Wow! Last night’s premier felt like a poorly written Criminal Minds meets CSI. You had an FBI unit solving a case using unrealistic technology, lame story lines and terrible acting. The whole virtual morgue scene took the fakeness of the CSI franchise to whole other level and puts Horatio Caine’s crime lab down in Miami to shame. Patricia Arquett’s acting was just horrible, James Van Der Beek’s character was unbelievable, big boss man who played Larry on Numb3rs had what three minutes of screen time total. This wasn’t Scorpion bad by any means, that piece of garbage is in a league by itself, but it’s still bad. I also got a kick out of how the NYS Trooper cars look nothing like actually do, only to have the obligatory car chase end with the car winding up in a body of water where our hero jumps in to save the baby. And out of all of the story lines the writes could have come up with, the hijacking of nanny cams was the best they could come up with for the official series premier? I was wondering if they would have a bad guy gone good reformed character and they do, I was also expecting a character that does that line of work because they were wronged a in a similar fashion in the past and what do ya know Arquett’s character was a shrink that got hacked 20 years ago.
If I can make it through 11 episodes of Scorpion, I probably can make it through the 13 episodes of CSI:Cyber, or at least however many are shown before it gets pulled, if it were to get pulled.