Scorpion Season 3 - disc 6
It was a nice surprise to find that there were four episodes on this dics, not two, as I’d expected,which meant more time for the wedding, which I’d presumed would be the season finale, and for Walter’s buried memories to resurface.
I liked three out of these four episodes a lot, especially ‘Strife on Mars’. As part of Quintis’s combined bachelor/bachelorette party, (although where was Ralph going to fit in if there was booze?) Cabe and Alderman Sly pick up the party bus, while Happy helps Toby move into her place.
The job is to fix the electricity at a biohub that’s meant to be a prototype for Mars exploration, where two scientists are living under test conditions. Walter, Happy and Toby go there to find the reality involves the scientists at each other’s throats, their antagonism having brought the generator close to exploding, which it promptly does after Scorpion arrive. They have to rescue Toby and the botanist as the temperature mounts dangerously high. Cue heroics.
Paige marshals Ralph into providing backup, as the party bus turns into a rescue vehicle. The best moment is when Cabe and Sly put on piñata masks of the bride and groom to avoid noxious fumes.
And then the smell of the biosphere reminds Walter of that time in space. Nobody will tell him directly about the oxygen deprivation and hallucination, but a brief concussion brings the memories back. He realises Paige lied to him and nearly everybody knew about it.
But they’re all alive, and Quintis learn the right lessons from the scientist couple who worked together in extreme circumstances. The party has ended with Sly showing up a ‘maths magician’ Paige desperately hired. Ralph floats the idea to Paige that she wasn’t lying to Walter when she said she loved him because he recognised it as fact. But Walter deals really maturely with the revelations about Paige (and Sly witnessing him making out with his hand) by telling Paige she’s fired, with generous severance pay and a new job lined up for her, so he’s surprised she’s furious and the team are disappointed - even Dad!Cabe - as she storms out, dragging Ralph with her.
My immediate response to ‘Something Borrowed, Something Blew’ was that I hadn’t expected the Waige resolution, although with two episodes to go, the cliffhanger was perhaps less surprising. Obviously, from the title, I realised the wedding was on.
Several weeks have passed and it’s the day of the wedding, so Paige and Ralph return to the garage to find that Ray is Paige’s mostly terrible replacement at the garage (so he could eventually officiate at the wedding). The team are needed to put out a dangerous fire after a lightning strike IN WYOMING. Toby’s obsessed with not seeing the bride on the day and stays behind. This was evidently not going to be enough to stop things going wrong and them running over time even before the neighbouring nuclear facility was mentioned. So, Walter is trapped in a cave-in, but Cabe tells him he will not be his messenger, Walter has to get safe and talk properly with Paige himself.
Toby rightly points ot to Paige that she ditched all of them too in her (understandable) avoidance of Walter and the garage. Paige makes up for it by coming up with an alternate wedding when the team, having rescued Walter, miss the last possible flight for the originally planned big wedding. Instead, the wedding is held in Kowalskis parking lot (yay set designer!)
Walter looked sharp in his suit, Toby acceptable in his white tux, Ralph had a darling bow-tie, Happy a beautiful gown and so-her boots, but I thought that flimsy thing Paige wore was hideous (she’d looked great in her ‘I have a fancypants job’ outfit with a dash of ‘making my ex boss/guy I have a thing for see what he’s missing’).
Happy ‘borrowing’ Cabe to give her away! MY HEART! (My heart doesn’t care that that’s because of the contrivance of Cabe having to arrest her birth father.)
But then, instead of the scraps I was expecting, we had Walter asking Paige to dance (again. Such a significant act given past events this season.) He also took heed of Happy’s advice (sidenote: never ever seen an ex-husband so happy to watch his ex-wife marry someone else on a TV drama) and then TELLS PAIGE ABOUT HOW HE FELT NOT WORKING ON CASES WITH HER (your fault, sunshine) and then, without hypoxia, hallucinations or fear of imminent death, he tells he he’s in love with her. And she admits the same.
Caps lock could not express my squee at these unexpected developments.
And then we had the bonus of Waige being busted half-clothed and making out in a closet by the adult team and Ray. Cabe had been informed that Scorpon had a case in Tahiti. Quintis scented a potential honeymoon destination and agreed that the rest of the team could come along. Waige had some time to themselves to … (which will later be totally retconned).
