Thread:SwagMasterDbl/@comment-29362220-20171207164550/@comment-26838855-20180125213512

Marvelous 345678 wrote: So, Mark Kolpack confirmed that 2091 is another reality, an alternate future.

So, the 2018-2022, 2074 and further events, including the fateful 2091, are from other reality. Multiverse. I've read his tweets and yeah, he responded yes to someone asking that, but he also said he's not sure what the writers are doing exactly and that it will be explained further in future episodes. That's probably somewhat true, but until we find out the exact nature of things, it's not worth rushing to create new timeline pages or anything. I'd just keep watching and working and waiting for a solution.

That's a shame though, as someone points out, it very much seemed linear. But whatever, if they explain that the white monolith has the power to take them to different timelines, that'll serve as an explanation without negating the timeline rules Fitz has clearly laid out. Was just hoping for something a little bit more unique... who knows, maybe the full explanation will be.

Fan 1: "Boy I'm confused. The flashbacks: 2022: Had our agents already been to the future & this is what happens when they go back or is this what would've happened after the diner if they hadn't been taken by Enoch? #AgentsofSHIELD @MarkKolpack Not asking 4 spoilers just clarification"

MK: "Our team is roughly 74 years in the future. The year 2022 shows our team after the event that broke the earth apart and has them living inside the Lighthouse. So these are the events that lead to the future as the team finds themselves in way into the future."

Fan 2: "Sigo confundida. ¿Qué crees, @Dkiss_1D?" (translates to "I'm still confused. What do you think, @Dkiss_1D?")

MK: "Well let's put it this way... Time Travel is totally confusing so you're not alone out there."

Fan 3: "I’m still confused. How were they living in 2022 if they’d been taken in 2017? If this is the same timeline then how could they be in 2 times at once? If they’d already lived that, gone back, gotten taken, and ended up in the future then wouldn’t they still have their memories?"

MK: "Time travel requires a lot of abstract thinking. Linear thinking will not do the job. But rest assured, you're not alone. In my mind it all makes sense but then again my mind is a very abstract crazy place to live in. The writers have done an amazing job with it all."

Fan 4: "PARADOXES EVERYWHERE MARK. And I’m a ball of annoyance because of them"

MK: "Hahahahahahaha."

Fan 5: "i hope you know this is how we all look trying to connect all the dots after last night 😂" (image)

MK: "Then perfect. The writers have done their jobs especially @JamesOliverInLA & @sharlaoliver. Their script was so well laid out and filled with so much emotion. This one is sticking with me for awhile."

Fan 6: "watch none of it be what we think it is 😂😂"

MK: "Well played."

Fan 7: "Either we're spot on or WAY off and there's no inbetween"

MK: "Pretty much"

Fan 1: "But is that them in 2022 AFTER having been in 2091 & travelled back or is that them in 2022 if Enoch hadn't been to the diner..... Loving your incredible work this season by the way! Amazeballs as always!"

MK: "Your second assessment."

Fan 8: "Any #AgentsofSHIELD fans confused about #TimeTravel, here’s my take on all this. It might clarify a few things! @MarkKolpack @MoTancharoen @jedwhedon Please let me know if I’m right! @AgentsofSHIELD Time functions in the way that there are multiple timelines that are parallel to one another. I believe that in AoS, one doesn't cancel out the other. The team is now in the future of the explosion timeline. They will return to the present of a new timeline that is developing and separate from this future timeline. Even if they stop this current future timeline, it doesn't cancel it out. So, basically imagine timelines as lines existing parallel to one another and sometimes separating out into multiple paths. An example, there could be a timeline that still exists in which Daisy never met team SHIELD as Skye in the pilot. If she were to time travel, she could jump out of her own timeline and see what her life would have been like if she never joined SHIELD. That's how I interpret SHIELD time travel. It also goes in hand with Fitz's theory of time being sheets of paper in a stack connected by strings except he doesn't include the option of multiple strings and stacks. Time can be linear, as long as you include the possibility of multiple linear timelines which are actually parallel to one another."

MK: "Great explanation of time travel and String Theory. It really depends on what model the writers are employing to which I have no idea nor would I say if I knew. So this is as good as any and certainly enjoyable and well thought out."

Fan 8: "Is any of this stuff I said right, @MarkKolpack? Time travel is super confusing but I think I’m getting it. It also goes in hand with Fitz’s theory of time being sheets of paper in a stack connected by strings except he doesn’t include the option of multiple strings and stacks."

MK: "I like the way you're [sic] brain thinks. As to whether you're right or not, you'll have to wait and find out as the story progresses."

Fan 9: "Okay so since you said it is the second assessment please explain this to me: 1. Fitz in Flashbacks talks about Voss trying to stop it, as in the guy who is probably a toddler in 2022. 2. He states that Daisy still quaked the Earth even though she "SAW" the aftermath."

MK "You'll have to wait and find out. No spoilers."

Fan 9: "Okay I am gonna let it slide, even though explaining it is the second assessment which is not really convincing was in and out of itself a spoiler 🤑"

The Wikia Editor wrote: Marvelous 345678 wrote: So, Mark Kolpack confirmed that 2091 is another reality, an alternate future.

So, the 2018-2022, 2074 and further events, including the fateful 2091, are from other reality. Multiverse. I figured as much. But it does raise the question of how Fitz got there. We can handwave that the agents got transported to an alternate future by the white monolith, but Fitz' arrival into that same alternate future implies that it's the actual future.

The only explanation I can think of is that Fitz, after going into cryosleep, gets transported into the alternate future by another white monolith and then gets freed by enoch without knowing about it. Another good point. I doubt that's the solution, but we'll just see how it plays out.