Thread:Marvelus/@comment-27496405-20190519011243/@comment-3164086-20190520165747

"I don't quite agree that it's not a problem with the agents not being snapped because the other groups we know had to all die or survive were only groups of five or six, where you have a 1 in 32 or 1 in 64 chance. Here we have a 1 in 1024, soon to be 1 in 2048 chance, 16-to-32 times as unlikely. But it just has to be accepted, unless the show later provides an explanation.

I also think they would still talk about it so it's not a case of "Why would they be talking about it?", it's weird that it doesn't come up at all. But the 13 months does allow for a tiny bit of wiggle room for them just moving on from discussing it." (Putting this message from BEJT in quotations because I don't actually know how the correct formatting for quoting somebody else, plz forgive I'm new to conversation threads like this).

The above is what I agree with. Half of all life disappearing means they lost somebody. Even with the overwhelmingly unlikely odds of the entire team in AoS surviving, there's still other factors to consider, like family - May's parents, Daisy's dad, Mack's brother or ex-wife, Davis' kid - all could have died, not to mention family or friends we don't know about.

To be sure, I'm not arguing that AoS takes place before IW. Like I said, the theory I posted previously was mainly something I posted so I could see it proved wrong. I know about as much about the timeline as the showrunners seem to - broad strokes that give me a decent idea but lead to mistakes without the smaller timeline details. So I'm not arguing for AoS being before IW, I'm just agreeing that this is maddeningly sloppy and careless by the AoS team - make no mistake, multiple people in S.H.I.E.L.D., whether main or side characters, lost somebody to the Snap. A year on, the world would still be in mourning and chaos. Look at the US with 9/11 - we still have moments of silence every year on the day of. The cleanup of the WTC site took 9 months. The Snap was an event that, to its fictional universe, was several times larger and more catastrophic. As we see in Endgame, the world still bears the scars of Thanos even 5 years on, and we should see the same in AoS.

I wish AoS had a larger following of fans to cause more of an uproar over this - maybe, at that point, they'd change their tune and at least overtly acknowledge the Snap, even if only in small ways.

Another quick question - I read somewhere that a recent official MCU guidebook published a full timeline that claimed some icky stuff, like Iron Man taking place in 2010 and Fury's Big Week in 2011 (to coincide with, I suspect, Fury's line in Avengers about the Puente Antiguo incident being "a year prior"). Is this something with which anybody is familiar?

- Master Tej -