Showing posts with label Scorpion. Show all posts
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Sunday, April 22, 2018

Scorpion Season 4 Episode 13 "The Bunker Games" Review


Team Scorpion is locked in a doomsday bunker with artificial intelligence bent on killing them.

This was a very interesting and entertaining episode that did a really nice job of doing a lot with a little. It was interesting and kind of annoying to see all the moments with Toby in this episode and his jealousy over his enemy in his enemy's success caused a bunch of problems for the rest of the team. But on the other hand, it was interesting to see a bit more into Toby's past and how Happy reacted to meeting Toby's ex-girlfriend and Happy comparing herself to the ex-girlfriend. Then all the different ways that the teams came up with to trick the AI that was keeping them locked up was really interesting to see. Especially in the moments with Sylvester trying to trick the AI by coming up with a riddle that the AI would have to focus all its power on trying to solve. Then the moments with Cabe and Paige where interesting with them being outside the house and trying to help the team but they're not the smart members of the team so they have to come up with other ways to work around the AI's plans. Then it was interesting to see how Toby's enemy reacted when things start to go south very fast and how the truth eventually came out that Toby is actually living a far happier life than his enemy or his ex-girlfriend is. Then how the team actually managed to escape the house and stop it from causing a whole bunch of other problems was interesting once everything was set in place and worked out. And just overall this was a really interesting and kind of fun episode to watch and see how everything played out.

Saturday, January 27, 2018

Scorpion Season 4 Episode 12 "A Christmas Car-Roll" Review


Walter passes out and his Christmas Eve dream is of a world where Team Scorpion has never existed.

This was a really great and interesting episode that did a really nice job of taking a different kind of storytelling with everything being a dream and still having a really well-written story. I really enjoyed how everyone fit into there different rolls in Walter's dream with what he thinks their lives would be like if they never met each other. Then how Walter eventually managed to convince each of them to help him was interesting but I wish the way he managed to convince Happy and Toby would have been a bit more personal then just they were happily married to each other in the other world. Then I enjoyed how all the different problem that Walter faced changed as his condition in the real world got worse. And bringing back Ray to be a guiding force for Walter was really fun. Then just overall this was a really fun and entertaining episode to watch and see how everything played out.   

Tuesday, January 2, 2018

Scorpion Season 4 Episode 11 "Who Let the Dog Out ('Cause Now It's Stuck in a Cistern)" Review


It's time for Cabe's trial and the team are anxious to know the outcome. They channel their nervous energy into saving a dog stuck in a cistern.

This was a really interesting and entertaining episode that had a lot of really great moments to it. I really enjoyed the concept in the storyline with the team being shut out from being there to support Cabe in his trial so the team has to come up with things to distract them from all their anxiety about what might happen. All of the ways that each of the members still with their anxieties was interesting with Happy resorting back to being angry all the time, Toby becoming a daredevil, and Walter constantly eating his anxiety away. Then everything around the team trying to save this puppy was interesting with all the different ideas that they came up with and the Homeland guy who came to assess them being there to help them out and things like that were just all really entertaining to see. Then everything around the court case and all the ways that Sylvester tried to prove his point was entertaining to see how it all just sort of backfired at him in one way or another. But then his final solution to prove Cabe innocent was interesting with him discovering this old court case that sort of fell under a similar storyline as Cabe's. Then just overall this was really entertaining and great episode to watch and see how everything turned out.

Friday, December 22, 2017

Scorpion Season 4 Episode 10 "Crime Every Mountain" Review


Team Scorpion tries to help a father and his daughter when their plane crashes nearby; Paige helps Walter navigate his feelings about Cabe's possible future in prison.

This was a really interesting episode that had a lot of really great moments in it that were entertaining to watch. I really liked the moments with Sylvester and Cabe going around trying to track down Mark but in doing so it was discovered that Mark was playing them to make Cabe seem even more guilty. Just how all those moments turned out and Cabe's big speech at the end was just all really amazing and well done. Then I'm happy that the moment with Paige and Walter being stuck behind a bunch of rocks wasn't a very long scene it was just long enough for Walter to express some of his feelings and then they were saved. Then everything with Happy in this episode was really great with her staying behind with the daughter and trying to understand why the daughter is the way she was. I especially loved the moment when Happy asks the daughter if she is working as a criminal because she wants to or if it is because it is the only life she knows because her father raised her in it. Then the ending of how they managed to stop the criminals from getting away was interesting where they used the fathers love for his daughter against him. Then just overall this was a really entertaining and fun episode to watch and see how everything turned out. 

