survivor/Big Brother/The Challenge) while a regular season of Drag Race is more skill based (like ANTM/X Factor/Got Talent/Face Off)
In regular seasons Ru makes the decisions based on the new queens performances
In returning queen seasons they are all well known in the Reality TV world and have already shown their skills. The All-Star concept just changes the show to be competitive from a "game" perspective (Working in teams/Voting each other out/vote for a winner) where social/strategy comes/floating/alliances comes in play
In this version, Shangela could have voted out Trixie. Detox could have voted out Alaska. Chi Chi voted her best friend. Roxxy was saved by her alliance. Alyssa could have voted out Roxxy weakening the alliance). Mandora could have worked as a team. In case of a double lip sync winner, both TOPs could have chosen 2 lip sticks.
Edit: Okay yeah also they didnt really know there would be a jury so thats riga morris #RPDR
its kind of painful that rupaul decides to make his ALL-STARS seasons like that though... to choose someone to join an all-stars hall of fame for the best of the best, it'd be a better idea to just do the normal competition like they did in all-stars 1. the idea of a jury vote and queens eliminating each other is obviously more dramatic and makes better tv, but the winner is objectively worse now because of all of that stuff. it make no got damn sense
yeah the as3 finale was rigged to shit, but imo ru didn’t have to give any of them a second (or third) chance at the crown. he could’ve let all of them meld into the woodwork of rpdr herstory and let us all forget they even existed. so when all of them reenter the workroom, they are all subject to ru’s rules, no matter what those rules may be.
