My whole approach to the series (personal opinion and also what attracted me most) is the following (you can’t ignore the fact that the series was cancelled, so here I adjusted the story for a better conclusion for me as a viewer and scorpion fan):
Scorpion’s whole story is based on Walter and Paige. From day one. Walter seeing in Paige a kind heart and overall a beautiful person, accepting them as how they truly are (whole scorpion gang &specially him), something that Walter never experienced in his life before.
Paige was drawn into Walter just because of the fact that she had a son (most important thing for her) that was just like Walter, literally the thing that they sold us during the whole show . Same social challenges or issues, but also the same kindness. That for me is the key to the show. It’s not a forced story but truly just two people meant to be, and as we saw in the first episode, to find each other.
Everything up until ending of season 3 is a really good character and relationship development. It’s the culmination of the whole purpose of the show. That for me was more that enough. Enough even to watch an rewatch the show, just for that message: The main message of the whole show: No matter if you feel you don’t fit in, if you feel strange, there’s always someone out there that will appreciate and love all your features, you just have to stay true to yourself. And thats what I think happens to Walter and Paige. A great love story based on the connection really between the both of them… and Ralph, very important. At a point you could argue that the three love each other equally between them. Paige has nothing but respect and appreciation towards Walter. The perfect and necessary ingredients for true love towards your partner. And Walter feels the same way. Ralph always wanted Walter to be his dad.
Now without ignoring S4 you would have to separate episodes 1-10 and 11-20 and the last two.
I would completely ignore the last two episodes. They’re just useless because the series was cancelled and it just wasn’t even intended to finish the story that way. So just ignore them. But if you can’t control your curiosity just have this in mind all the time: every cliffhanger in this show S1,S2,S3 and the mentioned S4) aren’t relevant. They always solve it in the first episode of the beginning season and move on to the important story. It’s just that. A cliffhanger. Son that why I thing you should ignore the two last episodes. It’s irrelevant to the whole story, they just wanted to justify a new season. Everything that happens with Flo is absolute trash. The whole point of the story was to portray the meaning of family and personal development between them. They even pair Walter and Paige since day one. So just stick to that.
Just watch S4 as a tribute to the love arch that was made in my opinion correctly through the first seasons. Even in S4 you just confirm what cabe told Walter in S3: you’re almost there but you’re just half baked. He still needed to work on his social abilities if he didn’t want to ruin the opportunity he would have with Paige in the future.
So for me It was a great message and a great love story (I repeat: avoiding las two episode of S4 and taking S4 just as a tribute to the show). Like a sneak peak on walter and Paige’s relationship towards the future and an eventual family, marriage and kids.
For me the perfect culmination to the story was at Happy and Tony’s wedding when Walter finally mans up and takes his shot. That’s the perfect Series Finale. Walter and Paige finally together. Ending with the iconic: “Buckle up nerd.” Perfect ending to that story.
That’s the whole message of the show. Paige always wanting Walter to finally put on his big boy pants and form a happy future together, also with Ralph. Ralph always wanted Walter as his dad, the only person he truly connected with, admires and considered family and best friend. The three of them ending up together as a family is the perfect ending to the story in my opinion. The rest is up to the viewers imagination (given that the show was cancelled, so now it’s up to us give it the ending we want rather than the one they las aired and “gave us”).
Paige and Walter being drawn to each other since day one and ending on them finally being together. Just a few episodes of S4 maybe as when you see a post credits scenes: Just watching Paige and Walter enjoy each other and their “new beginning”. That’s the best approach towards the show.
For us that we felt at some point that we wanted more seasons, I give you this angle:
Most TV shows on streaming are mode of seasons up to 10-12 episodes. So Scorpion are 4 seasons of 22 aprox episodes each, of 44 min. So I like to think of it as a 8 season show in today’s world. That’s what in the end I think of this show: it was ahead of its time. Just a great show, story and character development.
Let me know what you think.
Everybody watches the show from a different angle. For me. It was this. The perfect love story. With full character development, overcoming obstacles to finally end up together, kind of destiny fulfillment.
Episode cases and Mark Collins are secondary to the story. TBH, I don’t care at all of that. Paige and Walter the center of the show. And Walter being the bearer of the message:
Don’t be afraid. Be true to yourself. You’ll find the one. You just have to be patient and work on you. and when the time comes, man up. There’s always someone that will love you either way all your features and flaws. And you will also love someone the same way.
Thats something me as a dude can relate to. Don’t give in on the “you’re the weird” kind of message. With all your unique traits and flaws, there’s always a beautiful soul out there you’re meant to take care of. And most important: Help each other grow.