Tuesday, November 14, 2017

Scorpion Season 4 Episode 7 "Go with the Flo(rence)" Review


A device that can prevent a nuclear meltdown is tracked through the Los Angeles sewers; Walter learns to listen and not offer advice to Paige; the team meets their new neighbor.

This was a really fun and interesting episode that did a good job with how it chose to break up the roles and who was doing what to solve the case. I really enjoyed the moments with Toby and Cabe in this episode with them interrogating the guy in charge of creating the devices that are going to cause the satellite to shoot down a laser and explode a nuclear power plant. And just all the different tactics and ways that they try to get the information out of him was really interesting to see. And it was also fun because Toby and Cabe were the ones who had to deal most with the new neighbor and her reaction to everything that they were doing was just really fun and I hope to see more of her in the future. And the moments between Walter and Paige in this episode were really annoying because of the fact that Walter doesn't seem to be learning anything and every episode it seems like Paige has to start at square one with Walter again and again and just it's really annoying how he didn't seem to listen to anything that she said and he tried to solve problems that she didn't need to be solved and by the end of this episode he kind of learned his lesson but not really which makes it even more annoying. And then I didn't really get the breaks down between Happy and Sylvester where they had Sylvester being the one to capture the rat and Happy being the one to track when the rat was coming and I understand it from the writing point of view because they wanted Sylvester to fall in the water but I feel like if it was in real life they wouldn't switch the rolls because Happy would have been able to catch the rat a lot easier so it just felt really weird in that whole scene. The truth coming out about what MI6 actually wanted the satellite for was a weird sort of twist ending but didn't seem really all that necessary and just felt like they could have come up with a better ending than that to explain why MI6 was there but still I guess I made sense for why they were keeping things so secretive. And just overall this was interesting and okay episode to watch.

Sunday, October 29, 2017

Scorpion Season 4 Episode 5 "Sci Hard" Review


While attending a tech convention, Team Scorpion is taken hostage by a group attempting a virtual heist.

This was a really interesting and fun episode that was kind of nice because it was a very different story than something that they've done before with how the group was all broken up and how they solve the problems that they faced. And I really kind of like the moments with Walter and Paige in this episode and them being part of the group that was captured and are being held hostage and they sort of have to talk to the gunman to try and figure out what they want and how to get them what they want and do it without causing any death. And it was especially interesting with what the gunman wanted which was access to this bank that one of their sort of friends that they have pop up like once a season and the big problem that occurs is that this bank doesn't actually exist because the tech genius hadn't finished it yet. So the team had to come up with a different way to try and convince the gunman that they've gotten their money without actually having any money to give. Then the moments with Happy and Toby were fun with them being the two people outside of the arena and them having to deal with the police questioning what their motives are and all that stuff, and the best moments were when they had to go and actually rob a bank so then they had money to give the gunman. Then the moments with Cabe in this episode were really fun with him being the one person inside the building who wasn't taken hostage so he has to be there to sort of help Walter and Paige out and also dealing with all the gunman that stumble upon him. Then Sylvester was fun in his moments where he's trying to take his bar exam but also trying to help team Scorpion and he has to find a way to do both and the prospector who was watching over everything he's doing was just a fun little addition to everything. And I'm really curious to know if Sylvester actually passed the test by just getting the 80 questions that he did do done correctly or if the Prospectors just passed him because they knew that he needed to pass. And then just overall this was a really fun and interesting episode to watch.

Monday, October 23, 2017

Scorpion Season 4 Episode 4 "Nuke Kids on the Block" Review

During the decommissioning of an old nuclear missile, the team is exposed to the toxic vapor. Paige doesn't want Happy to tag along with her and Walter.

