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Scorpion season 2 - Disc 6
‘Chernobyl Intentions’ is a bananas penultimate episode in which they set things up for the finale, there’s decent emotional content, probably dubious science and bonkers action.
The team are asked to go to your actual Chernobyl and assess where a faulty concrete dome can be reinforced to keep out the radioactive stuff or something. Toby is left behind because he’s been testifying that Mark Collins is too dangerously insane to be left out of an institution, but not doing it in the most tactful way.
Sly is panicky, Walter doesn’t listen to Happy (who was on point all episode). Their robot sets off an explosion, crashing the plane Sly and Paige were in into the plant. Walter is all ‘Paige. Paige. Paige.’ She’s very pragmatic. They use a fairground ride to help pull the plane out, but Paige’s heroics mean that she’s left behind, so of course Walter goes in to rescue her. All this means the radioactive lava (essentially) will get into contact with more bad stuff and set off another devastating explosion. So, Happy needs to set off a controlled explosion to stop that, as an injured Paige and Walter try to escape. A kiss of life and a mad leap of faith (in Walter’s science) ensue.
BONKERS.
Happy is a good friend to Walter, calling him out on his real feelings and fears (which is telling about where she’s at). Paige meanwhile hears about how the Russian scientist chose her awkward husband over a dashing colleague. But Walter awkwardly messes up Happy’s orders to invite Paige to the Lake Tahoe jazz and heritage festival by TELLING HER SHE SHOULD GO WITH TIM !!!
Meanwhile, Toby, collecting his specially commissioned engagement ring, is abducted…by an escaped Mark Collins. I hasd seen all this before (reaction here), but could now appreciate the echoes of Satellite of Love in the Waige stuff, and knew the Mark Collins backstory.
I found ‘Toby or not Toby’ slightly underwhelming (more so than I did the first time I watched it, but that was because the last three eps of Scorpion’s second sesason felt like a bonus to me because of ITV2’s weird scheduling decisions.) Mark Collins’s plan to use Toby as bait to show Scorpion (Walter) he’s the smartest is mean and all, but it’s not as big a challenge as the previous ep. And although it shares a team member in mortal peril with the first season finale, Toby doesn’t go through the same wringer as Walter did. As he’s mentally tortured, he’s still acute enough to help the team help him. They nearly use a keytar, but it’s Tim’s musicality and Happy’s heart that save Toby. Well, and Walter’s brain and making the right choice. And then he’s developed enough to catch Mark Collins for afters. (He was a bit too proud of himself about being the new Walter given what else went on in this finale.)
(I can’t help worndering what would happen if MC learned about Ralph, that he’s the smartest, or clocked what he and Paige mean to walter…)
Fortunately, there was more, with Toby proposing to Happy, but as Mark Collins warned, she refused because she was already married to someone else. Walter’s response to the ensuing heartbreak was, ‘See, this is why I was right to ban relationships’, even though he was upset at Paige and Tim’s relationship developing, which he continued to push her into, even after he wore his heart on a sleeve with the speech that wasn’t really about Toby. And watching the clip in the ‘previously’ it was obvious Paige was working herself up to a deighted acceptance when she thought Walter was asking her out for himself.
It takes an on-the-way-to-inebriated Toby to spell out to oblivious!Walter that he’s shutting the door on love. Walter FINALLY admits out loud that he loves Paige and goes after her. Which got me to where I’d reached before. I couldn’t wait to finally see how they wrote themselves out of all this, and have, in fact, watched most of season 3, I’m just way behind on posting my reactions.
There are a couple of commentaries, the theme of ‘White Out’s ‘ being that they did something in days that films such as The Revenant had weeks and millions more to do. (I thought they were over-reaching with that compassion.) The finale and SFX get special attention, and there’s a feature that’s meant to explain the writers’ thoughts behind each episode, but it skimps on the second half of the season. Still, I learned ‘Tech, Drugs and Rock and Roll’ was a very special episode – I’m not sure which version made it on to the DVD, and that they made a comic book of the show to hand out at Comic Con, where the team go into space.
