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shallownessLast night, instead of catching up on Gotham or B99, I binged on what were for me the three bonus episodes of Scorpion - in hindsight, the break and change of slot was because the UK had caught up with the US, which hadn't yet aired the last block of episodes, and I just didn't realise. It doesn't help that the ITV hub doesn't let you know about future episodes as clearly as, say Channels 4 and 5 equivalents do when we're talking about an unheralded show like Scorpion.
Scorpion 2.23
Hard Knox
A National Treasure-esque mission interrupted Ralph’s case against his professor. (You'd think the university would be more interested in a case between a professor and a prodigy.) If the team, including Toby, could be goaded so easily into taking it on by Tim, I have to crow and say I was suspicious of the man who brought in a million dollars ‘tax free’ in a bag to pay them off from the outset. But the team didn’t plan much or check into him on the way to get a Prussian sceptre that was being kept in Fort Knox which would be proof the private company protecting it wasn’t as good as the DoD or something.
Lots of nonsense ensued as they broke into Fort Knox, while I was mildly worried for Happy because she’s the shortest and thus most physically vulnerable to booby traps. Because things went wrong, they found out the sceptre wasn’t any old sceptre and contained nogood but very valuable on the black market polonium and their client was a baddie, but it was okay, Walter had a plan that was much crazier than I thought it was to allow justice to be done.
As for that, Ralph won his case (his lawyer being more of a hindrance than a help) and showed he was, at 11, smarter than Walter. Except, by the end of the episode, Walter showed he’d gained some wisdom and digested Toby’s suggestion that Linda wasn’t into him so much as into the high of that time he’d saved her, which made so much more sense. He also surpassed Paige’s pointed suggestion that he apologise to Ralph for snapping at him (he was in a bit of a mood because of the Linda thing and the continuing Paige/Tim thing). Of course, Paige misread Walter and Linda breaking up and said yes to a proper date with Tim.
Toss up for the most emotional moment is between Toby’s sneaky method of getting the measurement for Happy’s ring finger and, nah, this wins: Ralph saying that the day he met Walter and learned he was not alone (I really, really want to see the first episode ever of this show) was up there as one of the most important days of his life and how touched Walter was by it. This was between the snapping and the apology.
2.24
Chernobyl Intentions
When your last episode involved Fort Knox, obviously you decide to top it by going to Chernobyl. So inappropriate. Couldn’t they have called it Madeupovia?
Shouldn’t they all have been spending the episode in a radiation suit? Happy kept going 'we're not dead so that worked' but I don't think radiation works like that.
There was a lot to set aside for the usual grave peril, things going wrong, solving it by STEM in the loosest possible sense. It made the Vietnam episode seem relatively tame, frankly.
Thank goodness for the previouslies, because this guy they used to work with who was the bad kind of bananas was from a time when I didn’t watch the show. Toby mouthed off unhelpfully, which made him the one stuck in the garage while everyone else flew off to make calculations more accurately and faster than all the world’s engineers.
The emotional quotient involved Happy, clearly having had enough, first being blunt with Paige that she was dating Tim (going to three restaurants in a week and him sending her chocolates?) whatever she called it. Paige was clueless that this was tearing Walter up. Happy was forced to repeatedly tell Walter what was what – Toby’s been doing it for yonks and it hadn’t worked.
Now, Paige had a significant conversation with a Russian scientist who had been chased by another, smoother man before choosing her husband (they got to talking about this because of the threat of imminent death). She also did the usual heroics which put her in particular peril (such a Gryffindor), but Walter automatically jumped in and insisted they’d get out of the dangerous building with the radioactive lava together before the lava reached the really dangerous...it’s absurd. At one point she had to give him the kiss of life so he could pull himself up a beam he was dangling from, at another they had to be tied up together to get off a roof (seconds before Happy deliberately blew the building up to save the world). She had faith in his awkward self.
How can you not love this show and its alpha pairing?
So, did the idiot take up Happy’s advice and ask Paige out on a date? He didn’t. An invested Happy’s body language spoke for us all, while Paige...invited Tim to a jazz concert.
