I loved what Fik-Shun said about knowing he's not America's best dancer, but hoping he could be America's favorite dancer.

That said, if Jasmine and Aaron don't win, I will cry. Also, they should get married and having dancing babies with long legs and huge smiles.

HMOG, I loved that tap number. I am so psyched that they had a tap number. I loved that you could FEEL the conversation through the tapping. SO AMAZING.

Jasmine -- Hip Hop

CRUSHED. SMASHED.

boom

Do you think the judges were overtaken with her Cyrus connection and couldn't see the forest for the trees?

Loved the Jasmine hiphop. Love Mark (but would've loved to see him DANCE rather than just choreo). Didn't hate the Tyce number, shockingly.

But really at this point, I'd rather see Amy and Jasmine win than one of them and a guy, seriously.

Would definitely put Amy and Jasmine at 1 and 2, but I guess I won't really be surprised whoever wins. I can really see both choices going either way.

I love Amy and Fik-Shun, but when it comes to preferring who I'd watch dance, it comes down to Jasmine and Aaron every time.

It is going to be one boy and one girl as winners, right? I do wish they weren't doing that -- I think one overall winner is better.

Yeah, one boy, one girl.

I can't believe that was the final performance show. I miss SYTYCD already.

Those jewels on Cat’s dress look like colorful little tumors and the bottom fringe is atrocious and why is it black but I am loving the hair, make up, and accessories. I’ll call it a wash on this week’s Cat fashion check in.

Dance Ins: I feel like these four have done the same dance ins every week. Somehow, although individually, I like all these dancers, I’m underwhelmed by this group as a top 4. I miss Paul!

Pau Pau! Oh, hit me right where I live, SYTYCD. And Gabby Douglas. Well, that’s just nifty. However, watching gymnasts dance is painful, so I don’t know what she knows about dance, but she sure looks pretty in yellow and the weave is much improved. Well done on the style front, tiny gymnast.

Amy and Aaron/Jazz/Primitive/Richard Vission vs. Luciana - Ray Leeper. Hmmm. Well, at least it’s not Tasty, right? I wish they’d brought back Mark instead. So Ray says it’s fusion, huh? What is it fused with? Costuming is totally working for me right off the bat, even though Aarons fake tattoo sleeve is far from flesh colored. Snaps up, ‘hos. Ummm, Amy was turning it out. Work! I really liked the choreography. It was tricky, tricky. Amy wanted to show America that Jasmine’s not the only one with legs and she achieved that. She was so crisp and had amazing attack (Thanks, Mary!). Her extensions and toe point . . . out of this world. Aaron seemed oddly constrained at the beginning. I think his shoulder is still affecting his range of motion. And he did kind of get relegated to forklifting her all around during the middle of that routine. Paula tried to spin it as Aaron being a generous partner, but honestly, there was a section in the middle where he wasn’t really being asked to do more than just lift Amy up or throw her somewhere. Definite props, though, for the double turn in attitude. As the judges noted, they both nailed it and were perfectly in synch. Well done, kids. Not up there with the best of them, but a solid effort.

Now we see if Fik Shun can handle his big woman!!

Hmm, let’s see. Having Peanut dance a gorgeous piece with Amy or having the smush faced nightmare that is Malece sucking up my tv time with her mismatched, no chemistry having partner Jade…decisions, decisions. Let’s hope Cat’s next offered choice isn’t so obvious.

Jasmine and Fik Shun/Contemporary/Spiegel Im Spiegel/Angela Joffe & Vadim Gluzman – I will be fascinated to see what Peanut does with this mismatched pair. Usually, he works with a big/tiny (big dude/tiny girl) and has a lot of fun making the big fling the tiny around. That will not work here. So, I thought this was beautiful and haunting. I bought the whole underwater thing, the waves of motion. And from the very beginning when they were just standing on the stage in a close embrace, they had amazing chemistry. More than Fik Shun has had with anyone on the show. Jasmine is magic. I think she makes everything better and I could stare at her plié in second position all day long. Fik Shun was better here than I expected him to be. He partnered Jasmine very well. His plié in second wasn’t too shabby. And while his feet and toe point left something to be desired, it was improved from what I’ve seen of him all season. I don’t think it was standing ovation good, but it was absolutely as good as Aaron and Amy’s first dance. The only thing I really didn’t appreciate was when Fik Shun was rolling on the ground for a couple of counts while Jasmine did pirouettes behind him, but it was quick and if you have a dancer like Jasmine, how can you not give her a good turn sequence?

