Mainly Scorpion season 4 - disc 2
First I'd like to note that I had figured out the identity of The Mased Singer who was unmasked last night during their first song, and the sing-off just confirmed me in that view.
But anyway, Scorpion season 4 - disc 2. I preferred ‘Queen Scary’ and ‘Go With the Flo(rence)’ over ‘Faire or Foul’ and ‘Sci Hard’was my least favourite on this disc.
For ‘Sci Hard’ is daft. Walter tries to get Paige to charm his way back into an elite genius club for him, but when she realises he was dropped for poisoning them (for science and by accident), she gives up. The next day, they’re at a tech fair, as are a genius from the night before and Elia, but their (Walter’s) chances of impressing them seem scuppered because intern Cabe brought the wrong box along, including a hilarious but naff promo video featuring Ray. Cabe’s reason for not being on the ball is that Happy has just pronounced that it’s more expensive to make the old banger he drives roadworthy than he can afford.
Quintis are late to the fair, arguing about their latest acronym, STORK (the rest of the team quite rightly snark at their love of acronyms) or latest baby-making attempt. Sly is in Vermont, taking his bar exam.
So, of course armed men burst into the fair, claiming to be into tech (I clocked they had an ulterior motive, because they had a laptop of their own, as much as where in the ep this happened.) Walter, Paige, Elia and the other genius are being held at gunpoint - Elia grumbled that this always happens when Walter is around, which is funny bcause it’s true. They have to rely on Quintis, who have to rely on Sly, by phone, using the law to stop a cop from arresting the couple. Sly also takes 70% of his exam in a toilet supervised by a soon-to-be Sly fanboy. Cabe also helps by punching some bad guys and essaying a terrible English accent as a fake virtual butler.
Mainly it’s Sly, Elia’s bravery and Paige’s quick thinking/ability to recognise a Chekhov’s gun when it’s introduced that save the day. I liked that Elia tried to poach her back, how her time at his company was acknowledged and that she got to chaff Walter for firing her. AS SHE SHOULD.
Also, we had Walter in a suit, Cabe getting a new theme song and Sly passing his exams so he could resolve Cabe’s legal difficulties.
‘Queen Scary’, this season’s Halloween episode, gave us the surprising reveal that Paige has a non-Scorpion, non-fellow-mother friend. Huh. Waige have gone to see her perform at a gig on a date. She sings a song that Walter is Walterishly rude about, and he continues to grate on Paige (even when he tries to apologise.) He’s quite condescending when their next paying job is to bring scientific rigour to a TV programme about recent ghost sightings on a cruise ship. Sly and Toby are a little more spooked.
But there is a scientific reason for their experiences: an antenna that was insulated without much thought to the composition of the ship led to an EMP. And a similar antenna has recently been installed on another ship, transporting LNG (!), which has just gone off course.
The TV show (within the show) now becomes a documentary for how Team Scorpion try to save the day, but not even Happy’s engineering skill can do it. Paige makes a brilliant suggestion, because she genned up on a lecture Walter wanted to listen to (only, unlike him, she didn’t do it rudely at a friend’s gig.) But it’s foiled because the TV show throws off Sly’s maths, but music saves the day as Water is thrown onto the tanker, with Paige getting him to use his listening skills to save Walter from getting sliced, and sound tricking the tanker’s sonar into making the vessel stop from its deadly new course. And saving thousands of lives and averting ecological disaster.
While all of this has happened, Cabe has been worrying about Ferret Bueller’s living quarters to Happy. She shares this with Toby who makes the, obvious in hindsight leap about what’s really worrying Cabe (prison) and the ep closes on him talking about that. (Quintis are mighty in this episode.)
Before then, Ralph’s desire to impress Patty (who, sadly, does not appear in this episode) means he bosses all the adults over Halloween costumes.
Walter tries to make it up to Paige, appreciating that she was considerate of him, and that he should reciprocate. She explains metaphor in song lyrics and why music is so important to her articulately. Walter does that classic thing of not appearing to respond, but we see by gesture (he seemed to be learning how to make a guitar or play one) that he gets it after all.
‘Go With the Flo(rence)’ features what seems like a random ‘Previously on…’, but, of course, isn’t, a space laser, as Walter calls it, a rat that’s attracted to a key fob and Sly insisting that he won’t enter the sewers…
Cabe is with-holding his real worries from Toby. Ralph is…hiding from Patty, Walter tries to offer him romantic advice and Paige is rightly angry with him. Enter their new neighbour, chemist Florence, who has terrible social skills, although Paige acknowledges that she makes a reasonable point about how noisy Scorpion are (given Happy’s predilection for hitting things.)