This was a really interesting and entertaining episode that wasn't the greatest in staying entertaining but it did have a lot of very fun moments to it. I didn't much care for the whole angry Happy in this that she's mad at Paige because Paige didn't want her to be around her and Walter as much and stuff like that that wasn't the greatest but then later when it was revealed in the episode that Happy's possibly just taking her anger out at Paige because of the fact that she's the one who messed up the nuclear missile and was the one who started releasing the fuel and stuff so Happy's actually mad herself but it's taking out Paige that made a bit more interesting but still just that whole sort of thing that was going on throughout this episode. Then the moments with Sylvester were kind of boring but okay with him trying to focus on stopping this missile from exploding and doing all the different stuff to try and get the city council on his side. And I just don't care for that so I'm really hoping that somewhere down the line he eventually find a way to step away from his councilmen job and just focuses on Scorpion because his whole double life is kind of annoying. Then how the team actually managed to sort of stop the nuclear missile from exploding and stop the whole fuel leak kind of and stuff like that was really interesting with all the different things that they did and all the different problems that they solved and they just happen to be lucky enough that they brought a 3D printer with them to sort of help create a bunch of different things to help with their problems so that was interesting with them first doing all this different stuff to try and stop the fuel leak from causing the missile from collapsing on itself and then eventually when they did have to sort of launch it and then they had to disarm it that was also interesting. And then just overall like I said this was a really interesting an okay episode that wasn't the most entertaining but did have some really entertaining moments in it between the different conversations that everyone had.

Sunday, October 15, 2017

Scorpion Season 4 Episode 3 "Grow a Deer, A Female Deer" Review

The team tries to save an endangered, pregnant deer that was shot by poachers. Happy and Toby discuss the future of their family.

This was a really great and interesting episode that was nice because it did something that no other episode really has done in its events and how everything turned out. And I really enjoyed the storyline around them saving this deer and creating this fake womb to protect the still-developing fetus. I did not however like the moment with Paige telling Walter that he had to do this or he would never have sex with her again I just hated that moment because Paige is so much better than that to use sex as a weapon. And then it didn't make it any better when they came back to it at the end of the episode with her making the comment of "I hope you didn't do this just because you want to have sex with me." The moments with Sylvester was really great but also really kind of weird because he seems so much like season 1 version of him more then the current version because he was so freaked out about the animal and germs and stuff and yes it's still a part of him but I thought he got past it more than  apparently he did, but it was still nice to see him developing to be more okay with animals by the end of this episode. Then I really enjoyed the one moment with Cabe in this episode where he's in the garage helping Ralph and then the girl whose interning under Sylvester walks in and starts making cookies, and then Cabe's lawyer shows up to start asking him some questions, then Cabe's girlfriend shows up and starts yelling at him and he just has no idea what's going on and that was just a really really fun scene. And then I really like the moment where Ralph finally hacks into the whole phone database that the poachers are using and starts calling all them so they can easily tell who is a poacher and who isn't that was just a really great moment for what all that revealed. I thought it was really interesting how all the problems that the team ran in to at some point they kind of created like Ralph calling all the poachers ended up leading them to all gather up and block the road that the team was traveling on or Sylvester turning a gas can in to a bomb ended up leading to the car running out of gas later it was just really interesting how they kind of created their own problems. And then overall this was a really great and really interesting episode that I liked because they did something that wasn't needing their tech skills to help them as much it was them just trying to survive.

Wednesday, October 4, 2017

Scorpion Season 4 Epiosde 2 "More Extinction" Review


Team Scorpion continues work with their nemesis to prevent humanity's extinction; Cabe's last-minute decision while on the case endangers his career.

This was a really interesting and okay episode that was definitely better than the last episode but it still wasn't the greatest. I really did love all the moments with the team inside of this Russian spa and them dealing with security and trying to sneak around to get all the supplies they need. The moments with Happy, Toby, Sylvester were fun with all the different obstacles they had to jump through to get their supplies. Then it was really weird how the team just kept getting split up and by far this episode seemed to have the team not working together the most out of all the episodes out there. And everyone seemed like such a mess and kind of just talking over each other all the time. I did really like the moments with Happy trying to fly the helicopter to carry the supplies they needed and then there final plan to spot the extinction level event was really great where they used the helicopter to mix together all the chemicals they were shooting up in the air to make it snow. The final moments between Cabe and Mark was really great with all this build up between the two of them leading right to where I thought it would. And the ending for Cabe was alright but not the greatest because they have already done a storyline where Cabe got in trouble for his actions and because Team Scorpion refuses to work with anyone else they let him go. I did however like the ending between Sylvester and Happy where I knew something would come back to Sylvester losing his ring and it was nice because Happy made him a new more permanent ring. And just overall this was an okay episode that wasn't the most exciting thing out there. 

