So it's settled: Joshua is the big winner on "So You Think You Can Dance." It came down to him and Twitch in the final two Thursday night, with the men on the show pushing aside the women for the top spots.

I have to admit that I rolled my eyes the first time I watched an installment of this show, thinking that it was just another forgettable, hacked-up attempt to cash in on the "American Idol" craze. Even the insistence on referring to the dancers by first names seemed to take away a little of their legitimacy.

Yet the show became one of my guilty pleasures over the season. I've talked to other people who admit the same thing. Sure, there are times when I thought the producers took the "everyone should be able to dance all styles" thing too far. It'd be like forcing pro athletes to compete on day in baseball, the next in basketball, then on to football. At some point I think you have to specialize when it comes to dance genres. But, that said, I found this season thoroughly engrossing. Even the ultra-annoying judge, Mary "Tamale Train" Murphy, whose shriek-song voice could dissolve hard-water deposits, grew on me. I was also jazzed that the group dance numbers were almost always impeccably rehearsed and beautifully performed, compared to the sloppy, mediocre efforts by the "American Idol" singers in their own group numbers.

And I loved the way that producer/judge Nigel Lythgoe insisted on exposing the audience to top-notch dance companies and choreographers. When was the last time Alvin Ailey was featured on Fox TV?