Scorpion season 2 - Disc 4
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shallowness'White Out' to 'Adaptation'
‘White Out’ is a big Quintis and Ralph-as-team-member episode. (The Waigiest moment is when Toby asks Water if it were Paige lost in a blizzard IN ANTARTICA whether he’d put finding her above the mission. My question is whether she heard that over the comms, which can be as selective as the comms on any TV show.)
In order to save soldiers in Darfur, most of Scorpion need to go to the South Pole to fix a satellite. It’s the new year, so time for new resolutions, and most notably Happy has resolved to say ‘yes’ more.
A blizzard separates Happy, the most vulnerable to the conditions, from the rest. Toby goes after her and there’s tropetastic and beautiful stuff.
Ralph, in the garage with Paige and Sly, is offering helpful suggestions to the rest of the team and the pinned-down soldiers. It’s sweet, because he is a child, however brilliant, though it crowds out Sly and, to an extent, Paige, although she has a strong moment demanding Cooper rescues the team (Cooper does, so we approve of her and then she…doesn’t appear for the rest of the season) and coming through by knowing knots because she knew Walter wouldn’t learn them for a camping thing with Ralph.
Happy decides to make the most of her second chance at life (I’m sure it’s higher than second, see the previous ep for instance) and opens her not-so-cold heart to Toby. The ep ends beautifully with an impromptu camp on the roof and a team snow fight involving snow from the South Pole.
I did see all of ‘Sun of a Gun’ (my reaction then) but obviously it meant more this time WRT the ships and meeting Sly’s bad dad, while watching Cabe give him advice. But the crux of this ep is that the Macguffin is a sun gun and the show knows you’re laughing every time it’s mentioned.
What Walter meant by being more sociable was…speed dating. !?!? Paige is ‘fine’ with it as A. they decided not to date (except they kind of do at the end of the episode with Ralph as chaperone) and B. Walter is predictably terrible at speed dating. Toby caught a cold witnessing the disaster (how I winced at the waiter sneezing into his drink) so he stays at the garage for the mission, where Ralph expertly looks after him thanks to tips from Happy. Aww.
The mission involves Ken Dodd (ahahaha, was that an Anglophile Easter egg?), a soldier who’s spent his life looking for things like Nazi sun guns. Being forced to go to Africa with his estranged father is not great for Sly, although he gains his father’s respect and they bond a bit while nearly submerged in sand.
Meanwhile, Walter has to flatter a dictator, Paige is snide (because of the being fine with the speed dating), then forces Walter into a duet (we learn that Gabel can actually sing). ‘Don’t Go Breaking My Heart’ is an earworm.
I have to admit, I’m probably never going to love ‘Da Bomb’ as a Waige shipper. (It was aired out of order on ITV2 in 2016. Here’s my reaction.) Walter’s speed dating shenanigans lead to a date with Linda, the speed dating hostess, with Toby on comms until he gives up in disgust. Paige is not impressed.
Another part of Speed is merrily referenced (as I noted the first time round, without knowing how often the show had gone to that well). The morning after the date, the team have a job fixing a rocket, and it turns out Merrick is NASA’s liaison officer (I suspected him immediately, mainly because of his past beef with Scorpion, though it might also be memory, although I honestly remembered more on the shippy front). Walter, Toby and Paige stay behind at the garage, which is handy because Linda turns up to expose Walter’s fibbing about the date going well IN A BOMB VEST.
The bomb vest is there to blackmail the team into sabotaging the rocket launch, which they can live with until they realise there will be astronauts on board late in proceedings. Cabe kills Merrick to save lives (and after seeing season 1, I was all ‘better him than innocent Linda or the astronauts’).
Paige (who has FEELINGS about all of this) and Toby have to issue warnings to Walter to be sensitive around Linda, though in her stress, she’s brutally honest about the date. Walter grows on her by being heroic. (Toby and Paige aren’t, and Paige has to suffer watching Walter ignoring her strictures in ‘Crazy Train’ for another woman.)
This whole Walter dating other people now is bizarre, even more so on the rewatch, and his speech to Linda about wanting to connect with other people entirely blanks Paige out of proceedings. For me, it undermined the theory that he was experimenting dating with other women as practice.
