Thread:Marvelous 345678/@comment-27496405-20180723185324/@comment-3095612-20180814090316

BEJT wrote: Still, I like your theory, but I don't think that it's something they'll actually do in the show sadly. They'll probably just continue to ignore it. It's too bad. Because with Nightshade, they were able to course correct and that character in Black Panther got renamed and Nightshade debuted on Luke Cage season 2. But time travel. Hmm. Interesting.

BEJT wrote: I don't think it will be a major connection sadly. Yeah, I think it'll be something indirect that points to a major connection. Like they find the Hostel, which maybe was at a time the mansion owned by Cagliostro -- whose book was what was stolen in Doctor Strange -- and then who knows what they might find inside the mansion.

BEJT wrote: Well Vulture had an Ultron head, so it's out there. I wouldn't mind revisiting that tech. Would make a change from the Chitauri tech. Oh yeah. Point taken.

BEJT wrote: Thanks. I listen to the Empire podcast (I actually went to see it live in February and I've had contact with them a bit on Twitter), so I always listen to the spoiler specials. However, I was still making my way through their hours of spoiler special interviews with Christopher McQuarrie for Mission: Impossible - Fallout. I get a little bit nervous when Chris, the interviewer, asks the Marvel guys about the timeline, because while it's sometimes helpful, it can also serve to contradict our timeline. So thank you for telling me ahead of time that they say this, I didn't have to get nervous.

Having now listened, yeah, it was interesting that in both interviews - Peyton Reed and Stephen Broussard - while Chris brought up specific spans of time like a couple of days/a couple of weeks between the film and Infinity War, they both dodged giving specific times and just said that they're close together but the exact span is undetermined.

Like you say, Reed also reaffirms that it's 3 days. He also reaffirms that Hope was 7 when Janet left, which we knew from Ant-Man, but it's never a bad thing when they back it up.

Chris also brought up, and they discuss among themselves later on, the weird thing with Black Widow mentioning Scott's under house arrest in Infinity War. But Reed just sort of laughed along with him, he didn't really address it. Agreed. But it would have been cool if they had some concrete time table for IW and AM&TW but in the grand scheme of things, maybe it's for the better we got a vague 'undetermined' answer and simply 'not too much' time passed.

Mm, yeah, as for the Black Widow comment. I think it may not be a literal statement. Steve, Falcon, and Widow were where at that point - laying low and always on the move taking out black market tech in the Middle East then headed to Edinburgh? Maybe they travel light when they're on the move for practical reasons and to avoid detection so they're not as tapped in -- as when they were Avengers that they could get automated news updates -- and missed the news flash about Giant-Man. And when Widow makes that statement about house arrest, she's just citing what she knows at the time and what she knew wasn't up to date. Or she was being figurative. 'He's on house arrest' is their way of saying 'he not of use to us right now' because we learned in AM&TW that he wasn't Ant-Man for awhile. Shrug.

BEJT wrote: Interesting, thank you! "24 to 36 hours". Kind of hoping for 36 because I'm assuming they won't really address Christmas, so that would help for them to just skim over Christmas Day. If they did address Christmas though, that would help make the Season 1 timeline concrete. You're welcome. And good point.

BEJT wrote: I think there's good and bad news here. The good news is that this means no Infinity War problems (unless there's a time jump at some point), and it was the logical place to pick up. The bad news is that, considering the first season placed itself when it was coming out, there's the slight worry that they will do that again this time without thinking about it, despite the fact that it's set immediately after. So many films and TV shows do this, where the next instalment is set a short amount of time after the previous, but while the last one was set at the time it was coming out, so is this one somehow (Marvel themselves have done it, for example when they brought out Iron Man 2 and set it in 2010 when Iron Man, 6 months earlier, had placed itself in 2008, when they brought out Thor and it was set at the same time as Iron Man 2 but was set in 2011, when they brought out Spider-Man: Homecoming and set it in 2017 despite it being 2 months since Captain America: Civil War, and when The Punisher: Season 1 was a year after Daredevil: Season 2 but placed itself in 2017). It's also what the general public seem to assume a lot of the time, they don't consider the previous installment and just assume with present day-set franchises that everything's set in the year it comes out.

So yeah, a little worried they'll be like "Yeah we know it's a day since Runaways: Season 1 but the evidence is now for December 2018 OK? Just don't worry about it." But hopefully it'll all be fine. Agreed.