If I turned off my brain that much, I’d be dead!
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!!!
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.
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.
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.
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.
dome watcher.
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.
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.
because it’s new. like most new shows it was hyped excessively tempting people to watch.
it’s the new dome.
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.
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.
I decided there were too many other, better shows to spend my time on.
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:
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.
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.
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.