Thread:Uskok/@comment-1616746-20180125084049/@comment-2112031-20180125230852

To be fair, Mark Kolpack also stated in one of his tweets that he doesn't actually know which model of time travel the writers are using and that it will be further explained in later episodes.

As for his confirmation that the future timeline the agents are in is one in which their counterparts weren't kidnapped by Enoch at the diner, there are some things that seem to contradict that:

1: Starting off with the most obvious one, Fitz goes into cryosleep in 2017 and wakes up again in 2091 with no indication that he was transported to an alternate future. I suppose it's still possible that he got transported to that alternate future through some other means, perhaps another (or the same) white monolith, but I really hope that this gets explained.

2: The agents find Fitz' postcard in 2091, containing a message he wrote for them shortly before he went into cryosleep. If this is a timeline in which the agents were never kidnapped, does that mean that Fitz' counterpart just so happened to write an identical postcard meant for people who, from his perspective, never went missing?

3: Mack and Yo-Yo find the gear and weapons that Fitz left on Level 3, exactly where he said it would be. Did Fitz' counterpart also coincidentally hide it there?

4: In the flashbacks, the agents seem to display knowledge that implies that they have actually been to the future. Fitz mentions that agents are stuck in a loop and that Voss attempted to kill Daisy, as well as Daisy seeing the aftermath of Earth's destruction. Yo-Yo is aware that Flint is someone who will be born in the future and May seems to know that she will witness Robin's death and that Robin will tell her about how to return to the past.

It's possible to handwave all of that by saying that Robin told them all of this, but that seems a bit of a stretch given how Fitz' insistence that they're stuck in a loop makes no sense to me if the loop, from his perspective hasn't happened yet. However, I also know that there are some lines of dialogue that suggest that they don't know about the future, like Fitz asking whether someone would succeed them in building the machine if they didn't succeed in finishing it within their lifetime. Again, I hope this gets answered in future episodes.