Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-26838855-20190803131136/@comment-3095612-20191203111733

BEJT wrote: Season 2 ended in late January 2018, not March, but yeah. That was the problem I was highlighting. The season has 4 months to squeeze everything into, and I was fairly optimistic about that, my only fear was some sort of end-of-season epilogue like The Punisher: Season 2 (that scene worked fine, with only two returning characters, but having a bunch of characters and no mention would be a problem). But this 6-month jump thing... eek... I don't think the Dark Dimension would protect them from the Snap since the Quantum Realm apparently doesn't, so we also have the problem of everyone surviving like Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D., but more than that is just the worry about the show telling a story in a post-Snap world (and in this case mere months after the Snap) and not at all addressing it. Scott came out of the Quantum Realm after over 5 years and almost immediately is horrified, but these guys it seems could be coming out of the Quantum Realm as little as a couple of months after the Snap, but for five episodes won't notice anything? Ughhhhh. Marvel Television really felt they could just get a tonne of mileage out of the vague "It's set before the Snap" comment, didn't they? It's one of the only silver linings to the cancellations.

I really, really hope this isn't what it seems - it's been 6 months for them but less time for the world (if it's the Dormammu Dark Dimension, time is different/non-existent there, if it's the Cloak Dark Dimension it seems to just have simultaneous time to the world), or there's some time travel involved so this isn't just 6 months in 2018. But by the sounds of the rest of the synopsis, with things having happened in the world while they were gone, it sounds like it's just 6 months where they've been gone. My mistake. I glanced really fast at the 2018 page. Maybe I misread or it wasn't updated yet. But still an issue. But your "sounds like it's just 6 months" theory might work.

BEJT wrote:

Black Widow Trailer (additional)
Looks from the terribly deaged General Ross in the Black Widow trailer like we'll be getting pre-2010 flashbacks, despite the dialogue they play from him seemingly being about Civil War. Maybe he'll appear in both time periods, or the dialogue is edited misleadingly.

I mean, since Natasha is going to Budapest in 2016/2017, surely they will also have flashbacks to the Budapest mission, so considering the Hungarian writing behind him as well I imagine this is part of Budapest mission flashbacks. So, presumably c. 2006, considering I reckon Natasha joined S.H.I.E.L.D. around 2005 but by 2012 it seems like it's been several years. I hoping that scene of Ross was unfinished and gets polished later... but I wouldn't doubt they mixed up scenes and dialogue to throw the fans off.