Scorpion season 2 - disc 2
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shallowness‘Super Fun Guys’ is high in crack as they use Sly’s beloved made-up comic book superheroes to explore the team-as-superheroes notion. There’s meta as the team go undercover as a DVD feature documentary crew and then as extras in a film adaptation of the Super Fun Guys comics, which is filming near some hidden dirty bombs. Abroad.
I suppose I’m close enough to the target audience to grumble about them crossing the DC and Marvel streams. The character Toby ends up dressed as is a Joker rip-off. But the costume people clearly had a blast and they fully deserve the slo-mo walk.
BUT the main emotional throughline is Sly staying at home, offering useful back-up, because of a commitment to an ailing Megan, despite being a fanboy. He’s growing into the man Megan needs him to be. Aww. He can’t tell Walter, who knows something is up (and is nice to Sly, which Paige appreciates, even though Sly’s take on Clark Kent and Lois Lane is that they’re doomed, while Walter was looking for a hopeful ending. I was like ‘eh, isn’t comics canon so malleable that you can make it what you like?’ Admittedly, I grew up on Lois and Clark: The New Adventures of Superman.)
Ray is still around. At one point, I thought he was acting as Sly’s subconscious. They make pretty good use of his randomness.
Things end up with Scorpion setting off a nuclear bomb in a mine because Walter thinks it’s the least worst option. Happy does some crazy stuff, cementing that she is the toughest after Cabe. Paige basically paws at Walter in his costume, although this is while on the back of a truck being driven by Happy whilst they’re being chased.
There’s Quintis stuff, where he realises he can’t handle just being friends, but she’s right, he’s kind of creepy about her in costume.
‘Tech, Drugs and Rock & Roll’ proves that when Walter screws up, it has major consequences. His first mistake? Doing What Ray Would Do (nicely riffed off in other instances involving other characters this episode.) So, he ‘flirts’ with an apparently willing brunette, who spikes his drink, on the eve of team Scorpion helping Elia (the tech billionaire who wanted to poach Walter and has something of a mentor role in his life) and his demonstrator smart building. Which is ‘infected’ by a worm installed from Walter’s computer.
Out of guilt for his vulnerability (and a lot of motivations that Toby accurately diagnoses) Walter starts getting reckless as the building turns on all the geniuses and other innocents trapped inside. There’s a fire, and though the show references Die Hard, I thought of The Towering Inferno. Toby is technically dead for a while and Sly has to look after some kids and may need to sacrifice himself for them.
Meanwhile, Paige is fuming that her ‘friend/colleague’ appears to have hooked up with a ‘slut’. She’s not jealous at all (she only admits to having ‘complicated feelings’ about the situation, but I thought they were pretty straightforward.) Cabe’s whole ‘I am not getting involved in this’ attitude in response is funny.
Both Toby and Happy have legitimate reasons for being mad at Walter. I really liked this episode, I thought the stakes were pretty high, there were scary problems for the team to overcome as well as good emotional content.
‘Crazy Train’ riffs off the third act of Speed. Whee!
There’s a bit of violence as Toby gets KO’d in his first boxing match and Paige socks Walter one for endangering himself to save her and Ralph’s lives. Ray is of some use as an emotional guide to Walter and there’s a funny sequence where Toby and Cabe convince a baddie he’s being buried alive to get him to rat out his colleague. Ray walks in on this…and tiptoes out.
Paige and Ralph are on the subway for a school thing with another mother and son. It’s a Saturday and everyone else is conveniently in the garage, with Cabe in a suit, even, as said train goes out of control…fast. Paige is fairly great, but so is her unflappable mini-Walter of a son. Ditto Happy. Walter, as ever, endangers himself by joining the train to try to rescue his two people. Paige spells out what watching him go beyond that is like in what Cabe rightly calls A Moment. After that, Walter is planning on making his move on Paige (again. Spoiler: he won’t.)
In an ep full of cheerfully awful puns, Sly, bless him, laughs at Happy’s jokes – she’s been preparing a stand-up act, which goes about as well as you’d think it would. Toby is reassured.
‘Area 51’ proves Walter was unjustified in his optimism at the end of the previous episode. The news that Megan has a respiratory infection throws Water, plus Happy and Toby, into a tailspin. It also means Sly wil be torn between Walter’s insistence on maintaining Megan’s life at any cost and her determination to put her quality of life first. Obviously, the second wins, ultimately.
Walter wants money to speed up his plan to transfer Megan’s consciousness to machines so he jumps at a CIA job that takes them to Area 51. (Sly stays by Megan’s side.) So, there’s talk of aliens and, via Paige, everyone’s feelings about Megan’s mortality. Walter nearly gets killed two or three times. There’s a bit in zero gravity, OBVIOUSLY because a supersecret plane they were meant to find takes off with Walter and Cabe in it. Happy and the rest break out of an air force prison. Some things landed (heh, landed) better than others.