The team are asked to go to your actual Chernobyl and assess where a faulty concrete dome can be reinforced to keep out the radioactive stuff or something. Toby is left behind because he’s been testifying that Mark Collins is too dangerously insane to be left out of an institution, but not doing it in the most tactful way.
Sly is panicky, Walter doesn’t listen to Happy (who was on point all episode). Their robot sets off an explosion, crashing the plane Sly and Paige were in into the plant. Walter is all ‘Paige. Paige. Paige.’ She’s very pragmatic. They use a fairground ride to help pull the plane out, but Paige’s heroics mean that she’s left behind, so of course Walter goes in to rescue her. All this means the radioactive lava (essentially) will get into contact with more bad stuff and set off another devastating explosion. So, Happy needs to set off a controlled explosion to stop that, as an injured Paige and Walter try to escape. A kiss of life and a mad leap of faith (in Walter’s science) ensue.
BONKERS.
Happy is a good friend to Walter, calling him out on his real feelings and fears (which is telling about where she’s at). Paige meanwhile hears about how the Russian scientist chose her awkward husband over a dashing colleague. But Walter awkwardly messes up Happy’s orders to invite Paige to the Lake Tahoe jazz and heritage festival by TELLING HER SHE SHOULD GO WITH TIM !!!
Meanwhile, Toby, collecting his specially commissioned engagement ring, is abducted…by an escaped Mark Collins. I hasd seen all this before (reaction here), but could now appreciate the echoes of Satellite of Love in the Waige stuff, and knew the Mark Collins backstory.
I found ‘Toby or not Toby’ slightly underwhelming (more so than I did the first time I watched it, but that was because the last three eps of Scorpion’s second sesason felt like a bonus to me because of ITV2’s weird scheduling decisions.) Mark Collins’s plan to use Toby as bait to show Scorpion (Walter) he’s the smartest is mean and all, but it’s not as big a challenge as the previous ep. And although it shares a team member in mortal peril with the first season finale, Toby doesn’t go through the same wringer as Walter did. As he’s mentally tortured, he’s still acute enough to help the team help him. They nearly use a keytar, but it’s Tim’s musicality and Happy’s heart that save Toby. Well, and Walter’s brain and making the right choice. And then he’s developed enough to catch Mark Collins for afters. (He was a bit too proud of himself about being the new Walter given what else went on in this finale.)
(I can’t help worndering what would happen if MC learned about Ralph, that he’s the smartest, or clocked what he and Paige mean to walter…)
Fortunately, there was more, with Toby proposing to Happy, but as Mark Collins warned, she refused because she was already married to someone else. Walter’s response to the ensuing heartbreak was, ‘See, this is why I was right to ban relationships’, even though he was upset at Paige and Tim’s relationship developing, which he continued to push her into, even after he wore his heart on a sleeve with the speech that wasn’t really about Toby. And watching the clip in the ‘previously’ it was obvious Paige was working herself up to a deighted acceptance when she thought Walter was asking her out for himself.
It takes an on-the-way-to-inebriated Toby to spell out to oblivious!Walter that he’s shutting the door on love. Walter FINALLY admits out loud that he loves Paige and goes after her. Which got me to where I’d reached before. I couldn’t wait to finally see how they wrote themselves out of all this, and have, in fact, watched most of season 3, I’m just way behind on posting my reactions.
There are a couple of commentaries, the theme of ‘White Out’s ‘ being that they did something in days that films such as The Revenant had weeks and millions more to do. (I thought they were over-reaching with that compassion.) The finale and SFX get special attention, and there’s a feature that’s meant to explain the writers’ thoughts behind each episode, but it skimps on the second half of the season. Still, I learned ‘Tech, Drugs and Rock and Roll’ was a very special episode – I’m not sure which version made it on to the DVD, and that they made a comic book of the show to hand out at Comic Con, where the team go into space.