# Scorpion (new series) **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [September 25, 2014, 1:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/scorpion-new-series/699484 "2014-09-25T01:15:56Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 17\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![Just\_Asking\_Questions](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/ba9def/32.png) [@Just\_Asking\_Questions](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Just_Asking_Questions)\ **Post date:** [September 30, 2014, 7:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/scorpion-new-series/699484/41 "2014-09-30T19:45:28Z")
> [@GuanoLad](#): > > But if you turn your brain off it might be fun. > [@Irishman](#): > > _…very good summation of how bad it was…_. If I turned off my brain that much, I’d be dead! ---
**Author:** ![August\_West](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/august_west/32/18069_2.png) [@August\_West](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/August_West)\ **Post date:** [September 30, 2014, 8:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/scorpion-new-series/699484/42 "2014-09-30T20:07:41Z")
> [@Jeff\_Lichtman](#): > > I liked the part where they sent the math whiz to get the names of the people in the drug trial. One reason they picked him was that he’s the only one with a photographic memory (OK, Sheldon, an eidetic memory). > > Umm. . . Anyone ever heard of a camera? The best part, they were watching him in the room through the hacked security camera! He could have just held the sheets up to the camera _that was already there!!!_ ---
**Author:** ![August\_West](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/august_west/32/18069_2.png) [@August\_West](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/August_West)\ **Post date:** [September 30, 2014, 8:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/scorpion-new-series/699484/43 "2014-09-30T20:17:29Z")
> [@Little\_Nemo](#): > > That wasn’t what happened. The guy was a biologist. He designed a biological virus that was based on the girl’s DNA and then gave it to her via an aerosol spray. The computer virus was a separate thing (which he hired a computer expert to design) used to tell the family that the biological virus had been an intentional attack. True. So Walter confidently whipped open the clean room tent because there was no way anyone else could get sick from this DNA targeted virus. Including her parents. Who were in the room. Who also, presumably, share some large percentage of her DNA. ---
**Author:** ![johnpost](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/f17d59/32.png) [@johnpost](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/johnpost)\ **Post date:** [September 30, 2014, 8:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/scorpion-new-series/699484/44 "2014-09-30T20:46:17Z")
show is full of it. a biohazard room of any level accessed through a file room without controlled access. chemicals and files can freely be transfered through an open door by anyone. biohazard room has an exterior door. Sylvester freaks about a biohazard room at a pharmaceutical company, which should be not terrible, but is OK with the lab of a mad scientist producing biological weapons. actually the whole crew going in there to hunt for clues unprotected without seizing the building is kinda questionable. another half assed crime/adventure show that is exciting if you don’t let facts get in the way. ---
**Author:** ![Little\_Nemo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/little_nemo/32/3120_2.png) [@Little\_Nemo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Little_Nemo)\ **Post date:** [September 30, 2014, 9:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/scorpion-new-series/699484/45 "2014-09-30T21:20:01Z")
> [@August\_West](#): > > True. So Walter confidently whipped open the clean room tent because there was no way anyone else could get sick from this DNA targeted virus. Including her parents. Who were in the room. Who also, presumably, share some large percentage of her DNA. Sure it was stupid and unrealistic. I’m not disputing that. But you see equally stupid and unrealistic behavior regularly on _House_ or _CSI_ or _NCIS_ or _Criminal Minds_ or _Castle_ or a dozen other shows. Why single out this particular show for being stupid when it’s just part of the crowd? ---
**Author:** ![johnpost](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/f17d59/32.png) [@johnpost](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/johnpost)\ **Post date:** [September 30, 2014, 9:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/scorpion-new-series/699484/46 "2014-09-30T21:28:50Z")
> [@Little\_Nemo](#): > > Sure it was stupid and unrealistic. I’m not disputing that. But you see equally stupid and unrealistic behavior regularly on _House_ or _CSI_ or _NCIS_ or _Criminal Minds_ or _Castle_ or a dozen other shows. Why single out this particular show for being stupid when it’s just part of the crowd? you’ve got mostly tv’s shithole there. ---
**Author:** ![August\_West](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/august_west/32/18069_2.png) [@August\_West](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/August_West)\ **Post date:** [September 30, 2014, 9:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/scorpion-new-series/699484/47 "2014-09-30T21:38:14Z")
> [@Little\_Nemo](#): > > Sure it was stupid and unrealistic. I’m not disputing that. But you see equally stupid and unrealistic behavior regularly on _House_ or _CSI_ or _NCIS_ or _Criminal Minds_ or _Castle_ or a dozen other shows. Why single out this particular show for being stupid when it’s just part of the crowd? Fair point, but my hope was that this show would stand out from the crowd. Since it’s supposed to be about a smart guy with a bunch of smart sidekicks, my wish was that it would have some semblance of intelligence. If Jim Belushi came out with a new show about being a hen-pecked private eye with a gay father-in-law living in his attic, I wouldn’t have this sort of reaction. I thought this show could be _better_. ---
**Author:** ![johnpost](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/f17d59/32.png) [@johnpost](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/johnpost)\ **Post date:** [September 30, 2014, 9:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/scorpion-new-series/699484/48 "2014-09-30T21:50:24Z")
> [@August\_West](#): > > My wife and I watched it, laughed at the complete absurdity of all of it, and loved it. > > It was a lot of fun pointing out the plot holes and ridiculousness of every situation. > > I think we’ll watch it again! dome watcher. ---
