Scorpion: Season 1 - ITV2 UK Pace
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Premiered tonight. Well it was first on at 9pm but it gets a repeat showing later in the night so i caught it at 1.40am. I rarely watch anything on ITV2 let alone any US shows. I can't even remember the last US show i watched on the channel it's been that long.
Anyway i gave this a shot tonight and thought it was brilliant, really enjoyable. Having said that it was the pilot so it's meant to show-offy but it's a very easy and likable show to watch. The plotline was completely absurd and over the top and i didn't understand much of the techno jargon but the show's based on the real Walter O'Brien and his case files, so who knows.
Funny thing about it is that it starts off with Scorpion being a small white pale Irish kid with brown hair who later grows up to be tall and tanned with black curly hair and an American accent. Lol. The only actors i recognised in the show were Robert Patrick and Eddie Kaye Thomas. The pilot was directed by Justin Lin who directed Fast and Furious 5 & 6 and is also executive producing.
I think i'll give Ep2 a watch next week and see if it does enough to get me to continue watching the rest of the season. Thumbs up so far for the pilot episode. Anyone else watch this tonight?
Anyway i gave this a shot tonight and thought it was brilliant, really enjoyable. Having said that it was the pilot so it's meant to show-offy but it's a very easy and likable show to watch. The plotline was completely absurd and over the top and i didn't understand much of the techno jargon but the show's based on the real Walter O'Brien and his case files, so who knows.
Funny thing about it is that it starts off with Scorpion being a small white pale Irish kid with brown hair who later grows up to be tall and tanned with black curly hair and an American accent. Lol. The only actors i recognised in the show were Robert Patrick and Eddie Kaye Thomas. The pilot was directed by Justin Lin who directed Fast and Furious 5 & 6 and is also executive producing.
I think i'll give Ep2 a watch next week and see if it does enough to get me to continue watching the rest of the season. Thumbs up so far for the pilot episode. Anyone else watch this tonight?
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It's a good show for ITV 2 to get but I worry that it might go the way of 'Intelligence' in the US. E.g. low ratings.
They need to get the mix of fun and seriousness right, and make sure the group dynamics work well.
This is where 'Intelligence' failed. It was too serious and the group never really felt right.
If there is nothing else on then I'll watch it, cos other stuff at the same time has been a disappointment.
Well, the science and technology used are nonsense but as long as you watch it as mindless entertainment then it's great fun. 24 was never realistic but that didn't stop it being great TV.
The biggest problem I have so far is with the Happy character - the actress is terrible and she has a very annoying voice. The rest of the cast seem to work well together though.
That's the thing that annoyed me most about this - we are supposed to believe that the lead is some hot IT wizard - and he seemed lost and as for a major airport not keeping backups before a major upgrade PLEASE! If I did that my feet would not touch the ground before I was fired.
Enjoyable - but brain switch off time.
One of the other Executive Producers is Scooter Braun, who is the arsehole Justin Bieber's manager, which raises the disturbing possibility of a guest appearance by the little scrote
The lead is Elyes Gabel, who is actually British, and was a cop in Season3 of Body of Proof, and the short-lived ITV series Identity. I also recognised Eddie Kay Thomas from American Pie.
Frankly I thought it was utter crap, absolutely absurd nonsense that repeatedly abused the audience's suspension of disbelief by refusing to countenance any kind of real-world logic whatsoever (there are literally dozens of airports in LA - planes can easily divert elsewhere, buzzing a car at 10 feet off the ground to plug in a network cable is just stupid nonsense)
I'll give it a 2nd look this week but my first impression was that Scorpion is badly written, ridiculously plotted gak that is not sufficiently well done to be acceptable even as brain-dead entertainment.
Wouldn't surprise me at all. He'll probably be as laughably bad as he was in 'CSI'.
Really?! I didn't catch his name but very surprising. Didn't know he was involved in tv now. He's the manager of quite a few bratty pop stars including the new one Ariana Grande.
Didn't know that either! So he is actually British? Wow. I've never seen him before in anything. Well he plays an American very well indeed!
Nice to see another Brit being the lead of US tv show! Yay!
Yeah he played the virgin Doctor Guppy in Casualty for a couple of years https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XFavUQhYxE8. He was also a zombie in Dead Set.
I thought it was OK, but the voice of the female genius was really horrible to listen to.
It's a shame, as like many people have posted here, the pilot episode was very entertaining and I really wanted to give it a go…I thought it would be my 'check your brain at the door' show for this year.
Yes, it's total nonsense and the acting terrible but I can't help liking it. It's Num3ers meets the A Team.
That doesn't mean it's been renewed for season 2 just that that first season will have a full series of episodes.
Ok second episode but wasn't all that exciting to be honest.
Happy's accent certainly starting to grate, very unsual voice. Eddie Kaye Thomas who plays Toby seems to be the only one who looks like he's having fun.
I'll stick with it for the time being.
Well here's what the real Walter O'Brien looks like... Certainly not the same http://www.scorpioncomputerservices.com/the_founder.html
Hey hey hey, she gets away with it
(And before anyone says, she's actually older than me)
And this week with the CDC magic virus cure in two hours was pushing it just a tad...
Or did I miss the bit where actually this is set 10 years in the future so lots of new fancy stuff got invented between now and then?
I am enjoying this one, in spite of the jarring bumper ads nigh-on destroying the viewing experience (already btched about this on the 'worst ads' thread)...
A second season is more than likely
It's been one of the breakout hits in the states, alongside How to get away with Murder and the new NCIS
No appearance by the Canadian brat so far (too busy hiding from the Argentinian police I guess!) but there's some absurd nonsense involving Katherine McPhee's character coming up soon.
For those who are really spoilerphobic I won't say exactly what happens but as a clue, McPhee didn't first come to fame as an actress.
I've read countless ridiculous posts on IMDB from viewers complaining that some of the content isn't realistic.
Why can't people just take it for what it is which is for the purposes of entertainment?
IT'S A TV SHOW PEOPLE.
Still enjoy the show, it's just we all know it is a bit of a stretch from reality, so can't the makers accept this, instead of when something incredibly unbelievable occurs you have to laugh at the absurdity of it all.
I don't mind that it's so OTT, i think it's just the fact that i don't really care about any of the characters. There's nothing for me to invest in, so i'll watch the next episode and then decide if i'm in or out.
If it's true about McPhee's character singing then that's a big no-no from me.
It's true that there is no meat but it's good to have at least one show every week that you can watch with your brain turned off. Just treat it as the A Team with geeks and go with the flow.