Scorpion season 2 - the rest of disc 1
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shallownessIn ‘Cuba Libre’, team Scorpion do indeed go to ‘Cuba’ where they do a bank job in pursuit of a war criminal. OBVIOUSLY. An ex-drug-running pilot and a car bomb are involved.
There’s still fallout from the end of season 1, with Walter’s lawyer needing Mr ‘I feel no emotions’ to admit he was driving negligently under strong emotion, which everyone knows he was. The alternative is getting thrown in jail for driving recklessly. For the rest of the episode, Walter is puzzling over logic vs. emotion with Paige’s help. As she points out, it’s about finding a balance. Over-emotionality is the trait of their client, Sonya, an orphan Cabe rescued and fathered a bit, who has a vendetta against the man who killed her parents and kin. She’s in ‘Cuba’ with them and threatening to ruin the mission.
Sly’s anxiety is not helped by Toby trying to goad him into admitting his feelings for Megan. Toby needs the project because Happy is still freezing him out.
Walter and Happy get to do cool action stuff. There’s a callback to Cabe emerging from the sea in the nuclear plant episode when they all do it. Walter’s brain shorts as he stares at an objectified Paige for a beat too long. But it’s a constantly amusing episode (apart from the tragic war crimes backstory).
Walter takes the plea, and to confirm that it isn’t just for convenience, agrees with a total stranger (Ray) that he knows what it is to get over-emotional.
‘Fish Filet’ is a Sylvester-centric ep. He’s still trying to tell Megan he loves her as Happy breaks Toby’s heart wth a new gentleman friend, and the team sets its mind to Ralph’s bullying problem – his first appearance this season - but Ralph ends up sorting it rather brilliantly himself. (He’s the specialest!)
For reasons, Sly, of all people, has to go undercover in a prison. As soon as they say it’s an in-and-out job, you know it won’t be. He has to pick a fight with the toughest gangmember in the yard, fake!die before he’s really killed. Some of it without comms, and with the warden who’s the only one who knows his real identity out of the picture. All that he goes through brings out the superhero in him.
The rest of the team have to break him out with the help of Walter’s new ‘chain gang’ buddy Ray (played by Kevin ‘Marshall from Alias’ Weisman). When Paige suggests Walter hangs out with Ray to relate more to normal people koff be better boyfriend material koff he says no, but then goes and does it anyway.
The other big thing is how mch Cabe wants to father. He can’t teach Raph how to punch, but does start teaching Toby. He also basically sacks Molina for not caring enough about every team/family member.
Sylvester does tell Megan how he feels, in a ridiculous but touching way. The show absolutely ignores the age difference between them. I feel like I’ve filtered out a lot of the crack that went on.
‘Robots’’s action movie subgenre of choice is submarine, with Cabe, Happy and Walter, but mainly the latter two, stuck in a supersecret one in danger of drowning, while the rest of the team, sans comms, have to try to rescue them, although the team’s “robots” are able to help themselves too.
There’s a new Homeland boss, Cooper (AKA Ros from Frasier, AKA the one I remember), a nervous desk jockey. Toby is the originator of the robot designation, because Happy seems to be flaunting her new boyfriend at him. Ray is still hanging around – proving to me that Walter and Paige could pass the broccoli test if Paige was the one communicating that he needed to get the broccoli, at any rate.
The showrunner said they ought to have an ep focusing on Walter and Happy in a season 1 commentary, and this is it. They’re stick in a compartment with a submariner who points out how not normal they are – Walter teaches himself Morse code while he’s on the sub.
Happy’s dad gets a chance to help to save her (by following her instructions, natch) and bond with Toby. Walter is moved to admit to Paige that ‘sentimentality’ not nmbers guided some of his decisions in the sub and is about to suggest that he was wrong to shut down anything happening between them (after his latest brush with death) but Ralph unknowingly spoils it.
Waige shippers hate Ralph until their better selves stop them.