They tried to have it both ways, because at the end of the ep, Walter was all heart eyes at Paige for proving that she accepts him and his funny activities and taste in food (though Ralph is obviously the one person who would find the paper maché whatever with the goop fascinating and Paige would enable that) which means that this is the second episode running where Walter, Paige and Ralph end up hanging out..
‘Fractures’ features team Scorpion. all split up, versus an earthquake. I had seen it all before (reaction here). Scary mom Paige is unleashed, Walter makes Toby feel bad, as he should, for self-sabotaging because he’s happy (because he’s with Happy secretly). ‘Indoor cats’ Sly and Ralph team up and are darling. I covered most of this the first time around.
This time around, Walter and Toby’s locking horns felt contrived - granted, Walter has an ego, but Toby was relentless - though the revelation that Toby was picking a fight made more sense of it. They united briefly in looking down at the therapist Paige sent them to, but he did get them singing a duet, hilariously. And after the quake, despite Walter’s habit of running towards danger, he and Toby communicated fine and at one point stole a police car.
Happy, Cabe and Paige had the least interesting thread, apart from Paige doing heroics.
It was interesting that it was in the Walter-Toby stuff that the fact that Walter is the boss came up. I really did like this ep.
‘Adaptation’ is when Walter finds out about Quintis via puppetry in therapy and so do the rest of the team, (first reaction here.) Walter leans hard on the no fraternisation ‘rule’ and says that they have to break up or one of them has to leave the team (!)… and grounds Toby for the mission, which is to stop drones carrying drugs over the border. Sly’s drone is a victim of the attempt, as the situation is worse than they thought, involving armed drones and drones that are impervious to Walter’s pulse gun. Oh, and bad guys are around to pick up the drugs.
Cabe tries to talk to Walter, Paige to Toby about the situation. Toby counters that both she and Walter are hypocrites. Heh.
But then, to save the day, Toby reveals that he put a tracking app on Happy’s phone. (Again, I was outraged and surprised this was not A Bigger Deal). Happy still isn’t ready to say she loves Toby yet.
‘White Out’ is a big Quintis and Ralph-as-team-member episode. (The Waigiest moment is when Toby asks Water if it were Paige lost in a blizzard IN ANTARTICA whether he’d put finding her above the mission. My question is whether she heard that over the comms, which can be as selective as the comms on any TV show.)
In order to save soldiers in Darfur, most of Scorpion need to go to the South Pole to fix a satellite. It’s the new year, so time for new resolutions, and most notably Happy has resolved to say ‘yes’ more.
A blizzard separates Happy, the most vulnerable to the conditions, from the rest. Toby goes after her and there’s tropetastic and beautiful stuff.
Ralph, in the garage with Paige and Sly, is offering helpful suggestions to the rest of the team and the pinned-down soldiers. It’s sweet, because he is a child, however brilliant, though it crowds out Sly and, to an extent, Paige, although she has a strong moment demanding Cooper rescues the team (Cooper does, so we approve of her and then she…doesn’t appear for the rest of the season) and coming through by knowing knots because she knew Walter wouldn’t learn them for a camping thing with Ralph.
Happy decides to make the most of her second chance at life (I’m sure it’s higher than second, see the previous ep for instance) and opens her not-so-cold heart to Toby. The ep ends beautifully with an impromptu camp on the roof and a team snow fight involving snow from the South Pole.
I did see all of ‘Sun of a Gun’ (my reaction then) but obviously it meant more this time WRT the ships and meeting Sly’s bad dad, while watching Cabe give him advice. But the crux of this ep is that the Macguffin is a sun gun and the show knows you’re laughing every time it’s mentioned.
What Walter meant by being more sociable was…speed dating. !?!? Paige is ‘fine’ with it as A. they decided not to date (except they kind of do at the end of the episode with Ralph as chaperone) and B. Walter is predictably terrible at speed dating. Toby caught a cold witnessing the disaster (how I winced at the waiter sneezing into his drink) so he stays at the garage for the mission, where Ralph expertly looks after him thanks to tips from Happy. Aww.