**Author:** ![Little\_Nemo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/little_nemo/32/3120_2.png) [@Little\_Nemo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Little_Nemo)\ **Post date:** [September 30, 2014, 10:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/scorpion-new-series/699484/49 "2014-09-30T22:42:10Z")
> [@johnpost](#): > > you’ve got mostly tv’s shithole there. Maybe. But every show I mentioned has a large fan base and multiple seasons. So if they’re TV’s shithole then most of TV is a shithole. Which brings us back to the “why single this show out?” issue. > [@August\_West](#): > > Fair point, but my hope was that this show would stand out from the crowd. Since it’s supposed to be about a smart guy with a bunch of smart sidekicks, my wish was that it would have some semblance of intelligence. > > If Jim Belushi came out with a new show about being a hen-pecked private eye with a gay father-in-law living in his attic, I wouldn’t have this sort of reaction. I thought this show could be _better_. Okay, reasonable point. It’s not so much this show is average as it’s that this show had created higher expectations. A good example of this was last season’s _Dads_. It was, I feel, an objectively bad show. But it had good people working on it so I went in expecting some quality. That made it much more disappointing than if I had just watched it cold. Maybe this is why I appear to be having fewer problems with _Scorpion_ than most people. I haven’t really been watching the promos this year. I don’t think I had heard about this show before the week it premiered. So I didn’t have any expectations for it. ---
**Author:** ![johnpost](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/f17d59/32.png) [@johnpost](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/johnpost)\ **Post date:** [September 30, 2014, 11:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/scorpion-new-series/699484/50 "2014-09-30T23:10:32Z")
> [@Little\_Nemo](#): > > Maybe. But every show I mentioned has a large fan base and multiple seasons. So if they’re TV’s shithole then most of TV is a shithole. Which brings us back to the “why single this show out?” issue. because it’s new. like most new shows it was hyped excessively tempting people to watch. it’s the new dome. ---
**Author:** ![GuanoLad](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/guanolad/32/42_2.png) [@GuanoLad](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GuanoLad)\ **Post date:** [October 1, 2014, 2:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/scorpion-new-series/699484/51 "2014-10-01T02:16:43Z")
> [@August\_West](#): > > Let me guess, was it the moment when he dramatically unzipped the door to the clean room and announced that no one else in the room could get sick from her disease? It was when they only had 24 hours to save her life. And then everybody’s social anxiety just made everything way more complicated than they needed to be. Turns out the solution to everything is to rapidly recite a lot of sciencey gobbledegook at every opportunity. ---
**Author:** ![Jeff\_Lichtman](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jeff_lichtman/32/1531_2.png) [@Jeff\_Lichtman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jeff_Lichtman)\ **Post date:** [October 1, 2014, 2:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/scorpion-new-series/699484/52 "2014-10-01T02:58:36Z")
Also, you can send the genome of a virus to the CDC and they’ll come up with a cure in short order. I guess the reason they haven’t come up with a cure for AIDS and ebola is sheer laziness. ---
**Author:** ![Brainiac4](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/brainiac4/32/3534_2.png) [@Brainiac4](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Brainiac4)\ **Post date:** [October 1, 2014, 3:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/scorpion-new-series/699484/53 "2014-10-01T03:00:41Z")
> [@Jeff\_Lichtman](#): > > Also, you can send the genome of a virus to the CDC and they’ll come up with a cure in short order. I guess the reason they haven’t come up with a cure for AIDS and ebola is sheer laziness. And they’re dicks. ---
**Author:** ![Irishman](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/b487fb/32.png) [@Irishman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Irishman)\ **Post date:** [October 1, 2014, 6:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/scorpion-new-series/699484/54 "2014-10-01T18:09:20Z")
I decided there were too many other, better shows to spend my time on. > [@Little\_Nemo](#): > > Sure it was stupid and unrealistic. I’m not disputing that. But you see equally stupid and unrealistic behavior regularly on _House_ or _CSI_ or _NCIS_ or _Criminal Minds_ or _Castle_ or a dozen other shows. Why single out this particular show for being stupid when it’s just part of the crowd? The sheer amount of stupidity stuffed into each minute? Okay, this show is supposed to be about geniuses. House would do genius things. Sure, he was an ass, and he’d screw up by the numbers by being an ass, but it made sense. This show has geniuses doing stupid things, not because it fits their personality quirks, but because that’s the brilliant solution. :smack: ---
**Author:** ![GuanoLad](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/guanolad/32/42_2.png) [@GuanoLad](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GuanoLad)\ **Post date:** [October 2, 2014, 12:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/scorpion-new-series/699484/55 "2014-10-02T00:58:21Z")
> [@Irishman](#): > > The sheer amount of stupidity stuffed into each minute? Exactly. I can tolerate a certain amount of bullshit. And on a rare occasion I will accept the bullshit solution that fixes a bullshit premise. But when it’s bullshit structure (manufactured panic) designed to obscure the bullshit solution (made up science-ish) for a bullshit premise (things that don’t actually happen, because in the real world there are fail-safes) then that’s just collapsing under its own weight of ridiculous. ---
**Author:** ![Exapno\_Mapcase](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/exapno_mapcase/32/1051_2.png) [@Exapno\_Mapcase](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Exapno_Mapcase)\ **Post date:** [October 2, 2014, 2:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/scorpion-new-series/699484/56 "2014-10-02T02:43:54Z")
Second episode was a let-down from the first. Just as preposterous but not as much fun. I don’t want emotions - I want math! Nothing could have lived up to dangling ethernet cable, true, so I’m holding out faint hope that the writers will keep it funny in the future. ---
**Author:** ![Irishman](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/b487fb/32.png) [@Irishman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Irishman)\ **Post date:** [October 2, 2014, 5:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/scorpion-new-series/699484/57 "2014-10-02T17:04:07Z")
Funny? This is supposed to be a _serious_ show based on real life people solving _serious_ problems with their genius IQ’s, all the while hanging out with a hot waitress and her autistic genius kid. Or something. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/scorpion-new-series/699484.md?page=2)