Scorpion Season 4 Disc 5
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shallownessI thought ‘Dumbster Fire’ was weak, ’Foul Balls’ a little better, and ‘Dork Day Afternoon’ and ‘Gator Done’ more like it, though not as good as ‘Nerd, Wind and Fire’, for reference.
Compatibility issues return in ‘Dumbster Fire’ (grr) as Toby can’t decide on a fertility doctor, to Happy’s irritation, Walter won’t dumb down to play party games with Paige’s friends, and Sly has begged Ralph to talk him up to Flo, although my reaction was, ‘Oh, baby, no,’ when the boy did so. Fortunately, Florence remained clueless anyway.
The Job of the Week involved the four big geniuses going underground to test acronym-loving scientists’ work, but because they have no common sense, they stay beyond the set amount of time, having proved that the scientists did the blah blah/made the discovery they claimed to have, and their IQ started to drop (as they were warned it could) because things went wrong (the scientists’ lab creatures had got loose and chewed through the wiring.)
I had laughed meanly when the other geniuses laid into Toby’s lower IQ, but they had now reached the point where Paige and Cabe, stuck above ground, were smarter than them and had to come up with orders and plans, first to save Toby, who would then come up with a plan for the rest.
The dumbing down didn’t affect their egos, but Walter’s EQ did improve markedly and he vocalised his appreciates Paige’s contribution, which was to kindly communicate clearly and her memory. It helps that she isn’t dumb by normal standards. Walter would make Drew look smart. After they were returned above ground and to their usual intelligence, Walter ditched the EQ (probably in reaction to what just happened) reneged on a suggestion of doing something Paige would like, didn’t notice that he hurt her feelings by doing so and chose to do science with Flo instead (she’d previously been around to taste Sly’s simple but brilliant idea to solve plastic pollution.) Cabe was unable to smack some sense into Walter at the end of the ep. I get the show needs the tension between Waige, but I didn’t enjoy this bit.
Ah well, Quintis learned the right lessons from their experience and picked a doctor, but we got yet another moment where the show did something horrid to Happy’s hair for a gag.
The ending of ‘Dork Day Afternoon’ nearly got me to overlook the fact I was going ‘oh boy’ at the opening, which proved the team‘s overinvolvement in each other’s lives, with the guys discussing how they were going to transport Toby and his sperm sample to the fertility clinic. There were other details that get picked up in the rest of the episode, but Sly was also seeking advice from his teen wingman on asking Florence out. For the record, that sleeveless pullover was closer to heather than lilac. (Also, typing this up ages after I watched it, I know Sly and Ralph’s relationship is touching, but Ralph as a love guru??? Oh, Sly.)
Walter, unsympathetic to the Toby transportation stakes, decided to take a detour to visit the bank. Now, he obviously didn’t know the title of the ep or that this was the beginning of an ep, but the reason for the visit totally could have waited until after the scheduled procedure.
He and Toby walked in on a bank robbery. On the plus side, they and Cabe had their comms in, so Sly and Flo could help from the garage and Happy (nervous about mothering again) and Paige could help from the clinic.
Walter and Toby realised the robbers were planning to kill them and the staff. As Quintis make it clear that they thought Walter was ruining their baby-making chances (with reason), he came up with a brilliant plan to rescue Toby’s sample, which was in a Happy-designed container, and knock out the robbers. This involved Cabe shoving off and an old colleague, who conveniently had had fertility problems in the past helping him; Sly and Florence having to repurpose a satellite dish that was part of a project Walter and Ralph were working on; and Walter putting himself in danger, which Paige had to overhear. They pulled it all off.
And got to the clinic in time, where Paige let Happy hold a baby to reassure her about her mothering skills, Walter was Walterishly supportive of Quintis, especially Toby, who paid him a compliment about being a father to Ralph, which he’d prove in the final scene. But before that, Paige’s son had to clarify to Sly that he needed to be clearer to Flo that he wa’s asking her out on a date (Flo doesn’t seem to be feeling it, although they’ve made it clear that she and Sly are somewhat compatible, so Sly’s certainty the’re MTB has some basis.)
But the ep ended with Walter recognising Ralph was miffed about the destruction of the satellite, engaged in non-verbal communication with Paige over it and rearranged that evening’s plans so that he and Ralph could work on it. I mostly went ‘aww’ over that, though I was a little disappointed that that meant that Paige was lumbered with dishwashing and catching up on the bills that Walter was going to sort for her.
It later occurred to me that Walter should be chuffed, because he was now the one inside, if you remember the scene in season 1 where he saw Paige, Ralph and Drew being a family unit from the outside.
There was indeed a gator in ‘Gator Done’. Named Yvonne. Hopefully, that was a random choice and not a pointed one.
