Scorpion season 1 - first three eps
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shallownessThe DVD boxset I’m currently binge watching (by my standards of ‘binge watching’) is Scorpion season 1. I went into it spoiled, because I started watching the show’s second season, enjoyed its cracktastic nature, team feels and canon ships. I gluttoned on fanfiction and then thought I might as well watch the whole thing, bought this DVD set and the time to do so was now. That’s because it was next on the pile as much as the whole lockdown thing. But I’m guzzling it down.
I’m going to break it up into blocks, rather than follow the discs. So, the first three episodes:
The pilot does its job effectively, introducing all of team Scorpion as Agent Cabe Gallo of the ridiculous name comes back into super-genius Walter’s life and offers him a job for Homeland Security, just as waitress Paige and her genius son Ralph also enter his life. I snickered at Paige being a waitress because McPhee went on to star in ‘Waitress’ (I saw her).The rest of the team: their area of genius and one personality trait are introduced and deeply unconvincing Irishman Walter’s backstory is sketched out in the kind of case they’ll deal with from that point onwards, except with a smaller budget. There’s also fair warning that the show will be on the nose at times.
Shipwise, Walter definitely notices Paige, although he’s hardly flattering to her because his EQ is abysmal. She reads him because her EQ is good. Toby is as interested in Paige as Happy at this point.
The case in ‘Single Point of Contact’ involves a (targeted) virus. Actually there’s a computer virus AND a virus as we know it these days, so it wasn’t too resonant. The theme is family, with the introduction (via flashback) of Megan, Walter’s sick big sister and we learn about Cabe’s dead daughter. I don’t remember if I knew about her, but watching season 1 sheds new light on the Scorpion ficlet I wrote. With some more character development for Toby, Sylvester and Happy, they’re obviously developing the team-as-family idea
Shipwise: Toby pretends to be married to Happy. (Though the show uses fake married all the time.) Cabe is already a Walter/Paige and Ralph = happy family shipper.
This episode features the Awful Introductory Voiceover. At least it’s short. Ah well, the gear change from the pilot episode to the rest of the series is done.
‘Cyclone’ explained to me why fans referred to ‘team Cyclone’ and where the series title came from, as the team define themselves as ‘a cyclone of scorpions’. It sort of makes sense that scorpions are their spirit animals. Cabe is trying to get the team to impress his boss, which goes badly. Paige, having left her old job, is trying to corral the rest as the only norm. A bomb goes off, as it so often does, so the team gets a second chance to redeem itself and shakes down a little, or at least, they learn that Cabe is fully behind them and they may get over their self-destructiveness…together.
There was a really great sequence towards the end following the three strands of story.
Shipwise, Toby has a moment of reflexively fancying Happy, Walter is more visionary team leader about Paige’s role than shippy.
I’m going to break it up into blocks, rather than follow the discs. So, the first three episodes:
The pilot does its job effectively, introducing all of team Scorpion as Agent Cabe Gallo of the ridiculous name comes back into super-genius Walter’s life and offers him a job for Homeland Security, just as waitress Paige and her genius son Ralph also enter his life. I snickered at Paige being a waitress because McPhee went on to star in ‘Waitress’ (I saw her).The rest of the team: their area of genius and one personality trait are introduced and deeply unconvincing Irishman Walter’s backstory is sketched out in the kind of case they’ll deal with from that point onwards, except with a smaller budget. There’s also fair warning that the show will be on the nose at times.
Shipwise, Walter definitely notices Paige, although he’s hardly flattering to her because his EQ is abysmal. She reads him because her EQ is good. Toby is as interested in Paige as Happy at this point.
The case in ‘Single Point of Contact’ involves a (targeted) virus. Actually there’s a computer virus AND a virus as we know it these days, so it wasn’t too resonant. The theme is family, with the introduction (via flashback) of Megan, Walter’s sick big sister and we learn about Cabe’s dead daughter. I don’t remember if I knew about her, but watching season 1 sheds new light on the Scorpion ficlet I wrote. With some more character development for Toby, Sylvester and Happy, they’re obviously developing the team-as-family idea
Shipwise: Toby pretends to be married to Happy. (Though the show uses fake married all the time.) Cabe is already a Walter/Paige and Ralph = happy family shipper.
This episode features the Awful Introductory Voiceover. At least it’s short. Ah well, the gear change from the pilot episode to the rest of the series is done.
‘Cyclone’ explained to me why fans referred to ‘team Cyclone’ and where the series title came from, as the team define themselves as ‘a cyclone of scorpions’. It sort of makes sense that scorpions are their spirit animals. Cabe is trying to get the team to impress his boss, which goes badly. Paige, having left her old job, is trying to corral the rest as the only norm. A bomb goes off, as it so often does, so the team gets a second chance to redeem itself and shakes down a little, or at least, they learn that Cabe is fully behind them and they may get over their self-destructiveness…together.
There was a really great sequence towards the end following the three strands of story.
Shipwise, Toby has a moment of reflexively fancying Happy, Walter is more visionary team leader about Paige’s role than shippy.
