#cbs scorpion

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Scorpion took a group of characters that most authors would write as teenagers and decided to make them middle-aged and it absolutely fucking rocks.

[violetdaphne]

its missing scorpion hours guys

[typing-catastrophe]

why do I find more scorpion content on pinterest than tumblr 😭

[katlizada]

High Potential thoughts!

Kaitlin Olsen absolutely shines as Morgan Gillory.

the costuming on this show os unbelievable. morgan wearing blue petal earrings in the episode with the blue rose? you would not believe the scream i scrumpt.

it’s been said before but love seeing a genius character with real emotions and relationships.

and we get to see how this character raises her CHILDREN! the ones who function like her AND the ones who don’t!

she also has great romantic relationships, present and past, and we see all of them grow and change in healthy ways. it has been ONE season.

the “background characters” (i’m talking Daphne and Oz) aren’t just filler! they do SO much and they get praise and support where earned/deserved. like Oz defending Daphne from Karadecs old partner. we learn. SO MUCH. about the team from like 10 lines. Oz is such a german shepherd and thats facts.

Daphne is such a bad ass and i’d give my life for her (she wouldn’t let me, but i digress)

Ludo is a GOOD DAD. you heard that right. a Genius Detevtive show, with a good and healthy father figure who loves his kids and DOESNT hate their mother. Ludo, i love you, never change i’m begging.

SELENA SOTO be still my heart, the fact Morgan trusts her FIRST. so so refreshing to see two female characters in a setting like this that aren’t pit against eachother. these women actually like and support one another! we love to see it.

the crimes featured on the show are actually really interesting and it’s so fun to watch how the team will figure it out.

SOOOOO intrigued by the Roman mystery. and LOVE how he is present in his daughter’s art.

can’t stress enough how likeable the characters are. they all feel like real rounded people.

ALSO love how Morgan consistently shuts down any and all misogynistic crap she encounters eg “who is she?” “oh i’m actually right here you can just ask me”

show is funny AND heartfelt at the same time. beautiful. i could go on forever (and probably will) but if you were a fan of Sherlock or Scorpion or anything in that vein, you’ll love High Potential.

[ethan-acfan]

I've just given up on trying to be normal about them, so I will be posting shitty text memes for the 3 other scorpion fans on here

[kasperskarnival]

scorpion simultaniously manages to give their characters so much heart and personality and quirks and traits and also have them be flat as all hell and never learn their mistakes. its so unique i dont know HOW they do it

(i have only seen up to season3 finale. for these purposes, lets pretend s4 does not exist, though if anything i think itd drive my point home)

I love the team as much as anyone but you HAVE to agree the characters are strangely made. Its not that they fall flat on a personality front- each of them is clearly distinct, not just the members of Scorpion but also the sideliners like the homeland directors, Tim, Ray, Patrick, Ally ect ect. they and ESPECIALLY our main cast is a large draw of the show, a group of whacky misfits with distinguishable traits doing crazy stuff, yet i cant help but feel like they are so two dimensional in some spaces.

Take for example Happy. a favourite for right reasons, shes awsome and badass and a woman whos smart (which is a lot to ask of a 2014s cbs writers room), yet if you take a good long look at her her character comes down to 3 cores: mechanics, her relationship with Toby, and being an orphan. This leaves barely ANY room for nuance, as all we see is her being mean to everyone and, throughout the show, gradually get a little less mean to Toby and really, thats it. and this stuff happens to ALL the characters.

i honestly think Cabe and Sly are best off. Cabe because all hes got is "old" and "gun" but at least he's pleasant to watch, and Sly because of how megan made him less fearful and he stood up to walter a few times, though that eventually kinda washed away. The real worst crime here, are Walter and Paige.

Genuily these people are insufferable to watch. Paige's entire character concept is crazy- a person to 'help geniuses be normal', esentially infantilizing and babysitting a group of grown ass people is a wildly abelist concept, and things like autism was not THAT farfetched of an idea back in 2014. She is weirdly supposed to "bring everyone together" while she barely has a relationship to anyone outside of Walter, and her "you can save everyone!" positivity speech personality clashes with the taking-no-shit mother persona they just cant help but try to give her, making her a crazy hyporcite in 50% of episodes.

and Walter is constandly in the show portrayed as a guy who so strongly believes he has no emotions he cant process them, and while Elyes Gabel is a cutie it does NOT make up for the insane things Walter says and does. And if theyre pretending this man doesnt have Sociopathy because for many people it is synonymous with evil, then im simply forced to look at him from the standpoint where he has nothing more then a high IQ and appearently, a fucking annoying superiority complex he never EVER gets over, and this all without even getting into how this dumpster show ended.

and yet, somehow, these characters are endearing beyond belief. between good actors and delightful found family dynamics, i hate to say that while Scorpion is far from good, i cant help but love those freaks

[achillesunly]

Currently crying all the tears in my body for what they did to the series Scorpion

Season one you'll always be my dream

[god-of-all-things]

Megan O’Brien my girl I’m so sorry the writers don’t understand medicine because you’re my angel

[banannabethchase]

Sometimes I peruse the CBS Scorpion tag to see if there's anything substantially new. A horde of new watchers, new gifsets, a few fanfics.

There's never more than 10 new posts. Most lamenting about the fandom being dead.

That fandom died a permanent death with that single horrendous finale episode and there is no other show that can compare to that level of implosion.

...

Also Quintis forever.

[bigmack2go]

THIS “FANDOM” LACKS GAY RELATIONSHIPS!!! AND IDC IF ITS A DEAD FANDOM! IT ALWAYS HAS LACKED HOMOSEXUALITY AND I WONT STAND FOR IT! SO I HEREBYE SUGGEST TOBY TO BE BI HC! LETS VOTE! WHO SAYS YES? *raises hand in litteraly the only person present*

UNANIMOUS. THANK YOU VERY MUCH

[coffeecupsandfinerwines]

The crossover I’ll wait for but probably never receive it. These two could 100% work in the same universe. And they both end on such a sad note.

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In the wake of Israel and the west's recent crimes against Palestine, I realized why Scorpion's plot went to shit.

Scorpion's plot was all about calling out the American government. The Iraq massacre America commited and Walter's backstory. Sly's father being military and saying he wants to save the world yet only caring about his reputation. Cabe aiding and abetting war crimes. America having nukes in foreign land, and putting embargos on Yemen.

The US government doesn't like when it's exposed in any form of media.

That's why they changed the story.

[violetdaphne]

season one walter would NEVER fire paige and the butchering of his character is a travesty i will never forgive the writers for

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down bad for walter o'brien

[concrete-at-least-15-ft-thick]

Every single member of the cyclone is bisexual to me

[ethan-acfan]

Honestly sometimes you just gotta take the characters and a few key plot points and then make up your own story from their bc the creators have no fuckin clue what they are doing