Paige was trying to teach Walter the concept of white lies (this would end up in him being an idiot) and me being confused about Waige’s living arrangements. I’d assmed, besed on everything we’d seen so far this season, that she’d moved out of her place into the flat above the garage and Ralph into Ray’s van, but apparently not.
Somehow Ralph was not at school (but high school students were) so he could counsel Sly to make his move on Flo/promote Sly’s filtered water/find out that Patty got a dreaded tardy because of mean girls. Sly tried to deal with the latter situation with diplomacy, while Ralph went all evil genius over it. He rightly got reamed for that by his mother, and he didn’t get any credit at all from Patty, who was just looking for friends and found one in Sly (Aww.)
Also we got slightly bratty Ralph, which I always enjoy.
Meanwhile, Toby was making a big deal of going to New Orleans before becoming a dad (and being v. annoying – I was with Cabe on swapping the coffee.) Happy was staying at the garage to protect the potential baby
Walter was jauntily confident – their job is to release genetically modified mosquitos before they suffocates to reduce the chances of an epidemic that turned into a pandemic as if the writers didn’t know the difference. (As I might not have had I watched it when it first aired,) – so things went wrong. An alligator swallowed the tin containing the mosqquitos. Instead of tranqing it, they tranqed Cabe, who would die if they didn’t get anti-venom (!?!?) into him or if Toby couldn’t look after him on the way to the treatment. So, Robert Patrick enjoyed himself playing high!Cabe.
Waige hunted the alligator, and Walter finally figured out white lies to get Happy to help them find a plant to get alligator Yvonne to throw up the tin of mosquitos. And then they needed to stop Yvonne from eating Paige after doing so.
But they saved the day, Quintis continued to learn lessons, this one about the adjustments they’d have to make to be parents. Walter overheard Paige admit she didn’t want to go to a physics lecture (she didn’t want to before, but she really didn’t after falling into the water and getting dragged away from an alligator) so he lied that it had been cancelled. He then invited Florence, who was keen to hear the lecture. I was trying to spin this as Waige needing to accept they don’t have to do everything together or needing to find a way to be tactfully upfront with each other. But, really, Walter was an idiot, and I was left worried by how the show was delving into Waige’s incompatibilities – yeah, it makes for good drama, but this was also an episode that showed their compatibility and excellent non-verbal communication.
‘Foul Balls’ was mostly contrived while being wildly entertaining. It was about the nerds’ fear of sports, team unity and Walter’s pride, and as a whole it didn’t work for me. It really was the daftest episode of the season so far. I realised I love Happy for her lack of subtlety, and angry!Paige (at the commentator). It had great comic timing from Quintis weirdness to the team oversharing to the Homeland director who is Cabe’s nemesis, Happy using that cute dog they rescued to try to win over a RL sports star (?) she kidnapped, rage monster Florence (she really hates jocks,) Patty’s random appearance, nearly everyone being very teenage over Walter’s doofusness under the bleachers, the recurrence of the slo-mo walk (extended) and the OTT but perfect final situation.
There was an attempt to add ballast by Toby finding out Happy had a solo bank account just in case he relapsed WRT gambling; Walter’s lie in the previous ep and a sad story about Walter’s sportsfail making him do crazy stuff to save face in front of Cabe.
The ep started off with Walter spectacularly hacking everyone on team Scorpion off over dividing money from one of Happy’s inventions. He called the goofy therapist to help, just as Cabe got called about a ‘Homland emergency’ i.e. they needed Scorpion to put up a baseball team for a law enforcement league. Paige and Cabe talked the geniuses into it (if Homeland won, the team would lose their Government contracts). Before they’d started playing, the team were down Cabe and Walter because they got stuck in an evidence locker. Coach Paige was dismayed. They brought in anyone connected with Scorpion in this season to form the team, including Sly’s wizarding friend. They were rubbish until they decided to play to their strengths/cheat (while allegedly keeping within the rules) and break federal laws (par for the course.)
The kidnapping involved Toby doing pizza deliveries for a bike, which Happy found hot. Sadly, we learned the fertility treatment didn’t work. Also, Happy somehow – hadn’t she and Toby gone home at this point? – had seen Flo and Walter driving off together to the lecture and come to the worst conclusions. She and Toby really don’t want Walter to lose Paige as they believe he’ll stop functioning. But as Flo pointed out when she realised what was up, Quintis needed to talk to Walter, which Toby did…in front of nearly everyone under the bleachers bar Paige (and Ralph), explaining that Walter didn’t tell a white lie and the fact he was keeping it from Paige meant he sort of knew that. The issue remained unresolved but I thought, Sly might need to worry about Florence and that therapist.
