I was watching a best of clip of Drag Race season 14 this morning and I realized that there was no chance in the world that Lady Camden was going to win Season 14. Could she have won a future Season like Season 16? Probably, but because she was introduced on this show before two events happened: The Vivienne was properly introduced to casual VH1 viewers of Drag Race on All Winners, and Blu Hydrangea won UK vs. the World.
It would feel unfair to have a British winner before saying hello to a proper British Queen. Even in the big Entertainment Weekly article, The Viv mentions that winning Drag Race UK doesn't get you any money and Camden has won significantly more than she has, and this was even before the announcement that the runner up got money.
I believe that Lady Camden did a great job on the show, especially in a season with dynamic characters, but she still was in the background. When queens like Cornbread and Angeria bring great sass and wit, Daya being a rootable villain, Bosco having to prove she's worth the gold chocolate bar save, and Willow having a silent but deadly approach where she's scheming in her talking heads, Camden comes off...just there.
Then I think production had something that could work: the falling down Freddie Mercury inspired runway.
Once she fell, and got back up Camden saw RuPaul's reaction, production's reaction, and eventually the audiences reactions. I think Camden needed to create more memorable scenes, but instead at the finale depended on that one scene as a gimmick.
I can't really fault her for her song "I Fell Down" since production created the song for her, but it was her decision to put a similar fall into her finale lip sync. Kinda sucks to sing about winning when you didn't win. I guess losing is the new winning...
The camera even tried their best to recreate the camera angle and the dramatic music. Not sure if that was necessary.
Side note: Willow was also thinking a few steps ahead and production and Ru loved Willow.
In the long run, I think Camden did a great job and should definitely return. I hope for a regular All-Stars first, but in the future it'd be funny for her to represent the USA in a (Insert Country Here) vs The World season. Here's a youtube video of all of Camden's looks before the finale and it just reminds you that she was never dinged for repeating silhouettes and she used several hair colors and looked great in all of them.