Anyway, team Scorpion have a job through an associate of English spy Gleason’s (who appeared in the ‘Previously’.) Paige gets ‘a vibe’ off their client, and it becomes increasingly clear that she wasn’t telling them the whole truth, but Paige’s boyfriend (and boss) Walter admits he doesn’t know what to do with that.
Anyway, an anarchist hacker has taken over a British satellite with, essentially, illegal space lasers. After he sets his laptop to explode, the team must retrieve a key fob that resets the password, except he flushes it down the toilet. Cue Happy fessing she put a GPS tracker on a gift she gave Toby WITHOUT TELLING HIM in case he got abdudcted again (as if she hadn’t been rightly furious when he pulled that stunt on her.)
Then a rat gets involved.
Walter, Paige and Happy all have to touch icky stuff, but Sly inevitably falls into a sewer and nearly gets pulverised.
Meanwhile, Toby is worried about how Cabe plans to interrogate the hacker. Of course, Flo walks in on them and the bound and gagged hacker and wonders what on earth is going on (shades of the time Cabe and Toby pretended to bury another baddie alive.) They get the intel required and the fob, bt there’s no time to stop the space laser from firing, so Walter redirects it towards their location for a surgical strike (he hopes) to save Sly.
It works, and because Walter trusted Paige’s instincts, he’s got them covered when it turns out MI6 was using them to gain control of someone else’s weaponised satellite. Phew, etc. (There are quite a few anti-limey digs, and Gabel maintains his accent throughout, although that’s less of a surprise when you hear the actor’s accent in the features.)
The team and Flo come to an accord, (I was left thinking surely they were aiming for Sly/Flo, although I was most excited about an alliance of the women.) Happy tells Cabe to let her husband help him, Walter talks Paige into backing off over Ralph’s crush on Patty, because he figures the boy needs the life experience, although the adults know Patty is too old for Ralph and will probably break his heart. But Walter makes up for previous bad boyfriend behaviour.
Cabe’s issues aside, Scorpion worked really well as a team here, including the couples.
In ‘Faire or Foul’, it was the callbacks that made me get over the sillines and occasional embarrassment squick factors.
Sly gets his first try at defending Cabe in front of a judge, and suffers from performance anxiety (why didn’t they practice?) Cabe will be tried by a jury and both he and Sly are worried about how his advocate will perform. Toby is also worried about knocking Happy up. Happy gives Walter two pieces of excellent advice about his plan to write a song for Paige: don’t write about her booty, and write from the heart.
ANYway it’s Sly’s birthday, he’s all of 25, and the team, all dressed up, are oing to a Renaissance Faire to celebrate, near an FBI evidence facility as it so happens. Pagie gets irritated by Walter’s pedantry, but I totally agreed with him and had my own peeves (the Dark Aes weren’t in the Renaissance period.)
Walter is irked by the fair’s king trying to sweet talk Paige, Quintis pass stalls that would later be useful for the plot, Sly’s role-playing friends are there and we learn that Scorpion has its own Game of Thrones equivalent.
Then the incongruous electricity went off, because two biker bad guys wanted to break into the evidence locker. Scorpion rescue and save the injured guard who had the piece of evidence the bikers wanted, while the rest of the attendees, including ‘King Phillip’ were scaredy cats until Cabe got Sly to find his inner persuasive mojo and talk them into helping with Walter’s A-teamesque plan, which allowed Cabe a moment of glory as a monted knight, until he ruined it with poor situational awareness and Walter had to reuse one of his dodgier risky moves. But all the bad guys were brought down.
The team returned to partay at the garage, with Sly re-energised and Cabe outed as a Not!Game of Thrones geek. Patty joined them (for this one scene.) Quintis were sweet and Waige were possibly even sweeter, because Paige interrupted Walter trying to write a heartfelt song again (two musical numbers from him and one song at the fair left me begging the show to just do a full-on musical episode already) to tell him that whatever his failings as a boyfriend (the legitimate ‘Are we too different?’ question reared its head again), when there was real trouble at the fair, he was a hero. So he threw away his taped song, (and I was mighty pleased by the writers remembering here that Walter can’t throw anything.)
