TV Scorpion

[dragon]

So did anyone else watch the primier Monday night. Not much in the way of action but was interesting on their take on a group of geniuses as they dealt with a catastrophic event.

[LadyTevar]

No, I didn't. What can you tell me about it?

[dragon]

Since I'm lousy with summaries here's what wiki says

Inspired by a true story, eccentric computer genius Walter O'Brien and his team of brilliant-minded outcasts cannot function normally in society. Until one day they are recruited by federal agent Cabe Gallo of the U.S. Department of Homeland Security when a serious problem arises. Even though O'Brien and Gallo have history, he and his friends agree to help solve the problem and ultimately become the last line of defense against complex, high-tech threats around the globe.

This team of masterminds is codenamed Scorpion, which includes O'Brien, one of the smartest persons in the world with a 197 IQ and his friends (as Agent Gallo describes them), Sylvester Dodd, a "human calculator" dealing in statistics, Happy Quinn, a "mechanical prodigy" and Toby Curtis, a "world-class shrink" (a Harvard-trained behaviorist). Along with Paige Dineen, a former waitress whose interaction with people translates the real world to them, and they translate her young mentally gifted son, Ralph, to her.

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[Raw Shark]

Since I'm lousy with summaries here's what wiki says

[snip] Along with Paige Dineen, a former waitress whose interaction with people translates the real world to them, and they translate her young mentally gifted son, Ralph, to her.

What the fuck does that even mean?

[Knife]

Penny from the Big Bang Theory is really cool and hot, let's see if we can do that with this show.

[dragon]

Since I'm lousy with summaries here's what wiki says

[snip] Along with Paige Dineen, a former waitress whose interaction with people translates the real world to them, and they translate her young mentally gifted son, Ralph, to her.

What the fuck does that even mean?

Basiclly the 4 genius have a hard time interacting with the real world particularly social situations. Example the lead character broke up with his girl friend and he mapped the possible reaction in a chart.

The actress is used to dealing with people on a regular basis but knows nothing about raising a genius so they offered her a deal. She helps them with social situations and they help her with her son

[Adam Reynolds]

Penny from the Big Bang Theory is really cool and hot, let's see if we can do that with this show.

That is half of my problem with this series, that it is essentially an action remake of the Big Bang Theory that seems to have all of the same problems of showing intellectuals.

My second biggest problem with it is for a series supposedly about brilliant characters, it has the director of the Fast and the Furious movies directing the pilot with all of the same stupidity that it implies.