The mission involves Ken Dodd (ahahaha, was that an Anglophile Easter egg?), a soldier who’s spent his life looking for things like Nazi sun guns. Being forced to go to Africa with his estranged father is not great for Sly, although he gains his father’s respect and they bond a bit while nearly submerged in sand.
Meanwhile, Walter has to flatter a dictator, Paige is snide (because of the being fine with the speed dating), then forces Walter into a duet (we learn that Gabel can actually sing). ‘Don’t Go Breaking My Heart’ is an earworm.
I have to admit, I’m probably never going to love ‘Da Bomb’ as a Waige shipper. (It was aired out of order on ITV2 in 2016. Here’s my reaction.) Walter’s speed dating shenanigans lead to a date with Linda, the speed dating hostess, with Toby on comms until he gives up in disgust. Paige is not impressed.
Another part of Speed is merrily referenced (as I noted the first time round, without knowing how often the show had gone to that well). The morning after the date, the team have a job fixing a rocket, and it turns out Merrick is NASA’s liaison officer (I suspected him immediately, mainly because of his past beef with Scorpion, though it might also be memory, although I honestly remembered more on the shippy front). Walter, Toby and Paige stay behind at the garage, which is handy because Linda turns up to expose Walter’s fibbing about the date going well IN A BOMB VEST.
The bomb vest is there to blackmail the team into sabotaging the rocket launch, which they can live with until they realise there will be astronauts on board late in proceedings. Cabe kills Merrick to save lives (and after seeing season 1, I was all ‘better him than innocent Linda or the astronauts’).
Paige (who has FEELINGS about all of this) and Toby have to issue warnings to Walter to be sensitive around Linda, though in her stress, she’s brutally honest about the date. Walter grows on her by being heroic. (Toby and Paige aren’t, and Paige has to suffer watching Walter ignoring her strictures in ‘Crazy Train’ for another woman.)
This whole Walter dating other people now is bizarre, even more so on the rewatch, and his speech to Linda about wanting to connect with other people entirely blanks Paige out of proceedings. For me, it undermined the theory that he was experimenting dating with other women as practice.
They tried to have it both ways, because at the end of the ep, Walter was all heart eyes at Paige for proving that she accepts him and his funny activities and taste in food (though Ralph is obviously the one person who would find the paper maché whatever with the goop fascinating and Paige would enable that) which means that this is the second episode running where Walter, Paige and Ralph end up hanging out..
‘Fractures’ features team Scorpion. all split up, versus an earthquake. I had seen it all before (reaction here). Scary mom Paige is unleashed, Walter makes Toby feel bad, as he should, for self-sabotaging because he’s happy (because he’s with Happy secretly). ‘Indoor cats’ Sly and Ralph team up and are darling. I covered most of this the first time around.
This time around, Walter and Toby’s locking horns felt contrived - granted, Walter has an ego, but Toby was relentless - though the revelation that Toby was picking a fight made more sense of it. They united briefly in looking down at the therapist Paige sent them to, but he did get them singing a duet, hilariously. And after the quake, despite Walter’s habit of running towards danger, he and Toby communicated fine and at one point stole a police car.
Happy, Cabe and Paige had the least interesting thread, apart from Paige doing heroics.
It was interesting that it was in the Walter-Toby stuff that the fact that Walter is the boss came up. I really did like this ep.
‘Adaptation’ is when Walter finds out about Quintis via puppetry in therapy and so do the rest of the team, (first reaction here.) Walter leans hard on the no fraternisation ‘rule’ and says that they have to break up or one of them has to leave the team (!)… and grounds Toby for the mission, which is to stop drones carrying drugs over the border. Sly’s drone is a victim of the attempt, as the situation is worse than they thought, involving armed drones and drones that are impervious to Walter’s pulse gun. Oh, and bad guys are around to pick up the drugs.
Cabe tries to talk to Walter, Paige to Toby about the situation. Toby counters that both she and Walter are hypocrites. Heh.
But then, to save the day, Toby reveals that he put a tracking app on Happy’s phone. (Again, I was outraged and surprised this was not A Bigger Deal). Happy still isn’t ready to say she loves Toby yet.