Meanwhile, in no surprise because this was the spoiler, just after he’d got the perfect engagement ring for Happy, Toby got knocked out and abducted by their old colleague. And for once I was chilled about being spoiled, because I'd rather know about there episodes' existence than not.
2.25
Toby or not Toby
I presume Mark followed Toby from the garage...
So, Toby woke up in a warehouse, trying to talk his way out of being tied up and electrocuted, except that was a fake-out and Mark had something slower planned for him.
The team had to work out where he was being held, while also trying to stop Happy from going off the handle and work through the fake demands Mark was making. What was interesting was that Walter was trying to think like Toby at times and succeeding. (Toby would HATE Patrick Jane.)
Tim proved he was an useful member of the team through the his musicality, amusingly, after the team had mostly maligned his love of jazz. Then he inadvertently led to the destruction of Sly’s keytar, because Walter...Waige...reasons. Sly grieved. I snorted.
Mark was trying to punish Walter and the team and prove ex-partner Walter had become weak by dropping him and letting sentiment into the team. Well, sentiment (after they’d worked out the puzzle so far as a team) got Happy to rescue Toby and clued Walter into where Mark would be escaping to – my thinking was that Walter could have tried to knock him out before rushing to rescue Toby, but I get quite violent whilst watching TV.
Walter wanted to blame himself for letting Mark go (eh). Happy wanted to blame herself because Toby was buying her engagement ring when he was kidnapped (not okay, that was on Mark). And Mark knew of the prior marriage when Toby didn’t. I had to rack my brains before remembering that Bones’s beta couple had the exact same obstacle way back when I was watching it. Toby’s singing proposal and confetti canon were adorable, as was the ring, if maybe impractical.
But the Quintis was of secondary importance as Walter chickened out of telling Paige how he felt when he had plenty of opportunity – taking Toby and Happy’s mutual misery as a reason for not even trying with Paige, and when she accepted the same old no dating on the team logic and offered him the out of ordering her to stop dating Tim (she was anxious! It was an escalation to a weekend together) Walter pushed Paige towards Tim. Toby exploded at Walter, which got him to do a Dash in his/the company car – heh, it was a good running joke – and blurting out – FINALLY! – that he loves Paige, which all the viewers and Toby, Happy and Sly knew already.
Now that felt like the end of a season.
Scorpion 2.23
Hard Knox
A National Treasure-esque mission interrupted Ralph’s case against his professor. (You'd think the university would be more interested in a case between a professor and a prodigy.) If the team, including Toby, could be goaded so easily into taking it on by Tim, I have to crow and say I was suspicious of the man who brought in a million dollars ‘tax free’ in a bag to pay them off from the outset. But the team didn’t plan much or check into him on the way to get a Prussian sceptre that was being kept in Fort Knox which would be proof the private company protecting it wasn’t as good as the DoD or something.
Lots of nonsense ensued as they broke into Fort Knox, while I was mildly worried for Happy because she’s the shortest and thus most physically vulnerable to booby traps. Because things went wrong, they found out the sceptre wasn’t any old sceptre and contained nogood but very valuable on the black market polonium and their client was a baddie, but it was okay, Walter had a plan that was much crazier than I thought it was to allow justice to be done.
As for that, Ralph won his case (his lawyer being more of a hindrance than a help) and showed he was, at 11, smarter than Walter. Except, by the end of the episode, Walter showed he’d gained some wisdom and digested Toby’s suggestion that Linda wasn’t into him so much as into the high of that time he’d saved her, which made so much more sense. He also surpassed Paige’s pointed suggestion that he apologise to Ralph for snapping at him (he was in a bit of a mood because of the Linda thing and the continuing Paige/Tim thing). Of course, Paige misread Walter and Linda breaking up and said yes to a proper date with Tim.
Toss up for the most emotional moment is between Toby’s sneaky method of getting the measurement for Happy’s ring finger and, nah, this wins: Ralph saying that the day he met Walter and learned he was not alone (I really, really want to see the first episode ever of this show) was up there as one of the most important days of his life and how touched Walter was by it. This was between the snapping and the apology.
