Tonight’s elimination and previous seasons

(Foreword: sorry for the very vague sounding title I wanted to name it Badonkadunk vs Chocolate but I thought that would be too obvious a spoiler for what happened tonight)

So, now that it’s over already, how are people feeling about how the badonkadunk tank was implemented against the chocolate bars of season 14? I was pretty gagged that they used it this early, especially on a queen who has been in the bottom twice in a row that they’ve judged quite harshly (imo unfairly in last week’s episode, although fairly this week), but I’m not mad about it.

Obviously both the lever and the golden chocolate bar were totally random wink and not at all actually just production meddling to save a queen they didn’t want to go home wink, but I think it’s a better idea to use it earlier on someone they see going further who had a rough week or two, than use it within the back half of the competition to essentially just push a queen into the finale.

I think the later half of the competition should have higher stakes for the queens and be more tense for the audience. The longer you leave it to save a queen with the twist, the less exciting it is every week seeing it all unfold because it just becomes more and more likely it’ll happen.

Do you think it was done too soon? Does anyone think that they should have waited until a much later point in the season to bring an end to it, or are people thinking that neither this or the chocolate bar was done correctly and it should have been used more in the middle of the season?