Also, Happy’s continued emotional growth makes me…happy. This entry was originally posted at https://shallowness.dreamwidth.org/483608.html.
But anyway, Scorpion season 4 - disc 2. I preferred ‘Queen Scary’ and ‘Go With the Flo(rence)’ over ‘Faire or Foul’ and ‘Sci Hard’was my least favourite on this disc.
For ‘Sci Hard’ is daft. Walter tries to get Paige to charm his way back into an elite genius club for him, but when she realises he was dropped for poisoning them (for science and by accident), she gives up. The next day, they’re at a tech fair, as are a genius from the night before and Elia, but their (Walter’s) chances of impressing them seem scuppered because intern Cabe brought the wrong box along, including a hilarious but naff promo video featuring Ray. Cabe’s reason for not being on the ball is that Happy has just pronounced that it’s more expensive to make the old banger he drives roadworthy than he can afford.
Quintis are late to the fair, arguing about their latest acronym, STORK (the rest of the team quite rightly snark at their love of acronyms) or latest baby-making attempt. Sly is in Vermont, taking his bar exam.
So, of course armed men burst into the fair, claiming to be into tech (I clocked they had an ulterior motive, because they had a laptop of their own, as much as where in the ep this happened.) Walter, Paige, Elia and the other genius are being held at gunpoint - Elia grumbled that this always happens when Walter is around, which is funny bcause it’s true. They have to rely on Quintis, who have to rely on Sly, by phone, using the law to stop a cop from arresting the couple. Sly also takes 70% of his exam in a toilet supervised by a soon-to-be Sly fanboy. Cabe also helps by punching some bad guys and essaying a terrible English accent as a fake virtual butler.
Mainly it’s Sly, Elia’s bravery and Paige’s quick thinking/ability to recognise a Chekhov’s gun when it’s introduced that save the day. I liked that Elia tried to poach her back, how her time at his company was acknowledged and that she got to chaff Walter for firing her. AS SHE SHOULD.
Also, we had Walter in a suit, Cabe getting a new theme song and Sly passing his exams so he could resolve Cabe’s legal difficulties.
‘Queen Scary’, this season’s Halloween episode, gave us the surprising reveal that Paige has a non-Scorpion, non-fellow-mother friend. Huh. Waige have gone to see her perform at a gig on a date. She sings a song that Walter is Walterishly rude about, and he continues to grate on Paige (even when he tries to apologise.) He’s quite condescending when their next paying job is to bring scientific rigour to a TV programme about recent ghost sightings on a cruise ship. Sly and Toby are a little more spooked.
But there is a scientific reason for their experiences: an antenna that was insulated without much thought to the composition of the ship led to an EMP. And a similar antenna has recently been installed on another ship, transporting LNG (!), which has just gone off course.
The TV show (within the show) now becomes a documentary for how Team Scorpion try to save the day, but not even Happy’s engineering skill can do it. Paige makes a brilliant suggestion, because she genned up on a lecture Walter wanted to listen to (only, unlike him, she didn’t do it rudely at a friend’s gig.) But it’s foiled because the TV show throws off Sly’s maths, but music saves the day as Water is thrown onto the tanker, with Paige getting him to use his listening skills to save Walter from getting sliced, and sound tricking the tanker’s sonar into making the vessel stop from its deadly new course. And saving thousands of lives and averting ecological disaster.
While all of this has happened, Cabe has been worrying about Ferret Bueller’s living quarters to Happy. She shares this with Toby who makes the, obvious in hindsight leap about what’s really worrying Cabe (prison) and the ep closes on him talking about that. (Quintis are mighty in this episode.)
Before then, Ralph’s desire to impress Patty (who, sadly, does not appear in this episode) means he bosses all the adults over Halloween costumes.
Walter tries to make it up to Paige, appreciating that she was considerate of him, and that he should reciprocate. She explains metaphor in song lyrics and why music is so important to her articulately. Walter does that classic thing of not appearing to respond, but we see by gesture (he seemed to be learning how to make a guitar or play one) that he gets it after all.
‘Go With the Flo(rence)’ features what seems like a random ‘Previously on…’, but, of course, isn’t, a space laser, as Walter calls it, a rat that’s attracted to a key fob and Sly insisting that he won’t enter the sewers…
Cabe is with-holding his real worries from Toby. Ralph is…hiding from Patty, Walter tries to offer him romantic advice and Paige is rightly angry with him. Enter their new neighbour, chemist Florence, who has terrible social skills, although Paige acknowledges that she makes a reasonable point about how noisy Scorpion are (given Happy’s predilection for hitting things.)
