#84 - Lab Rats: Elite Force (Rage4Media 7th Anniversary)

It’s our 7^th anniversary.

Yes, I’ve officially been running all incarnations of Rage4Media for 7 years, I really need to get out more. And what better thing to review to mark such an occasion than a Disney Channel Sitcom from 5 years ago. I mean it’s not the oldest thing I’ve reviewed on an anniversary.

I’ve been hinting at this for a while, covering Lab Rats and Mighty Med in some of my longest reviews (this one's longer), it’s time to cover Lab Rats: Elite Force, the spinoff show of both Labs Rats and Mighty Med. The production credits go to Chris Peterson and Bryan Moore, the creators of Lab Rats. Initial alarm bells ringing that neither of the people behind Mighty Med have production credits, though Andy Schwartz does have a writer’s credit for a couple of episodes and was a consultant throughout.

The show lasted one season of only 16 episodes, shorter than any season of either predecessor, so I’ll be covering every episode. I can’t promise I’ll be as in depth as an episode-by-episode retrospective but I will mention every plotline this show has, even if they aren’t part of a story or character arc. Yes, I’ve said in the past doing this would be spoiling the jokes but some of these plots are so asinine I won’t give them the dignity as being classified as jokes.

TV Retrospective - Lab Rats season 3 and Bionic Island

Lab Rats had a stunning finale to s2, it was funny but more importantly it turned the tables. Now Davenport and the Lab Rats have their backs to the wall, can they fight against the insurmountable odds? Anyone else thinking of Joker War right now? Series 3 and 4 have more plot-necessary episodes than their predecessors, so this might be a longer review than the first. I’m going to skip over the Lab Rats vs Mighty Med Episode and talk about the full 2-parter in my Mighty Med Retrospective in a couple of months.

TV Retrospective - Lab Rats Seasons 1 and 2

It’s time to do another retrospective on a Disney Sitcom, in the build-up to something for the 7^th anniversary. So for the next 2 weeks (yes, this is a 2-parter, the show’s got nearly 100 episodes) we’ll be looking at Lab Rats

Lab Rats in principle is something I should be quite interested in, and is the Brainchild of Chris Peterson and Bryan Moore, guys who are very experienced working together, being co-producers on ‘That 70’s show’ then being producers on TV movies. The show ran for 4 seasons and a total of 89 episodes, each season is different in length, it’s weird.

I’ll tackle Lab Rats the same way I tackled Austin and Ally, I’ll give a rundown of the opening episodes, then cover any important developments, new characters or anything worthy of discussion for the rest of seasons 1 and 2. I may also bring up some stuff to make points about next time.