Board Thread:Episode Discussion/@comment-24675861-20151122082146/@comment-24938557-20151129221219

TomasDerksen wrote: Why would JJ need to mention Age of Ultron? Because then understanding the timeline would be much easier to understand. You can't pretend that everyone knows the dates, which the casual watcher, and most people who knows a lot about the MCU don't know the date, so, yeah, because of that.

Also, it's a shared universe, adding it IS needed in the case they want people to know it makes sense,