alright y'all I'm bulletpointing as I watch so let's go!!
the whole "mrs. and mr. davenport" beginning scene is literally seared into my brain from childhood-i think it's funny how clearly i remember it
when we meet the team they're in these mission suit esque things and seeing as all they do is train, is that what they live in????
davenport saying "i don't want to brag, but i am incredibly smart" when introducing the kids is so wild when you consider the fact that he probably didn't have anything to do with making the kids
i love how offended they get when tasha calls them robots
tasha and leo have such a cute relationship i freaking love it
i know we hate donald, and rightfully so, but this episode really amps me up bc dude you are literally introducing them to your wife and you keep talking about them like plants you're growing
when donald is introducing the kids, tasha's the only one recognizing that they're children
"i wanna go upstairs" 😭
they literally never leave the room, it's not just because of filming and set design, they don't even have a place to run THERE'S A RAT WHEEL
@fairytalesociology said that davenport feeds the kids glorified dog food and they're so right
you can't just feed them food??? even preordered????
they eat, sleep, and bathe in their capsules no one can convince me the man was just looking to be cost effective in getting these inventions perfected (they were not children to him AT ALL)
bree is just a girl and i love her for it bc thinking about breaking into song/dance numbers is so real
If you pay attention to the background you can see chase playing with a random locker for a while and I think it’s so funny/cute
Honestly I with it opened and he was just using his bionic hearing to unlock the locker
i just noticed leo has brown paper wrapped around his textbooks and it reminds me of when my mom and i use to make book covers out of trader joes bags and decorate them 💗
baby chase was insterested in chess club and taking med school courses, he deserved more extracurriculars and hobbies in the show
the early heat vision graphics 😅
"i know a chiropractor in the phillipines" is so cute
davenport is awful but the freaking out performances are great
30 grand for a situation to go away is insane bc what really happened??? like yeah the mascot's head caught on fire but it wasn't like they destroyed the building. and even if it was a bribe to get rid of witnesses, you'd have to adress the entire school bc it was a pep rally
tasha being a mom to the kids is so cute like yeah, they're just kids
bree immediately getting excited about the party with tasha is freaking adorable, we deserved more Tasha fr
honestly i think she was more freaked out about the kids than their bionics
lecturing them about how they were designed for missions is so disheartening bc 1. you've probably told them all about how they're top sercret their whole lives and 2. they are superHUMANS
it honestly feels akin to when a parent tells a child they have to be perfect or pushes them into a career they never wanted
yes bc having no contact with the outside world will prevent their glitches and train them for missions (not to mention real life)
obviously it's the perfect solution
honestly if they socialized they would probably have better emotional regulation and control over their glitches. like you could have at least brought them to a company party (and told everyone to treat them as humans) so they have practice talking to people.
chase really was always in blue plaid from the start huh?
"they are not just science projects, they're teenagers" TELL HIM QUEEN
bro you're going to tell me that you can't reprogram your ROBOT FRIEND to like your WIFE
like he can still be snarky but he literally hates her
i really hope someone gets this, but there are a few scenes where Adam feels more like a regular person than just someone who's core personality is being kind of dumb and reckless, and the ending scene before everyone goes to bed is one of those few scenes
thinking about how chase had a protection app because his father didn't believe he'd be able to use his intelligence (AND OTHER ABILITIES) to protect himself. thinking about how spike only showed up when his siblings were being awful to chase, and not during any actual life-or-death fight. thinking about the trauma chase must have realizing that, how much he hates spike, and how the show could've approached this in a more nuanced way but alas the show was a disney sitcom
a whole group of big tough men, and they all have dreams that are seen as “grossly optimistic” and against what society expects from them. but it is still their dreams and they’re so passionate about them and they don’t hesitate to share them the second they are given the opportunity. Also, this whole group of men know each others’ dreams - they don’t feel the need to hide these dreams from their friends. If anything, the expect it - demand it really, because they know everyone has a dream.
