Thread:BEJT/@comment-26454055-20180527061022/@comment-26838855-20180614191106

CirUmeUela wrote: Any reason that Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D.: 5.13: Principia has to be on December 22nd? Or can I reasonably move it a few days later so that it's after Runaways? I don't want to put it in the middle of Runaways unless I really have to. That's kind of up to you, but the reason it is placed there is because it is the middle of the placements for Episode 12 and Episode 14, and Coulson's line about "Tidings of comfort of joy" matching with it being just before Christmas.

We don't usually move things just to avoid another event going on in the universe unless it's a huge event which would make worldwide news or affect the whole world (like making sure Jessica Jones: Season 1 didn't overlap with the Battle of Sokovia). So the events of Runaways, contained to those families in Los Angeles, does not affect Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. - we just sort them independently, and if they happen to coincide, they happen to coincide. That's the case here - Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. naturally fell then, at the same time as the last few episodes of Runaways.

It's up to you, because Principia could indeed take place earlier or later if other evidence came up. It can float between early December and early January, and it's not fixed, so you wouldn't be wrong to place it a few days later. But independently of Runaways, it's just where it places.