Are you serious, Chairman? (Minor rant)

Well, this is a painful embarrassment. I had big dreams for this foodie blog, but got nothing to show for it. I promise to find some decent recipes, but for now, yuo'll just have to deal with this:

The Next Iron Chef, Season 2.

Yep, for some reason they decided that they are gonna serialize this competition like they do the Next Food Network Star.

Now, I have no delusions this was an insane move publicity wise. The more a show can promote itself by spin-offs, the better. Heck, if they decided to do an Iron Chef America Cartoon on Saturday Mornings, I'd follow it to the ends of time and abadon the Pokemon anime! Well, maybe not...

But I have to state that this idea was an insane move in all other aspects! How be it insane? Let me count the ways:

1. SIX Iron Chefs is overkill. The original had only one new Iron Chef added in its five-season runthrough, Masahiko Kobe(the Japanese version of Mario Batali, aka Italian chef), and I feel that four Iron Chefs is plenty. I thought Mario was being replaced when they did the first one last year(according to rumors, Batali and the FN had a falling out - guess that I was the victim of believing everything I read, huh?), but that was not the case and Alton introduced FIVE in the Iron Chef lineup. Okay, that's fine, I bet Michael Symon will give us something interesting that Cora and Batali cannot - he's a Mediterranian chef. But now they're doing it AGAIN. While I'd love to see Crenn win and be the American counterpart to Hiroyuki Sakai(French culinary POV), I think that we're getting to the point where our Gourmet Academy ends up having an Iron Chef ARMY. If they do this again next year, I am seriously going to send angry e-mail to Food Network. (Or maybe not, I'm lazy.)
2. We've barely gotten Symon's teeth cut! He's only had, what, two seasons and 12 battles before we started recruiting AGAIN? Please, Chairman, I am not trying to be harsh here, but at the least, make this like the Olympics and do it once every four years so each new guy gets some decent experience!
3. I bet a lot of the losers are going to get their own shows next year and this will burst the already huge lineup we have; some old classics are gonna get dumped, and that boils my blood - while I love the Iron Chef series, Food Network's starting to fall into the trap of other networks, pulling the 'teeth' that made them popular and inserting 'crowns' that are soft, weak, and risky in success. If I did this with my Sims 2 legacies, I'd end up losing them. Guys, please think before you make people compete in culinary season-long series or you will end up having to pay off the losers and we'll suffer for it. <_>

In conclusion, I hope that some people at Food Network read this and realize that they are begging to have problems by serializing this new competition. We don't need an Iron Chef Army, and if you are going to recruit, Chairman, at least do it when one of the Iron Chefs has to retire due to age or other reasons and must be replaced(like Nakamura had to be replaced in the old series) so we keep it balanced at a low number.