Gabby Douglas is a useless judge. Pau Pau is a better judge on SYTYCD than she ever was on Idol and that’s a true fact.

Aaron and Melinda/Tap/When I Was Your Man/Bruno Mars - Yay! I love this idea, letting the dancers choose the style. Anthony Marjorato is such a baby face. Y’all, I always forget that Aaron is primarily a tapper because he’s so good in other stuff. I don’t know enough about tap to comment (continued...)

( continues...) intelligently, but that never stopped me before, so let’s go! I’m sure it was probably difficult, but I thought the whole thing looked ridiculous. Lyrical Tap? Umm, no thank you. And it seemed like Melinda was the featured performer and Aaron was the back up. She had all the flashy moves and turns. But huge props for Aaron being the first tapper to reach the finale. Nigel must be over the moon. Mary talked about the complex rhythms but I felt like I couldn’t even hear them over the music. I don’t know. I would’ve liked something more traditional.

Jasmine and Comfort/Hip Hop/Run the World (Girls)/Beyonce – Didn’t Jasmine dance hip hop with Cyrus? I don’t see this choice as that much of a surprise. I actually love that she choose not her own style and choose a same sex pairing. Bad ass. If she pulls it off, she looks like a risk taking genius. She’ll have to go some to keep up with Comfort, though. That girl is a beast in hip hop. I’m praying for a Paul performance here. NappyTab and bikes? Hold me. I’m scared. But, points for the excellent deployment of Beyonce. Y’all, Comfort is so, so serious. Just fierceness all over that stage. That choreo was super fun. I thought Comfort outdanced Jasmine, but that was always gonna happen. Jasmine put it down, though. She was hard hitting. I feel like her limbs get a little bit away from her sometimes in hip hop and there was a section where they bumped into each other which pointed up some spacing issues that kind of ran through the routine, but it was fun and different and as Nigel noted was a big old “Bring it” to the other contestants.

Amy and Fik Shun/Tango-Paso/Hazardous Zero Signal/PP Music - Miriam and Leonardo are so sexy. I would love to see them as guest performers on a show! First of all, all I could think about with that costuming for Fik shun was the Prince Shirts vs. Blouses Dave Chappelle routine. I appreciate Amy’s ability to hold her own weight because Fik Shun was never really set during any of the lifts that they did. Lots of feet sliding around and getting set well into the lift. I just can’t really enjoy Fik Shun in ballroom. The posture is so wrong. The pancake hands are just wrong. He needs to open more through the chest. He needs to keep his shoulders down. His footwork is off. And the huffing and puffing, which I guess was supposed to be serious Paso face, was just wrong. Amy was lovely here, good clean lines and very strong. But it was a bad dance.

Jasmine Solo/Ready for Love/India.Arie – Boo, show. We almost made it to the end without Cyrus sob story. The just couldn’t resist. This is the best solo I’ve seen her do. Much more controlled. The gorgeous plié in second was back! Hello, my old friend. And that one turn she did into a leg extension with her leg at a perfect 180 degrees? Insane. Also, she was turning it out in that Ciara video. No wonder she chose hip hop. I don’t buy that they weren’t going to put her in the Top 20 when they had the Cyrus angle sitting right there. I do buy that they had all their eggs in Jasmine #1’s basket once the season began and then Other Jasmine came out and ate her lunch.

Love how much Cat loves the dancers. Always.

Jasmine and Aaron/Samba/Can’t Touch It/Ricki Lee - C’mon, Dmitri. Deliver the sexy like I know you can. Hmm, so I didn’t care for it. I didn’t think either of them had the hip action that I would’ve liked to see, especially not Aaron. I just love it when Mary brings the technical knowledge. And the skirt thing was just unfortunate. It can happen. I think they dealt with it about as well as they could. Like Nigel, I felt that they lacked chemistry. And yes, the choreo just did not sit well on them. Maybe they were intimidated by the staircase? I don’t know what it was, but it was off and it was bad. They’re still my favorites for the win, though.

Fik Shun Solo/Gangnam Style/Psy – Money. Right from the jump putting on the checkerboard sunglasses. Work, young man! You can totally tell that he used to be a street performer. He knows how to move the crowd. He (continued...)