Friday, September 29, 2017

Scorpion Season 4 Episode 1 "Extinction" Review

Team Scorpion must work with their old nemesis Mark Collins in order to prevent the extinction of mankind.

This was a really entertaining and kind of interesting episode that did a good job of re-introducing everything as well as sort of picking up where the finale last season left off. And when I read all the descriptions and previews for this episode it talked about this episode being a musical episode and that really worried me because some shows can pull off a musical episode and do fine others can't, and this show, in my opinion, can't. But luckily that wasn't really the case there was one song at the beginning of the episode and kind of one at the end and that was it so I'm very happy about that. Bringing back Mark Collins was very interesting with how they decided to play off the character where it seemed like they wanted him to be everyone's friend but he also kept doing all these terrible things to everyone. Where for example the previous time we saw him he was trying to ruin Happy and Toby's relationship and now in this episode, it seemed like he was trying to ruin Paige and Walter's. Which yes some of the points he brought up I do agree with where Paige and Walter just don't work together. I didn't really care for the moments where they tried to make Mark seem like the good guy because of all those scenes kind of fell flat in my opinion because the scene where he saves Toby from the lake it really looked like Mark pushed him in. And the scene where he volunteers to ride along Cabe to stop a fire also was weird because he did do a whole lot he kind of was just extra weight and extra problems. So in my mind, there is very little redemption for this guy but who knows with how this episode ended he is probably sticking around for at least one more episode so we'll see what they do with him. And I really enjoyed how they split off the team and did everything with Happy being down in the trench preparing everything until she realized she probably has methane poison because she is a little too goofy. I very curious to see if anything comes out of the event where Sylvester lost him "ring" he got when he married Walter's sister.  I wasn't a big fan of all the comments brought up between Happy and Toby about all these rules they made after being married and the little remarks made whenever one of them broke a rule. It was just hard because it made it seem like they were trying to become normal but they are not normal. But overall this was a really interesting and okay first episode that I'm curious to see how they fix everything in the next episode.

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