Some quick thoughts about this, the sixth and current season of “So You Think You Can Dance” on Fox.

We here in the Pfunn household are major fans of SYTYCD, but find ourselves somewhat underwhelmed by the current season.

The most obvious evidence of our underwhelment: In previous seasons we loaded our DVR with every episode, both performance and results, and we very reluctantly deleted the episodes when the drive was full and a new season had begun. This year we’ve saved only a couple of episodes.

Even though there are some fine dancers and some great personalities among the contestants in Season 6, this is hardly the best Top 20 ever, as executive producer Nigel Lythgoe and others have proclaimed. (Our vote for best would be Season 4, with Season 5 a close second.)

Our other major beef about SYTYCD Season 6: They changed studios, from the intimate theater-almost-in-the-round that was their home for five seasons, to a traditional theater with a proscenium stage. The new stage removes the intimacy of the performances, is not lit as well as the original and features a massive video screen upstage that is used to flash backdrops and relevant imagery but only serves as a distraction. (Watching the dancers in the “Starry Night” number was like trying to pick out the image in a Magic Eye drawing.)

We will not give up on SYTYCD, but we are not as happy in our fandom as we once were.

PS: Oh, and host Cat Deeley deserves an Emmy. Pass the word.

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