We learned Happy can fly a plane now as well. Waige thought their next hurdle would be telling Ralph (I snorted, he’s a genius, Paige’s son and capable of working it out given how happy they were) until their plane was about to crash.
I can tell I was thrilled to bits with the developments, because my notes were extremely scattershot.
Such a shame that I enjoyed the ensuing ‘Maroon 8’ least of all the episodes this season. The team show great ingenuity in crash landing onto an island, instead of the sea, with Captain Scotty sending Happy to the back of the plane, which saves her life. Ralph clocks Paige reaching out her hand to Walter. They didn’t have the budget to actually show the crash landing., but seeing the aftermath worked well enough. The Cyclone are fine, if bruised, but Scotty’s not so good in a sheared-off cockpit. Toby and co. have to come up with a dialysis machine from what was on the crashed plane and what’s on the island.
Happy is shaken by her near-death, Toby is more shaken by finding out even more details about her life (my response to learning about her hit pop video was WE MUST SEE THIS). Unsurprisingly, Walter is bad at being a boyfriend, expressing his feelings so goofily - ‘My little arrhythmia?’ - that Ralph is worried his ideal stepfather wil screw thing up, Paige has words with Walter about this, then retracts them too hastily. I was relieved that the writers were oing for comedy Waige as a couple after all the angst, and he did drop it when there was a real crisis.
But Sly wasn’t responding so well to being sure they were going to die. He found a bunker containing stuff that informed them that they were 2,000 miles from where they thought they were, and a Japanese ship was passing. But the flare that might attract the ship’s attention could also stop Captain Scotty’s internal bleeding. They tried to use it for both, but only manage to save Scotty.
We learned from a ‘three weeks later’ coda that they were still on the island, kind of irritating each other, and Sly had flipped out mentally (surely this should have fallen within Toby’s purview.)
‘Scorp Family Robinson’ has depressed Sly (dubbed Hagrid thanks to a mighty beard) narrating, filling us in on the time between the Japanese ship passing by and the epilogue before going beyond that. It all goes a little Lord of the Flies but in an in-character way. I snickered a lot at a montage of sniping as the novelty wore off, Sly was even mean about Cabe romantically sending messages in bottles to Allie. The lack of privacy got to the newlyweds and the new couple (we learned they didn’t consummate in the closet.) And it was soon going to be monsoon season, some supplies were running low, food would be a problem and tempers were fraying.
Toby claimed that Cabe and Scotty would be fighting for dominance. In fact, it would be him and Walter, who already had form for coming up with crazy schemes to get them off the island. Paige ordered Walter to drop the touchy-feely stuff and rationalise a way off the island. His solution was mangets. Half the team, including Paige, went for building a super raft. Both teams needed the radio that Sly had, so he became the judge.
I was proud of myself for wondering what Ralph was up to at this point. Also, we learned that apparently he has an IQ of 200, higher than Walter’s. I‘d presumed he wouldn’t get tested until he was an adult. Ralph decided to put Walter’s plan in action on the beach, but it could be explosive.
Sly had determined that both plans were rubbish and both teams needed to work together. It turned out that both women had been sneakily helping their guy because they were hedging their bets.
They all ended up working together when the explosion inevitably happened. Scotty saved Ralph and then the two got submerged in sand and had to be rescued by the rest. It turned out that Ralph did change Earth’s magnetic field (yep, that wa Walter’s plan) , a plane came to reconnoitre and the united team needed to work fast to light up their SOS signal. I loved that Paige was the only one who got Happy the gift she really wanted and has asked for, which came in useful here, after a running gag of no-one else doing so, because they thought they knew better.
They only managed to light up the first ‘S’ (like Toby, I went ‘aww, S for Scorpion’). Believing it hadn’t worked, Paige made a ‘Regardless, I’m really proud of us’ speech. But the blaze was enough to get them noticed.
In the coda: Sly had shaved off his beard, Toby played Happy’s song - it was barmy, but Happy explained herself, and it provided another pay-off for the running Happy honeymoon outfit gag. Cabe was reunited with Allie (offscreen), and Scotty with his newborn daughter, leaving Waige alone. (Because clean-shaven Sly was fit to look after Ralph.) As emotionally overwhelmed/so in love Walter was darling, but cringey, so I was please they seemed to have found a more tolerable synthesis with normal Walter. Paige, while not a genius, proved to be wily…
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I liked three out of these four episodes a lot, especially ‘Strife on Mars’. As part of Quintis’s combined bachelor/bachelorette party, (although where was Ralph going to fit in if there was booze?) Cabe and Alderman Sly pick up the party bus, while Happy helps Toby move into her place.