Walter contributed a little to the win and gave a team appreciation speech, promising he’d sort the money out more respectfully.
Compatibility issues return in ‘Dumbster Fire’ (grr) as Toby can’t decide on a fertility doctor, to Happy’s irritation, Walter won’t dumb down to play party games with Paige’s friends, and Sly has begged Ralph to talk him up to Flo, although my reaction was, ‘Oh, baby, no,’ when the boy did so. Fortunately, Florence remained clueless anyway.
The Job of the Week involved the four big geniuses going underground to test acronym-loving scientists’ work, but because they have no common sense, they stay beyond the set amount of time, having proved that the scientists did the blah blah/made the discovery they claimed to have, and their IQ started to drop (as they were warned it could) because things went wrong (the scientists’ lab creatures had got loose and chewed through the wiring.)
I had laughed meanly when the other geniuses laid into Toby’s lower IQ, but they had now reached the point where Paige and Cabe, stuck above ground, were smarter than them and had to come up with orders and plans, first to save Toby, who would then come up with a plan for the rest.
The dumbing down didn’t affect their egos, but Walter’s EQ did improve markedly and he vocalised his appreciates Paige’s contribution, which was to kindly communicate clearly and her memory. It helps that she isn’t dumb by normal standards. Walter would make Drew look smart. After they were returned above ground and to their usual intelligence, Walter ditched the EQ (probably in reaction to what just happened) reneged on a suggestion of doing something Paige would like, didn’t notice that he hurt her feelings by doing so and chose to do science with Flo instead (she’d previously been around to taste Sly’s simple but brilliant idea to solve plastic pollution.) Cabe was unable to smack some sense into Walter at the end of the ep. I get the show needs the tension between Waige, but I didn’t enjoy this bit.
Ah well, Quintis learned the right lessons from their experience and picked a doctor, but we got yet another moment where the show did something horrid to Happy’s hair for a gag.
The ending of ‘Dork Day Afternoon’ nearly got me to overlook the fact I was going ‘oh boy’ at the opening, which proved the team‘s overinvolvement in each other’s lives, with the guys discussing how they were going to transport Toby and his sperm sample to the fertility clinic. There were other details that get picked up in the rest of the episode, but Sly was also seeking advice from his teen wingman on asking Florence out. For the record, that sleeveless pullover was closer to heather than lilac. (Also, typing this up ages after I watched it, I know Sly and Ralph’s relationship is touching, but Ralph as a love guru??? Oh, Sly.)
Walter, unsympathetic to the Toby transportation stakes, decided to take a detour to visit the bank. Now, he obviously didn’t know the title of the ep or that this was the beginning of an ep, but the reason for the visit totally could have waited until after the scheduled procedure.
He and Toby walked in on a bank robbery. On the plus side, they and Cabe had their comms in, so Sly and Flo could help from the garage and Happy (nervous about mothering again) and Paige could help from the clinic.
Walter and Toby realised the robbers were planning to kill them and the staff. As Quintis make it clear that they thought Walter was ruining their baby-making chances (with reason), he came up with a brilliant plan to rescue Toby’s sample, which was in a Happy-designed container, and knock out the robbers. This involved Cabe shoving off and an old colleague, who conveniently had had fertility problems in the past helping him; Sly and Florence having to repurpose a satellite dish that was part of a project Walter and Ralph were working on; and Walter putting himself in danger, which Paige had to overhear. They pulled it all off.
And got to the clinic in time, where Paige let Happy hold a baby to reassure her about her mothering skills, Walter was Walterishly supportive of Quintis, especially Toby, who paid him a compliment about being a father to Ralph, which he’d prove in the final scene. But before that, Paige’s son had to clarify to Sly that he needed to be clearer to Flo that he wa’s asking her out on a date (Flo doesn’t seem to be feeling it, although they’ve made it clear that she and Sly are somewhat compatible, so Sly’s certainty the’re MTB has some basis.)
But the ep ended with Walter recognising Ralph was miffed about the destruction of the satellite, engaged in non-verbal communication with Paige over it and rearranged that evening’s plans so that he and Ralph could work on it. I mostly went ‘aww’ over that, though I was a little disappointed that that meant that Paige was lumbered with dishwashing and catching up on the bills that Walter was going to sort for her.
It later occurred to me that Walter should be chuffed, because he was now the one inside, if you remember the scene in season 1 where he saw Paige, Ralph and Drew being a family unit from the outside.
There was indeed a gator in ‘Gator Done’. Named Yvonne. Hopefully, that was a random choice and not a pointed one.
