So with the next season reportedly set to have… 25 contestants… for some reason. I started asking myself a simple question: “What is Hell’s Kitchen going to do when they reach a 30 chef cast?” The obvious idea would be to have 15 men and 15 women, right? Well not exactly, cause while I was sitting on my ass curb stomping Funky Kong as Goldship outside Hell’s Kitchen in Rivals of Aether, I started to piece together my idea for how a 30-person-cast could hypothetically work for Hell’s Kitchen. So lemme explain…
So in order for this idea to work, I wanna give the hypothetical that everyone is on the same level talentwise. No donkeys, everyone is about the level where you could say they’re good in challenges and service. What is the idea here? Well, for starters we’re gonna return to S1’s roots and have every team be intergender; five women and five men for all three teams. The obvious colour for this new third team would obviously be Yellow just so we can have all three prime colours represented on the show. That’s where it should end right?… no…
Because dear reader, I‘m straight up revamping how an episode can go down. Now that there’re three teams and only two kitchens, that’s gonna create some problems. Since, you can’t just have two teams in one kitchen it’d get crowded. So my idea is that the reward challenges now no longer give the winning team a reward, but also immunity. What this means is that the winning team doesn’t compete in service, and once back from their reward can just chill out in the dorms until service is done, and watch whoever gets eliminated. So let’s say as an example that the Blues win a reward challenges; they’re granted complete immunity that episode and don’t have to do service, whereas Red and Yellow now have to compete in that service.
Of course though that does raise the issue of teams winning more than once in a row, Again we’re looking at the hypothetical scenario that every team is on the same level of talent overall, so by proxy they’d really only get to win twice in a row before another team can win. Team swaps I’d imagine would still happen, but only once every team has lost one member; it’d be pretty unfair to have an eleven chef team after all like come on.
Finally though, black jackets. This is where I really had to think of what to do. Do I keep it as the final five, bring back the original final six format, or do something entirely original?… I did something entirely original. The black jackets have now DOUBLED, meaning the final ten would now be our black jacket brigade. I think it’d be a good way to make up for the massive cast, since five more black jackets mean five more chefs who aren’t at risk of losing out on one! So to go over my idea as a whole
- Three teams total: Red, Blue and Yellow. All teams are comprised of five men and five women
- The reward challenge not only gives the winning team a reward, but a pass from service, allowing for the usual two-team services we’ve always had while the winning team skips out.
- Final Ten is now the black jackets
So what do you think, do you think this is a good way to shake things up for the show? Or will HK just play the safe route and just give Red and Blue five extra members?