Adam would know that song by heart, including any dialogue before, during, and after the song. Not to mention, I just KNOW Bree would embody Rapunzel, so I feel like Adam and Bree would have choreo
this is going off 97% vibes at 3% character analysis (i love chappell but there's def a 60/40 chance that some of these takes are not good interpretations)
femininomenon: tasha and bree fs
"stuck in the suburbs, you're folding his laundry" omg tasha my girl you deserved so much better than the man child billionare
if the boys kept up with playing instruments, bree def would've got them to learn this song
red wine supernova: literally everyone this song is so addicting
after midnight: also addicting and i want to say everyone but donald bc he doesn’t deserve it
I imagine chase playing this to hype himself up when he has plans to go out
coffee: omg adam, bree, and chase without question
"nowhere else is safe, every place leads back to your place" I know it's alluding to the couple ending up together but in the context of lab rats, abc can never get away from davenport and the bionic life. they never even get the chance to consider something
"you'll say that your sorry, I know it's a lie"
"if i didn't love you, it would be fine" omg this post by @texanmarcusdavenport
casual: Bree, Leo, Chase, and Douglas
basically anyone who struggled with relationships in the show tbh
someone would catch douglas singing the song and join him like that scene from friends
super graphic ultra modern girl: bree has this on repeat
adam brings just enough girly pop energy
leo too
one day tasha walks in on the kids dancing to it and joins in
chase walks in and slowly joins in like that scene from abott elementary
tumblr won't let me post another video so i made an extra post for the video
HOT TO GO!: obviously this goes to our two cheerleaders, adam and bree
davenport would be the person who tries to changed the dance routine
tasha would try to add to it or build a routine for the rest of the song bc she likes to be invovled
omg tasha would make them cheer outfits just so they could wear them for these songs
My Kink Is Karma: both davenport brothers tbh (mainly Douglas)
i didn't want to give donald one but if we ever saw him actually process the fact that his brother faked his death just to come back to attack his family and then get a parner and be more evil, this would be his song
douglas listens to this after leaving his partnership with krane
omg wait he would think about giselle too
Picture You: all of the siblings
"do you picture me like I picture you" -> am i the child you wanted? are you the dad I wanted?
are you the dad I deserve?
this is def me just interpreting this one line
Kaleidoscope: tasha, bree, chase, leo, and adam
tasha deserved to be treated better and fully acknowledged
bree, chase, and leo all had those messy coming-of-age relationships
adam doesn't relate to this song in the sense of romantic love bc he didn't have relationships (and i fully support the aroarce!Adam head cannon)
this still applies to the familial love and relationship with davenport
Pink Pony Club: @imasimpcentral put it best here but this is all the siblings
they're literally trapped in mission creek/bionic island
they can never leave the bionic life
they were all trying to prove themselves
leo the most during the bionic island season honestly
Naked In Manhattan: this song is so first relationship so all of the kids
bree basically modeled her life after high school movies after she was allowed out of the lab so this song is like nostalgia for her
adam vibes with the song but again he's aroace in my mind
i feel like chase would blush like crazy when he actually listens to the lyrics
i don't have a clear mindset with leo but i like to think that he vibes with chappell
California: all siblings – adam, bree, chase, and leo OH MY GOD MARCUS
specifically in the bionic rebellion for abc
they were thrown into the world of mentoring and then their top students rebelled
i think by that season they stopped caring about davenport but i feel like a small part of them has a lingering feeling of failure
when it comes to leo i just think about every time he tried to do something alone
"i'd make you proud. to think I almost had it going, but I let you down."
marcus literally did everything douglas asked him to and then came back to essentially complete his mission
and when he came back, he was working to make giselle proud just a bit
Guilty Pleasure: bree and chase
bree ached for normal life the most of all the siblings
she also fell for the bad guy
chase wanted friends so badly he could resonate with this song
little life update 😌 fall semester has officially started and i'm trying very hard not to let my life devolve into chaos. i'm really excited to start making "watch with me" videos and i'm making a schedule for filming and editing to make sure that i don't let all of this just fade out like some fixations do. i will get to it (i hope) and even if it's just for 3 people, i'm excited.
