Thread:Marvelus/@comment-26838855-20190116120806/@comment-3095612-20190328041858

BEJT wrote: But yes, thanks, and that would also suggest Coulson and May are no more than a couple of years apart in age. Since Coulson started immediately after high school, maybe May started the academy a year or two early like Simmons.

The Man Behind the S.H.I.E.L.D. was decided as 2003. But yeah, your points do seem to suggest they could easily have been working together in 1995 - I sort of assumed that anyway. Agreed.

BEJT wrote: I do think there's an implication there. It's not just the "new guy" line, Fury also discusses something (I can't remember exactly) about whether he is making a good impression on Coulson, like they've recently met. But I agree with you that in watching that scene carefully, I felt it could be written off as a bit of an inside joke, and I had written the "new guy" line off as something like Coulson had just started this particular position - got a promotion and/or moved station. I don't think he's fresh out of the academy because I believe the academy is basically the S.H.I.E.L.D. equivalent of university, so should only last a few years. True, at first I thought it was like the FBI's FBI Academy in Quantico and only a few months but yeah, as that episode went on it made it clear it seems more like post-post graduate school. heh.

BEJT wrote: Potentially. I do get the feeling that he's been director for quite a while by 2009, but 8 years is quite a while, so I guess post-9/11 would potentially make sense. He became director somewhere between 1995 and 2009 so the best guess purely from that would be c. 2002, so yeah, post-9/11 is definitely possible.

I agree, I never saw an indication that Keller was director. I'd be interested to see a source if there is one, though, because I'd like to know who was director before Fury. Yeah, speaking of, the talk page I made for Keller got deleted so I guess I did something wrong... but it just bugs me the article still has him as a director.

Yeah, completely speculative on my part but I'm thinking Carter either retired after Howard and Maria were assassinated or maybe 1991 when the Berlin Wall went down - kinda symbolic in their own ways.

BEJT wrote: Oh cool. If you ever find it, that would be good, but no pressure. I think I found it. A Screenrant article mentions it February 28. There was the tie-in novel for Captain Marvel, Steve Behling's Starforce on the Rise that mentioned 'as part of their millennia-long war with the Skrulls, the Kree have developed Skrull detectors that allow them to identify Skrull impostors.'

BEJT wrote: I've only seen the trailer once so I don't remember. I'm assuming there's some sort of cheerleading season, then? It's not really a thing in the U.K.. Probably homecoming for the football team.