2.24
Chernobyl Intentions
When your last episode involved Fort Knox, obviously you decide to top it by going to Chernobyl. So inappropriate. Couldn’t they have called it Madeupovia?
Shouldn’t they all have been spending the episode in a radiation suit? Happy kept going 'we're not dead so that worked' but I don't think radiation works like that.
There was a lot to set aside for the usual grave peril, things going wrong, solving it by STEM in the loosest possible sense. It made the Vietnam episode seem relatively tame, frankly.
Thank goodness for the previouslies, because this guy they used to work with who was the bad kind of bananas was from a time when I didn’t watch the show. Toby mouthed off unhelpfully, which made him the one stuck in the garage while everyone else flew off to make calculations more accurately and faster than all the world’s engineers.
The emotional quotient involved Happy, clearly having had enough, first being blunt with Paige that she was dating Tim (going to three restaurants in a week and him sending her chocolates?) whatever she called it. Paige was clueless that this was tearing Walter up. Happy was forced to repeatedly tell Walter what was what – Toby’s been doing it for yonks and it hadn’t worked.
Now, Paige had a significant conversation with a Russian scientist who had been chased by another, smoother man before choosing her husband (they got to talking about this because of the threat of imminent death). She also did the usual heroics which put her in particular peril (such a Gryffindor), but Walter automatically jumped in and insisted they’d get out of the dangerous building with the radioactive lava together before the lava reached the really dangerous...it’s absurd. At one point she had to give him the kiss of life so he could pull himself up a beam he was dangling from, at another they had to be tied up together to get off a roof (seconds before Happy deliberately blew the building up to save the world). She had faith in his awkward self.
How can you not love this show and its alpha pairing?
So, did the idiot take up Happy’s advice and ask Paige out on a date? He didn’t. An invested Happy’s body language spoke for us all, while Paige...invited Tim to a jazz concert.
Meanwhile, in no surprise because this was the spoiler, just after he’d got the perfect engagement ring for Happy, Toby got knocked out and abducted by their old colleague. And for once I was chilled about being spoiled, because I'd rather know about there episodes' existence than not.
2.25
Toby or not Toby
I presume Mark followed Toby from the garage...
So, Toby woke up in a warehouse, trying to talk his way out of being tied up and electrocuted, except that was a fake-out and Mark had something slower planned for him.
The team had to work out where he was being held, while also trying to stop Happy from going off the handle and work through the fake demands Mark was making. What was interesting was that Walter was trying to think like Toby at times and succeeding. (Toby would HATE Patrick Jane.)
Tim proved he was an useful member of the team through the his musicality, amusingly, after the team had mostly maligned his love of jazz. Then he inadvertently led to the destruction of Sly’s keytar, because Walter...Waige...reasons. Sly grieved. I snorted.
Mark was trying to punish Walter and the team and prove ex-partner Walter had become weak by dropping him and letting sentiment into the team. Well, sentiment (after they’d worked out the puzzle so far as a team) got Happy to rescue Toby and clued Walter into where Mark would be escaping to – my thinking was that Walter could have tried to knock him out before rushing to rescue Toby, but I get quite violent whilst watching TV.
Walter wanted to blame himself for letting Mark go (eh). Happy wanted to blame herself because Toby was buying her engagement ring when he was kidnapped (not okay, that was on Mark). And Mark knew of the prior marriage when Toby didn’t. I had to rack my brains before remembering that Bones’s beta couple had the exact same obstacle way back when I was watching it. Toby’s singing proposal and confetti canon were adorable, as was the ring, if maybe impractical.
But the Quintis was of secondary importance as Walter chickened out of telling Paige how he felt when he had plenty of opportunity – taking Toby and Happy’s mutual misery as a reason for not even trying with Paige, and when she accepted the same old no dating on the team logic and offered him the out of ordering her to stop dating Tim (she was anxious! It was an escalation to a weekend together) Walter pushed Paige towards Tim. Toby exploded at Walter, which got him to do a Dash in his/the company car – heh, it was a good running joke – and blurting out – FINALLY! – that he loves Paige, which all the viewers and Toby, Happy and Sly knew already.
Now that felt like the end of a season.