I suppose I’m close enough to the target audience to grumble about them crossing the DC and Marvel streams. The character Toby ends up dressed as is a Joker rip-off. But the costume people clearly had a blast and they fully deserve the slo-mo walk.
BUT the main emotional throughline is Sly staying at home, offering useful back-up, because of a commitment to an ailing Megan, despite being a fanboy. He’s growing into the man Megan needs him to be. Aww. He can’t tell Walter, who knows something is up (and is nice to Sly, which Paige appreciates, even though Sly’s take on Clark Kent and Lois Lane is that they’re doomed, while Walter was looking for a hopeful ending. I was like ‘eh, isn’t comics canon so malleable that you can make it what you like?’ Admittedly, I grew up on Lois and Clark: The New Adventures of Superman.)
Ray is still around. At one point, I thought he was acting as Sly’s subconscious. They make pretty good use of his randomness.
Things end up with Scorpion setting off a nuclear bomb in a mine because Walter thinks it’s the least worst option. Happy does some crazy stuff, cementing that she is the toughest after Cabe. Paige basically paws at Walter in his costume, although this is while on the back of a truck being driven by Happy whilst they’re being chased.
There’s Quintis stuff, where he realises he can’t handle just being friends, but she’s right, he’s kind of creepy about her in costume.
‘Tech, Drugs and Rock & Roll’ proves that when Walter screws up, it has major consequences. His first mistake? Doing What Ray Would Do (nicely riffed off in other instances involving other characters this episode.) So, he ‘flirts’ with an apparently willing brunette, who spikes his drink, on the eve of team Scorpion helping Elia (the tech billionaire who wanted to poach Walter and has something of a mentor role in his life) and his demonstrator smart building. Which is ‘infected’ by a worm installed from Walter’s computer.
Out of guilt for his vulnerability (and a lot of motivations that Toby accurately diagnoses) Walter starts getting reckless as the building turns on all the geniuses and other innocents trapped inside. There’s a fire, and though the show references Die Hard, I thought of The Towering Inferno. Toby is technically dead for a while and Sly has to look after some kids and may need to sacrifice himself for them.
Meanwhile, Paige is fuming that her ‘friend/colleague’ appears to have hooked up with a ‘slut’. She’s not jealous at all (she only admits to having ‘complicated feelings’ about the situation, but I thought they were pretty straightforward.) Cabe’s whole ‘I am not getting involved in this’ attitude in response is funny.
Both Toby and Happy have legitimate reasons for being mad at Walter. I really liked this episode, I thought the stakes were pretty high, there were scary problems for the team to overcome as well as good emotional content.
‘Crazy Train’ riffs off the third act of Speed. Whee!
There’s a bit of violence as Toby gets KO’d in his first boxing match and Paige socks Walter one for endangering himself to save her and Ralph’s lives. Ray is of some use as an emotional guide to Walter and there’s a funny sequence where Toby and Cabe convince a baddie he’s being buried alive to get him to rat out his colleague. Ray walks in on this…and tiptoes out.
Paige and Ralph are on the subway for a school thing with another mother and son. It’s a Saturday and everyone else is conveniently in the garage, with Cabe in a suit, even, as said train goes out of control…fast. Paige is fairly great, but so is her unflappable mini-Walter of a son. Ditto Happy. Walter, as ever, endangers himself by joining the train to try to rescue his two people. Paige spells out what watching him go beyond that is like in what Cabe rightly calls A Moment. After that, Walter is planning on making his move on Paige (again. Spoiler: he won’t.)
In an ep full of cheerfully awful puns, Sly, bless him, laughs at Happy’s jokes – she’s been preparing a stand-up act, which goes about as well as you’d think it would. Toby is reassured.
‘Area 51’ proves Walter was unjustified in his optimism at the end of the previous episode. The news that Megan has a respiratory infection throws Water, plus Happy and Toby, into a tailspin. It also means Sly wil be torn between Walter’s insistence on maintaining Megan’s life at any cost and her determination to put her quality of life first. Obviously, the second wins, ultimately.
Walter wants money to speed up his plan to transfer Megan’s consciousness to machines so he jumps at a CIA job that takes them to Area 51. (Sly stays by Megan’s side.) So, there’s talk of aliens and, via Paige, everyone’s feelings about Megan’s mortality. Walter nearly gets killed two or three times. There’s a bit in zero gravity, OBVIOUSLY because a supersecret plane they were meant to find takes off with Walter and Cabe in it. Happy and the rest break out of an air force prison. Some things landed (heh, landed) better than others.
