Scorpion 101-104

[katikat]

Now THIS is a keeper, hands down! Wonderful characters, kick-ass girls, humor and action... AND it's based on a real story - more or less, of course. I just adore Cabe and Walter and their father-son relationship. You can see just how much Cabe likes Walter. And I love their little misfit family. But who I really adore is Happy Quinn. Gosh, she's AWESOME! I want to be her when I grow up \o/ So yes, definitely a keeper!

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[waldo]

I am also in love with this show. I have so many questions about how these very smart people became so incredibly socially disfunctional.

I mean, okay, we know Happy was abandoned at two, and sure, that'll leave scars, and deeper ones for her for having a photographic memory, but still, what happened in the 25-odd intervening years that kept her from getting over that at least a little?

And poor Sylvester. The most telling conversation ever was:

Toby: Who ruined you?
Sylvester: My father.

And the look on Toby's face, like, "Yeah, that's a few years on my couch, but OMG we cannot be diving into that right now!"

And exactly what IS Toby? We know he's a behaviorist. I hope like hell he's not actually certified in any kind of clinical psychology, because he's a mess with people. And at one point he says he's a doctor and has seen all kinds of behinds, yet Paige does all the first aid.

Also, now that they know what's really going on with Ralph, why don't they find him an accelerated school program? They're in LA. They have to have some kind of magnet schools there. He'll probably still be above and beyond whatever they're doing, but at least he won't be so ostracized.

SO MANY QUESTIONS!

But yes, awesome show. :) And it's on CBS so it has a chance of surviving. (Unlike Forever, which is on ABC, and anything I like on any channel other than CBS dies a horrible death half a season in.)

[katikat]

I think Toby might be a mentalist a la Patrick Jane but they might be contractually obligated not to mention the term on another CBS show?

I just adore that Cabe views Walter as his son and you can see just darn sorry he is that he misused him that time - I wonder if it was just that once, with the Iraq mission, or if there was a pattern - because not only did the OP go wrong because they used Walter's theory wrong but he also lost Walter.

And I think the thing with Ralph is on Paige. I think she's convinced she can "fix" Ralph somehow, that he will be like other kids now that she found a way to communicate with him. You could see it in the scene where Walter told her that Ralph would find a place to fit in, but it wouldn't be at school, and she refused to listen.

My heart is breaking for Forever. That's why I'm not actually watching it but hoarding the eps to watch them later on as a mini-series, with the knowledge that there isn't any more. I did the same think with CBS' Chaos.