The job is to fix the electricity at a biohub that’s meant to be a prototype for Mars exploration, where two scientists are living under test conditions. Walter, Happy and Toby go there to find the reality involves the scientists at each other’s throats, their antagonism having brought the generator close to exploding, which it promptly does after Scorpion arrive. They have to rescue Toby and the botanist as the temperature mounts dangerously high. Cue heroics.
Paige marshals Ralph into providing backup, as the party bus turns into a rescue vehicle. The best moment is when Cabe and Sly put on piñata masks of the bride and groom to avoid noxious fumes.
And then the smell of the biosphere reminds Walter of that time in space. Nobody will tell him directly about the oxygen deprivation and hallucination, but a brief concussion brings the memories back. He realises Paige lied to him and nearly everybody knew about it.
But they’re all alive, and Quintis learn the right lessons from the scientist couple who worked together in extreme circumstances. The party has ended with Sly showing up a ‘maths magician’ Paige desperately hired. Ralph floats the idea to Paige that she wasn’t lying to Walter when she said she loved him because he recognised it as fact. But Walter deals really maturely with the revelations about Paige (and Sly witnessing him making out with his hand) by telling Paige she’s fired, with generous severance pay and a new job lined up for her, so he’s surprised she’s furious and the team are disappointed - even Dad!Cabe - as she storms out, dragging Ralph with her.
My immediate response to ‘Something Borrowed, Something Blew’ was that I hadn’t expected the Waige resolution, although with two episodes to go, the cliffhanger was perhaps less surprising. Obviously, from the title, I realised the wedding was on.
Several weeks have passed and it’s the day of the wedding, so Paige and Ralph return to the garage to find that Ray is Paige’s mostly terrible replacement at the garage (so he could eventually officiate at the wedding). The team are needed to put out a dangerous fire after a lightning strike IN WYOMING. Toby’s obsessed with not seeing the bride on the day and stays behind. This was evidently not going to be enough to stop things going wrong and them running over time even before the neighbouring nuclear facility was mentioned. So, Walter is trapped in a cave-in, but Cabe tells him he will not be his messenger, Walter has to get safe and talk properly with Paige himself.
Toby rightly points ot to Paige that she ditched all of them too in her (understandable) avoidance of Walter and the garage. Paige makes up for it by coming up with an alternate wedding when the team, having rescued Walter, miss the last possible flight for the originally planned big wedding. Instead, the wedding is held in Kowalskis parking lot (yay set designer!)
Walter looked sharp in his suit, Toby acceptable in his white tux, Ralph had a darling bow-tie, Happy a beautiful gown and so-her boots, but I thought that flimsy thing Paige wore was hideous (she’d looked great in her ‘I have a fancypants job’ outfit with a dash of ‘making my ex boss/guy I have a thing for see what he’s missing’).
Happy ‘borrowing’ Cabe to give her away! MY HEART! (My heart doesn’t care that that’s because of the contrivance of Cabe having to arrest her birth father.)
But then, instead of the scraps I was expecting, we had Walter asking Paige to dance (again. Such a significant act given past events this season.) He also took heed of Happy’s advice (sidenote: never ever seen an ex-husband so happy to watch his ex-wife marry someone else on a TV drama) and then TELLS PAIGE ABOUT HOW HE FELT NOT WORKING ON CASES WITH HER (your fault, sunshine) and then, without hypoxia, hallucinations or fear of imminent death, he tells he he’s in love with her. And she admits the same.
Caps lock could not express my squee at these unexpected developments.
And then we had the bonus of Waige being busted half-clothed and making out in a closet by the adult team and Ray. Cabe had been informed that Scorpon had a case in Tahiti. Quintis scented a potential honeymoon destination and agreed that the rest of the team could come along. Waige had some time to themselves to … (which will later be totally retconned).
