# Scorpion **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [April 7, 2015, 3:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/scorpion/717017 "2015-04-07T03:27:13Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 9\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Clothahump](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/51bf81/32.png) [@Clothahump](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Clothahump)\ **Post date:** [April 7, 2015, 3:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/scorpion/717017/1 "2015-04-07T03:27:13Z")
Okay, I’ve been hearing about this show for a while. Finally got around to watching it. OMG, that sucks pondwater. I know that TV scriptwriters have room temperature IQs for the most part, but I think this show hired writers rejected by other stupid shows. It’s been a long time since I’ve seen a TV show that frickin’ stupid. Anyone else watching it? What do you think of it? ---
**Author:** ![johnpost](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/f17d59/32.png) [@johnpost](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/johnpost)\ **Post date:** [April 7, 2015, 3:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/scorpion/717017/2 "2015-04-07T03:50:22Z")
already some discussion on it. > **[Scorpion (new series)](https://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=735349)** > > Anybody else catch this? It’s so exponentially ludicrous it makes Agents of SHIELD seem like a gritty procedural. It’s wonderful! In fact it’s exactly what I wanted SHIELD to be but never was. My new guilty pleasure for the season! ---
**Author:** ![ZipperJJ](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/zipperjj/32/211_2.png) [@ZipperJJ](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ZipperJJ)\ **Post date:** [April 7, 2015, 4:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/scorpion/717017/3 "2015-04-07T16:54:37Z")
Well, no reason we can’t re-evaluate it now 6+ months later! I still watch it because I like to dislike it. The “we are emotionally different” stuff is sooooooo awful. So bad. OMG it is bad. I haven’t seen much of the XMen stuff. Is XMen like this? Every 20 minutes or so there has to be a pouty “But we’re mutants…” break. I think the plots keep getting more ridiculous each week too. ---
**Author:** ![simster](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/simster/32/1047_2.png) [@simster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/simster)\ **Post date:** [April 7, 2015, 4:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/scorpion/717017/4 "2015-04-07T16:59:44Z")
This show is so bad it makes BONES look positively brilliant. We continue to watch it so I have something to yell at - its the WWE of scripted entertainment. ---
**Author:** ![DrDeth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/b487fb/32.png) [@DrDeth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DrDeth)\ **Post date:** [April 7, 2015, 5:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/scorpion/717017/5 "2015-04-07T17:31:08Z")
Actually the first few epis werent bad. But then they started regularly putting the team in harms way and doing action hero stuff. And the romance- ech. ---
**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:** [April 7, 2015, 6:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/scorpion/717017/6 "2015-04-07T18:12:43Z")
I was a semi-defender of the show in its early weeks. I will readily admit the show was stupid but I hoped it would be entertaining. However the entertainment has worn thin while the stupidity has remained strong. ---
**Author:** ![Mangetout](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mangetout/32/19_2.png) [@Mangetout](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mangetout)\ **Post date:** [April 7, 2015, 10:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/scorpion/717017/7 "2015-04-07T22:28:24Z")
I love the way they get some of the tech so desperately wrong “The files were in a hidden partition in the RAM” and the physics (blood transfusion via 30 feet of plastic tube going down a tunnel, but no problem with pressure). And the opening title "based on the life of Walter O’Brien’. I’d never heard of him until the show, so I was expecting the real-life Walter to be a modern-day Sherlock type or something. He’s just [some guy](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Walter_O%27Brien) who wrote a couple of bits of interesting software. ---
**Author:** ![DrDeth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/b487fb/32.png) [@DrDeth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DrDeth)\ **Post date:** [April 7, 2015, 10:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/scorpion/717017/8 "2015-04-07T22:36:31Z")
> [@Mangetout](#): > > And the opening title "based on the life of Walter O’Brien’. I’d never heard of him until the show, so I was expecting the real-life Walter to be a modern-day Sherlock type or something. He’s just [some guy](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Walter_O%27Brien) who wrote a couple of bits of interesting software. Not only that but compare the pics of > **[Elyes Gabel](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elyes_Gabel)** > > Elyes Cherif Gabel (/ˈɛliəs ɡəˈbɛl/; born 8 May 1983) is a British actor. > Gabel's global breakout role was portraying computer genius Walter O'Brien in the CBS series Scorpion (2014–2018). Earlier he gained recognition as series regular Dr. Gurpreet "Guppy" Sandhu in the BBC medical drama Casualty (2004–2007), as Dothraki Rakharo in seasons 1 and 2 of the HBO series Game of Thrones (2011–2012), as PE teacher Rob Cleaver in series 4 of BBC One's school-based drama series Waterloo Road (2010) a... to [https://www.google.com/search?q=Walter+O'Brien&rlz=1C1OPRB\_enUS594US594&es\_sm=93&tbm=isch&tbo=u&source=univ&sa=X&ei=LFskVYD0Eu\_dsATTm4D4Bw&ved=0CI0BEIke&biw=1021&bih=570](https://www.google.com/search?q=Walter+O%27Brien&rlz=1C1OPRB_enUS594US594&es_sm=93&tbm=isch&tbo=u&source=univ&sa=X&ei=LFskVYD0Eu_dsATTm4D4Bw&ved=0CI0BEIke&biw=1021&bih=570) Very “Mary Sue” and also dubious: > **[Another Story Of A 'Fake' Brilliant Inventor? Is 'Scorpion Walter O'Brien' A...](https://www.techdirt.com/2014/09/25/another-story-fake-brilliant-inventor-is-scorpion-walter-obrien-real-computer-security-genius/)** > > Dr. Shiva Ayyadurai’s Response to this Article and Statement on the Invention of Email There’s apparently a new TV show on CBS called Scorpion that has received mixed-to-decent reviews.… ---
**Author:** ![Reluctant\_A](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/839c29/32.png) [@Reluctant\_A](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Reluctant_A)\ **Post date:** [April 7, 2015, 10:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/scorpion/717017/9 "2015-04-07T22:45:09Z")
> [@Clothahump](#): > > Okay, I’ve been hearing about this show for a while. Finally got around to watching it. > > OMG, that sucks pondwater. I know that TV scriptwriters have room temperature IQs for the most part, but I think this show hired writers rejected by other stupid shows. It’s been a long time since I’ve seen a TV show that frickin’ stupid. > > Anyone else watching it? What do you think of it? I have really enjoyed eighteen of the the twenty episodes I’ve seen, and the other two were not offensively bad, to my palate. But, then again, I don’t particularly value realism in the shows I watch, so there are a lot of things that may drive other viewers crazy, that don’t bother me at all, and that I may not even notice.