I've literally had a post pairing characters with Chappell Roan songs in my drafts for a week, and I got three vaccines yesterday, so I'm exhausted. the college life (commuter life too😫) is exhausting. I'm fighting demons to stay positive y'all.
Chase using his magnetism app and molecular kinesis at the same time to stop and destroy the rings in 3x02 is cool and all.......but titanium isn't magnetic
debating using my name so "letting thoughts flow" or "ltl" works for now
watch with me
season one
episode 1: crush, chop, & burn pt. 1
episode 2: crush, chop, & burn pt. 2
!Reader
i've made 2 reader concepts but realistically i'm not going to write these as fanfics. i might have half-baked ideas and return to these but don't exepct anything. i am more than happy to talk about these characters or even have fanfic writers take them and run (as long as there is credit given where credit is due)
little life update 😌 fall semester has officially started and i'm trying very hard not to let my life devolve into chaos. i'm really excited to start making "watch with me" videos and i'm making a schedule for filming and editing to make sure that i don't let all of this just fade out like some fixations do. i will get to it (i hope) and even if it's just for 3 people, i'm excited.
“Huh?” Leo looked up from his random tinkering when he heard the raspy voice.
Chase stood beside his old mission specialist desk, arms folded. “I can hear your foot tapping even upstairs. What’s up?”
“Nothin’.”
Chase stared at him.
“Why do you have to be the one with the smart chip?”
“Why are you such a terrible liar?”
Leo pouted at him.
Chase mock pouted back.
“Why aren’t you sneezing?”
“Why are you changing the subject?”
“Otis II is sniffing your foot.”
“Douglas altered my nose to be able to handle dog hair. Now answer.”
“Make me.”
“I have all kinds of shark facts-”
“Okay!” Leo exclaimed, throwing his project down. Chase smirked victoriously.
Leo shifted to sit criss-cross, spinning his chair as he tried to find the words.
Chase waited patiently, hopping onto the desk so Otis II didn’t eat his shoe.
“...I don’t like this.”
“Like what?”
“Being here.”
Chase raised an eyebrow.
“I… I dunno. I mean, on the island, I wanted nothing more than to come home again. But… I feel… restless. Like I’m not doing anything. Funny, considering I was dying from the load of work.”
“You don’t know how to take a break, because you’ve been so wired to work lately. Even breathing makes you feel like it’s unproductive and useless.”
Leo peeked at him.
“Believe me, man, it’s a leader thing. Genetic.”
“I’m adopted.”
“I keep forgetting,” Chase snorted.
Leo sighed, petting the pomeranian’s head when he moved to him.
“It’s hard. To step back. I’m still really bad at resting. But hey, you’re not alone. And can always speak to me. Or don’t speak on it, and we can build something or watch your terrible movies or really just hang out, whatever works.”
Leo smiled, leaning back in his chair. “I missed you.”
Chase poked his cheek. “It was mutual.”
-
the sweetest part about this scene is that chase "smartest man in the world" who stores billions of petabytes of data on his chip legitimately forgets that he's only had a little brother for four years
The thing about wanting to write smart essays is you truly do have to read books to do that, and the thing about reading books is that it is way harder now that I am not 17 and smartphoneless
chase davenport would LOVE doctor who and anyone who disagrees is simply wrong.
“I can feel it. The turn of the Earth. The ground beneath our feet is spinning at 1,000 miles an hour and the entire planet is hurtling around the sun at 67,000 miles an hour, and I can feel it.”
chase has super senses and you can’t tell me he wouldn’t try to feel the earth just to be like the doctor.
He would definitely be sobbing at the doomsday episode.
I think people who consider aromanticism as "basically straight" underestimate how noticeable absence can be to those around you.
Whether you're a kid in school with classmates who won't take "no one" as an answer to who you have a crush on or an adult whose coworkers have picked up on the fact that you've never mentioned a romantic partner; after enough time, a lack or insufficient amount of romantic interest will raise the antennae of friends, family, coworkers, etc... They will notice and they will speculate and they will ask.