Anyway, team Scorpion have a job through an associate of English spy Gleason’s (who appeared in the ‘Previously’.) Paige gets ‘a vibe’ off their client, and it becomes increasingly clear that she wasn’t telling them the whole truth, but Paige’s boyfriend (and boss) Walter admits he doesn’t know what to do with that.
Anyway, an anarchist hacker has taken over a British satellite with, essentially, illegal space lasers. After he sets his laptop to explode, the team must retrieve a key fob that resets the password, except he flushes it down the toilet. Cue Happy fessing she put a GPS tracker on a gift she gave Toby WITHOUT TELLING HIM in case he got abdudcted again (as if she hadn’t been rightly furious when he pulled that stunt on her.)
Then a rat gets involved.
Walter, Paige and Happy all have to touch icky stuff, but Sly inevitably falls into a sewer and nearly gets pulverised.
Meanwhile, Toby is worried about how Cabe plans to interrogate the hacker. Of course, Flo walks in on them and the bound and gagged hacker and wonders what on earth is going on (shades of the time Cabe and Toby pretended to bury another baddie alive.) They get the intel required and the fob, bt there’s no time to stop the space laser from firing, so Walter redirects it towards their location for a surgical strike (he hopes) to save Sly.
It works, and because Walter trusted Paige’s instincts, he’s got them covered when it turns out MI6 was using them to gain control of someone else’s weaponised satellite. Phew, etc. (There are quite a few anti-limey digs, and Gabel maintains his accent throughout, although that’s less of a surprise when you hear the actor’s accent in the features.)
The team and Flo come to an accord, (I was left thinking surely they were aiming for Sly/Flo, although I was most excited about an alliance of the women.) Happy tells Cabe to let her husband help him, Walter talks Paige into backing off over Ralph’s crush on Patty, because he figures the boy needs the life experience, although the adults know Patty is too old for Ralph and will probably break his heart. But Walter makes up for previous bad boyfriend behaviour.
Cabe’s issues aside, Scorpion worked really well as a team here, including the couples.
In ‘Faire or Foul’, it was the callbacks that made me get over the sillines and occasional embarrassment squick factors.
Sly gets his first try at defending Cabe in front of a judge, and suffers from performance anxiety (why didn’t they practice?) Cabe will be tried by a jury and both he and Sly are worried about how his advocate will perform. Toby is also worried about knocking Happy up. Happy gives Walter two pieces of excellent advice about his plan to write a song for Paige: don’t write about her booty, and write from the heart.
ANYway it’s Sly’s birthday, he’s all of 25, and the team, all dressed up, are oing to a Renaissance Faire to celebrate, near an FBI evidence facility as it so happens. Pagie gets irritated by Walter’s pedantry, but I totally agreed with him and had my own peeves (the Dark Aes weren’t in the Renaissance period.)
Walter is irked by the fair’s king trying to sweet talk Paige, Quintis pass stalls that would later be useful for the plot, Sly’s role-playing friends are there and we learn that Scorpion has its own Game of Thrones equivalent.
Then the incongruous electricity went off, because two biker bad guys wanted to break into the evidence locker. Scorpion rescue and save the injured guard who had the piece of evidence the bikers wanted, while the rest of the attendees, including ‘King Phillip’ were scaredy cats until Cabe got Sly to find his inner persuasive mojo and talk them into helping with Walter’s A-teamesque plan, which allowed Cabe a moment of glory as a monted knight, until he ruined it with poor situational awareness and Walter had to reuse one of his dodgier risky moves. But all the bad guys were brought down.
The team returned to partay at the garage, with Sly re-energised and Cabe outed as a Not!Game of Thrones geek. Patty joined them (for this one scene.) Quintis were sweet and Waige were possibly even sweeter, because Paige interrupted Walter trying to write a heartfelt song again (two musical numbers from him and one song at the fair left me begging the show to just do a full-on musical episode already) to tell him that whatever his failings as a boyfriend (the legitimate ‘Are we too different?’ question reared its head again), when there was real trouble at the fair, he was a hero. So he threw away his taped song, (and I was mighty pleased by the writers remembering here that Walter can’t throw anything.)
Also, Happy’s continued emotional growth makes me…happy. This entry was originally posted at https://shallowness.dreamwidth.org/483608.html.