We learned Happy can fly a plane now as well. Waige thought their next hurdle would be telling Ralph (I snorted, he’s a genius, Paige’s son and capable of working it out given how happy they were) until their plane was about to crash.
I can tell I was thrilled to bits with the developments, because my notes were extremely scattershot.
Such a shame that I enjoyed the ensuing ‘Maroon 8’ least of all the episodes this season. The team show great ingenuity in crash landing onto an island, instead of the sea, with Captain Scotty sending Happy to the back of the plane, which saves her life. Ralph clocks Paige reaching out her hand to Walter. They didn’t have the budget to actually show the crash landing., but seeing the aftermath worked well enough. The Cyclone are fine, if bruised, but Scotty’s not so good in a sheared-off cockpit. Toby and co. have to come up with a dialysis machine from what was on the crashed plane and what’s on the island.
Happy is shaken by her near-death, Toby is more shaken by finding out even more details about her life (my response to learning about her hit pop video was WE MUST SEE THIS). Unsurprisingly, Walter is bad at being a boyfriend, expressing his feelings so goofily - ‘My little arrhythmia?’ - that Ralph is worried his ideal stepfather wil screw thing up, Paige has words with Walter about this, then retracts them too hastily. I was relieved that the writers were oing for comedy Waige as a couple after all the angst, and he did drop it when there was a real crisis.
But Sly wasn’t responding so well to being sure they were going to die. He found a bunker containing stuff that informed them that they were 2,000 miles from where they thought they were, and a Japanese ship was passing. But the flare that might attract the ship’s attention could also stop Captain Scotty’s internal bleeding. They tried to use it for both, but only manage to save Scotty.
We learned from a ‘three weeks later’ coda that they were still on the island, kind of irritating each other, and Sly had flipped out mentally (surely this should have fallen within Toby’s purview.)
‘Scorp Family Robinson’ has depressed Sly (dubbed Hagrid thanks to a mighty beard) narrating, filling us in on the time between the Japanese ship passing by and the epilogue before going beyond that. It all goes a little Lord of the Flies but in an in-character way. I snickered a lot at a montage of sniping as the novelty wore off, Sly was even mean about Cabe romantically sending messages in bottles to Allie. The lack of privacy got to the newlyweds and the new couple (we learned they didn’t consummate in the closet.) And it was soon going to be monsoon season, some supplies were running low, food would be a problem and tempers were fraying.
Toby claimed that Cabe and Scotty would be fighting for dominance. In fact, it would be him and Walter, who already had form for coming up with crazy schemes to get them off the island. Paige ordered Walter to drop the touchy-feely stuff and rationalise a way off the island. His solution was mangets. Half the team, including Paige, went for building a super raft. Both teams needed the radio that Sly had, so he became the judge.
I was proud of myself for wondering what Ralph was up to at this point. Also, we learned that apparently he has an IQ of 200, higher than Walter’s. I‘d presumed he wouldn’t get tested until he was an adult. Ralph decided to put Walter’s plan in action on the beach, but it could be explosive.
Sly had determined that both plans were rubbish and both teams needed to work together. It turned out that both women had been sneakily helping their guy because they were hedging their bets.
They all ended up working together when the explosion inevitably happened. Scotty saved Ralph and then the two got submerged in sand and had to be rescued by the rest. It turned out that Ralph did change Earth’s magnetic field (yep, that wa Walter’s plan) , a plane came to reconnoitre and the united team needed to work fast to light up their SOS signal. I loved that Paige was the only one who got Happy the gift she really wanted and has asked for, which came in useful here, after a running gag of no-one else doing so, because they thought they knew better.
They only managed to light up the first ‘S’ (like Toby, I went ‘aww, S for Scorpion’). Believing it hadn’t worked, Paige made a ‘Regardless, I’m really proud of us’ speech. But the blaze was enough to get them noticed.
In the coda: Sly had shaved off his beard, Toby played Happy’s song - it was barmy, but Happy explained herself, and it provided another pay-off for the running Happy honeymoon outfit gag. Cabe was reunited with Allie (offscreen), and Scotty with his newborn daughter, leaving Waige alone. (Because clean-shaven Sly was fit to look after Ralph.) As emotionally overwhelmed/so in love Walter was darling, but cringey, so I was please they seemed to have found a more tolerable synthesis with normal Walter. Paige, while not a genius, proved to be wily…
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