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.

Wednesday, May 17, 2017

Scorpion Season 3 Episode 25 "Scorp Family Robinson" Review


Tensions run high for members of Team Scorpion when they must overcome personal conflicts to be rescued from the desert island they crash landed on three weeks earlier.

This was a really interesting episode that wasn't all that exciting but it was still pretty cool to watch and see how the team eventually got off the island. I knew going into this episode I would care much for it because it was a big continuation of the last episode just dragging the storyline out farther. I did like seeing the team split up and how everyone sorts of became really agitated with each other due to the lack of food and lack of privacy. It was interesting to see the two teams come up with different plans to get off the island with Walter's team making some kind of device that would shake the island enough that scientific researchers might come and look, while Toby's team is working on building a raft to get in the shipping lanes to maybe be picked up by some boats that will go by. And I liked how each team needed the same item that they had to get from Sylvester and in order to get that item they needed to prove why their idea is better than the others. I was kind of cool how they eventually did get the team to work together again by having an event happen that caused them to have to go in and save Ralph and the pilot. Then ending I wasn't too excited about because of the fact that most of them just went back to their normal lives without too much of their time on the island affecting their life back in LA. And I'm still not happy about Walter and Paige's relationship but I like that they finally got the bulk feeling out of the way so maybe in the season to come they will be less awkward around each other and hopefully, it won't be so much in our faces that they are in a relationship. And just overall this was a really entertaining episode but not the strongest of episodes to end the season on. 

Tuesday, May 9, 2017

Scorpion Season 3 Episode 24 "Maroon 8" Review


The team's plane crash lands on a remote desert island while en route to Toby and Happy's honeymoon, leaving them all with little hope for rescue.

This was a really interesting episode that was really fun to watch but it also seemed to have a feeling like it was really dragging on. All the moments with Walter just rebought up why I don't care for him and Paige to be in a relationship, and for this episode, in particular, it was just way more awkward and overdone. I did really like all the moments around saving the polite and all the crafting they did to make a machine to save his life. It was really fun how they had all these moments of things that Toby was finding out about Happy and it was interesting just how many things Happy has done in her life. Then Sylvester was really interesting in this episode with him having done the calculation on the possibility of them getting off the island and the possibility being almost zero he has just lost all care and fear and is willing to do almost anything. I liked the moment at the end of the episode where the team is waiting to see if they will be saved and each of them come up and repeated the same things to Cabe and Ralph over and over again. And just overall this was a really entertaining episode and with how this episode ended I'm not all that excited to see more of the same but I am curious to see how they will get off the island as long as it is not really stupid.

Tuesday, May 2, 2017

Scorpion Season 3 Episode 23 "Something Burrowed, Something Blew" Review


The team has to help Happy and Toby to get to the altar for the wedding after a simple job went haywire.

This was a really interesting and fun episode that had a lot of really fun moments in it. I like the team split up with Paige and Toby stay back at the garage to prepare for the wedding and everyone else out on the field dealing with the fire problem. It was very interesting and fun that they brought Ray back to kind of be the replacement for Paige and he is really bad at his job and messing a lot of things up. Then it was interesting with how they took Paige in this episode because she is a lot better off now with her new job giving her a lot of benefits but she is not as happy as she was with Scorpion. And with how this episode ended I’m curious to know if she quit her other job that she was so much better off with. The actual mission with them stopping an underground fire caused by a lightning strike was pretty interesting but it was a little tiresome how many different problems they seemed to run into while stopping this fire. I was cool that their solution to stop the fire was to heat up a chunk of sand that the fire was going to run through enough so that is created a glass was the fire couldn’t get through. The actual wedding scene was really sweet and simple and I liked that Walter and Paige finally truly talked to each other even if I still don’t care for them as a couple. And just overall this was a really entertaining episode and with how this episode ended I excited to see where they will go.

