Scorpion (TV Series) The Old College Try (2015) User Reviews

College looks painful for Team Scorpion

[DebbyNessie · 10/10 · 17 November 2018]

This episode makes me laugh so much, seeing the Team at college in their various roles is so funny. The bit when Cabe is coaching Sylvester about wrestling is so funny, these writers are great.

The storyline is OK, but the bits at the end when Walter reads Shakespeare is moving and makes me want to see more like this. The bit with Happy and Toby dancing is a real breakthrough for Quintis. Ray and the oxygen tank's bubbles is very moving too - I'm an emotional wreck. LOVE IT - MORE PLEASE.

Painfully Embarrassing

[matdelong · 1/10 · 10 December 2015]

This show is never very realistic, but this episode took it to a painful level. It is like the writers don't bother consulting any experts and just write whatever comes to mind after hearing an industry buzzword. I don't know why I keep watching this show.

In this episode, the team needs to 'slow down' a quantum computer in order to plug a thumb drive into it, which instantly runs an 'anti-virus', killing the virus running on the "quantum" (which is what they call the quantum computer.)

Aside from that obviously stupid plot, they get super "technical" about several aspects of the quantum computer:

• Only 3 or 4 ever exist at a time on Earth. - Their location is kept a closely guarded secret. - Only three industries have them. I forget what the first two were... like NASA and the FBI or something... and the third was (obviously) Universities. (Because it made the rest of the episode work.) - They only last a few days to a few weeks. - They need to be stored in a vacuum or in explosive gas. I think they may have contradicted themselves here. - Inside a room that is -100F. - The 'quantum' has 8 lasers going into it. It is a floating cube and each laser is firing at one corner. - In order to 'slow down' the computer, they need to drill a hole through the outer shell (which is transparent) and use some aluminium foil to cut off one of the lasers, stating that if they mess up even a little the whole building would explode killing them all.

All of this is obviously the stupidest computer related nonsense written by man. But there is more. Apparently this virus is running on the 'quantum' but it isn't actually infecting it. It is 'ransom ware' (buzzword!) that is threatening to end the world in 1 hour if the author doesn't get $500 million or something like that. Probably in Bitcoin.

Walter wasn't able to 'out-think a quantum', and his code wasn't fast enough to stop it. But as soon as he plugged the thumb drive into the 'quantum', it magically ran and was fast enough to beat the ransom virus.

So painfully horrible. Only the stupidest people in the world would come up with this. Which is a painful irony that would be lost on them. Because they are too dumb.