I was mentally commenting on the daftness at first, but by the time Cabe was risking hypothermia to set off a distress flare, I was well into it. Deservedly, the team plus Ray – not Cooper, she’s too new – end up boogieing as a group on the garage roof.
There’s still fallout from the end of season 1, with Walter’s lawyer needing Mr ‘I feel no emotions’ to admit he was driving negligently under strong emotion, which everyone knows he was. The alternative is getting thrown in jail for driving recklessly. For the rest of the episode, Walter is puzzling over logic vs. emotion with Paige’s help. As she points out, it’s about finding a balance. Over-emotionality is the trait of their client, Sonya, an orphan Cabe rescued and fathered a bit, who has a vendetta against the man who killed her parents and kin. She’s in ‘Cuba’ with them and threatening to ruin the mission.
Sly’s anxiety is not helped by Toby trying to goad him into admitting his feelings for Megan. Toby needs the project because Happy is still freezing him out.
Walter and Happy get to do cool action stuff. There’s a callback to Cabe emerging from the sea in the nuclear plant episode when they all do it. Walter’s brain shorts as he stares at an objectified Paige for a beat too long. But it’s a constantly amusing episode (apart from the tragic war crimes backstory).
Walter takes the plea, and to confirm that it isn’t just for convenience, agrees with a total stranger (Ray) that he knows what it is to get over-emotional.
‘Fish Filet’ is a Sylvester-centric ep. He’s still trying to tell Megan he loves her as Happy breaks Toby’s heart wth a new gentleman friend, and the team sets its mind to Ralph’s bullying problem – his first appearance this season - but Ralph ends up sorting it rather brilliantly himself. (He’s the specialest!)
For reasons, Sly, of all people, has to go undercover in a prison. As soon as they say it’s an in-and-out job, you know it won’t be. He has to pick a fight with the toughest gangmember in the yard, fake!die before he’s really killed. Some of it without comms, and with the warden who’s the only one who knows his real identity out of the picture. All that he goes through brings out the superhero in him.
The rest of the team have to break him out with the help of Walter’s new ‘chain gang’ buddy Ray (played by Kevin ‘Marshall from Alias’ Weisman). When Paige suggests Walter hangs out with Ray to relate more to normal people koff be better boyfriend material koff he says no, but then goes and does it anyway.
The other big thing is how mch Cabe wants to father. He can’t teach Raph how to punch, but does start teaching Toby. He also basically sacks Molina for not caring enough about every team/family member.
Sylvester does tell Megan how he feels, in a ridiculous but touching way. The show absolutely ignores the age difference between them. I feel like I’ve filtered out a lot of the crack that went on.
‘Robots’’s action movie subgenre of choice is submarine, with Cabe, Happy and Walter, but mainly the latter two, stuck in a supersecret one in danger of drowning, while the rest of the team, sans comms, have to try to rescue them, although the team’s “robots” are able to help themselves too.
There’s a new Homeland boss, Cooper (AKA Ros from Frasier, AKA the one I remember), a nervous desk jockey. Toby is the originator of the robot designation, because Happy seems to be flaunting her new boyfriend at him. Ray is still hanging around – proving to me that Walter and Paige could pass the broccoli test if Paige was the one communicating that he needed to get the broccoli, at any rate.
The showrunner said they ought to have an ep focusing on Walter and Happy in a season 1 commentary, and this is it. They’re stick in a compartment with a submariner who points out how not normal they are – Walter teaches himself Morse code while he’s on the sub.
Happy’s dad gets a chance to help to save her (by following her instructions, natch) and bond with Toby. Walter is moved to admit to Paige that ‘sentimentality’ not nmbers guided some of his decisions in the sub and is about to suggest that he was wrong to shut down anything happening between them (after his latest brush with death) but Ralph unknowingly spoils it.
Waige shippers hate Ralph until their better selves stop them.
I was mentally commenting on the daftness at first, but by the time Cabe was risking hypothermia to set off a distress flare, I was well into it. Deservedly, the team plus Ray – not Cooper, she’s too new – end up boogieing as a group on the garage roof.
