They didn't create Scorpion. It was created by Nick Santora. Orci and Kurtzman's production company shepherded the development of the series as part of their deal with CBS and so they serve as exec producers, but their involvement is pretty limited. They've never really been in the business of creating and running…

Two writers left following Season 1, not several. They were Jose Molina and Chitra Elizabeth Sampath, who is the female writer to which you are referring. Orci and Kurtzman remained as exec producers but did not contribute any scripts. Iscove took a step back from writing as he had greater producing responsibilities,…

Things heard from the grapevine aren't necessarily accurate. The show was created by four white male writers/producers and was almost entirely written by white writers during Season 1. Only one episode was co-written by a non-white writer and she wasn't black. The show never had any black writers during Season 1 or 2…

The drop in quality isn't because of some mass exodus of writers following Season 1, most of the writers from Season 1 were still working on the show during Season 2 and a lot of them are still there now.

A close-up shot without the face usually means body double and Dominic West mentioned that it was indeed a double.

The use of laugh-tracks is dictated by the genre of the comedy series. Single-camera shows like Grandfathered don't have laugh-tracks. Only multi-camera shows i.e. those filmed entirely in a studio, like The Big Bang Theory, do.

She developed the premise with TV producer Helen Gregory and then sold it to Shondaland. I'm sure she would have anticipated there being significant changes to this premise when she sold it to a production company for further development.

Well so far their employees have ended up either possessed, dead or have 'gone missing' so I think even Actaeon has probably realised that sending more people in isn't necessarily going to solve anything.

I don't think CBS's marketing department is watching the show. The promo for the next episode said 'after surviving the apocalypse, what comes next'.

Like a lot of appliances, they clearly are safe as long as they're not damaged like Odi or modified like Simon.

Most of these things are from the books and I remember there being reasons for most of them, but I can't remember them. I think the kidnapping/weird town stuff in the books was an attempt to convince Ethan that he was crazy. They wanted to break him and then rehabilitate him as the perfect citizen/sheriff.

I think the showrunner explained in an interview that they had started to take new people out of stasis since there aren't really enough people in the FG to run the entire town.

Kind of feels like you're nitpicking here.

Don't think there's any connection. It's most likely a case of them being young, good looking, accustomed to performing action scenes and relatively cheap hires.

It's a real shame Rebecca isn't around to explain the science to us - you just know that she'd be all up on that goo, trying to get to the bottom of its wonderful lip moisturising and mind control properties.

Because he was eventually cryogenically frozen like everybody else?

I agree that Niska's introduction as a sexbot didn't need to be as heavy handed as it was but it provides context for her view of humanity, which the Swedish series never adequately explored.

I disagree. I think both shows have their merits. It's a shame that the British series hasn't modelled the main family more closely to the Swedish one, but most of the other changes have been quite positive.

As the show's synopsis states, it is set in a parallel present universe.

I wouldn't be surprised if he becomes so disillusioned by the cover-up that, by the end of the season, he becomes involved in the movement.