>>2770371To you, but to me, I just feel uncomfortable and I'm not even anywhere near the studio they're filming it in.
Also I know the new contest winners are really talented, but it just takes away from the badass exclusive title of Iron Chef like in the original version.
The way the old ones recruited new members to replace the old ones were to have the Iron Chef look vigorously for the right candidate. I'm not sure what percentage was actually done by the studio and which one was done by the Iron Chef himself, but it just made it pretty badass.
ICA just made it seem like any other Food Network reality contest.
Or maybe I'm just biased.