Paige was trying to teach Walter the concept of white lies (this would end up in him being an idiot) and me being confused about Waige’s living arrangements. I’d assmed, besed on everything we’d seen so far this season, that she’d moved out of her place into the flat above the garage and Ralph into Ray’s van, but apparently not.
Somehow Ralph was not at school (but high school students were) so he could counsel Sly to make his move on Flo/promote Sly’s filtered water/find out that Patty got a dreaded tardy because of mean girls. Sly tried to deal with the latter situation with diplomacy, while Ralph went all evil genius over it. He rightly got reamed for that by his mother, and he didn’t get any credit at all from Patty, who was just looking for friends and found one in Sly (Aww.)
Also we got slightly bratty Ralph, which I always enjoy.
Meanwhile, Toby was making a big deal of going to New Orleans before becoming a dad (and being v. annoying – I was with Cabe on swapping the coffee.) Happy was staying at the garage to protect the potential baby
Walter was jauntily confident – their job is to release genetically modified mosquitos before they suffocates to reduce the chances of an epidemic that turned into a pandemic as if the writers didn’t know the difference. (As I might not have had I watched it when it first aired,) – so things went wrong. An alligator swallowed the tin containing the mosqquitos. Instead of tranqing it, they tranqed Cabe, who would die if they didn’t get anti-venom (!?!?) into him or if Toby couldn’t look after him on the way to the treatment. So, Robert Patrick enjoyed himself playing high!Cabe.
Waige hunted the alligator, and Walter finally figured out white lies to get Happy to help them find a plant to get alligator Yvonne to throw up the tin of mosquitos. And then they needed to stop Yvonne from eating Paige after doing so.
But they saved the day, Quintis continued to learn lessons, this one about the adjustments they’d have to make to be parents. Walter overheard Paige admit she didn’t want to go to a physics lecture (she didn’t want to before, but she really didn’t after falling into the water and getting dragged away from an alligator) so he lied that it had been cancelled. He then invited Florence, who was keen to hear the lecture. I was trying to spin this as Waige needing to accept they don’t have to do everything together or needing to find a way to be tactfully upfront with each other. But, really, Walter was an idiot, and I was left worried by how the show was delving into Waige’s incompatibilities – yeah, it makes for good drama, but this was also an episode that showed their compatibility and excellent non-verbal communication.
‘Foul Balls’ was mostly contrived while being wildly entertaining. It was about the nerds’ fear of sports, team unity and Walter’s pride, and as a whole it didn’t work for me. It really was the daftest episode of the season so far. I realised I love Happy for her lack of subtlety, and angry!Paige (at the commentator). It had great comic timing from Quintis weirdness to the team oversharing to the Homeland director who is Cabe’s nemesis, Happy using that cute dog they rescued to try to win over a RL sports star (?) she kidnapped, rage monster Florence (she really hates jocks,) Patty’s random appearance, nearly everyone being very teenage over Walter’s doofusness under the bleachers, the recurrence of the slo-mo walk (extended) and the OTT but perfect final situation.
There was an attempt to add ballast by Toby finding out Happy had a solo bank account just in case he relapsed WRT gambling; Walter’s lie in the previous ep and a sad story about Walter’s sportsfail making him do crazy stuff to save face in front of Cabe.
The ep started off with Walter spectacularly hacking everyone on team Scorpion off over dividing money from one of Happy’s inventions. He called the goofy therapist to help, just as Cabe got called about a ‘Homland emergency’ i.e. they needed Scorpion to put up a baseball team for a law enforcement league. Paige and Cabe talked the geniuses into it (if Homeland won, the team would lose their Government contracts). Before they’d started playing, the team were down Cabe and Walter because they got stuck in an evidence locker. Coach Paige was dismayed. They brought in anyone connected with Scorpion in this season to form the team, including Sly’s wizarding friend. They were rubbish until they decided to play to their strengths/cheat (while allegedly keeping within the rules) and break federal laws (par for the course.)
The kidnapping involved Toby doing pizza deliveries for a bike, which Happy found hot. Sadly, we learned the fertility treatment didn’t work. Also, Happy somehow – hadn’t she and Toby gone home at this point? – had seen Flo and Walter driving off together to the lecture and come to the worst conclusions. She and Toby really don’t want Walter to lose Paige as they believe he’ll stop functioning. But as Flo pointed out when she realised what was up, Quintis needed to talk to Walter, which Toby did…in front of nearly everyone under the bleachers bar Paige (and Ralph), explaining that Walter didn’t tell a white lie and the fact he was keeping it from Paige meant he sort of knew that. The issue remained unresolved but I thought, Sly might need to worry about Florence and that therapist.
Walter contributed a little to the win and gave a team appreciation speech, promising he’d sort the money out more respectfully.