It is impossible to meet the societal bar for straightness through inaction.
I've been thinking about it so much recently... especially season 3 Bree.
"I'm having wicked dreams of leaving Tennessee Mission Creek
Hear Santa Monica Australia, I swear it's calling me
Won't make my mama [Davenport] proud, it's gonna cause a scene [it did make a scene]"
like Bree is this song in my mind especially when later the lyrics talk about how she still has a love for the place she came from and how it's always on her mind, Bree would definitely still be attached to Adam, Chase and Leo as shown later in the season 3 episode.
alright y'all I'm bulletpointing as I watch so let's go!!
the whole "mrs. and mr. davenport" beginning scene is literally seared into my brain from childhood-i think it's funny how clearly i remember it
when we meet the team they're in these mission suit esque things and seeing as all they do is train, is that what they live in????
davenport saying "i don't want to brag, but i am incredibly smart" when introducing the kids is so wild when you consider the fact that he probably didn't have anything to do with making the kids
i love how offended they get when tasha calls them robots
tasha and leo have such a cute relationship i freaking love it
i know we hate donald, and rightfully so, but this episode really amps me up bc dude you are literally introducing them to your wife and you keep talking about them like plants you're growing
when donald is introducing the kids, tasha's the only one recognizing that they're children
"i wanna go upstairs" 😭
they literally never leave the room, it's not just because of filming and set design, they don't even have a place to run THERE'S A RAT WHEEL
@fairytalesociology said that davenport feeds the kids glorified dog food and they're so right
you can't just feed them food??? even preordered????
they eat, sleep, and bathe in their capsules no one can convince me the man was just looking to be cost effective in getting these inventions perfected (they were not children to him AT ALL)
bree is just a girl and i love her for it bc thinking about breaking into song/dance numbers is so real
If you pay attention to the background you can see chase playing with a random locker for a while and I think it’s so funny/cute
Honestly I with it opened and he was just using his bionic hearing to unlock the locker
i just noticed leo has brown paper wrapped around his textbooks and it reminds me of when my mom and i use to make book covers out of trader joes bags and decorate them 💗
baby chase was insterested in chess club and taking med school courses, he deserved more extracurriculars and hobbies in the show
the early heat vision graphics 😅
"i know a chiropractor in the phillipines" is so cute
davenport is awful but the freaking out performances are great
30 grand for a situation to go away is insane bc what really happened??? like yeah the mascot's head caught on fire but it wasn't like they destroyed the building. and even if it was a bribe to get rid of witnesses, you'd have to adress the entire school bc it was a pep rally
tasha being a mom to the kids is so cute like yeah, they're just kids
bree immediately getting excited about the party with tasha is freaking adorable, we deserved more Tasha fr
honestly i think she was more freaked out about the kids than their bionics
lecturing them about how they were designed for missions is so disheartening bc 1. you've probably told them all about how they're top sercret their whole lives and 2. they are superHUMANS
it honestly feels akin to when a parent tells a child they have to be perfect or pushes them into a career they never wanted
yes bc having no contact with the outside world will prevent their glitches and train them for missions (not to mention real life)
obviously it's the perfect solution
honestly if they socialized they would probably have better emotional regulation and control over their glitches. like you could have at least brought them to a company party (and told everyone to treat them as humans) so they have practice talking to people.
chase really was always in blue plaid from the start huh?
"they are not just science projects, they're teenagers" TELL HIM QUEEN
bro you're going to tell me that you can't reprogram your ROBOT FRIEND to like your WIFE
like he can still be snarky but he literally hates her
i really hope someone gets this, but there are a few scenes where Adam feels more like a regular person than just someone who's core personality is being kind of dumb and reckless, and the ending scene before everyone goes to bed is one of those few scenes
would anyone watch if I made video reactions with these posts? I know this fandom is tiny (and I love it) but I felt a surge of inspiration the other day and started thinking about it. Mind you, I’ve already seen the show and (if you can’t tell) I have a natural “video essay” vibe but it would basically just be more of these thoughts. more of a "watch with me" than "reactions" really.