Tuesday, April 18, 2017

Scorpion Season 3 Episode 22 "Strife on Mars" Review


The team attempts to extract a pair of scientists trapped inside a failing and dangerous bio-dome designed for Mars.

This was a really interesting and fun episode that was really entertaining to watch. I really liked the two scientists who were trapped and had to deal with each other through these terrible conditions. I liked how both Happy and Toby related to the two scientists and saw how terrible their relationship went after being together all the time. It was interesting all the different things the team inside of the dome had to deal with and I kind of liked that they had everything they needed to fix all the problems they had to deal with. I kind of liked how they guy running this how bio-dome operation just ran away when things started to go wrong and how most of these problems the team had to deal with was because the guy skipped out on some money. The parts with Sylvester and Cabe were kind of unnecessary but it was still fun how they had everything they needed to get the team out of the bio-dome was inside the party bus. Then Walter having all the visions about what he did when he got launched into space was interesting with how the rest of the team debt with it but why did they take so long to get back to that story idea. Then the ending of how Walter decided to deal with the team lying to him was very harsh and I'm curious to see how the rest of the team will fix that problem. And just overall this was a really entertaining and fun episode and I'm curious to see where they will go next.       

Tuesday, April 11, 2017

Scorpion Season 3 Episode 21 "Rock Block" Review


Team Scorpion retrieves an asteroid with DNA strands that could lead to deadly consequences.

This was a really great episode that had a really interesting plot to it and I really like how they went about fixing the problem. It was very interesting how episode had a really simple sort of plot to it but they still managed to be really entertaining. And I really like how they had the president of this country that they were in sort of in the loop of what they were doing because he was only one who was really on their side. So that was kind of cool like whenever they run into a problem the president would be there to sort of help them out by directing people to the different direction or something that they couldn't do without getting caught. It was just really fun to see Walter and Happy deals all the problems they had to well they were trying to get rid of all the parasites on this asteroid before it got spread out into the air. The ending conversation between Cabe and Sylvester was very interesting with how Sylvester almost didn't take the position because the fact of how Cabe was acting around his old girlfriend. Then again all the moments with the wedding planning was very interesting and fun but it's also getting a little tiresome with how long they've dragged that story out so I still kind of want that to be done with. But I do have stay overall this was a really fun and entertaining episode.

Monday, March 20, 2017

Scorpion Season 3 Episode 20 "Broken Wind" Review


While on a mission to repair a turbine at a wind farm, Team Scorpion must race to save Paige and Happy before the cable holding the gondola they are in snaps and sends them plummeting to the ground.

This was a really entertaining and fun episode to watch and it was really interesting to see how they eventually fixed all the problems they came across. I liked how they had a very smooth transition into a problem instead of the basic way some episode go where they stumble into a massive problem. And I liked how the teams were split up with Happy and Paige being trapped and Walter and Toby were keeping them from falling and Cabe and Sylvester were in charge of getting any supplies the rest of them team might need to help fix things. I liked how they had to deal with many different small problems to help fix the bigger one with smaller things like Happy and Paige needed to get rid of some extra weight on the gondola to make it rise better and the wind causing the cable to move around like a pendulum so they needed to find a way to stabilize Happy and Paige so they don't fall off. It did get a little annoying how much the planning for Happy and Toby's wedding kept being brought up, and it is really getting to the point for me where I just want them to get married so that story plot can end. I loved how Sylvester's gaming group and how the fact he just got knighted in the group helped everyone else out. And the ending where Cube decided to show up and be part of the group with Sylvester was so sweet. And just overall this was a really fun and interesting episode to watch.

Tuesday, March 14, 2017

Scorpion Season 3 Episode 19 "Monkey See, Monkey Poo" Review


To stop a dangerous virus from spreading, Team Scorpion must locate a rare endangered monkey in the Amazon that has the antibody for the cure. Also, Toby and Happy see a counselor.

