Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-26838855-20190803131136/@comment-1894786-20191011012306

BEJT, thank you for taking the time to analyze all of the Time Travel rules of the MCU. I just opened it in another tab and will read it once I post this.

And yes, I also internally screamed my lungs out when they confirmed time travel for Runaways Season 3. If they keep the rules consistent with Endgame, then people will continue to say SHIELD is an alternate timeline. If they keep the rules consistent with AoS, then people will continue to say Cap is in a time loop. And no one wants either of these arguments to be reopened. (I shared your post on why AoS7 is still in the MCU and people still tried to argue it had to have split somewhere.) It's truly a catch-22; damned if we do, damned if we don't.

But we did dodge a huge bullet for the timeline. Apparently for Season 3, they wanted an Agents of SHIELD crossover as well, with the Agents investigating the Gibborim spaceship. But the filming schedule for Season 7 was so hectic that none of the actors could cross over. So that could've potentially uprooted the entire timeline.

But also it would've been so epic, because if they did keep the continuity intact, Daisy and the others would have every reason to believe that light-based aliens and their exploding ship are in fact the light from the sky prophesised to bring about the beginning of the end.