Thread:CirUmeUela/@comment-27496405-20180307074410/@comment-26454055-20180520161257

That was an emotional finale. I liked it a lot. Here's some more intel for the timeline: http://tvline.com/2018/05/18/agents-of-shield-recap-season-5-finale-is-clark-gregg-leaving-iain-de-caestecker/

I still have some questions as it relates to Infinity War. I guess we can say this season ends before the snap, maybe by a few hours or so. That will be really odd if someone attempts watches these together in order as far as tone. SHIELD being happy/sad and then Infinity War's snap with it's dark, bleak ending.

As far as the future timeline they came from, I like your theory Marvelous. Maybe they did travel to an alternate future, one that had an identical past up to the moment the Earth was shattered by Talbot. Maybe the point was for them to at least be able to save their timeline's Earth by learning from the other one's. Also they were able to leave that future timeline, assuming it's an alternate reality, in a better place with Flint to rebuild.

But here's another question: what was up with Thanos in that alternate future if it wasn't the original timeline? Did the snap still happen? I guess it's possible and then Talbot shattered the Earth after. We know that at least Mack and Robin's mother were dead. They made it seem like they died on the ship originally except May and Fitz saved them. But maybe they actually died from the snap in the alternate timeline. Maybe Jenna did too? Because I remember she was dead or something in the future. The real answer is the SHIELD writers didn't know about the snap but this is a possible way to make it work. Also, wasn't it implied that they were going through the time travel loop over and over with always the same result? Or was that just a false assumption that future Fitz had the whole time? (Actually abou Jemma, she couldn't have died from the snap because then Deke's mother or father wouldn't have been born). Also, since Doctor Strange saw 14 million possible outcomes and in only one of them they win against Thanos, we have to assume he maybe saw several alternate futures where the Earth was destroyed. So then the question is, if he saw Earth destroyed in some of those futures, maybe he considered that as them also? This is hurting my head, lol. Does this make sense what I'm saying?

It's a stretch but we can kind of make it all fit together somewhat believably. It's better than just saying there are contradictions and that Infinity War can't possibly fit with SHIELD season 5.