This was a really interesting and fun episode that had a lot of really entertaining moments to it. I liked the whole side story of Toby and Happy getting a counselor that made Toby focus on all the negative moments with Happy and keep track of them all. And it was fun to see all those moments be counted out here and there while they are out on a mission. Then the actual mission was fun with them running around trying to catch this one monkey and how they eventually got it was really fun and I liked how if kept popping up once and a while to help out. Then it was really interesting how they found the cure for this virus not in the monkey but in what it eats and all the problems they came across trying to get the fruit. Then the moments with Sylvester and Ralph back at the garage were really fun moments to have thrown in there where they are looking for a caterpillar that bit Sylvester. And just overall this was a really fun and entertaining episode.

Tuesday, February 28, 2017

Scorpion Season 3 Episode 18 "Don't Burst My Bubble" Review

Team Scorpion must move Happy's friend Ada, and the sterile bubble Ada lives in that protects her compromised immune system, to a secure location after a severe storm leaves the structure surrounded by dangerous debris.

This was a really great and interesting episode that had some really entertaining moments to it. I really liked that this episode focused more on Happy and her gaining a friend and everything around that. The whole concept around the idea of Happy not having any friends outside of Scorpion was really cool with her not returning a guest list to Toby for their wedding and I really liked the one line Happy said near the end of this episode which was I finally made a new friend and I can't even invite her to my wedding. Then I really love that they kept going back to Sylvester and his fear of germs to help them keep Ada sterile as the transported her. Then all they ways that they actually got Ada into a new sterile bubble was kind of cool with the materials they used and how they got everything perfect for her. I loved the ending where Ada and Happy are talking about the events of the day and Happy is feeling bad for her and Ada brings up all the things she did that day that she thought she would never do again like hug her dad, or feel the sun on her face. Then the moments with Sylvester and the votes being cast in was very interesting and I liked how in the end everything managed to end in Sylvester's favor. Then I really loved the ending of this episode and how it ended kind of happy for everyone. And just overall t

Tuesday, February 21, 2017

Scorpion Season 3 Episode 17 "Dirty Seeds, Done Dirt Cheap" Review


When a simple mission to protect a vital seed bank goes awry, Team Scorpion must save Happy, Sylvester and Cabe, who begin suffering from life-threatening, fear-based hallucinations.

This was a really interesting and fun episode that had some really fun moments in it. I really liked the idea in this episode that several of the members of Team Scorpion have to face their greatest fears and the rest of the team have to figure out how to help them before they fall into a coma. And each of the fears was really interesting where with Happy it was all about being rejected again like she had been her whole childhood and Toby had to help her out by acting like he had always been her friend. Then Sylvester's fear was chickens and Paige had to act like a bully to get him to act brave and prove he is not a chicken. And Cabe's fear was being old and Walter had to help him by proving to Cabe that being old can be a good thing. Then the whole mixture cure that Walter and Paige made to help fight against the hallucinations and other symptoms was some really interesting scenes with all the other problems that happened around them. Then the ending was really fun this Sylvester going to a debate and winning it. And just overall this was a really fun and entertaining episode.  

Tuesday, February 14, 2017

Scorpion Season 3 Episode 16 "Keep It in Check, Mate" Review

Walter and Sylvester enter an international chess competition under cover on foreign soil for Team Scorpion in order to extricate a U.S. spy before her identity is exposed.

This was a really fun episode that at moments felt a little too overdone but it was still really entertaining to watch. I did really like the idea of the three-way avoidance of chess between Toby, Walter, and Sylvester. I was also really fun to watch Sylvester get very aggressively angry about playing the game and Walter coming up with simple small cheats to that would bug Sylvester in an attempt to make sure Sylvester is not better than Walter at something. I did like the moment where Walter and Sylvester are competing against each other and one of the announcers says "they must be having such high intellectual thoughts," when they are not. one of the moments that felt a little over done was their whole escape plan when of course there one helper was caught and taken prisoner. I feel it would have been better if there helpers position had been compromised and they just had to get her to a different location instead of trying to do everything on their own. That being said how they did eventually escape the cops was really cool. All the moments with Happy were very interesting with her doing everything she can to save her father from going to prison. Which seemed kind of odd to me because I feel waiting two years to see him again is a better option than sending him to Mexico. But overall this was a really fun and entertaining episode.